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Despite his nickname of 'Epic Rage Guy', it sounded like Matt had a much more straightforward reason for blaming Stephen: he wouldn't kill himself, and a girl couldn't have done it, so that left the only other male in this place. Were they ever going to get anywhere with Matt around? That said, there wasn't much they could do about him. They were stuck with each other, and if only he'd tried to be a little more bearable it might not have been as frustrating as it was. However, wishing never altered anybody's personality, and that kind of guy just wasn't going to change. Especially now that he was dead. And what incentive would he have to act differently if he believed he was dreaming? No, they could only put up with him and hoped it was all done with soon. Not that a quick and easy resolution was likely.

Rinni, having actually spoken, had come up with a pretty good idea -- that was, so long as somebody had died in an unusual way, or in a way that would need something out of the ordinary. She wasn't sure what use a stabbing from behind would indicate, so instead Leila looked at the girl, and noticed something she'd missed before. "Oh, Rinni…" She tilted her head to the side, trying to get a better look at the odd blue line across the other victim's throat without approaching, and making the apparent introvert even shyer. "There's a mark on your neck," she made a horizontal gesture with her finger across her own to illustrate her point. "Did…?" she hesitated. It felt wrong to ask, insensitive, almost rude. "Did you die like that?"

What could have happened to make a line like that? The obvious answer was a strangling, which made her shudder -- such a violent way to die. She considered the rest of the victims. She couldn't see any injuries on Izzy from where she was standing, and there was only the ambiguous cut on Matt's forehead to mark him out. Didn't he say he'd been run over? Christi and Stephen were both beaten terribly, the former especially. It looked like quite a lot of work for one person, but according to the ballot paper, that was all it took.