Case 44: Turnabout Christmas

[thief_of_truth]

...Hey, what gives?  Santa's a jerk!  He gave me those smoke bombs and kunai I asked him for, but as soon as I took them out of the package, they just turned into a bunch of coal!  What am I supposed to do with all this?

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[thief_of_truth]

I've been really good!

[thief_of_truth]

I don't think that would work.

[generose]

Coal sounds a lot better than some of the things I've been overhearing on the phones, ( pause. ) Sounds a lot better than what they gave me too.

[thief_of_truth]

...What did you get?

[generose]

Firstly a note; telling me that though I've been a good girl this year, Santa usually don't get presents for clones because we're not really people. ( a beat, and then a sigh. ) But that he'd make an exception this year.

I got a book detailing some things about my friends from the Academy. How they were being hunted down, and then killed in increasingly terrible ways.

[thief_of_truth]

It's not true, is it?

[freakinblur]

That sounds better than-- [clang!] OW! Ugh. It's better than what I got!

[thief_of_truth]

What was that noise just now? Are you okay?

[freakinblur]

Yeah, I just... I got this stupid bat for Christmas an' I can't put it down! An' I keep hittin' myself in the head with it! Though it sounds like I got off easier than a lotta people here...

[thief_of_truth]

[Kay stifles some laughter at that - even Scout's gotta admit that's pretty funny.]

"Yeah, sounds like it."