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Astute was actually Nem's middle name. Except that it wasn't, it was actually Nemesis, and their first name was... was... something... else. Uh... what had it been changed to again?
... Well, the point was that, yes, they were very... whatever the Headsman had just said. Probably.
Anyway. "I don't know what you mean, Castillo. I wasn't trying to be funny at all." Nem smiled amiably and turned back to the job at hand. Splashing the dummies with paint was almost fun, and it was also one of those things where, even if Nem forgot what they were doing or why, more savage applications of red paint would probably follow regardless.
When the time came to setting up, Nem dropped the paintbrush - it didn't really matter where - and extinguished some of the nearest candles by licking their index finger and thumb and - tssst - pinching the flames out. That done, they hoisted up one of the slain dummies ready to pull it out to the field that the Headsman had gone on about.
Except that halfway there they might have forgotten exactly where they were supposed to be going, and why, and how come there was red paint everywhere, including all down their uniform (maybe there might have been a touch of forgetfulness about said wet paint when they had grabbed the dummy in the first place). Nem stopped and had a little look around and... was that the moon? ... Sure, why not.
Eyeing the other dummies scattered around, Nem lugged theirs a little further and then just booted the thing the rest of the way, until it sprawled on the floor. Beautiful.
The instruction to grab the other stuff had been lingering somewhere in the back of Nem's mind, and seeing everyone else grab what they needed was enough to make it so that Nem didn't entirely forget it. They donned a cloak, balanced the mask on top of their head - technically it was on, sure, but it wasn't on - and went to join the Headsman.
Clicking the flashlight on, they shined the beam up from under their face, all eerie like, and looked straight at Trent. "So who did we just kill?" Meaning the dummies, of course.
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