KLAIR
...Rochelle Cordova.
LEON
The bus ticket was hers, wasn't it? How come she has a missing poster, too?
BONNIE
She might've been running away from home.
KLAIR
Maybe. What I'm worried about is that apparently our next fight is against the champion. Do you think that'd be Rochelle here?
ISSAC
Is this really all we get? An eviction notice, some bus tickets, and a missing poster?
BONNIE
To be fair, the missing poster gives us a lot. Her height, weight, age, name...
LEON
...And the fact that someone cared enough about her to make a missing poster for her.
A sullen silence falls over you for a moment.
ISSAC
But it's still less clues than Nick. And we didn't get a whole lot of clues about Lydia, either.
BAI
The House gives clues as it sees fit, and what it's able to give you to piece together a story. Sometimes, those stories leave few clues.
LEON
If the next key holder only gives us one clue, I'm going to burn this shithole to the ground.
BONNIE
Don't jinx us, Leon.
KLAIR
Assuming the eviction notice was to her, then... she was probably not so well off. And I guess she decided to run away from wherever she lived?
ISSAC
She might've still lived with her parents. She's only 19.
BONNIE
Yeah, but if that's the case, the dates don't add up. Her bus ticket is for August 1989, but her last seen is over a year later.
LEON
Maybe her parents didn't make the poster. They could've just... not cared. Or they could've been dead.
KLAIR
I feel like if her parents died, we'd probably know that? I don't know. It's probably harder for the House to prove parental neglect than parental death in one neat little clue, is all.
BAI
Maybe. Either way, the parents probably didn't make the missing poster.
ISSAC
Fuck, I hate this stupid guessing game stuff. She ran away from wherever she lived, probably to avoid paying rent because she couldn't afford it since all landlords are parasites, and wound up going missing over a year later. That's all we've got.
BONNIE
This is really depressing.
LEON
Who cares? At least we're not the ones who are dead and missing. Yet.
BONNIE
I care! Most of these ghosts had awful, awful lives where nobody cared if they went missing or died. Someone should care! Someone should say hey, I'm sorry your life sucked, and you deserved better.
BAI
If it makes you feel better, I probably had a great life!
LEON
We aren't here to make dead people feel better. We're here for a key piece, so we can get in the attic and get some asshole kid to let us out, so we can forget about all of this.
ISSAC
Uh...
BONNIE
I know we aren't here to care, but I do anyways! I wish Nick's boyfriend lived so they could be happy, and I wish Lydia's family wasn't awful so she could get married, and I wish Rochelle didn't have to run away from her home, and I wish these people got to live the lives they deserved. They weren't bad people! It isn't fair that they've wound up here!
KLAIR
L-Let's calm down. It's sad, what's happened to all these people, but there's nothing we can do about it now except help them move on.
ISSAC
Yeah, uh, Klair's right. Maybe we can contact, um, some family members or something, once we're out. Give them closure, somehow.
LEON
What the fuck would we even say, Issac? Tell them we wound up in some fucked up mansion that exists out of time and space where their dead loved ones were trapped forever? Do you know how fucking crazy that sounds?
KLAIR
Leon, chill the hell out!
You've never seen Leon this worked up. He frowns at you, pauses, as if he's going to say something, and then reconsiders. He shakes his head sharply.
LEON
...I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-- sorry. Sorry.
BAI
He's still fighting Emmeryn. He's only going to get more aggressive.
Bai keeps their voice soft, and the others don't seem to hear them.
KLAIR
Let's just... wrap this up.