When the Hisuka's had all arrived at the designated meeting place, they all sat next to each other. There were plenty of seats, especially considering that the queen had made it perfectly obvious no one else was coming when she had the doors closed. The four could have little notion of what the gathering may be about, and each fell into an expecting silence. It was but a few minutes until her royal highness decided to explain her actions.<br/><br/>The news was sobering. If the threat was reality, then someone had had the audacity to attempt a mass genocide at the castle. Looking around, the people gathered in that room must have been the ones seen as worth saving. It seemed odd to Ijemaru that the king wasn't present, but perhaps he already knew what was going on, or would be notified in private later. Either way, the queen had set them all up for a little elimination game. With the rules she imposed on them, she would know her suspects to be anyone who avoided the water who she hadn't summoned to this meeting.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">However,</span>the boy thought, as he glanced around the room at those present,<span style="font-style: italic">if the culprit happens to already be here-- if they'd been expected to know to avoid the water...</span>If that were the case, no one could be eliminated as a suspect. Even Thothcapel could have orchestrated the entire thing, to narrow down the competition to her favorites. To take things even further, he couldn't even be sure of his own family. He didn't hold a constant watch over them, and, though unlikely, it wasn't impossible they might do such a thing. No, the only one whose innocence he could be sure of was himself... and anyone who fell victim to the pollutants--if there even were any.