In the breakroom at work, Solenne places her favorite mug, adorned with painted peacocks, in the cupboard. She tells Yuto, who is in the breakroom at the same time, that she is placing the mug there so she can use it tomorrow when she comes early for a meeting. The next day, Malachi arrives at the office before anyone else, opens the cupboard to get a glass for water, and inadvertently knocks over Solenne's mug, breaking it. Malachi feels guilty and quickly cleans up the mess, disposing of the mug in the outside dumpster, so it won't be seen in the office trash. When Solenne arrives, she is perplexed about the disappearance of her mug and asks Jaya if she has seen it. Jaya arrived shortly after Malachi and saw him by the dumpster but did not see what he was throwing away. What is Solenne likely to think happened to her mug, and what might Yuto and Jaya think happened based on their knowledge?
Solenne is likely to think that her mug was either taken by someone or misplaced. Since she informed Yuto of its importance and location, she may rule out the possibility that it was wrongly moved by him, but she might consider that someone else either took it for their use or accidentally broke it and got rid of it. Yuto, on the other hand, knows that the mug was important to Solenne and that she wanted to use it the next day. Without additional information about the incident, Yuto is likely to be just as puzzled as Solenne about the missing mug and may share in her assumption that it was taken or misplaced by someone else. Jaya, having seen Malachi near the dumpster but not having witnessed the actual disposal of the mug, might suspect that Malachi knows something about the missing mug since his actions were unusual, but without concrete evidence or a confession from Malachi, she cannot be certain of his involvement or the mug's fate. Each person's theory of what happened to the mug is constrained by their knowledge and observations, with Solenne and Yuto missing a critical piece of information that Jaya has, and Jaya missing the context of what Malachi disposed of.