I LOVE THIS
I feel the tension. Maybe you wanted to write a story out of it, I don't know. But right now? It's perfect. It touches me on so many levels. We're reading And Then There Were None in school, or Ten Little Indians. This reminded me of it. Mind if I use the idea of a summing up? Would put credit.
In Awe,
Starre

A matter of perspective indeed. Guilty, I'm afraid.

A real case of 'murder ... she wrote'.