don't wait for a knight in shinin' armor, your savior's reflected in the mirror

[perpend]

[That sure was a fucking thing. That execution was a fucking thing. Those secrets are a fucking thing.

Cabanela retreats to his room, but not for all that long. Everyone will get a note eventually, written in very neat handwriting

I do not plan on bowing down to threats and intimidation. If you did not act, it means you were, like me, aware of the risk, but decided against it. Your reasons are entirely your own.

Join me in the dining room if you agree enough is enough, and that you won't acquiesce to threats. I don't plan to let this stop me, and neither should you.

-C

In the dining room itself, Cabanela has set up coffee and tea for those who want it-- there's no food, because to be honest, he doesn't know how to cook. Two more candles have been lit-- he wasn't really sure what to do about the whole... parasite thing... so Fern's candle will have to make due.]

Comments

[didntgetdadslooks]

It's... the short version is I didn't have a choice. Dying wasn't even an option to get out of it.

[zomgboom]

Kinda like a Sophie's choice, then. [She seems to know Angel won't understand that, so she explains:] That's when, like, your options are all bad so you just give up and pick whatever.

[didntgetdadslooks]

No, it's... the man telling me to betray them was the one maintaining my life support and
he had control over my powers. I had no other choice, period.

[zomgboom]

. . . Gotcha. [Oh, wait. Tabby's had a realization.] That's what you meant when you said you didn't eat food: you were a prisoner.

[She doesn't say it with pity. There's sympathy there, but it's mostly just a neutral statement.]

[didntgetdadslooks]

Yeah. Everything was injected.

[zomgboom]

Sounds like this guy was a real winner. [The sarcasm is real there.] One of those types that, like, doesn't see mutants for who they are, just what they can do. Or whatever you are, 'cause there's people with powers that aren't mutants it's just I'm one so that's, like, always my first thought.