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

[ninehundredlives]

Maybe.

[That's a nice thing to believe, anyway.]

And what if you don't like what you hear?

[firstaid]

Then I suppose I must accept it.

[She can't fight some things and she understands that.]

[ninehundredlives]

What does that look like, to you?

[Avoiding them? Hating them? Or trying this love and acceptance schtick even so?]

[firstaid]

I don't really know. Some people I have fought when I realized they were... awful people. However, that's back home. A high ranking councilman committing genocide for their greedy gain... A knight captain who had no qualms using commoners like slaves...

[...A high councilman... and a high ranking knight... sound familiar? She's referencing Yuri's secret here.

It's for that reason Estelle doesn't take these secrets at face value-- why there must be a story behind them.]

So perhaps it's avoidance. But I'll also fight if I must.

[ninehundredlives]

I guess that's what we're all doing, sooner or later. Taking down the people who are trying to kill us all.

[Because they have to. But even if someone else here is dangerous - a monster - you'd face the same fate for killing them.]

...I guess there isn't much to do about it, if they don't do anything here.

[firstaid]

Right, that's what we need to do. We'll overcome them somehow-- we have to.

[Whether it's actually overcoming them or killing them. It doesn't matter...

If the rest of them want to survive, it's their only choice and she knows it.]

[ninehundredlives]

Just because we have to, doesn't mean that we will. Only that we'll do it or we'll die.

[thanks for the ray of sunshine susan]

[firstaid]

That's why we have to and why we will.

[She's used to Debbie Downers, it's all okay.]

[ninehundredlives]

Well. I guess that sounds nicer, anyway, doesn't it?