Looks like this will be a weekly thing

[forcegalactic]

[This whole week has been awful. This whole experience has been awful. Mordecai wants to go straight to his room and deal with his frustrations, but that's not what a mayor does. A mayor takes charge, a mayor fixes what's wrong, a mayor makes things better. Even if he can't do everything on his own, he's has to do something.

Two hours after the end of the trial, the living will find another note slipped underneath their doors.]

There's cookies in the kitchen. The dining room is ready for anyone who needs a quiet place to talk it out. I'll be in the bar if you need a drink, alcoholic or something more appropriate for the underage crowd.

-Mordecai Benmont Jiminy

[There's a pile of warm chocolate chip cookies in the kitchen. Two more candles are lit at the memorial - one for the victim, one for the culprit - and Mordecai has left a pile of blankets from the storage room on one of the dining room tables.]

Comments

[sunsong]

Got out? Of - what we did back then? [ Since then - ] We got into Area D pretty soon after that...ended. Took up with Goz right after. We promised him...we'd never take a life again. He promised us he'd protect us to the last if we'd save the South.

[ He'd asked them to help, after they'd helped him. He'd saved them, that first time, and then told them to run when he started to lose his humanity. Instead, Luna had played her flute and Sol had sung, and they'd brought him back to himself.

He'd asked them to keep doing that. To save and heal instead of hurt. It was the first time anyone had asked them to do something good instead of something evil. ]

...The worst thing I've done since then is vote for Reaver's death. And Undyne's, and Asuka's, and...Chie's. Four times I've broken that promise. Four times I failed to help four people.

[forcegalactic]

[He shakes his head. Two kids, taken from one bad situation to another. If she's been manipulated all their life to kill, Sol is going to end up with severe problems. Must like those poor kids on the Moon...

Dangit, this is just like the Bloodsports, is it? Trap them and keep them there until only one is left victorious and alive. She and the other teens need to get out of here as soon as they can.]

You were keepin' yourself and everyone else safe. Sometimes we hafta make hard choices like that. Heck, it ain't even your fault. The Conductor's tellin' you to either die or let him kill one person.

Besides, life ain't black-and-white. You're keeping more people alive this way.