And forever for her is over for me [W6, Saturday, Post-Trial]

[hydrokinetics]

[He's curled up in a ball on the floor, a piece of paper clutched in his hand. He's not able to meet anybody's eyes right now but he knows this is important.

Shinnosuke and Natalie are gone. Jason's MIA. Their numbers are so small and not for the first time he wonders if he should be more scared than he feels.

However, he talks to the top of his shoes instead.]

...go ahead. Lay it on me. [About how he and Jason should have mentioned things sooner. There's a lot more he wants to say, but one step at a time.]

Comments

[hydrokinetics]

...do you think we could ask the Sheriff to give us an idea of what to do with our wildcards? I know Noctis trusts Ash, but I'm not sure if I do yet. And I'm still not sure about Rin. Especially after today.

[elemancy]

"Trust" is a loose term.

[he notes, much as he really isn't keen to admitting it.]

He hasn't done anything up to now, or... up to when Hannibal wrote that letter. But I can't promise he'd work with us.

[and:] He still doesn't know my role, either.

[though the idea of having to get rid of ash also... bothers him?]

[thatsthespirit]

[Percy. . .]

If you ask the Sheriff for ideas, you already know what he'll say.

[this is a MURDER game and if Ash and Rin were MURDERED then they would. . . have that group. . .]

[hydrokinetics]

Do we know what Ash's letter from Hannibal actually says? I don't know if he'd work with us either, but the only other thing we could do is...[Well. Yeah.] It's probably smart he doesn't know. You heard him at the trial, he was already trying to go after you guys.

[He bites his lip because Milla's right.] Maybe we can ask Mr. Barnham if he has any better ideas. After we're all together again.

[thatsthespirit]

I don't.

[she glances at Noctis for this one, because perhaps he has some more insight than she]

I suspect he thinks he can end this game by eliminating the Bounties, or at least the remaining roles. Whether that's a valid way of claiming victory, I don't know.

As for Barnham, I confided in him my role earlier today. He was less surprised than I thought he'd be.

[elemancy]

...I got nothin' on that one. I don't really know what he would've said to Ash, or what Ash is even after aside from ending the game.

[hydrokinetics]

Maybe that's our next step. Finding out what Ash and Rin know and how they think ending the game will work. I have no idea how we're going to talk to either of them though.

So Mr. Barnham knows about you two. Does he know about Damian at all now?

[elemancy]

I didn't tell him about anyone else in the group, so if he knows about Damian, it would have to be from someone else.

[thatsthespirit]

I didn't mention Damian to him either. At least, not by name.

I thought that was a secret Damian himself should share if he wished to do so, not me.

[hydrokinetics]

If we're going to be asking Mr. Barnham to help us, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea. At this point, our numbers are so small...[A shrug.] Maybe he already knows? It's not hard to see who we're all sticking close to these days.