TRIAL IV

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Trial

Another Saturday, but this Saturday is your last Saturday. If everything holds, if everything works out. After all you've been through, are you capable of being an optimist? The carnival calls regardless, furniture arranged around as they always are with banquet table and pit in the middle.

This week's new offerings are: a fluffy loaf of a certain type of rye bread, a hearty beef stew and an assortment of fresh pies with candied fruit and cream.

For the last time, find out who killed two of your own: G'raha Tia and Sariel.

(( OOC: Welcome to your first trial! You'll have 7 hours (until 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT) to vote one (1) person guilty of murder. As this is scapegoat style, a correct vote is not necessary. Please remember to vote unless otherwise discussed with the mods, as that is our AC for this game ))

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[coldseep]

( Hwylryn absolutely sees that, and the regret he's felt following the murder regarding Junior's involvement has only intensified compared to the weeks leading up to it.

He's not foolish enough to say that he made Junior an offer and that Junior agreed - Junior is, as near as can be, newlyborn to Hwylryn.

He accepts his actions as, in their rawest state, cruel and manipulative and selfish, regardless of his intention, regardless of his love. )

I was wrong.

( And he will admit to it plainly, the way he did when Primrose scolded him for not valuing himself. There is a clarity to him, that is perhaps not, in this situation, reassuring. )

... You want me to understand the way he aches, and what it's done to him? The gravity of what I chose, right?

I understand. And if you think I should be punished for it... this, I would allow.

( If he deserves execution for anything, it's this. Not out of self-serving guilt - but simply to balance the scales. It's fair. )

[simulacres]

I... don't have anything that I can say. Just... as long as you know.

[ everything that she might say feels downright hypocritical to her.

there's tears forming in her eyes, and she's lifting her glasses so she can rub at her eyes. ]

I should have realized it sooner. [ that maybe they should give their dragon better directives. ]

[coldseep]

( Ah...

His heart does hurt for her, making her cry, as his heart hurt for Sariel and G'raha - and in the same way, he had to hurt them anyway, as he must - has - hurt Ayaka. )

... That isn't your responsibility. Dragons are too much to bear, in every way. This is why we are so often alone.

( In pairs, at times in smaller units, but - not a grand force; not something interconnected, the way humans often are. )

I can't apologize for being the way I am, but... because of that, I hold no one responsible for what I am, and what I become, but myself.

( Yes, he's impressionable, easily influenced, and takes what he's given to heart - but translated in a strange, alien way. But that is how he is. A bird must fly, a fish must swim, and a dragon... well.

He can only ever be as he is. Such is his nature. As he's said many times. )