[ it's just - no one needed to convince ashlyn that. she had assumed it from the start that everyone was going to do what was best for the whole group. and... ]
He was annoying, but he wanted everyone here to be safe.
Punishing someone who couldn't help it instead of someone who killed out of convenience... sucks. That's the same thing the cultists are doing to us. Just sacrificing us for their own goals.
Yes. But sometimes, to survive, you have to do what someone else has done to you but do it better. We can be pure of heart and dead, or here and complicated.
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Three more of us are dead.
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[she's so tough so much of the time, but she is just a young girl. she reaches an arm out to her, if she'll accept a little touch.]
I'm rather cross this time myself.
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Because at least one of them wasn't even a monster, probably?
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[she's not going to try to convince her that people here are nice and she should trust them.]
Maybe someone who decided to do away with a boy they found to be a nuisance for a prize. I don't like that notion much.
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He was annoying, but he wanted everyone here to be safe.
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A very stubborn child, but stubbornness can be endearing. If he was chosen intentionally, the culprit ought to be punished.
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But we have to focus on finding whoever was influenced by the ritual. The one who would act again without being able to control it.
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[she's kind of mad about it, but she does get the point.]
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Punishing someone who couldn't help it instead of someone who killed out of convenience... sucks. That's the same thing the cultists are doing to us. Just sacrificing us for their own goals.
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[ is actually a comforting way of putting it. ]
That makes sense.
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We'll see what tomorrow brings, won't we.