retellers | AUDIENCE: RABBITS......3!

[ she sighs and plops down beside her. ]

That's the problem with getting involved. You find all kinds of ways to beat yourself up when something goes wrong.

...Do you blame any of the other roles?

[ me, a becks: good i hope the dead immediately come back, cucking marie and ray specifically ]

You mean we’ll know sooner rather than later, or will we have to wait a bit?

[ who LIKES sacrifice, really. none of them do. ]

... that’s not something any of us could predict. Especially with Ange, well... keeping things secret in the way she did.

It did work. It just... didn’t stick. I don’t think any amount of planning could account for that.

[ she will finally turn her head at least to look at hilda. ]

... No. But I was the one who said it was a good idea to tell her.

We weren't sure before, but after this week, it seems like it.

I don't know if we'll know immediately by tomorrow or anything, it's just... going by a lot of changes that happened this week, it just seems likely we'll have a better idea next week.

But you didn't make that decision alone. And I could've insisted on finding another culprit anyway. Someone else could've fessed up... We're all complicit in almost everything that happens here.

[ she voted for dorothy. dorothy killed someone. ange didn't pull her punches at all. there are a hundred things they've all done to lead to this exact conclusion—there is no one string to blame for the entire tapestry. ]

...I know it won't stop you from feeling gross, but at least you tried to make the best of a bad situation.

[ quietly, she's reminded of mob's death, and some of the gems used on kano—all probably judgment calls based on good intentions. does that make it better not to try at all? she wonders. ]

Thank goodness—I don't think I could take much more of this.

Any idea what we're in for? [ now that they've met their quotas, she has no idea what's left for them to do but wait. ] I heard a little about the monster, but it's not... really my area of expertise.

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[ she just. sighs. ]

... You're right.

I just... I was starting to get used to things going right. As right as they could, within the bullshit rules here.

[ there's just a muffled groan but clem nods. it knocks her hat off because she's face-down on the bed.

thank you alex. ]

[ she leans down to pick up the hat, and drop it back over the back of clem's head. it's absolutely not at the right angle, but the thought is there. ]

So, it's back to wait and see then. [ she's not sure she's into this, but... what else can they do. ]

If we're coming up on the end then... we just need to see this through and try to make it go right.