laudna catchall

[sonorant]

i love her already

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[undread]

[hello, robin. she's just outside, too, not going anywhere in particular.]

...Poorly, I think.

[sonorant]

You can come sit with me for a little while, then.

[ it's been four weeks and i don't know if this cabin has a porch of some kind, but robin doesn't mind just sitting on the ground to chill. ]

[undread]

Can I?

[okay. she'll come sit with her.]

I did suggest we kill you earlier. You're not cross about that?

[sonorant]

I wouldn't be so disingenuous to not mean something like this.

You acted on what you thought was right. In order to prioritize saving two lives over one, and if the monster affliction abates after today...

[ i can understand. ]

I have no wish to die, but if that is what you were thinking, I won't begrudge you.

[undread]

[well. she'll be blunt.]

I think what we've done to you is cruel. Leaving you to dangle, waiting for someone to decide what to do.

[sonorant]

Thank you for your honesty, Miss Laudna. If it were someone other than me, I would think it crueler than it is now.

[ but maybe i am a little too used to this. ]

If I am honest, I would prefer to live and return to my cosmsos, but I understand I can't stop anyone from coming after me or voting for me.

[undread]

[that's a mood, girl. she understands a little.]

I'd prefer you live, too, other than the likelihood that you'll kill someone again. But, really... I think the same number of people may die anyway!

[it's just rude not to tell her and let her wait to be knifed like camille.]

But I don't think, having spoken to a few people, anyone quite has the appetite for knifing you in the back. [sorry ara. though watch me be wrong this week.]

[sonorant]

[ bursts into tears i know ]

At this rate, near everyone here will become afflicted and kill someone. It's only that ritual timeline that will stop it from becoming everyone.

[ if laudna is okay being blunt, robin will be a little more blunt than usual. ]

I am fine with that outcome. I do not want anyone to come after me. It will be better if no one has my blood on their hands.

[undread]

[it's refreshing to talk openly about these things!]

I think you're right. Monster or not, it's a matter of surviving that long, in the end. You're a bit cleverer than the ones who get angry and act out.

[sonorant]

I don't know if I would call it cleverness.

[ only daan's thoughts betrayed him. he didn't act out besides that. it's a coin toss if daan would have cut karlach like that unafflicted. robin is undecided. ]

But it'd be better for morale overall if our numbers don't sink faster.

[undread]

[i think he definitely would have, but he wouldn't have been so rude about being suspected.]

Yes. Though that may not be an option in every case. Someone who would go on a rampage, the way Aqua did...

[sonorant]

Because the monster was agitated and provoked. There must be a vote, and she was - the more logical choice because of her rampage.

Seeing how Camille was targeted, even if the votes were switched, I suspect it would have ended the same way even if Aqua didn't pick up Cloud's sword.

[undread]

Well. I certainly provoked Camille that night.

[she's not proud of it, exactly, but she also doesn't blame herself for it. she just lost control of herself.]

I do think there are differences, but I know you're not wrong. If Karlach had been kept calm, it might have ended very differently.

[sonorant]

You did. They both were provoked, but you acknowledged what needed to adjusted after in the next trial.

[ she understands people being emotional and stressed, so she's not angry about it. it just hurts to see and watch. ]

There are differences. No one person afflicted and situation will be the same because of how people feel about those involved, but I do think we're getting better at how we approach it. Even if it didn't end with less violence as we would have liked tonight.

[undread]

I think we're getting better, too. I hope so. It's so many.

And Daniël and Karlach were the two new ones, which says something rather terrifying about Kanda.

[sonorant]

[ she nods. ]

That it wasn't someone new, right?

[undread]

No. It was either you or the other one.

[sonorant]

It wasn't me, Miss Laudna, but you can continue to believe what you want.

[undread]

Oh. I don't really think it was! I think it was the other one, which is a bit more troubling.

[sonorant]

Do you have any guesses?

[undread]

Not particularly, no. Though I still think it had to be someone who spent the evening at the house.

[sonorant]

I think so as well. There was glitter going up the campsite, and there wasn't any on Mr. Kanda.

It's still a sizeable group.

[undread]

Yes. And even though everyone had a bit on them, cleaning that much off in the night would be rather difficult. Let alone even knowing who else was still there.

But we had a rather large crowd gathered.

[sonorant]

I want to think the black stain left on his sword meant something, but I don't know what.

[undread]

It made me a little nervous, because my blood is a little...

[she did not join in the calls to test people's blood for a reason.]