Week 1, Saturday, Post-Trial; Serph

[sylfied]

[ ... It's not too early to sleep, but after everything that's happened, even Fie's well-aware that sleep is not going to come easily. After everything she's seen for herself, being one of the few who had actually witnessed the precise moment where everything had gone downhill and knowing what would come and knowing now what will come...

Fie walks, with a stride a little more confident than her usual sleepy amble. She does tense a little, spotting someone on the beach gazing out at the ocean, but upon recognition... she simply steps up silently beside him.

Serph probably won't mind, she thinks, but she's prepared to keep walking if he does. ]

Comments

[varunastra]

[ Ah, yes, and there's that.

Serph would rather not eat anyone who hasn't tried to kill him first, but that's a luxury he never expected not to have. Suddenly, he's low on enemies, and that makes living more difficult as much as it makes it easier.

But the details on that will keep for now, until the next time they talk strategy. This...doesn't feel like the moment. ]

Thank you.

[ Honestly, he expected himself to be one of the first ones on the chopping block, simply because of what he is. Yet nobody at the trial...had even suggested it. ]

[sylfied]

If we don't look after each other, I don't know how many other people will.

[ Beyond the bleeding hearts, but there are some things they can't tell the others. ]

[varunastra]

[ A nod. ]

It will only grow worse as our numbers diminish, I'm sure.

[ Early on, there are more potential targets, and it's easier to be united in their hatred for Hal, but as things go on? Every death will be more reason to be paranoid of everyone else and fewer reasons for people to trust and look after each other.

If they don't have each others' backs, what hope do they have? ]

[sylfied]

... We have to survive. Or they'll all lose.

[ ... geez. What a job they've been saddled with, and Fie speaks with no sense of burning resolution, just weariness. ]

[varunastra]

[ Indeed. It's up to them.

Kill horribly to save the few, or keep their hands clean and watch everyone die.

No pressure. ]