[WEEK 4, SATURDAY POST-TRIAL: Lief]

[spinatalltale]

[so that happened]

[Jacopo and Laphicet are set to die, both of them extremely important people to both Magilou and Lief]

[Serph confessed to being a Siren, and got shot by Neku, who then died when his gun exploded]

[Magilou considers herself a realist, and a pessimist on her worst days. never an optimist. and with this series of events that just transpired? she can see their hope for a "good" ending to this game going right down the drain. perhaps. . . she should have bet on this from the very beginning, after all]

[. . . when she finds Lief, her demeanor is surprisingly (or perhaps not surprisingly, considering) muted]

Hey.

[yep. that's all she says]

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[spinatalltale]

[" I will... have an easier time of it than anyone else, most likely." THAT]

In slightly less despairing news-- [only slightly] -- what should we do about Vriska's close call today?

[reidentify]

... I do not know yet. After all, everything Zuko suspected of her is right.

[And he doesn't want to suggest that Vriska just kill Zuko—that's too cutthroat for him, considering Zuko is likely innocent, even if it wouldn't obviously make her more suspicious in everyone else's eyes.]

[spinatalltale]

[Magilou would think that a stupid plan, anyway. it'd point so many fingers at Vriska]

I think we need to start planning for her getting taken out next weekend. And with Serph, Raven and Battler already gone. . .

[sighs]

The last Siren is turning into our only hope.

[reidentify]

Indeed. I do not know who it is, though—I talked to Hiro earlier tonight, and I am not so sure now if it is him.

[spinatalltale]

. . . he was close to Kyouko, right? So I have a hard time believing he'd kill her, even as a Siren.

[shakes her head]

What did Hiro say when you talked to him?

[reidentify]

He knew all along about Kyouko's role, which I suspected. He claims to have only learned about Raven's after her disappearance, and so it is likely we share at least one of the same sources.

Of greater significance, however, is that he has a role when convenient—which is to say that he does what Vriska did to Jacopo. If someone approaches him believing that he has a role, he lets them think as they will. He...

[He has to pause, because thinking of Jacopo hurts.]

According to him, Jacopo was under the impression that he was a Wickie. I imagine that is what they discussed last week. In any case, Hiro told me that he in fact has no actual role.

... At the very least, unless he was going to great lengths to misdirect me, I do not think he is a Siren or a Wickie.

[Though there's always the possibility that he's lying, of course.]

[spinatalltale]

Oho! So he's got his ears to the ground too, huh. I wonder where he's getting his information?

[taps her chin thoughtfully]

I wonder-- even if he isn't Siren or Wickie-- if he has another kind of role. There are still about two unaccounted for, right?

[five sirens, two wickies, a nymph and a waylayer. what are the last two, then?]

[reidentify]

Bellamy or Vriska, most likely.

... Indeed. I believe that, regardless, he has good intentions. However, I cannot press him too hard without being expected to give up too much on my end as well.

Still, he and I have agreed to share information, if it is not something that must be kept in confidence. I suppose we shall see if he keeps to that.

[spinatalltale]

[she nods]

He's a smart kid. Definitely watch yourself around him.