[WEEK 5, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, POST-LETTERS: Lief]

[spinatalltale]

Lief! ♪

[someone is calling his name in a sing-song voice. APPARENTLY MAGILOU IS LOOKING FOR HIM, WHEREVER HE MAY BE]

We've got mail!

Comments

[reidentify]

[Lief just

gives her

a dead look]

I noticed.

[spinatalltale]

Hey, hey, what's that grim look for? I feel like you should be happier.

These letters are coming from the dead, after all.

[spinning the letter bottle in her hand tbh]

[reidentify]

... I am happy to hear from Jacopo, but you can imagine what a letter from Jacopo, Lelouch, and Joshua might be like.

[DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT COMBINATION.]

[spinatalltale]

. . .

Hey. Let me see.

[grabby hands]

[reidentify]

[Sure, have his bottle. HE'S TIRED BECAUSE HE'S BEEN TRYING TO SOLVE THIS STUPID PUZZLE.]

[spinatalltale]

[she takes one look at it, and--]

. . .

[shoves her bottle at Lief instead]

Here. Just read mine. It's easier.

[reidentify]

[He reads Keith's letter, before looking up at Magilou.]

... He is warning us against believing the Sirens.

[spinatalltale]

When you see those three again, you should tell them how easy it is to get the point across without using pointless riddles.

[JUST SAYING!!]

[reidentify]

[He sighs.]

I suppose they were afraid the message would be disallowed if it were too obvious.

"Listen to the Siren's song and you will drown." And the first riddle is likely telling us to trust the Wickie. I am not sure about the last one yet.

[spinatalltale]

I can't help you with that one. I'm no good at riddles!

Fortunately, I don't need them.

[Mags what]

[reidentify]

[...]

What have you learned?

[spinatalltale]

[. . .]

[she smiles]

Hey, look at us. For the first time, it's me coming to you with information. Kind of strange, isn't it?

[don't stall Mags!!]

[reidentify]

... Magilou.

[He's trusted you, even when he was uncertain as to whether to give that information up.]

[spinatalltale]

[she knows]

[and she's paying that back, now]

I know who the final Wickie is.

. . . we were wrong, when he thought that they might not have the group's best interests at heart.

[reidentify]

[He pauses. It's not a surprise to him, having already known that Bellamy was working with the Wickie, but... ah.]

... Perhaps you should warn Lucina that she ought to be more discreet.

1/2

[spinatalltale]

[UH]

[spinatalltale]

[. . . huh]

How did you guess?

[reidentify]

You have said it yourself, have you not? Most would not trust you with information on this island. Therefore, it is someone close to you. Close to Bellamy as well, for he also knows.

Meanwhile, they are not well acquainted with me, for they do not trust me.

... There are only one or two people who fit that description, and I doubt it would be Akira.

[spinatalltale]

[. . . smart. but she's honestly come to expect no less of him.]

Mmm. You're pretty sharp, Lief.

[. . .]

I promised her I wouldn't tell anyone. I intended to keep that promise, honestly! But. . . well.

If no one knows who she is, then how can they make sure not to vote for her at the trial this weekend?

[reidentify]

Understood. I will not tell anyone—though I do not really have anyone to tell to begin with.

[Sorry, Vriska, Hiro. Though, to be honest, Lief doesn't know if he ever really meant to tell them anything sensitive unless they truly made the first gesture. He used up his leap of faith on Magilou.]

If Bellamy comes to me to keep me informed of the Wickie's plans, I assume I should continue to play the fool.

[spinatalltale]

. . .

Hey, Lief?

[. . .]

[words. words are. . . hard]

Thank you.

[reidentify]

... For what?

[spinatalltale]

[just. smiles at him, reaching out to touch the back of his hand gently]

I suppose I had forgotten what trusting someone feels like.

[reidentify]

[He blinks, surprised, before he smiles back.]

... Thank you. I know it is not easy.

[...]

Vriska told me that the Wickie knows all the ways to end the game. Is that true, do you know?

[spinatalltale]

Yes.

[she links her hands behind her back, rocking to the side as she does so]

As you know now. . . the Sirens were deceived. There is no volcano spirit, and allowing them to keep killing will end the game in an undesirable way.

According to Lucina, removing the Sirens will end the game in "the way we all want."

[and yes, she clarified that "the way we all want" was in the best interests of everyone on the island]