week 5, wednesday

[ninjay]

[ in the late evening, jay is going to summon the scooby gang to all meet up in room 112. shit has gone down?

as soon as the door locks behind them, he will waste no time before just getting to the point. ]

Andersen told everyone about our plan.

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[nowyouseeit]

. . . too many people none of us trust.

[Andersen can say what he wants, Jake and Dirk and the twins can yell all they want, but in the end?]

[forty-two lives were too important for the Hunters to risk so easily by just telling everyone about what was going on]

[ninjay]

I can understand their anger, but it's easy for them to condemn us when they haven't been in our shoes. Before you came here, Kaito, do you think you would have ever made a choice like this?

[nowyouseeit]

No.

[he stuffs his hand into his pocket and slumps against the wall again]

. . . never. Not after-- . . . not after my dad.

[ninjay]

[ he nods his head. ]

That's exactly my point. No one knows what they would do in a situation until that situation actually happens. They can claim that they definitely know, but that's a lie. So everyone else, right now, is the you from before who was never forced to make this choice.

[nowyouseeit]

[thank god Jay doesn't ask him talk about that again]

What about you?

Would you have made a choice like this, before coming here?

[ninjay]

[ he doesn't answer right away, but when he does, his voice is quiet. ]

Where I'm from, there are two humanoid races. The Ferines, who are people of the water, and the Orerines, who are people of land. There has been a lot of hostility between the two that I won't get too much into, but... it caused a lot of resentment that ultimately lead to enormous problems for us all. The Ferines have a messiah like figure, known as the Merines, that gets reborn after a Ferines manages to complete a certain Rite. A young girl named Shirley became the Merines, but she hadn't really awakened to her powers yet.

[ there's a point to this story, hold on. ]

A group of Ferines who hated Orerines manipulated her into waking up to them, and got her to believe that she needed to destroy all land. Shirley became immensely powerful, and it got to the point where there didn't seem to be any option other than to kill her. I was the one who brought up the suggestion, since no one else wanted to. [ he knows they had to be thinking it though. ] They weren't very happy with me after that.

[nowyouseeit]

[he listens quietly, eyes slipping shut again. and when he speaks, it's low, barely audible]

. . . what did you wind up doing?

[ninjay]

[ and at that, he actually smiles. ]

The story has a happy ending. We were able to get her to realize that we weren't the enemy, and that she was being manipulated.

[nowyouseeit]

[he laughs, short and humorless]

I bet I would've been one of the people who got mad at you for suggesting she die.

[. . . a tired shrug]

If that third option existed. . . you can bet your dumb ponytail that I would've taken it over the road we've chosen instead.

[ninjay]

Me too. It's different though... the power of the Merines was hers, so as soon as she realized she was being lied to, she used her own strength to snap out of it.

[ he really doubts the unclean is in a similar situation here. ]