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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Her expression turns gloomy. She nods.]

He must have been. I don't think he'd do something like that otherwise.
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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
... I still don't.

[She winces, knowing this is hard to justify when he literally... did that.]

He... he must have had a good reason, or was forced into it...
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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. I believe in him, but I still have to know why.
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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe that's what it is. And if it is, I know it's not right... Killing an innocent to save another innocent.

... But if most people might be compelled that way, then it's hard to condemn them completely.
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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
I-I don't mean to...

[Oh, but he's asking a question, and that seems better than arguing about this.]

I think so. An execution... right? Someone will have to kill him.

Oh, but we didn't have a second vote...
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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Though we didn't actually know what the second vote was for, at first... since there wasn't anyone there to explain the rules.

I suppose it's likely going to be random this time, too.
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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Fights...? You mean, between the executioner and the condemned?
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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
You mean if he wins in a fight, he could live...?

... But then, the person who was chosen randomly would...
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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks a little conflicted at that.]

Right... Thank you for telling me. I'll try to be prepared for any outcome...
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[personal profile] mustbepurged 2022-06-12 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
I doubt he knows the future any better than we do, but I'll see what I can learn.