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graveyard part 2
 You wake up in an unfamiliar cabin. At first, it almost seems like you're in an entirely different place and that everything had been just a dream. The interior of the cabin looks nothing like the run-down, old-timey shacks that you had been living in before. Everything in here is sleek and modern, from the enormous flat-screen TV mounted on the wall to the fridge and mini-bars stocked with all your favorite foods. There aren't any individual rooms in here, just a common area large enough to house everyone comfortably, no matter how many more people join you...and there will be plenty more people joining you before the week is over. Because if you look outside the window, it quickly becomes clear that not only are you still in Prayer's Pass, but that you are no longer among the realm of the living. Judging from the tombstones directly outside, you're now in what had been the abandoned broken-down cabin in the graveyard. The cabin's not all that changed; the world outside has gone completely grey and everything you see appears to be faded and blurry. The only things that remain sharp and in color are what's inside the cabin, including your fellow ghosts. Occasionally, people who are still alive may enter, but it's clear that what they're seeing is completely different from what you're seeing. The door's unlocked; however, a mysterious force prevents you from stepping beyond the threshold, no matter how hard you may try. After all, this cabin is a cage for the dead - a gilded one, perhaps, but a cage nonetheless. On the flat-screen TV plays everything that is currently happening in the town. It will shut off once night starts...and something else will appear instead. |
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How could I have known that without looking into who he was?
How could I have trusted him even after when everyone can see how close they are to each other? If England knew he was the protector, why wasn't he targeted to be killed? I know my role was dangerous to the hunters, but a protector role is just as detrimental to them.
How could I have known if he would've believed me or not, or if he'd even act on his role. Because obviously he hasn't done so yet.
You're telling me everything I could've done and should've done now after it's too late. Don't you think I wish I could turn back time and conduct things differently?
But I can't.
I did the best I thought I could've back then, and even if it doesn't appear so, that was the most I could do--attempt to do what I thought was the best course.
You have reason to be angry with me, but don't blame me for being unable to stop everything.
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I understand you couldn't have known about America, or even that a true protector actually existed and wasnt just invented. I even understand not outing the hunters who kept under the radar and essentially only would have been indicted based on your report. I just can't believe you let a hunter hide in plain sight and lead the town around by the snout, one who's still alive, and I'm really angry about that.
You're wrong in one respect, though. America did act on his role. Just in the way England told him to, though. He was tricked into protecting the werewolf, and that's why that person didn't die in the process of turning one of the prey. That's why Critter said that could only happen once normally. I thought you should know that.
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Kanaya. [ She's plenty mad, too. But there's not much they can do about it now. ]
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She knew about England. [That sentence almost merits an exclamation point, but she manages to just barely suppress her indignation enough for a period.]
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[ She glances off. Yeah, she feels pretty hypocritical picking on someone else given her own role. ]
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After all... we have the hounds, Luke, and America known to us. There are four other roles known to the prey yet they remain a mystery.
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[ Not much of one, sure. But it's something. ]
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HAHAHA BEST SHOT HA...
...if this person is eliminated from the game we're absolutely done for given our abysmal performance in the trials.
i'm hilarious
[ Unlike a certain blue loser. She can't argue with the second point, though. ]
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Maybe it is to our advantage that they're unknown.
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[ HAHA... ha... at least she can make fun of herself for it. ]
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You're right. Even an investigation into their identity will probably only be detrimental. Let's just hope the hunters don't disable them and they keep working.
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And as for England, yes, maybe I could've been more blatant in indicating who he was and have outed one hunter publicly before I died, but I was still running under the assumption that I wouldn't have died so quickly.
You know. It's easy to tell someone what they did wrong after you see the results of their actions. It's much harder being in the situation having to make them.
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But not voting.
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But then he told me not to do that. To vote for myself instead which also includes abstaining.
If I had suddenly voted for England out of the blue wouldn't you have thought suspicions would have been aroused? That I would be questioned and him, as a hunter, would have tried to kill me even sooner?
I wanted to gather confirmed support so that I wouldn't be the only one to have voted for him and killed that night. I wanted others to be able to back my reasoning, or convince everyone else better than I could have. And to do that I needed to find some who were prey--not just the hunters.
If I hadn't died so quickly, today's vote would've gone differently. I had a plan in mind. I just didn't get a chance to use it.
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If there's one thing I've learned about Earth "morality" [actual disdainful finger quotes] here, it's that you apparently seem to think it's somehow better to not be responsible for someone's death, even if it still occurs, don't you?
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If there were a way for everyone to simply not vote and not kill that would have been the best option in my opinion. If the hunters, prey, everyone simply stopped to show Critter that we would not play into this sick game.
The prey are no better than the hunters because both sides are, essentially, killing people everyday. People who, otherwise, would have been good friends and would have gotten along great given another time and place.
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People just didn't take the time to see what would have happened if we all worked together.
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Because unlike the hunters, they refused to accept the reality of their situation. Yes, I'll admit it. I don't think killing is wrong no matter what, period. I'll admit the objective moral bankruptcy of that stance, but I think it's appropriate in situations where some party poses a danger to the group, or militaristic, or a number of other cultural oddities.
This is, essentially, a war in my mind; because about a third of our number were hunters, the prey would have been responsible for about as many deaths as the hunters would be if they won. But we rejected that responsibility. We're essentially losing on purpose. So badly that Critter brought one of the hunters back to life as prey to balance the game!
[She shakes her head.] But there's nothing we can do about it now.
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