week four - thursday (lief)

[eisenundblut]

How you feeling today, kid? Yesterday was...

[It sure was a thing. Not to mention searching for Raven earlier... Yikes.]

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[reidentify]

[Ugggh.]

... If she is still missing by next week and Akira is alive, then perhaps you could reassign him and Zuko together?

[As much as he doesn't want to think about that.]

Speaking of Magilou, though... [He pauses, as this is a bit awkward.] ... Would you allow me to tell her about your role? Not that you have it—I will not reveal your identity—but that I am acquainted with it and its rules.

She is clever. Perhaps she can think of ways to use your role to end the game that we cannot. However, if you will not permit it, then of course I will say nothing, as I have always done.

[eisenundblut]

That's the plan. When I reassign people, can only have a partnership of two. So if I assigned Zuko to Katara as planned, that leaves Inuyasha partnerless. Couldn't risk it, not when the Sirens know Zuko's got no partner.

[She hesitates and presses her lips together. She really doesn't trust Magilou, lack of a role or not. But in the interest of trying to move forward...]

Ja. Anybody you trust, I'll trust, kid. We're in this together, after all. I already told Bellamy... Newt knew, too. That was it. Maybe... if we work together, we can use this bullshit "neutral" role to mean something good in the end.

[reidentify]

[He knows Magilou seems extremely suspicious, and he won't try and argue that. It's... hard to explain. Just that what he's seen of her in private has painted her in a better light.

But, also—]

... When did you tell Bellamy?

[It's not alarming to hear (maybe), but it's a bit awkward.]

[eisenundblut]

Uhh... Sunday. He'd been checked by Vessalius, and me and him usually disagree, so I thought if he knew about it, he'd be able to give us some more ideas.

... Should I not've?

[reidentify]

... Does he know that I know?

[eisenundblut]

Nah, don't think I mentioned it. Why?

[reidentify]

[He sighs.]

I have been feigning a lack of knowledge—and have blatantly lied in regards to knowing nothing about the role that "reassigns partners"—to him, even when I knew he desired more information.

... I fear that, if he knows I have purposely withheld this from him, it may damage his faith in me. [...] But now that he is aware of your role, perhaps this is a conversation he and I need to have. Better to have me admit it than for him to hear it from another source.

[eisenundblut]

You can just tell him it was because I told you not to say anything. He'd understand, I think. He's a good kid.

[Prussia's categories for trustworthiness? Good kid? Yes it's all fine.]

Or tell him I told you just this week, after tryin' to shoot the Chiefs. Or tell him the truth.

Anybody else I should know about? Wasn't planning on telling anyone else right now, but...

[reidentify]

Your permission to tell Magilou and whom you chose this week are all that I wished to ask of you. I still do not think it wise to tell anyone else, unless you are assured of their trustworthiness.

[Even if the purpose of Prussia's role should align with what the Sirens hope to achieve, Lief isn't entirely assured.]