[week four - saturday]

[hypertoxic]

[ It's lateish when Vriska wanders back over to the huts. She is ashen with exhaustion, and kind of just wants to go back to her hut and collapse--

--but when she spots Zuko sitting outside Katara's hut, she will just kind of sigh to herself and wander over to him. ]

Hey.

[ For what it's worth, she doesn't sound mad. ]

Can we talk, Zuko? I want to clear the air after today's trial.

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[hypertoxic]

He thinks he's more clever than he is, if you ask me. [ drawled.

Gestures loosely. ]

I lied to him in the way that was most likely to keep me alive, even if it was only for a week longer. Inciting him into starting a witch hunt for a Siren that didn't exist would have gotten me dead a lot sooner. It was the lesser of two evils.

Anyway, no. I do not have a role, Zuko. I never did. I decided to make it my personal responsibility to end the game because that's how I've always operated! I play games, and I win them! I arrived here from a game much larger and infinitely more complicated than this one. A game like this should be child's play for me! [ ... ] Well, normally. You know. [ flaps a hand. ]

[cuedoves]

[ZUKO JUST GLARES AT THAT because his jacobro is gonna die tomorrow]

[too soon :(]

I still think it'd be more dangerous to lie if you had nothing to hide. The truth was bound to come out sooner and later. If he'd been the one with the item role, he would have caught you right away, and you would have been trapped then.

[Yeah, normally, Zuko would have his firebending, which would make life and defense so much easier. But huh, that's interesting--]

So you're saying you've been in a game like this before?