The bottle of quite nice South-Gondorian red wine was empty. That was the sad truth of it. Nogrod looked around to catch
Lalaith just to ask where she picked the wine from but couldn't see her anywhere at the moment.
Well, thanks anyway, it was good indeed, just full-bodied and rich flavour but nice to be enjoyed on it's own... Hmm... I need to find another one of these later...
But he had been listening to the slow conversation as well and unlike the wine, the discussion didn't make him happy at all.
"I do dislike the way
Fea tries to make herself somehow a priviledged outsider. We're all in a same boat now, everyone - including you
Rikae... The number of actual suspcions - even slight ones - has been markedly small. I'd even suggest we lynch the next one who says: we need some discussion, let's be careful not to kill innocents and I don't like killing btw...
I mean yes, that's true all of it. Yes it is. But just playing a parrot restating it time and time again doesn't help us a bit in this mess we are in - unless we start making actual suspicions, looking at how those suspected react, who follows who, who disagrees who etc.
I know it's hard to suspect anyone - yes, this is an odd situation, a terrifying one to be honest - but I'm convinced like I said earlier that this is a true nightmare and we need to fight back, whatever it means. But if everyone just nods back to banalities we'll soon find us tossing a coin while we could have had strong opinions, suspicions, defences, counter-attacks, arguments... and who knows what we could have learned from them? More suspicions, even some with grounds to them... but also a possibility for trusting.
You know how a good detective works? He puts tough questions to catch the criminal and forcing him to paint himself into the corner - but also to see to see whether the suspcion was wrong and that he could trust thesuspect a bit more. That's what we need to do."
Nogrod had stood up from the great armchair he had been sitting and now slowly sat down again picking his pipe from his pockets.
"If you don't share some suspicions I'll do it then... Someone has to do it anyway to kick-start this thing. We have only two hours left before the Night comes."
EDIT: X'd with the three last