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Night 2 Start(ed a good while ago)
“When do you think we will get a King’s Man?” asked a young man. Some men grunted or shot icy looks at him.
“Do you know what will happen to us?” the same boy asked again.
“Stop asking such questions. It does not help us any,” the old man said patiently.
“But I want to know! I think that they will help me find a person I suspect of being a King’s Man!”
“Do not argue,” quipped a man with thick, curly hair. “Listen to sagely advice when it is given to you.”
“But what if I disagree?” the boy continued on.
“Then don’t disagree!”
“What sort of thing is that to say when our survival depends on rooting out the three malicious people within us?”
The boy’s voice was louder than he intended. Some people turned their heads to look at him. One seemed to have come upon some dazzling idea.
“Hey, were you not the one who threw the first stone?” he asked.
Was he really? I’m sure he didn’t do it because he was evil!
*sigh*. I thought this wouldn’t last long.
What wouldn’t last long?
You not asking questions.
What questions?
Just – just don’t talk.
“He was, by Eru!” another man replied.
“I didn’t know that man was innocent!” the young man protested. “You all threw stones too!”
“And asking all those questions, just doesn’t seem right!” yet another man said.
“I just want to do the best thing! All I want is to get rid of the King’s Men!”
“Watch him argue!”
Despite the boy’s protests, they dragged him to the town square, where the night’s victim was found dead this morning.
“You have done it, have you not?” roared the crowd.
“I’m a good boy, I am!” the boy pleaded. It was no use. The crowd was deaf to the truth. Someone brought out a sword. His head was forced forward. Then the sword came down.
Nothing happened.
I knew he was no King’s Man!
Aye, so you told me. But they didn’t.
ALIVE:
Morsul
Nerwen
Inzil
Lottie
Shasta
Manwe
The Phantom
sally
Steve
Brin
DEAD:
G55, the hesitant King’s Man (modess) – stabbed on Night1
Eomer (ordo) – stoned on Day1
Boro (gifted) – drowned on Night2
Pom (ordo) – decapitated on Day2
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You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera
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