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Well, well, well, thought Wilhelmina as she noted that Nilpaurion Felagund had received yet another vote. She tried to reason out whether she should support that bandwagon. It was never a good idea to gang up on people, she knew, but Nilpaurion, or Adam, or Alice, or whoever he was, did not seem to be in a state of mind that had ever known sanity.
If Nilp was really a wolf, why would he want to get lynched? Therefore he had to be an innocent. But he might be a wolf pulling a clever bluff, knowing that people would think a wolf would never vote for himself. Therefore, he had to be a wolf. But a wolf wouldn't be so reckless, especially not so early on. Therefore, he had to be an innocent. But neither would an ordo, who would want to stay alive long enough to help catch the other wolves. Therefore, he had to be a wolf. Or perhaps he was completely crackers, and thought it would be better to get killed off now before the wolves got him. Or perhaps that made sense -- he wouldn't want to risk being slain, or even turned into one of the beasts?
"Inconceivable!" Wilhelmina said, shaking her head in confusion. Although there was no way of knowing whether he was actually a wolf or not, he was bothering her to no end. That kind of confusion and uncertainty would only throw them off the trail of getting the rest of the lycans.
And with that, she cast her vote for
++ NILPADALICION FELAGUND
"Thank you very much, ma'am," Nilp said to her with a courteous bow. "You've made the right choice." He gave her what he probably thought was a winning smile, but was really just a baring of blood-stained fangs.
"I'm sure I have," said Wilhelmina, taking a small degree of comfort in the fact that there was someone else in the world a bit loonier than she.
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