Werewolf XLII, Mist in the Barrow Downs

[Thinlómien]

A broadly smiling young Dúnadan lady entered the scene. "Water buffalos? Smelly? My apologies, Stepmother, I guess you just have to stay away from me." Her grin was even broader when she finished her sentence and sat next to Aganzir. "I'm not yours, though", she added in a self-important tone.

She cast another look at the dwarf-like being next to herself. "You are... odd. You are suspicious. I have a vaguely bad feeling about you." She stood up and wiped dust off her skirts. "I don't think I'd like to sit by you... wolf." Then she laughed. "Though I always think you're innocent, and you're always a wolf. So now that you seem suspicious, should I consider you innocentish?" She produced a flask from her pocket and took a long sip of blackcurrant juice. "Yes, you're a wolf and your fellows are Legate and Shasta. I've seen it in a dream."

Then the Dúnadan's expression grew a bit more serious. "I don't trust this Macalaure guy. While I agree that he talks, in a way, sense here

Originally Posted by Mac

Shall we lynch a weird-looking member of our group, or a conventional-looking? I say we go for the latter. My lorebook tells me that in dire situations like ours, the strange have been lynched early on more often than they deserve, and with very poor results usually. Let us go for one who flies under the radar, one who doesn't say anything controversial, one who seems eager to not rub people the wrong way. Sure, those people are difficult to catch since it requires a sharp eye to discern them from someone who says nothing because s/he just has nothing to say. But come on! Let us give effort and lynch one who is most eager not to be pinned down!

I still don't like it. Why? Something in the way that this comes so suddenly yet carefully formed just doesn't sit right with me. Besides, it urges people to act oddly and cause confusion. And most importantly, like Rikae here said, he takes care of acting somewhat weirdly himself - a great way of avoiding getting lynched, isn't it?"

She looked at the two she had just talked about. "Mac and Rikae... I'm afraid I don't like the way you court and trial each other. Careful agreements, defenses and accusations to balance it out. It looks quite fishy. But I think the most probable scenario is that one of you is a wolf and he or she is trying to get the another one to his or her side or win his or her trust. I don't like it..."

"Stepmother Green then... She doesn't alarm me in general, but her post #85 was just horrible.

Originally Posted by Greenie

I didn't answer Rikae's question straightly, though... Was that answer enough, or do you want me to explain some more?

That kind of friendliness (note the smiley) just seems all too wrong to me, it actually reminds me of my wolf attitude - I've made a post just like that as a wolf. There's something quite feigned in the tone and that "did I explain understandably?"+smilie combination."

Thinlómien sat down on the floor and after a little while, settled down to lay on the ground. She looked at the roof above and smiled. "I'd love to see the sky..." she mumbled, "But anyway, what did I want to say? Oh, probably that this Day has been weird - but I like it - and Gwathagor and Nogrod seem innocentish for now and I just really never can understand Menel."

edit: xed with Menel