“We can’t endure this. We won’t last.”
Are you talking about the entire nomination game?
“We got unlucky and took the brunt of it. We’ll get a breather.”
“Will we? These guys are experts in preying on weakness! They’re going to target us and come after us until we can’t defend ourselves, they’ll kill us, then they’ll go after Panacea, or Armsmaster, or Hookwolf, or Noelle, and they’ll do the same thing!”
The nomination game kind of works as a countermeasure to this. Since they’re doing it turn by turn, they have to split their attention between the candidates, and can’t all gang up on one group at the same time (though that’s close to what happened here thanks to Burnscar getting tagged in).
However, they’re probably still going to go as close to this tactic as the rules will allow.
“Taylor.”
I pushed myself to a standing position. “They’re going to do the same thing they’re doing to us, and they’re not just going to win. They’re going to ruin everything while they do it!”
They’ve made good progress on that already.
So this feeling Taylor had… hopelessness, and perhaps the desire to leave the city entirely?
“Stop!”
I hobbled past him, and he grabbed my wrist. Between anger and the fact that my sleeve was wet with the water of the shower, I managed to rip my hand from his grip. “Don’t. Don’t do that.”
Grue just wants her to calm down and look rationally at it, but this isn’t rational Taylor at the forefront. This is the Taylor who sees this situation as the nearly unwinnable bullshit it is and is reacting to it emotionally.
I’m not so sure she’s wrong to do so, but right now they need to focus on making it through the current situation.
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