Locked to Murder Nations

[pasodoble]

( Sunday afternoon, after the incentives and lists have gone up, the nations meet.

The bed is unfixed and there are some clothes hanging around which gives it a cluttered appearance but otherwise, Spain's room in Emerald Wing doesn't appear to be in bad shape.

Closing the door behind them, he'll rush around the sitting area, tossing the clothes onto the bed and into the cabinet carelessly. He'll also leave the liquor cabinet open with several glasses on top. From the looks of it, he's been using it himself.

It only takes a few seconds for him to make his last minute preparations and then he cuts straight to the point. )

We need to work together.

Comments

[vytis]

I don't want to think that they'd vote us off just because, but--if they aren't sure, it does seem like they'll sacrifice us, doesn't it?

[balzams]

Maybe they'll consider our existence pointless now we know it won't negatively affect our people.

[Don't get him wrong, he's more relieved than he can say but it is making him border on an existential crisis]

[vytis]

I really don't want to be used as anyone's safe bet in trials.

[balzams]

Me neither...

I really got us in trouble this time. I'm sorry...

[vytis]

We could have behaved better, but I think some of them read more into what was being said than we actually said. And at the end--we were angry. [Lithuania finds it hard to blame anyone for their behavior after the execution, at least.] It's alright.

[balzams]

I guess...

Unless I actually have anything relevant to the trial I'll try and stay quiet next time.

[vytis]

W-well, don't stay so quiet that the audience gets bored of you.

[balzams]

There's that risk too isn't there...

[He still can't help but wonder about this audience. In what country would it be legal to broadcast something like this?]

[vytis]

Act as if you're human, I suppose? Don't bring up nation viewpoints.

[balzams]

... I'll try my best.

[mostlymarried]

You heard that woman aftewards didn't you? She may as well have said it.

Blame the witch in black. Showing them that, it's like they think they're all guilt free.

[vytis]

Miss So Hilt did say Miss Ukraine should have expected to be the sacrifice. [He looks more nervous than usual.] It's too much to expect one of us to expect to play that role when we haven't committed any crime.

[mostlymarried]

Exactly. If that is their opinion of us, I see no worth in any of them.

[vytis]

Everyone was under stress at the trial. I don't know if all of them need to be written off... But we should probably make sure we can defend ourselves, even so.

[mostlymarried]

Enough of them have made their opinions clear.

This is democracy isn't it? What a miserable way to run things.

[vytis]

W-well, normally democracy involves people who... [Have some job experience in regards to whatever they're doing? Aren't composed of thirty people from different worlds? Aren't on a murderous reality show?] Want to be there.

[mostlymarried]

...You should meet the Szlachta that ran my Commonwealth.

[vytis]

Well, I didn't say it was functional all the time... [Lithuania can sympathize with this Commonwealth issue, though.]

[mostlymarried]

...Well, you get the point. We need to be united, in and out of trial.

[vytis]

Yes... But we'll have to maintain a balance there. We'll be thought of as dangerous if we're too militant about it.

[mostlymarried]

They think we're dangerous anyway.

[vytis]

We can be dangerous. [Maybe more now that they know their people are unaffected and fear for their own lives is starting to creep over all of them, really.] And there are five of us left--we can't alienate all of them.

[mostlymarried]

Allies, then?

There is the Polish boy.

[pasodoble]

I wouldn't say 'allies.' Try 'friends.'

[notyetlost]

He's not-- well. [Stiles and his American-ness.]

Yeah. I like Stiles a lot but I mean. I don't know if I'd trust him like that. He's still human.