[He doesn't miss that look; he isn't altogether sure what to do with it, or how he feels about it, but he's not changing his mind, either.
He hesitates just the same, though.]
I told you some things about the situation in the school, correct? About how we're all locked in there and can't get out or contact the outside, and the person who did it is making us kill each other? That's the condition for if we want to leave - we have to kill one of our classmates and get away with it. We were given things that could be used as weapons, and goaded once in a while by the person responsible.
One of the girls tried to kill someone and ended up stabbed to death in a shower with her own knife; the boy who did it tried to say that it was self-defense, but there was a lot of evidence that says that probably wasn't the case.
One of the boys had problems that the person responsible used to their advantage and manipulated; he ended up having an episode and bludgeoning a smaller boy to death. He didn't even remember doing it.
According to people who are from further in the timeline than me, I'm going to lose my mind in about twelve hours. I become violent and unstable to a point where someone believes I hurt someone else and smashes my head in - I've seen the weapon he's going to use to do it, this last time in the school. He's going to get killed by the girl who told him to kill me shortly after.
Another girl is going to commit suicide. Another boy is nearly going to be crushed, and the only thing that saves him is a mechanical failure. One of the other girls thought she was safe, but her sister set up a trap for her and she was impaled on something.
[His voice is strange, when he recounts all that; it's almost alarmingly empty, devoid of the usual emotion behind his words. He's reciting it like he would facts from a textbook; his gaze is going a bit distant, but he's still there.
He's just very, very tired. Maybe not physically, but the sort that takes everything out of you mentally.]
Every time someone dies, we have a trial. During that trial, we're supposed to find out who the culprit is; we talk about the evidence we found, because we're allowed a few hours to investigate the body, and then we have to vote on who we're handing over to the person running the game. If we're right and hand over the murderer, they get executed; if we're wrong, we're all killed and the murderer is allowed to leave the school.
I handed over one of my classmates to die, and deliberately affected the vote of another trial - I didn't want to see the culprit executed for personal reasons, and we thought the vote had to be unanimous. So I voted for someone else and hoped that in the best case scenario I would be killed for voting incorrectly, and in the worst that everyone else would die but the culprit would be spared.
[locked]
[He doesn't miss that look; he isn't altogether sure what to do with it, or how he feels about it, but he's not changing his mind, either.
He hesitates just the same, though.]
I told you some things about the situation in the school, correct? About how we're all locked in there and can't get out or contact the outside, and the person who did it is making us kill each other? That's the condition for if we want to leave - we have to kill one of our classmates and get away with it. We were given things that could be used as weapons, and goaded once in a while by the person responsible.
One of the girls tried to kill someone and ended up stabbed to death in a shower with her own knife; the boy who did it tried to say that it was self-defense, but there was a lot of evidence that says that probably wasn't the case.
One of the boys had problems that the person responsible used to their advantage and manipulated; he ended up having an episode and bludgeoning a smaller boy to death. He didn't even remember doing it.
According to people who are from further in the timeline than me, I'm going to lose my mind in about twelve hours. I become violent and unstable to a point where someone believes I hurt someone else and smashes my head in - I've seen the weapon he's going to use to do it, this last time in the school. He's going to get killed by the girl who told him to kill me shortly after.
Another girl is going to commit suicide. Another boy is nearly going to be crushed, and the only thing that saves him is a mechanical failure. One of the other girls thought she was safe, but her sister set up a trap for her and she was impaled on something.
[His voice is strange, when he recounts all that; it's almost alarmingly empty, devoid of the usual emotion behind his words. He's reciting it like he would facts from a textbook; his gaze is going a bit distant, but he's still there.
He's just very, very tired. Maybe not physically, but the sort that takes everything out of you mentally.]
Every time someone dies, we have a trial. During that trial, we're supposed to find out who the culprit is; we talk about the evidence we found, because we're allowed a few hours to investigate the body, and then we have to vote on who we're handing over to the person running the game. If we're right and hand over the murderer, they get executed; if we're wrong, we're all killed and the murderer is allowed to leave the school.
I handed over one of my classmates to die, and deliberately affected the vote of another trial - I didn't want to see the culprit executed for personal reasons, and we thought the vote had to be unanimous. So I voted for someone else and hoped that in the best case scenario I would be killed for voting incorrectly, and in the worst that everyone else would die but the culprit would be spared.