125 Limbo

[cfuw_shepherd]

[the room is a dimly lit lounge. there doesn't seem to be any exit]

Comments

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

He is Shinsengumi. I don't expect you to know what the means to me, and there is no reason that I can see to share it with you. You have already made your decision.

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

Then don't complain about being forced into something you chose for us.

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

We chose to remove you from the game. That is all. We feared things could become violent, but we did not know how it would happen. The choices you make now are your own.

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

Then you're both idiots for not knowing that. And we've always made our own choices and stood by them. Have the decency to stand by yours.

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

I am explaining why we chose what we did because I feel you have a right to understand it. I am not second guessing the choice.

However, I am curious. Why do you think we should have information about how this shepherd's mind works?

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

I figured that that shepherd were manipulating the wolves into choices. I even said so on the night I died. The shepherd was spreading fear and dissent. Hysteria. [pauses] ... That always leads to bad consequences. Which is what the shepherd wanted.

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

That is true.

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

At any rate, I'm sorry you were in that position. But I really can't stop Damon.

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

When we chose you, we thought there would be a fight, but this was not the scenario we had in mind.

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

No, I guess not. Though it makes sense for the shepherd to use that.

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

Does it?

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

Why would the shepherd confront us in the open when he can just manipulate us?

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

That is true. However, I meant Souji and I were expecting to fight you and your brother to remove you from the game, or else you would have killed us and taken out another wolf team.

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't do that. We would have used ... our other abilities, but killing would never be my option.

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

...I see. But my point stands. This isn't the fight we expected.

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

I know.

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

Would it matter if I offered my apologies?

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

... I don't know. But I appreciate it anyway.

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

*I could totally do it complete with bowing, because I am an excessively polite samurai*

My sincerest apologies for the pain inflicted upon you and your brother.

[dotdotdotmunch.livejournal.com]

[sigh. And also bows in the japanese fashion]

It's past.

[leftintheright.livejournal.com]

*...nods*