week 9 - trial

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week nine trial



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[vytis]

[Lithuania reads the letter, sitting calmly. Much calmer, actually, than he's seemed in over a week. He folds the letter neatly and places the letter on top of it on his lap.]

[vytis]

[Then he smiles again. It's too wide and everything behind his eyes seems to have turned to dead iron.]

Shall I congratulate you? I suppose it would only be fair.

[obsideo]

Nothing about this was fair.

[vytis]

To the contrary, Miss Marlow, I let you solve it, didn't I? [His aura has changed considerably--unlike the meek, pushover sort of person he's been, he now projects the air of someone who could lead an army into a suicidal charge and make the soldiers in that army believe they would find victory.] Was there really any obligation for me to do otherwise?

[obsideo]

All those people died because of you. None of them had anything to do with what Dr. Mordswell did! You think solving it is going to make anything right?

[vytis]

None of my people had anything to do with what Dr. Mordswell did, you know. None of the fathers at work or the children in school. But a plague doesn't care, Miss Marlow.

[godwhisperer]

[Once he's revealed his face, he's immediately coming at him practically snarling in hatred. Actually, someone might want to stop him before he tries to strangle Lithuania, because he looks like he might.]

Fair?

Villain, you dare speak of such?

[pandacea]

[May is not going to be the person to stop him. Her kunai are already out.]

He does not deserve something as merciful as an execution he no doubt prepared for himself! If he is the mastermind, he could easily escape from it! Let us kill him now and be sure of his death!

[vytis]

Use those on me and you'll have to condemn another to the vote, Miss May.

[pandacea]

You won't fool me! Once we've found the mastermind, the game has ended! There will be no need for another execution!

[vytis]

Goodness, if you kill me now, who are you going to execute at the end of this trial?

[Ruta jumps up onto Lithuania's lap.]

[pasodoble]

( And here comes Spain. He'll try to cut between everyone, placing himself between Lithuania and and anyone that might come for him. )

Stop, everyone. ( Is this diplomacy. ) No one is attacking anyone yet. Let him explain first.

[inthebones]

No one is attacking anyone at all. If we don't execute him, we all die. It's as simple as that.

We've gotten this far; we won't throw away everything we've fought for now, at the end, in a fit of passion.

[godwhisperer]

[That will stop him, at least, though whether it's the dog or the words isn't clear. He's still watching with hate, however.]

Coward, put her down, lest she be swallowed to hell with you. Though you do not deserve her loyalty, I will not defile it.

[vytis]

[One quick command and Ruta hops off of Lithuania's lap again, though she sits next to the chair he's in.]

I have no desire to see her harmed, though she's a little defensive when it comes to me, you understand.

[inthebones]

...So the final facade is lifted.

[Susan's voice, too, is like steel as she addresses the man she thought she had known.]

What did any of this bring you? To cause misery, pain? The pain that you felt?

[vytis]

[Lithuania tilts his head at Susan.]

You saw what that illness did--I provided just a taste of it. But for me--back then, you feel it when your people die. They died in the millions and I could feel every single one.

[inthebones]

And how painful that must have been; my condolences. I can clearly see how your thought process progressed from there to 'everyone else should also experience pain because I have' oh no, never mind, that makes no sense at all.

Do you honestly think you were the only one who suffered in a plague? How exquisitely selfish.

[vytis]

Of course not--it's not even the first plague I suffered in. But it is the first plague I died in.

[allice]

Then why subject us to it? What did you have to gain from trapping 29 people in a mansion where they had to kill each other!? What happened to your people was terrible, but we have nothing to do with anything that happened!

[vytis]

You think it was only the twenty-nine of you?

[hollowheart]

You allowed Poland to be killed. [not that she believes that, but she needs to know.]

[vytis]

[Lithuania's tone is carefully measured.] Is that what you think?

[hollowheart]

No. I don't think you ever intended it to turn out that way.

[throe]

I knew it! The moment last week's trial happened, I knew there was nobody else it could be. That's why Sonia killed Poland, wasn't it?