week two, sunday

[jettisons]

[Bellamy doesn't go looking for Prussia immediately, not after the execution. That was something, and he doubts she's in any state to be spoken to. Still, he feels like he needs to make sure she's alright, especially after he voted for Austria. Austria would have died anyway, but he still feels responsible. He's starting to feel responsible for every death on this island, like he's not moving fast enough to find a way out.

He spots her on the beach, still covered in Austria's blood, and he stops a distance away, giving her space as he clears his throat.]

Prussia?

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[eisenundblut]

...

[She's silent, bringing a finger to her lips as if that might help her think. That... smears a little bit of the blood that hadn't dried onto her face but uh. Whoops.]

Could be. Which makes it even more important to lessen our fronts before we're flanked. We're lucky nobody got killed during those hallucinations, or...

[She's silent again, thinking.]

Wonder whose side that other force might be on, besides their own.

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We don't have enough information, and we're running out of time.

[It's pointless to be frustrated, but it leaks into his voice anyway.]

Someone had to make those robots. Whoever did that might be the one in charge, or they might have been programmed and left to it. Maybe they're misinterpreting some protocol and this is the result.

[But that doesn't make sense to him. Raven's always been the tech savvy one, and he knows he's making uneducated guesses here.]

[eisenundblut]

[She's counting on her fingers again.]

Worst case scenario, with the rules how they're set right now and the information we have, we've got eight more weeks. Nine at the most. Let's hope it doesn't take that long. Those aren't good numbers.

[A muscle in her jaw twitches.]

Someone had to make them, ja, but that doesn't mean the -hallucination-asshole is the one who did it. Keep that question in mind, but set it aside. We have to break down what we think are the facts before we bring in even more theories, oder?

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[Bellamy nods just slightly.]

I don't buy that this is just for entertainment. There has to be a goal beyond that, something they're not telling us.

[Why else would they drag a bunch of people from different worlds to do this?]

They have to have some system in place to get us to keep playing, even if we don't know what it is. They're not going to let us just stop.

[eisenundblut]

Ja, I think you're onto something there.

[She nods slightly, resting her free hand on her hip.]

So whatever we do... it has to destroy it so thoroughly that they can't ever bring it back. Not for us, not for anyone else. I want to make this the last Gottverdammt game like this.

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[That gets a smile out of him.]

We're on the same page. If there's a security system, we need to find it, but I don't want to risk killing everyone on this island if we're wrong.