[ hm! you know what, lux has a lot of feelings about all of those things, but she's going to do what she always does when she is overwhelmed, and just smile brightly! and think: A shadow thrives beside the light. A shadow thrives beside the light. A shadow thrives beside the light. the repetition of it is probably distracting because it just keeps going while she talks over her own thoughts. ]

This is why it is best if I am the one caught instead of Dimitri. Rather, I have already been caught?

I do not mean this as any sort of slight because you are the newest of us, Ichiro, but as a matter of pragmatism for what those outside of this circle already know.

How many people are left who do not already know how many deaths I am responsible for? What, then, is the point in trying to confuse things? Whether the evidence leads them to it or not, they know that I am involved. I am a back-up vote, even should they not make sense of the pieces they are given. There are those who will avert their eyes, and those who will not.

I believe Manwol intends to help obscure the scene and I will not object to this. I find the compassion of it touching. But...

[ A shadow thrives beside the light, a shadow thrives beside the light, a shadow thrives beside the light. her smile is a little more strained. ]

I do not wish to die. But what is the point when I have been a dead woman walking for weeks?