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"That attitude does no one good, if you could explain yourself it would help everyone. Please explain why you voted for Lost Apathy."

Doubleback understood the unwillingness some might have to speak after seeing her singled out, but retreating from an accusation was like lying down ready and surrendering. She did not believe in surrendering, especially when, if that person was prey, then they did the entire group a disservice by giving into death so easily.

Wild Cry's accusation she ignored. She'd already given an explanation of her actions and simply saying "it was more convincing" without any points to back it up gave Doubleback nothing to reply to.


Votes in Order, same format

Trouble refrains from rolling her eyes a little. Hadn't she made her point? But, clearly... she hadn't. Otherwise perhaps she wouldn't be in this position. She frowns a little, considering.

"Well.... Though I find her mannerisms to be quite endearing, in fact, I think that is also the heart of my suspicion for her. But, as I said, she isn't the only one I'm suspicious of. It makes it rather very difficult to make a choice, doesn't it, when you don't know for sure whether you're right or wrong, especially so early on!" She sighs. "I voted for her because it seems that the best way, or one of them, at any rate, to deflect attention from oneself is to seem unassuming. And so that is why I voted for her. A far better reason that voting just to vote randomly," and here she glances at Wintershadow and Bare Trees both, neither of which gave any explanation for tossing her name into the fire, so to speak.

Swamp still didn't know who to vote for. Taking a deep breath, she let her mind calm down. "Trouble" She gave a slightly apologetic look to the doe, but even in a game she still held some loyalty to kin that she vaguely knew through the tribe. Part of the problems being more of a loner, she didn't know how to judge who could be what or even what they wanted.

Oh, she'd stopped paying attention for a second and people had started talking again! She took in the votes carefully.

"I think it's silly that people are voting to kill Wintershadow for being in the crowd when everyone else is, too - it's the very definition of a crowd!" Yet she didn't think Arctic Waste was necessarily malicious: he may have just been intending to hide a random vote. Still, it was silly reasoning, and she remembered the faces of the kin who followed it carefully. But she nodded at Look-See, regardless. She thought the vote was a fair one, even though the white doe hadn't given a reason for it.

And then there was the issue of Doubleback, too. "I see Neither Nor's point, but I hardly think Doubleback deserves to die when all she's done is state a fact." She frowned carefully. "I think she's making an excellent contribution to gameplay, in fact!" She was at least participating in the conversation with more than silly platitudes, and she showed a willingness to push at people she found strange instead of arbitrarily voting.

Although Optimist herself had voted for Trouble, she was beginning to feel uneasy about the bandwagon forming against her. Of course she still found Trouble fairly suspicious but there was no way that all these voices suddenly chiming in to kill her were perfectly innocent, either. She eyed the quieter people who'd voted for her, and As the Sun Burns, especially, because she'd already found voting for him compelling, and his defense of arbitrary reasoning wasn't giving him any points in her book.

Watch gave a small chuckle at the ongoings of Kiss of Death and Wild Sage. She had voted against him, and he was still a little sore about being voted against in the first place, but the fact that she called him green was just too amusing to be too upset. "My lady, I am clearly blue," He gave a shrug, "I see why you would see my vote as odd. In retrospect, I do wish I had a better reason, but what is done is done and that is all there is to it." This was all just a game. He just had to keep that in mind, is all.

Optimist frowned at As the Sun Burns. She really didn't think he was contributing much to the game at this point, other than a discussion of his crane, which seemed clearly irrelevant. What he said clearly wasn't all there was to it - not if he was going to keep simply voting according to the crowd. Kiss of Death she paid no mind to - the doe had voted reasonably, in Optimist's opinion.

She glanced again at Trouble, though, because that answer made Optimist even more suspicious of her. "That's essentially what you said the first time," she told the doe, rather unimpressed. "Anyway, I think that's silly." She looked toward Apathy with her snake and looked away again. "We don't know that her personality is different otherwise, and saying that her affability makes her suspicious has nothing really to do with how she's playing the game." To be honest, Optimist didn't really have suspicions either way with regards to Apathy, although she did wish the doe would talk a little more about things more relevant to the game at hand.

Snake Flower had kept quiet for the majority of the discussion- having decided that she'd rather listen than lead. She was nervous, now- second guessing herself as she usually would. It was her that had put the spotlight on The Once And Future King; and now the doe was out of the game completely! The little flower, being such a fragile thing, felt guilt for having chosen so quickly and with so much accusation. This time, she wanted to wait.

And so wait she did, hearing the votes called out and letting the discussion sink into her ears and fill her thoughts. She was a logical little one, despite her nervous ticks. Intelligent, when it came to weaving paths and connecting the dots. Still, though much- indeed- was said; they, at this point, could only point blindly towards other kin. They had only one clue, and still so many fellow prey standing before them and the predators.

Snake Flower gives a soft little sigh; she did not know who to choose, and thus she went with the majority. Perhaps, tomorrow, they'd have a better idea of how to come to a more logical conclusion. "Trouble." She says, giving a nod of her head. "I feel like we still just don't have enough information... so- so I'm siding with the majority. Sorry." She hoped no one would be cross at her for having such a weak-willed point of view.

Watch blinked widely, "Truly? The crane is the symbol for our MotherFather and the watchers of the Swamp. Although, I suppose if one were to live in the drier parts of the swamp, it would be less likely to see them. They are water fowl, of course." The red eyed buck gave a nod to the green one as well, "And thank you. It was a gift made by Never Idle." He gave a smile and flicked his tail in the direction of the yellow doe who was sneering in their direction, "I could show you a wonderful spot to see the, my lady, and you if you would like, but it will have to wait until after the game. It would seem that simple conversation is frowned upon by others."