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Yikes didn't quite begin to cover how confusing everything was. Temperance didn't even understand why she felt so strongly about this. It was usually so easy to leave everyone behind, to burn bridges because she didn't like the clutter of them existing. Temperance stared at Susan, mouth set in a sad line. As soon as she could find a servant, she'd send a note. Or something, anything. Reluctantly, she pulled her eyes from the girl.

"Yeah, it's b-better. Um. No, I don't want anyone to die." She shuffled through her notes. "That Lace girl told me to kill the doubles or incapacitate them. I'm just.. I'm never been a fighter, you know. I heard some scuffling earlier - I'm sure some more active people are taking care of things." She somehow doubted there was very much for her to do at all.

"What do you want to do?"

"Well, then... what should be done?" Temperance frowned. She had all this info and not a lot of connecting lines. "The only thing I could think of would be to find the, um, doubles, and somehow incapacitate without killing. But that doesn't solve the issue of the tithe, really. Everyone without a mask is a potential. And the only way to ensure no death would be to stop the tithing overall or make sure everyone has a mask. There aren't enough masks. And while you could potentially pull the masks off of the doppelgangers dudes and give them to the unmasked people, you still end up with unmasked. And unmasked ones can be used for tithe. It wouldn't stop the overall tithe." She huffed out a breath and shuffled her pages around.

"I just... don't know if there's a tidy solution."

"I... don't know. That's the, um, problem." She twisted her hands around. "Should we find a double, pull their mask? Or put them in a closet? I'm not good at fighting, though. All I can do is patch people back up afterwards."

Temperance took Chel's arm and wrinkled her nose. "Shouldn't this be the other way around? You're gonna make me blush." And, true to her words, her ears started turning red, but she let Chel take the reigns.