week 4 | monday evening

[jackhole]

[ so, rhys is... not happy! (when is rhys ever happy?) but the events of the past few days keep churning around in his stomach and he's in need of a sounding board for them. there's a few people he could probably talk to but most of them suck, so he's going to head to the one guy who he's sure is... pretty decent!

which is break.

rhys makes good life choices, surely! anyway, monday evening, he'll find himself knocking on 302 when he comes up the stairs for the evening and glancing around to make sure no one's around. he's... not sure how much he wants people to see him going to see break. especially when they're two of the three people who voted to kill a kid. whoops.

they were right though, so who cares. ]

Break?

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[crazily]

[ See, now if you brought it up, Break would absolutely say never trust Jacks. But alas. Instead, that question gets Break to laugh with more humor. ]

Oh, absolutely. Gilbert is my protégé, more or less.

[ It's a bit complicated, but getting into the world of Pandora Hearts (implied) politics is a bit outside of the scope of this discussion. ]

It's not ideal, since playing by their rules doesn't sit that well with me, but there's little other choice at the moment. If another way to secure an exit presents itself, we'll take that. But for now, taking advantage of their poorly written rules seems like the most advantageous.

[jackhole]

[ a protégé, huh? but what in the world could gilbert be learning from break? that's what rhys wonders but he doesn't bother asking just now. instead rhys nods along and thinks about it, it seems like a solid plan but... hm. ]

Wait. What if that's the point? [ he should probably explain himself a bit more. ] What if... they want us to take advantage of any loopholes in the rules to kill someone? They just want us to kill, it doesn't really matter how we do it, right?

[ is rhys being properly paranoid or onto something? who knows!! it's rhys, one can never tell with him. ]

[crazily]

It's a possibility.

[ Break responds without missing a beat, so it seems like this is something that he may have considered too. And yet, that doesn't exactly make his answer better... ]

But unfortunately, with the way things are now, it's the only path presented to us. If they want us to kill, then the lack of other options is certainly incentive to that.

[ wow it's like break is on team shady for a reason... ]

[jackhole]

[ team shady is definitely full of people who assume everything is a backstab. that's definitely something happening here. ]

Ah. Yeah...

[ it's like rhys wants to say more but he doesn't know exactly how or what, so he doesn't say anything. instead he runs his hands over his face and asks his final question, for now. ]

When? You don't want to do this this week, right? I mean, you want to wait a while before doing anything, right? That would... make the most sense.

[ please tell him you're playing it cautious, break. he's with you, tentatively, but he's still not quite sure himself. ]

[crazily]

[ He nods ]

I do. Taking action at all is a large risk, so I'm not planning on taking that step carelessly.

[ Break seems to consider how to continue himself, but considering what he actually says, it might be surprising. ]

I'm personally playing a balancing act here. If it comes to the point where I'm more certain that— [ He pauses, then sighs ] I may not live to the end of this game regardless. If it gets to that point, then I'll be the one to kill, and you two can act as accomplices. That's when, I believe.