digiteyesed | PRIVATE TO MARY

I don't want to be protected. I wanna take care of myself, and I wanna take care of Ib.

[Mary's listening carefully, and she nods along.]

The lady who wears lots of purple is one of them, right? [She looks a little uncertain; she's met more people all at once in the past few days than she's ever imagined knowing; remembering names is hard.] Na...Natsuhi...? Natsuhi... She always talks about voting for me and Ib. Would it be a good idea to vote for her now?

[And suddenly Mary sounds saccharine, wide-eyed and curious.]

She always talks about how dangerous it is here... I think maybe she'd be happier if she could be safe, and she'd be less worried...

[Just as quickly, she's serious and attentive again.]

There's lots of people to worry about. That family's so big... Is that an okay place to start right now? I wanna know what you think, too.

[Aww Mary you manipulative little brat I'm so proud of you.]

Ib will wanna take care of you too, you know.

Natsuhi doesn't seem very happy at all, does she? Really, it would be a kindness to her. I don't think she even believes in the grand prizes, so it's not like she'll want to fight to stay. If anything, isn't it best to pick someone who doesn't want to win?

I know. We're friends, so we have to take care of each other. That's why Ib's gonna stay with me, too.

[She shakes her head a little.] She's always worried and nervous... I think she's getting sick, too. She always talks about how much safer it is in the hotel, so...she'll get better there, won't she? You'll agree, too, right, if everyone else tries telling me it was bad..?

Of course I will Mary! You're just worried about her, and children are so impressionable. Obviously if a lady who's so concerned about you looks like she's struggling so much with everything, you have to help her. And hasn't she been telling you that's the best way to help? If all the adults are saying that's a good thing, then it must be. How could you be doing anything wrong?

[puffs out her cheeks!!]

I've got lots of power so...I wanna do something good with it! That's what everybody said would've been good, right..? Ib and I are really tough, so I know we'll be okay here, but...Natsuhi...

[She looks awfully sad for a moment, and then she's all smiles.]

I'm really excited. I want her to feel better!

[who let these two near each other wtf]

[They are great influences on each other and will do wonderful things this game. Ene smiles and pats her on the head.]

I'm sure she'll feel much better once she's away from all this stress. Mary's such a good girl, to be working so hard and want to help others so much.

We have to be careful, okay? I'll definitely come defend you if anyone says anything, but since we're a secret club, we can't let anyone know what secrets we're talking about here.

Don't worry, I'm really good at keeping secrets! [BOY IS SHE] It's our cool secret club, so no one else gets to find out. Just us two!

[because boy oh boy is she also really good at keeping secrets from Ib?!?!]

Yaaay! Ene's so cool, we're gonna work really hard to win the big prizes together!

[Ene's a little surprised at how quickly and how keen Mary is to lie to Ib, but hey, Ene lies to all of her friends all the time for the greater good, sometimes that's just how it has to be.]

That's right! We're gonna win the whole thing~ So we need to work hard and get more votes too. We have to make sure all three of us make it to the final round, so we can always round robin our votes. Hmmm, maybe if someone wants to vote Mary or Ib out, I'll be their second, and then claim my tablet malfunctioned so you could only get one vote and have to stay, oh noooo, what a shame~

Ah, but we should be careful straying from the plans too much. Since everyone's keeping track, they'll notice if we deviate or seem to have our own agenda.

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