[not again] catchall for natalie

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...Not really.

[But from her expression and voice, it seems like it doesn't make it any less infuriating for her. She's staring at the fire too, but her arms are crossed over her torso instead as she glares into the flames.]

But it's still... [Oh, she already knows this word.] Bullshit.

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It is complete bullshit.

[she's! so! mad! why did someone have to murder!!]

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People really couldn't just leave a good thing alone, couldn't they?

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It seems not.

[she sighs heavily. the anger doesn't really seem to drain out of her, but it does settle.]

...there is a possibility whoever did it may have been compelled, but...

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It'd be nice to think nobody did this because they just felt like it, but...

[That would bring a whole different host of problems with it, and she realizes this.]

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...if there is some outside force at work here, and if this was always going to happen, then it would make liars of our hosts.

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Would that really be surprising? They won't even show us their faces. I don't trust them.

[She sighs.]

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Would it be? I never saw the face of the voice that spoke to us on the island, but... what we were told was not untrue.

[so her only experience so far has been that hosts don't lie ... though she barely has experience with hosts]

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Even if they can't lie, which I'm not sure about... They could still be withholding important information or misleading us.

[She just has 0 faith in NPCs.]

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[that's valid. hal was A Lot.]

They may be... but to what end?

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It's hard to know just yet. All I'm saying is that they might not be as trustworthy and innocent as they want us to think. You shouldn't take everything they say at face value.

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I suppose you are right...

[She'd like to be able to trust them, but honestly, she's really not sure if they can. Especially not now that someone is dead.]

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[She can sense her discomfort, and after a moment:]

We can talk about something different.

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No, it is all right. We should consider all angles of this situation, even ones I am not wholly comfortable with.

[Turning away from something that's potentially the truth won't do them any good.]

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[She thinks that's pretty admirable, even if she doesn't say so.]

Right... It's probably going to get even more uncomfortable from here on out, anyways, so.

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We shall simply have to do whatever we can to gather the information we need.