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@TRICKY🦊 – text

[endow]

hello 🦊
i am yeko!

i've noticed you're one of the more elusive team hearts members
which means, and correct me if i'm wrong, you are doing a lot of work behind the scenes

do you trust your team to do the talking for you, or are you making a team of your own?

[powerhungry]

[ hm. ]

Hello, Yeko.
Why don't you make another educated guess?

[endow]

guess?

i'm doubly sure now. you don't trust your team and you have connections elsewhere! 🔮👻

[she's throwing bluffs around left and right but when her questions go without answers, she assumes she's right.

and humans react best (questionable) with facts (also questionable).]

[powerhungry]

Maybe. Maybe not.

[ A beat. ]

I presume that's not all you wanted to ask me, though you seem content to supply your own answers.

[endow]

you avoiding my questions gives me answers ☺️

ok!
if you had a choice between saving yourself or someone else, who would you choose?

[powerhungry]

If you say so.

I'm avoiding the question. Your turn.

1/2

[endow]

[grrr]

[endow]

if you can answer this correctly, i'll take my turn

i have a charming laugh,
my coats are for each season,
if i'm wearing red, the summer's a good reason.
gold is even better,
when daylight starts to wane—
catch me at dusk, and you'll call my name.

what am i?

[powerhungry]

[ He thinks, for a moment — of the Vastaya, the Vesani. A few different versions of what he thinks is ultimately a single answer.

Well. Simplest is best. ]

🦊

[endow]

congratulations! you are correct!
but you never said exactly what my turn had to be so i'll ask another question

are you comfortable?

[powerhungry]

In general, or with something in particular?

[endow]

currently

with the wolves, the accusations, the finger pointing.
are you comfortable during this experience?

[powerhungry]

[ There's a funny (citation needed) answer here, which is not to give one and force her to come to her own conclusion again, but: ]

I can sit still in a briar patch without enjoying the prick of its thorns.

Are you?

[endow]

a man who refuses to reveal a vulnerability is a guilty man

i am making myself comfortable!
you see, i'm new, and i don't have the connections others have, but i do have my wits
there are wolves 🐺 in my henhouse 🐣 [misty] and i don't do well with wolves

[powerhungry]

[ The bluff makes him laugh — provocation to try to force him into defending himself, when his vulnerability is visible to anyone with eyes to see — like a puppy nipping at his heels. If she hasn't figured it out yet, he's not going to lead her to it. To her. ]

I'd wager none of us do, at least by the parameters currently set for us.

And what is it you want with me? More down for your bedding?

[endow]

[she's already behind the scenes with something blue in her mouth, but she hasn't put two and two together yet.]

bedding would be nice
information, too!

i don't mind getting honey on my fingers if i have somewhere to clean them

[powerhungry]

Are you looking for the willing tongue, then, or the hive?

[endow]

the hive
but i'll take the tongue and reward it with something tasty

[powerhungry]

[ hm x2. ]

Alright. Give me your honey. I'll bring whichever flies I lure to you.

[endow]

[excellent]

good! a drop of honey for your tongue:
i can lure a spying eye 👁️ somewhere else. it was easy for me to find you
what if someone else has the same idea? what if someone wants you dead?
i'll handle them if you hear whispers.

at the moment my target is misty
but i don't think she killed anyone! she's another thorn in everyone's side, so i want her out of the way

[powerhungry]

[ If someone wanted me dead, he thinks idly, it'd hardly be the first time. But an offer's an offer — even better when he knows wheels are already in motion — and he's not so much of a fool as to turn it down. ]

How very sweet.

[ Does he mean her offer? Her request? ]

I'll do what I can.

[endow]

thank you silco 🦊
looking forward to hearing from you