Attention Keepers and Slayers!

[clawoverfist]

On Wednesday morning, Tristan tells Rhys and Vanya about the note the dragon sent Gonzales, demanding everyone show up at Longpike tomorrow morning or Reina dies.

After Rhys and Vanya split ways with Tristan, they will work to get everyone together that day to inform them and get everyone's thoughts and what they want to do. (Including whether or not they explain themselves to Tristan, Benito, and Gonzales.)

We'd like to hand wave all this for time's sake! This post is for hashing out everyone's thoughts and maybe(??) coming to a consensus on what everyone will do, and probably additionally what they will tell Tristan (and Benito) of their decision.

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[aurosa]

Apologies in advance if this is dumb/I'm forgetting key info, I'm hopped up on too little sleep and a bit too much caffeine--

re no way to prove what he's sensing: that's fine, I was thinking more like worried/suspicious glances in her direction or something-- hints basically for now. But if they expect him to have his own doubts AND he makes that known to Riona then she'll pitch the both of them acting like they might turn on their friends/side with the Almagoras OR if Rhys feels comfortable with solely furthering that acting role then that's okay too.

But if he's already made it clear to the enemy that he's not on board with the murderings then she might be like "yo you stay on 'this' side and lemme give it a shot" (only in Riona-speak).

[clawoverfist]

Yeah basically what Rhys is worried about is that concerned glances in her direction won't be helpful because of his own expected doubt. He'll admit that he never made it clear to the enemy he's wholly against them, but he'll blame this on being mute. That prevented him from vocalizing an explicit rejection in the dire situations they encountered each other in.

(The reality is that he's flat out told the dragon he wants to save the masked man, but he's not going to bring that up here!)

He'll agree to the plan of them both pretending they might turn, and is also okay with being the only one who fakes it (if that's what you meant by that last part!). However, he'll point out they need to be incredibly careful about Isabella Gonzales either way.

[aurosa]

I think Riona will agree with the both of them pretending for now, then, in a manner leaning towards subtle.

The bit about Gonzales assassinating kids -- is that knowledge well-known? Or is Rhys going to share it with the group (or just Val?) Riona is still going to be cautious about Gonzales either way but that'll affect the degree of her distrust

[clawoverfist]

Rhys will "remind" them. He attempted to communicate this before but was too vague (and later became aware he was too vague, though Riona was not present to begin with). Definitely because they are dealing with her in close proximity, he'll make it clear.

[denying_gravity]

As much as Vanya is onboard with keeping sensitive info to themselves, he wonders if they oughta prepare Gonzales for the fake betrayal in case she thinks it's real and does something hasty to try to stop it.

Like killing them.

[aurosa]

GOOD POINT, Riona sees the sense in that (she doesn't like it 100% but it's. a good point.)

[clawoverfist]

Rhys reluctantly agrees that they probably should.

But he doesn't really want to give her the reason why Rhys makes a good candidate for it, and might warn they shouldn't go telling her about Riona's full heritage just in case. (Weatherford connections sound plausible enough, right?) He thinks this in itself could be dangerous after everything's said and done.

Then he realizes depending on what the dragon says it may not matter haha oh god.

[aurosa]

For her own ancestry, Riona is fine with withholding that her mother is an Almagoras, but not overly concerned about Gonzales finding out since that information isn't exactly kept behind lock and key, you know?