[Ambition's a big girl, so he'll trust her on that. It's not really his business otherwise, anyway.]
I wanted to ask your opinion on whose team I should join tomorrow. I'm torn—I like Cunning's style, but I think you're the one that's gonna win this thing. I figure I can't go wrong either way given that you've got this little alliance going. I'll stick with him if you're concerned about his safety.
Him or Disorder, whichever you think has powers you can use better. You can always join me later on, once they get a few more to pad their numbers. Either way, it's going to be one of the three of us.
I'm fine right now, but the safer they are, the happier I'll be.
Works for me. I'm thinking Disorder will have the more useful powers, but I'll sleep on it.
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How much can you reveal now that the trial's over? I didn't vote for you, but it didn't look good that one of your powers was used during the murders. Fortune's, actually, since I know what happened with all the others.
[Ambition rolls her eyes behind the mask. You can practically hear the eyeroll in her voice.]
Oh, is that all? One of my followers is performing a task for me. I asked them to start using Blame Game regularly. That way if one of my followers or one of Cunning's or Disorder's ever gets the idea to go do something about the idiots we're competing against, it won't look out of the ordinary if they use it to cover their tracks.
You'd find it suspicious if my power was never used and then suddenly it was, wouldn't you?
Good strategy. I figured you weren't responsible for taking out Fortune after, uh, all that. Then again, if that was an act, it was a damn good one.
[He's giving her that excuse if she wants to take it, but he's assuming the breakdown was real.]
But you said the culprit was someone we hadn't even thought of yet. Is there someone out there like me? Pretending to be someone they're not?
[Granted, his own lines between pretending and being sincere are very blurred these days, but, still. He doubts most of the competition would peg him for a murderer.]
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[Ambition's a big girl, so he'll trust her on that. It's not really his business otherwise, anyway.]
I wanted to ask your opinion on whose team I should join tomorrow. I'm torn—I like Cunning's style, but I think you're the one that's gonna win this thing. I figure I can't go wrong either way given that you've got this little alliance going. I'll stick with him if you're concerned about his safety.
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[She says it immediately.]
Him or Disorder, whichever you think has powers you can use better. You can always join me later on, once they get a few more to pad their numbers. Either way, it's going to be one of the three of us.
I'm fine right now, but the safer they are, the happier I'll be.
[no one wants another midtrial tantrum]
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Works for me. I'm thinking Disorder will have the more useful powers, but I'll sleep on it.
[...]
How much can you reveal now that the trial's over? I didn't vote for you, but it didn't look good that one of your powers was used during the murders. Fortune's, actually, since I know what happened with all the others.
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Oh, is that all? One of my followers is performing a task for me. I asked them to start using Blame Game regularly. That way if one of my followers or one of Cunning's or Disorder's ever gets the idea to go do something about the idiots we're competing against, it won't look out of the ordinary if they use it to cover their tracks.
You'd find it suspicious if my power was never used and then suddenly it was, wouldn't you?
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Good strategy. I figured you weren't responsible for taking out Fortune after, uh, all that. Then again, if that was an act, it was a damn good one.
[He's giving her that excuse if she wants to take it, but he's assuming the breakdown was real.]
But you said the culprit was someone we hadn't even thought of yet. Is there someone out there like me? Pretending to be someone they're not?
[Granted, his own lines between pretending and being sincere are very blurred these days, but, still. He doubts most of the competition would peg him for a murderer.]
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I'm amazing at anything I do [except for being humble, apparently] so if I had been acting, I'd have been amazing at that too.
[she'll take that excuse, thanks.]
There are a lot of people playing pretend around here. The difference between you and them is you don't lie to yourself about who you are. They do.
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[He says it flatly. Ambition meant it as a compliment, no doubt, but Newt doesn't feel good about it.]
I still don't know why I'm doing any of this. I'm not lying to myself, but that doesn't mean I understand it.
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[...Well.]
I don't know. That'd be a waste of a wish. Besides, they'd kill me if I went through all this trouble just to learn something I don't need to know.
[He pauses. Why did he say that? He frowns, swallows. Shakes it off.]
So the, uh. Fortune's killer. They're not someone putting on an act, or at least not on purpose. Is that what you're saying?
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I'm not going to explain it. That's for you to figure out. You're a smart man, aren't you?
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Fine. I guess we're done here, then.
[He turns to go, but then:]
Are you really afraid of Fortune's killer?
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As long as the people I've spoken to hold up their ends of some bargains, I don't have anything to be afraid of anymore.
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[But she's not called Ambition for nothing. He heads out.]