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Unusually early, Macalaure was roused from his long sleep. The utterance of many a strange word he perceived in the long hours of dreaming and he now had to bring forward his thoughts.
"That elderly fellow over there, Nogrod he calls himself, has troubled my thoughts of late.
Yesterday, he tried to make us lynch Izzy or Xyzzy all day, but then, when Shasta turned to be our candidate, he chose the Guy. Why, I wonder. Yes, Nogrod has been suspicious of him, but given the course of his argument over the day, this really does count as a sudden change of mind, I think.
The question: would an evil Nogrod have done that? The vote is quite outstanding and usually wolves do prefer to hide their votes. Evil Nogrod could have left his vote where it was, or have voted Shasta, and nobody would have taken notice. It is also remarkable that, even though Guy was so suspicious to him, he first followed the Guy's vote for Xyzzy. A person of pure heart would not do such a thing so easily.
His vote explanation today does make some sense, but not much. If he was so suspicious of the Guy all day that he was even afraid to be immediately killed by him, then why didn't he pursue his suspicion more assertively? I cannot read much sense into his vote and its reasoning.
Nogrod, you said you were suspicious of me because of my "outsiderness". What exactly do you mean by that?
Furthermore, I cannot see how Nogrod's assumption on the nature of the wolves follow. Bloodthirsty wanna-be winners? So if Guy or I were wolves, we wouldn't be bloodthirsty and wouldn't want to win? Or do you think the wolf-kill was dilettantish and that Guy or I would have picked somebody Beleg wouldn't have foreseen? How do you know the wolves picked someone who was generally thought innocent? It's quite possible, yes, but after all, all we can assume is that, whatever strategy the wolves pursued, Beleg was able to somehow guess it.
You argue on many unproven premises, Nogrod, which very much puzzles me.
However, I agree with you that the wolves now are more likely to panic than before, with a cobbler(?) dead and their kill rejected.
Isabell, you say that we should think about the betterment of our situation rather than just to look for ourselves.
Indeed, I say, indeed...
It's a curse today. There's no dead body to analyse and there's little to nothing that can be analysed from Shasta. This is the second coming of Day One and I'm yet to become any wiser than yesterday."
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