Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXIII: Journey to Hy Brazil

[Anguirel]

(This is the only post I'll be able to make today, and it'll be fairly short. I am marooned in London a day longer than I expected and have had to distract my father on a trip to get light-fitting and then hijack his laptop to get this far at all...)

Rune's death and guilt has the unhealthy effect of strengthening and confirming the suspicions (and prejudices, I suspect) I held yesterday. Being right is intellectually far more damaging than being wrong.

That said, I had a theory yesterday that Durelin might have performed a wolf for wolf vote. This now seems possible; yet how to explain her confusion over the Seer? That's sort of a cunning plan too far; it looks really genuine.

The other candidate for lynching last night was Sauce. It is not to my mind completely impossible that we had two wolves up for lynching last night; especially with the climate of dissension among the lupine ranks. Gurthang's role as executioner becomes prominent here. Did he suspect Rune of lovelorn treachery and so seal his fate? Is Sauce a lover-wolf who has just narrowly survived the velvet dagger of his erstwhile friends?

Caran makes a forceful case for Kath's innocence, but I still feel to some extent that her attitude is at odds with her frequently dodgy actions. Still, she has fallen on my suspicions list.

Finally...we should note that Diamond apparently attacked Sauce with honest intentions.

Hmmm.

Sauce – 4 (Diamond 1, Rune 9, Glirdan 10, Taliesin 12)
Rune – 5 (Ang 2, Durelin 4, Sauce 5, Firefoot 11, Gurthang 13, Findeasea 14)
Lalaith – 1 (Caran 3)
Glirdan – 1 (Kath 6)
Gurthang – 2 (TGWBS 7, Lalaith 8)

Very quickly-Glirdan is the only unknown who attacked Sauce-so I am now for the first time harbouring suspicions of him.

Firefoot-I forgot to consider her just now. Could be an alternative to Gurth as executioner. Sauce also.

Kath sits on the fence far too often. Maybe genuine indecision...

Gurthang votes-genuine minority suspicions or Love-derived knowledge from Engels or Lalaith?

I am going to vote because I don't believe in not doing so, but I fear this may be a shot in the dark.

++FIREFOOT

Don't know what I'd do without her vote summaries but she has gone too long unconsidered.

This is one of those rare, grim occasions when I don't have time for poetry.