Week 5, Post-Trial: Hermann

[withsadness]

[We'll just say that Hermann will notice Mary folding up and slipping that picture evidence he gave her into pocket...and that maybe, for a second, they lock eyes. She'll give him the saddest little smile.]

Thank you.

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[byjove]

[For a moment, Hermann is torn. He wants to apologize for dragging it out in the open, for pulling attention to what everyone else had ignored. But then, she did do it, didn't she?

That's preposterous. She's a child. She was coerced.]

You're- you're welcome. Listen, Mary, you know this... it wasn't your fault.

[withsadness]

...it was a little bit my fault.

[Coerced or not, she knows what happened. She tried to lie her way out of it because she was scared.]

I should have trusted everyone.

[byjove]

Well... [He guesses he owes her that, at least. Letting her have some of her guilt.] Yes, a bit.

But Assassin used you. And that can't be overlooked, either. And, well. You did trust us, in the end.

[withsadness]

[Mary begins to twist her jacket in her hands. Well, it's actually Assassin's jacket, from what feels like an eternity ago, now, but he probably wouldn't know that.]

Would you still trust me? Even though I love such bad people?

[byjove]

Trust is the reason I brought the photo to you in the first place. Whatever else you may have done, I think that in the end you'll do what you think is right.

[Maybe that's a lot of credit to give a 9 year old... Anyway.]

Besides, I can't exactly claim to be "good people" anymore, can I?

[He uh. Knows that she knows.]

[withsadness]

I don't know. I don't think you're bad people.

[She's had a lot of time to think about what Newt told her. She's had a lot of time to calm down. And committing a murder, a murder of someone you trust and love very much, no less, puts things in perspective.]

You just want to make sure the Game ends as best as it can, right? You've been trying to make sure that that happens even if it means you have to do things you shouldn't or that you don't like very much.