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Ash had the grace to look embarrassed about her incorrect assumption regarding Charlie, but not enough to accept the failure as her own.
"Ah well, you can't get
everything right all the time."
"
I can't be right all the time? It was your guess that was wrong."
"That was just a suggestion, you didn't have to accept it. You couldn't even make a choice. I could have just withheld my opinion, and then where would you be?"
Coal sighed.
If only. "Still here, but it would be much more peaceful."
"Hmph!" Ash sniffed and glared daggers at him. "Fine then, have it your way. You'll have no help from me this round."
"Very well. I've no doubt that I'll get them all right this time."
Iris: 1
"No one else in Iris's clan wanted to become priestess, and they have no rituals to the Tidelord, because he wouldn't care anyway. So by process of elimination we already know that she must collect brooches before we even receive positive evidence of that fact.
Kari: 3
"Kari's peers approve of him and believe that he has great leadership potential, he seems like a pretty nice guy, and he can make and execute elaborate plans. Therefore the answer must be 3: He has earned the respect of his peers."
Muddywater: 3
Here Coal settles in for a more lengthy lecture.
"Muddywater is tricky, as both 2 and 3 seem to be correct. She is 'often found in the deeper parts of the ocean floating alone and whispering to the Tidelord she knows is below.' If we assume that the deeper parts of the ocean and the deeper parts of Stillwater Cove are interchangeable, and allow that speaking directly to the Tidelord does not imply him speaking back, then this can be interpreted as confirmation of option number 2. However, we also see that "as she matured... she was growing horns" and that "It was during this time that she gained the ability to see into the future," which seems to be a confirmation of claim number 2, that "MuddyWater gained her future sight after she grew horns, and matured into an adult." The only issue here is one of tense - in the evidence we are provided with we read that she developed her ability when she matured and developed her horns, whereas the claim states that she did afterwards. These could be interpreted as being mroe or less equivalent, but that could also be an important distinction. MuddyWater here lives up to her name. While 3 hinges on more assumptions with which I am uncomfortable, 2 seems to be the most likely of the two to be technically false. As a result, I am leaning towards 3, but with the qualification that 2 may just as easily be correct."
Coal looks over at Ash proudly. "I believe you will find my logic here unimpeachable." As he says it though he glances nervously at Unda.
"it's not your logic I take issue with, it's your common sense."
Coal looks confused at this. "I thought you thought I didn't have any common sense."
"That's the problem."
EDIT: Also I forgot to ping you in my last post so I'm not sure if you missed it. It's on p7 if you did and can be bothered going back to check it (I'm not sure how much effort it would take to get another lot of answers for a question that's done, and it's my own fault if they were missed).