<div style="text-align: center">《 Rebel 》<br/>
Location:<i> KOA cabin</i><br/>
Addressing:<i> Rachel</i><br/>​</div>At first Rebel thought that he had finally gotten through to this woman; she would finally understand that everything he and the two other guards had done had been out of the goodness of their hearts. But then she mentioned all the things that went wrong, blaming it on him, and he closed his eyes and just let the frustration pass through him.<br/><br/><i>"She needs someone to blame," </i>he told himself.<i>"It makes sense to blame us; we represent Hale, and thus nothing we do is enough."</i>It reminded him of managing riots and protests in the city. When you got that many people upset about issues (or upset simply because it gave them something to do) there was no talking sense to them. You had to let it roll off you like water on a duck's feathers. It wasn't personal; it was emotional.<br/><br/>Opening his eyes and inhaling though his nostrils, he watched her as she insisted that he had fought with them the entire day and 'made' them distrust the guards. He disagreed, but again – emotional women. What could you do with them but let them believe their version of events?<br/><br/>"It<i>is </i>terrifying," he agreed. "And sudden. None of us knew it was coming." He wet his lips and leaned his hands on the edge of the bed as he sat there, waiting on Anise to bring them water. "I don't know why Hale picked any of you to kick out," he shook his head slightly, thinking of Sou. How many others were wrapped up with her in that plot to attack the compound? Surely they would have all left together? "He told me why Sou had to leave," his eyes jumped to Rachel's and he had to pause to let the tightness in his throat subside.<br/><br/>"You might have not been involved in what she was, but others were. People like Eddie wouldn't have been – I can't think that he was a danger to Abendblume. I don't understand any of it," he admitted. "But I didn't want you all to be thrown to the wolves on Hale's whim."