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[deathisanopendoor]

[Wherever you may be—at home on your farm, out and about in town, exploring the wildlife, or perhaps even wandering through the more dangerous areas—someone has come to approach you, seemingly patrolling the area with a confident stride.]

Excuse me. I wanted to inform you that I have assumed the position of Sheriff. My name is Munakata, first name Kyousuke, and I can be contacted under that name at any time if you have issues that require police intervention. If you are capable of taking care of yourself I encourage you to apply for a position under me. We could use greater numbers to enforce order.

[Kyousuke himself is white-haired and imposing, with large snowy owl wings on his back and feathers covering the area where his right eye should be, like so. He is visibly carrying a sword, with another one tucked hidden in his coat in a compact state. He doesn't give off the impression that he's going to be a very easygoing Sheriff... but at least if you're in danger, that might be reassuring?]

Do you have any further questions or suggestions?

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[anappleaday]

[ did she intervene.

he has no idea how big of a landmine he just stepped on— she has to bite down hard on the inside of her cheek to trap the laugh that wants to claw its way out of her throat. yes, she'd intervened for her grandmother.

there hasn't been a moment since where she hasn't wished she hadn't. ]

... I intervened in both cases, though I wouldn't say I was successful either time. I was too late to do much for the latter aside from a brief attempt to repay in kind before I attended to the victim. ...No real alternate action could have been taken, given that it was the sudden act of a lone extremist; the only possible address was restitution rather than prevention.

[ her tone had already been deliberately detached— but here she pauses and takes a breath before switching to the kind of too-steady control that all but screams how very much it wouldn't be without significant effort going into it. ]

As for the first... it's enough to say that intervening made the situation far worse than it would have been otherwise. I... could have wished that they would have approached my grandmother in good faith and then listened to her, but... from what I remember of the incident their actions after that weren't incorrect.

[deathisanopendoor]

[Kyousuke pauses. Something dawns on him—he doesn't have a reason to be tactless about emotionally sensitive subjects with strangers anymore. He may have a fairly low EQ, but he can recognize the strained reactions Lilith is giving him. It's the same way he was acting just a couple minutes ago. During the war, he refused to let anyone's emotional distress get in his way if they weren't Chisa or Juzo, but he doesn't actually need-need this information right now. He just wants it. Is an interrogation appropriate in that situation? ??? He's never considered this before?!

He doesn't know what to do with this realization. For now, he decides to at least set aside the job interview routine and have the discussion normally. (Does he even know how to have a normal conversation?!)]

...I see.

—You attended to the victim of a beheading?

[Stupid, he tells himself; he's experienced the impermanence of death in a few different ways now, so it's not implausible that something could be done more immediately. But it seems like the easiest question for him to go to next if he's trying to be tactful. He finds it curious that she seems more upset by the incident that she said was lesser of an abuse, and that she doesn't even seem to disagree with the officers' goals and most of their actions... but he stops himself from asking about that. And he stops himself from lecturing about the preemptive steps to be taken to suppress lone extremists, especially because he himself was unsuccessful with that one. So, here's what he's asking instead, even though it's conspicuously divergent from his initial subject of interest.]