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Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 2:04 AM
By: Neoriceisgood

Witness protection.

Perhaps not the most talkative witness though..

50362: Sloss - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 3:50 AM

Impressive moral integrity. She sticks true to her values even though he knows that will get her killed in the next few minutes, at most

50363: Silver - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 3:51 AM

Maybe he can communicate with signs like wile e coyote! We don't know, he hasn't been given a sign yet, it could work!

50364: Mox - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 4:25 AM

She's been acumulating death flags for a while now, but this one is so big she could use it as an airplane banner

50365: noname - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 5:54 AM

Honestly? Shaliha is laying the whole deal out in very reasonable terms here:

Without revealing anything about the vision she received, she's making a vague enough allusion to the fact that she knows that the things she has seen and heard may make Klaassen/the Order consider her a liability.

She's also presenting the fact that she's not relinquishing Three in a manner that leaves no room for compromise or argument; by presenting him as a potential witness to crimes that the Order itself is/may be responsible for and who is, in that capacity, going to need protection from the Order itself, she's effectively neutering any appeals to the Order's wishes or commands as motivation for why she should relinquish Three to the Order...

In short: She has revealed that she knows that she needs to protect both herself AND a potential witness from Klaassen/the Order itself.

If only more irl soldiers and law enforcement officers were as morally principled as Shalhia.

50366: Whispers of Sorrow - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 5:55 AM

Are charades admissible as evidence around here then?

50367: oskarloko - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 5:59 AM

Shalia totally legal good

50368: Luminous Lead - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 6:17 AM

"Oh no, the paladin is an idealist!"

50369: Eight - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 7:42 AM

Three *does* talk, although the speech bubbles' content is not understood by most.

50370: Tom - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 10:42 AM

With Tobi to translate, I can see it working.

50371: Melany - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 10:54 AM

Three can write. That should be good enough for a testimony.

50372: Joe - Wednesday, March 18 2026 - 2:27 PM

Not sure why Shalhia is being moral over orders when she was fine doing exactly the reverse before.

She wanted to capture/arrest Tobi despite knowing all along she was perfectly innocent:
https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_1683
She tried covering up what horrible crimes the Order did:
https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_2152


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