[It's so fucked. And Power's got the right idea, because Alisaie won't stop beating on the barrier until the little bit of anger sustaining her ebbs; she knows how the barrier works after so many weeks, and she's braced against the backlash no matter how the reverberations numb her hands and jolt up her arm.

It's so fucked.

Her response is in an undertone--she knows how the popularity contest between Diluc and Spike goes and really doesn't want to deal with others taking umbrage at her words.]

And even were he to win, I doubt others would allow him to survive the day, even though killing him would set us on the path to ruin. But should I find out who cursed him last night...