I listen to Alistair explain the exploit while Original Death counts down my final seconds and I’m realizing that weaponizing negotiable death means destroying everything I tried to build.“Twenty seconds,” Original Death announces.“We negotiate death terms with the Shepherds directly,” Alistair explains rapidly. “Force them into binding agreements where their immunity fails if they maintain werewolf control. They choose between being unkillable or controlling wolf deaths, not both.”“That’s coercion through death threat,” I argue even while implementing it. “That’s turning death into weapon for forcing compliance.”“That’s survival,” he counters. “Ten seconds, Mabel. Choose.”I reach into negotiable death and start forcing the Shepherds into binding agreements, weaponizing the system against them.They resist but I’m the eternal Keeper, I have more authority than they do, and Alistair is helping from wherever he exists now, adding his pressure to mine.The Shepherds feel it happenin
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