There ... there is the increasingly vanishing chance that this is all just a misunderstanding of your overwrought mind ... if you are thoroughly moon-kissed enough to count on that. For a good person, the Pattern would spin this out as a reminder, a caution. For a ... for you, this is like as not another Trial, if not Judgement. Thinking about it, looking at it from tip to tail with the most distant eyes you can manage, you can see how this all bends towards justice, towards inexorable Truth. The clothes you stole to buy made you a target of thieves. The womanhood you denied for years by cross-dressing made you a target of ... of men. Unclean and ... soiled by the death-blood of innocents, you are brought to a privy to be ... relieved. And failure that you are, you don't even get the respect of being killed for being a Witch. There is no acknowledgement of you as ... as a threat. As of having any substance. You thought would have that at least, when it came. Some acknowledgement in your death. But in the end, you it seems the sum of you will not round up. Just a trifle. No wonder your father never bothered to teach you anything.

You still do not even feel numb. You still do not even entirely accept what is happening, what is obviously happening. But at least now the tears have come. Silently, of course. Even now, you know better than to start wailing.

And even now, there is still time to do more than cry. But what?

> Please choose ONE of the following
> You will attempt to wrench your arm out of the grasp of the Guard holding it. [Requires Rolling]
> You will attempt to trip the feet of the Guard that is holding your arm. [Requires Rolling]
> You will attempt to shove the Guard that is holding your arm. [Requires Rolling]
> You will attempt to offensively Mitigate the Guard that is holding your arm. [Requires Rolling]
> You will attempt to position the bundle so that you may unobtrusively rifle through it as you are being dragged, to bring the Wand of Head-Knocking to bear without Socketing. [Requires Rolling]
> You will attempt to position the bundle so that you may unobtrusively rifle through it as you are being dragged, to bring the Wand of Head-Knocking to bear with Socketing. [Requires Rolling]
> You will attempt to position the bundle so that you may unobtrusively rifle through it as you are being dragged, to bring the Pin-Stiletto to bear on the Guard that is holding your arm. [Requires Rolling]
> Assuming that this is ... what you think it is, but leaving the door open for you to be mistaken, you allow yourself to be taken to wherever, looking for an opportunity to get your hands into your bundle.