Madness string 2490

Random mermaid
I am perfectly controlled. My mind is as cool as a bald mammoth. My intellect is absolutely in charge. I am not angry. I am thinking positively. My faculties are fully engaged.

We are walking on eggshells. Nobody knows the strengths of the others, and so we tread carefully, prying, prodding, considering every response, every answer, every silence, waiting for a slip. It is a game of patience played out in masks, as futile and intricate as the most convoluted of politicking.