[Understandable but still no!]

"No, sorry."

"Oh, that makes sense, sorry. Um, maybe just no magic would be fine. I guess."

[I want an escape clause if I find out she's lying about the circumstances of her participation or if any of her family members weren't in on it.]

Lianelle can convey this.

"Oh yes of course that makes sense. Maybe I should be more suspicious of people too but I've always been rubbish at that and my champion isn't being very helpful."

[I am tentatively willing to agree to, if she substantively contributes to my victory in the contest by assisting in nonzero battles and not making me fight her to win, de-magicking members of her family who participated in pressuring her into the contest in ways that don't affect their memories. If that doesn't seem obviously stupid.]

[Seems fine to me.]

Lianelle passes on the offer.

"Oh that would be great though I'm not sure how to contribute - is there a good place for me to put my blanket I don't have a tent like you do which was really an oversight but I've never been camping before."

[I don't think any of this arrangement calls for us to fall asleep near each other at all and she should go somewhere else!]

That gets relayed to her.

"I'm um. Scared of sleeping out here on my own where someone else could find me? You could tie me up or have your champion guard me or something? And I can send my champion away."

[Nope, I don't want to tie you up on guard duty and sending her champion away doesn't stop her from recorporating them here.]

And once that's relayed:

"Oh um. I'm just... just that..." and now she is crying.

[...Please can I give her a hug.]

[I do not consider myself to have the authority to stop you but I REALLY wouldn't recommend it and also if she twitches wrong while she's hugging you I'm substantially likelier to flinch in a murder direction than I am if she twitches while safely stood back.]

[... Okay I won't hug her.]

In that case, she's just gonna stand there and cry for a while.

[Is she ever going to leave?!]

[I don't know.]

[Ugh, I don't want to have to shoot her but I want her to leave, if she's secretly working with someone else and they're on their way or something this could be bad.]

[I could try insisting. Or move her myself?]

[Start with telling her, since we're trying not to start a fight with this one. Tell her it's important to working together in good faith that we have firm boundaries.]

Lianelle can say this! And continue to not hug the girl.

Analise nods but continues sobbing and doesn't make any move to leave.

[Okay, I really don't like this. Maybe her abusive family put her up to this when the baseline probability is one in seven and she has no stomach for it and she's incompetent to carry out an alliance with anyone who doesn't instantly trust her and she's motivated to fuck her folks over for it. It is not impossible. But I don't incredibly buy it, and I want her out, and if she won't get out by walking that makes me buy it less.]