You spend most of the night thinking on all you had found out. There are now several paths open you and you feel that you need to come to a choice. You have thought several different things over the past few weeks and each holds interest, the only one you can't bring yourself to believe is that you are a gifted human sent to protect them. "Too long with the Old Man to ever be able to truly believe that I guess." You think as you cycle through things. The two Lords here didn't give their names yet but you like their position, choosing the red is still and option of course, a very attractive one, accept that you are truly superior to all other as the Old Man did and gain massive power, you would have to eventually kill the Lords and the Old Man too but you could easily do that later.


They also didn't go through all the possible colours or decisions, so there are other choices you could come too, they all involve moving away from the red though and accepting that you aren't an alpha predator sent to earth to eat everything.


You consider everything, but eating humans just feels right. They warned you about going red but what is wrong with power and standing on top of the food chain on your own terms, you are already in so they won't kill you right away and that will buy you the time you need.


You consider everything and the red is very tempting but they warned you strongly against it, you want to be on top but not at the expense of EVERYTHING else. You will find a way to rule and do as you wish, but not the red path.

You find your own path

Leaving the red behind


You are tempted by the red, but it is not worth loosing yourself to gain a little more power, and the Lords hinted that they might have other abilities that the reds do not. You will work on your own choice here with them until you are sure of your course.


A couple of hours later one of the Lords links to you and you join them again. They are both clearly happier with you and mention that your colour had already lightened, evidence of you rejecting the red.


You spend the next week with them, learning a few tricks that the Old Man hadn't taught you and getting used to new food. You ate the flesh of the infected that died in the arena and it wasn't so bad. It didn't have the rush of fresh human but you got more used to it the more you ate and your old hunger reduced now that you knew it wasn't even needed. You even get to really enjoy the special arena events the Lords host.


The Old Man soon makes his appearance though to make things more interesting. You are eating lunch when the Lords contact you and direct you to a ledge on one of the buildings, it is 60 stories up, which is only half way up the building they tell you that they can't go too high or they won't get the best view. As you stretch your senses out you see the tiny red sun on the western horizon, slowly getting closer.


"It seems he is attacking in the hopes of you following his plan to kill us as he does so, it is your move now friend, what do you choose to do?" One of them says to you. They showed you how to reveal lies In a mind by how the colours change, it is not exact but it is fairly accurate and you know they are much better at it than you, part of their being green you guess so you cannot lie to them.

You say "I will help the Old man, I owe him that much"

You realize nearly instantly that this was a bad choice; you actually just told two harbingers that you would help their enemy try and kill them. You try and take it back but before you can open your mouth you feel the punch on your back and go sailing out into the air. Even with your toughness and healing ability you aren't going to come out well from a 60 story fall


You do however have time to think about your own foolishness on the way down before finally hitting the road below.