[Jaqueline's expression seems almost vacant as everyone argues around her, but she's still stunned that this is happening. Part of it is all the planning, all the struggle, all the work that she and Sierra have been doing, and in one fell swoop, the inner circle yanks it out from under them.

But at the same time, she's panicking with what will have to be done, and she can't, she can't let her brother get in that ring. She knows he'll be willing to do whatever it takes, but she can't watch him kill David, kill Sierra, and she doesn't know if she could bear it if either of them killed Maxim.

The fuckers, all of them.

Glancing away from the table in an attempt to compose herself (10), before glancing down to the phone in her lap and sending out a text to Sierra.]

The inner circle is starting the Gauntlet.

[The fact that they need to talk is a given, but they can't do it here, where her parents are watching.]

We have time, don't we? To decide which of us is going to do it?

["Is it truly a decision, Jaqueline?" Gabriel asks, well meaning but it makes her want to claw her father's eyes out.]

What? I'm not allowed to want to rise to the occasion?

[She's really not doing well at covering how emotional this is making her, but let's be real, she's having a time (2).]