Day Twenty-Eight:
The Feeling Of Loss
The remaining members of the Air Tegrin tribe slowly walked back from Tribal Council and laid down to sleep. Now, there were only seven members left in the game and new pacts and alliances began to form. The seven remaining players are Babette, Olivia, Kyle, Mick, Cole, Asher and Emily. Babette, Olivia and Kyle are the only remaining from Matahari while the other four are left over from Bulan. It seemed that a Bulan member, especially one of the four in the tight Horsemen alliance that was present since Day Two of the game, would win the game but at the last Tribal Council where Madison was voted out, everything changed. Mick and Emily both decided to vote against Madison, and thus confused everyone as to where loyalties stand. Emily said in a confessional, “I know it’s sort of taking drastic measures to back stab Asher and Cole because I love them both dearly, but it’s about time to take this game into my own hands. They were never expecting the fact that I would pull something like this and switch sides. Now, Cole and Asher’s plans were completely shattered and so are the Matahari members. Since both sides are broken, they’d basically do anything to be dragged along a bit further. So, I think I can start an alliance with me, Mick and two others and take this thing home for me.”

Cole and Asher had a talk early morning, as they went fishing, about what they would do with the game now that it was apparent that Emily had switch sides for some reason. Cole proposed, “I dunno, Asher. Maybe what we can do is use the Matahari members to vote out Emily, because she’s sort of untrustworthy, and then make a deal with Mick to bring him along to the Final Three.”

Asher was very depressed, and knew what was really going on. He told Cole, “You know what Cole, I think it’s over for us. We rode this alliance to this point and all thought how great it would be, and thought we’d surely get Final Four but too many things are going on at once. I knew Mick would eventually switch and that Matahari would find out, but now we even lost Emily. We’re sort of the lone wolfs, I can tell. It’s going to be one of us next.”

Camera pans to Asher in a confessional as he begins to cry. “This whole thing really sucks! I worked my ass of in this game to get this far, and Emily has to get selfish and just pull this shit so she can win. Now, Cole and I have no one to turn to. Nobody will trust us and vote with us anymore. I can already tell that I’m probably going to be gone this next Tribal Council and Cole the one after that.” Asher pauses. “Actually, that might not necessarily be so, because I can always try for immunity. I’ll have to work my ass off to win that challenge.”

Emily in a confessional

“No, we need to be smart with this one,” Emily told Mick. “We can’t take two people that are at a threat of uniting at the Final Four. I mean, that’s always a possibility but you’d want to take along two different types of people. So, I mean we can’t take along Asher and Cole because we know at the Final Four, it’d definitely be 2-2. We wouldn’t want to take along two Matahari because of the same reason. That means we have to take along one of the Matahari members and then either Asher or Cole.”

“But Asher and Cole are sort of a conjoined package,” Mick said.

“That’s the thing, we vote out one of them this Tribal Council, acting like we’re with Matahari, and then the other will feel like his time has come. Then we propose the alliance, and they’ll most likely just jump on it because they’d want to get further in the game.”

“Well who would you want to take?” Mick asked.

“From Matahari, I think Kyle’s our best bet because he seems like the kind of guy that would do this because he’s been on thin ice ever since Cecely left. Between Cole and Asher, I’d rather take Asher. Cole is a big threat, we need him gone!”

“I guess this next immunity will just determine how things go, huh?” Mick asked. Emily smiled at him and nodded.

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