... Siffrin is liked by many people. For one of them to speak up would still leave the same doubt that condemned them. I thought Yoru might speak; he was eager to be chosen at the start of the night.

[She could have been crueler to them. Would have, maybe, if things had been different, if she hadn't thought about their birds. If she let a little more of her father's despicable blood burn in her.]

I'd be more interested in someone speaking up who wasn't close to them or someone I'd expect to who didn't.