At their overlooking watching spot, Su Yin sighed, “Well, that’s too bad. It would have worked greatly to our advantage if Drake had ended up herd leader.”
Lateisha gasped, “How can you –say- that?”
“Simple and logical.” Su Yin said calmly, “If Drake staged protest had nagged the park staff enough to follow through on his idea: we’d have fewer horny bucks to worry about, we’d also have larger numbers than the bucks, and the remaining bucks wouldn’t so viciously fight over us. And since there would be more of us, any damage that happens on the part of the bucks would be much farther spread out.”
“You know precisely how he’d treat us.” Lateisha pointed out.
“Exactly how he treats us now: like walking vaginas.” Su Yin said, “Only there would be fewer bucks to cause damage, and the damage would be more spread out, as I said.”
The other does stared open mouthed at Su Yin’s words.
Jenny uncharacteristically meek submitted, “Er, ya know gals, she does have kinda a point.”
“Well,” Hannah chose to say, subconsciously assuming a beautiful pose, “When Sam wins,” She didn’t say ‘if’, “He won’t treat any of us like that. Being originally female and planning to going back that way, he won’t let the rest of the herd impose on us.”
Su Yin thought for a minute before speaking, “I’ll admit the winners do seem to gleaning a certain level of respect and command from the losers, but don’t forget the motivation of most criminals is, ‘I didn’t think I’d get caught’ they might decide just to be more careful about it. –And- need I remind you that Sam is here for only a month’s time, while the rest of us were given vacations of considerably longer length. Unless the runner up is someone like him, then in a month’s time we’ll be facing a volcano that’s been struggling to burst all that time, and it won’t be pretty.”
Hannah took a step back, she honestly hadn’t thought of it like that before. "Would you prefer that someone like Spike wins?!"
"Not in the least, I hope Spike loses his semi-final and third place fights. But I think Drake winning would have been for the best for us in the long term."
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Monty The Mongoose (he had played too many Sonic The Hedgehog games as a child) and his conspiracy club of course were thinking this was part of the conspiracy to brainwash the bucks into soldiers for a brainwashed anthro-army.
The news hounds (regardless of what species some of them actually were) meanwhile were verbally memorizing all these fights in detail, lacking paper to do so otherwise. Only two fights left before things were settled (if one didn’t count the third place fight happened right before the final fight).