 Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
"Okay. Thanks." Brandon allowed Nadia and Anna to guide him to the right with no resistance. Still, he was deeply unhappy about it. How was he supposed to know which way was the best way?? Why should he be forced to choose between two sides that he wasn't fully informed about? He chose to be as close as possible to the left that someone on the right could be to being on the left without actually being on the left... because what if the right side was actually the wrong side the whole time and it was a trick?? What if this was about critical thinking??
Brandon's heart was beating at about 200 miles per hour, so it was hard to come up with an answer to the question. "Um, peer pressure and social norms. Because they guide how people act, even though it's not a real organization." Like how they governed his choice of a side, or how people all followed certain unspoken rules because of what had mutually been decided as moral or correct.
Despite several minutes having gone by, Brandon was still trying to figure out what the trap was, what governing body was being discussed today, and whether he'd picked the correct side of it or not. So he wasn't actually paying the most attention, and just looked extremely uncomfortable.
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