"You guys really like making work for me don't you?" said Thyme with a sigh. "Right, here's the issue. Burnice caught the ball, that complicates things. As, Nell, Borgick, or nobody could lose a life from it. An argument could be made that because Borgick threw the ball, and Burnice caught it, he should lose a life…
"But I'm not a fan of that interpretation of the rules. It doesn't make too much sense when looking at the bigger picture… especially when it bounced off the ball in Nell's hands. So then should Nell lose a life? She was the last person to affect the ball, even if she wasn't technically in contact with it…
"But that wasn't a throw. Did I specify throw? Because if my memory serves me correctly, then I specified that when you caught a ball, it was the person who just threw it that lost a life… and while I might be old, bouncing a ball off of another ball is not throwing a ball at all, it's bouncing a ball at someone else.
As the title said, I'm super tired writing this. Apparently, I can have a headache all day, but just a bit before bed time? Vanishes. Still... I got the chapter done! Sure it took my nearly three times as long to write as normal BUT I DID IT!