Right it's reached the time for me to yell about my favourite 'neutral' alliance. Abolish and Cleo.
We have Cleo who is openly distrusting over everyone, and then Abolish who seems to be acting like he trusts everyone, but not actually opening up properly to anyone, and only telling Cleo his actual plan.
The first time they meet, he kinda jump scares her, and she just backs away and he decides that it's okay, and walks away. The next time they meet they have a proper conversation. Cleo admits they don't trust everyone, he says he's similar, and that they shouldn't make friends and they instead need neutral alliances. While they are talking, Cleo seems more comfortable with him and get closer. Then Sausage came over, she panicked and turned into a goat, and then after Sausage leaves, he offers for her to follow him and she does and they turn up at the blessing thing together.
After it's claimed, he goes to find somewhere to live, and she initially goes to follow him before she stops.
Then they meet up later when Cleo was walking to Shelby and Drift. Both of them agree that they are just here for the gods entertainment and that neither of them trust the gods (we add onto this Abolish's comment at the start of him saying "I just didn't think he was telling the truth" talking about Hephaestus). Especially this: Cleo (to Drift) " the gods are not your friends" Abolish "oh I knew that" Cleo (looks at Abolish) "I figured"
Shelby and Drift leave. Then Cleo tells Abolish that she is living there, and Cleo tells him he was right about making allies. Abolish makes his point of being secretive about his patron, and then makes a snide comment about people using their powers all willy-nilly but then SPECIFIES he is not including Cleo in that. Then Abolish gifts Cleo a bow and some arrows. He then shows her where he is basing and the two of them are somewhat close to each other (Cleo calling it "emergency reach"). He also kinda shows her where he is stashing his stuff (which he also hid in the ground, and so he does trust her). And then the two of them walk to the blessing area together again.
From what I've gathered here, the two of them seem to be very similar in beliefs about what is happening here, and they built trust with each other over that, and I get the impression that out of everyone that Abolish has hung out with, Cleo is the only one that he does actually trust and the rest were just an act. And I think Cleo also returns this trust.
I do think the two of them have a kinda silent alliance that they aren't actively broadcasting to everyone else, but are keeping it to themselves and will likely be there for one another when it comes down to it.
