Dazed, Erik had rose to his feet, gaze uncertain as he was greeted with the courtroom-. This wasn't the challenge he was expecting to fall into. Though his smile soon morphed into something closer to delight as he realized what power he really had here. While his choice didn't mean life or death for the girls... he was pretty sure about that anyways. Just the power along to choose someone's fate made him giddy. Poor little pieces in the game. That was all everyone was.