Ah. [Well. With all the weeks gone by, there's a lot to have regrets about. She would have jumped to help either boy in a heartbeat. It just turned out Lavi needed her, too. His former partner being Kate only cemented the urge to do something about it.

Her gaze draws to the site of the old mark. Then flicks to his face. No longer veined in indigo, a poisonous threat. It still doesn't seem fair. He knocked out one impossible problem only to step on a rake right after.]

...I think we can manage a decent finish. Maybe there's a way to squeeze out of whatever this afterlife is back to our homes, too. It's more physical than anything I was raised to expect. [If you ignored the apparitions on Wednesday, you could count on the Thursday excursions to assuage your fears. Maybe it instilled a host of new ones, but seeing Iwatooshi and Nina in sound mind and body had done a great deal to boost her faith.] I don't think we'll rot. I'm scared, for what the cult might try to do to fight back.

But I trust our people. They're made of stronger stuff than most.