[text; Anonymous]

[graviga]

So, you’re the lot that wants to find a way outta here. Funny, it looks to me like you don’t.

Yep. Settling into those bogus homes of yours, I’d say you’d just about given up. And here I thought you’d have a little more fight in you, all things considered. Guess you don’t care as much about your friends as they thought. I mean, just look how long they’ve been waiting for you to come home. After this long, can’t say I’d wanna wait for you either.

But, hey, that works for me. With you all here, that just means one less thing in our way. All according to plan; I should have known he’d be right about you.

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[nonomoribird]

[silence; she doesn't like to talk about it]

It is not safe? Why?

[graviga]

The Organization, duh!

[nonomoribird]

I have only heard a little about them. Who are they? What do they want?

[graviga]

Gee, I don't know. Maybe one day we'll find out.

[nonomoribird]

Why are they not safe?

[graviga]

You mean you don't know? Talk about duped. Sounds to me like someones been keeping secrets from you.

[nonomoribird]

What is "duped"?

I do not believe my loved ones have been keeping secrets from me.

[graviga]

Deceived, deluded, tricked... Need I go on?

All I'm saying is if they really cared about you they'd have told you about this Organization. You're just a sitting duck out here.

Man, there's just no one you can trust these days, is there?

[nonomoribird]

[a soft gasp, and she hesitates before speaking] They would have told me if they had worried.

No. I trust them. [despite that, her voice quavers a little] They have helped me so much, and they have even saved me.

[graviga]

Obviously they didn't; all they're worried about is themselves.

Now that I think of it, that could be why they saved you in the first place.

[nonomoribird]

[her reply is startled and only comes after a long pause; the thought had never crossed her mind]

... What?

[Voice]

[world_of_elegance]

Hey. Mind stopping with the lies? It's old hat.

[graviga]

Just calling it as I see it. If you're so worried about it, maybe you outta quit keeping her in the dark.

[world_of_elegance]

I'm not worried. Yorda's greatest strength is her faith in her friends. Something I don't expect a shadowy, anonymous tool like you could understand.

[graviga]

So that's what you think. We'll see where that leads you.

[world_of_elegance]

Better hope it doesn't lead me straight to you.

[graviga]

I'm counting on it.

[nonomoribird]

Urd...

[world_of_elegance]

Don't listen to them, Yorda. Remember how hard Mao and the Master and I searched for you? All the good times you've had with people here? Trust in those feelings.

[nonomoribird]

I do. But... why have you not told me these things? Is there not a way I can stop from going back to the island? It is gone now. I have nowhere else.

[world_of_elegance]

There will be a way, even if I have to force it. I'll bring you home with me if I have to!

[nonomoribird]

I do not wish to bring further trouble to anyone.

[world_of_elegance]

How could it be trouble to see you happy and safe?

[nonomoribird]

But I was captured. Everyone had to look for me.

And what will happen to Mao when this is over? And the Master? I do not wish to leave them.

[world_of_elegance]

If I were in trouble and you had to help me, would you consider me trouble? A burden?