Can't deny that; we've video records from 150 years ago at least. [There's a small shrug; they're not great videos by modern Arkean standards, but they have them at least.
Still, she's silent as she considers his words. She's not alone here; she's known it for... a while. Maybe. She has had nightmares, two of which woke her cabinmates at least, so... So his words are true in many respects.
Yet... yet... yet the fear, the deep-seated paranoia that's kept her alive until now says it's false, that eventually, something will give, that someone from home will come and she will be executed as befits a Traitor like her (after all, she's guilty of the crime and thoroughly unrepentant at that). That lowering her guard and allowing this hope-of-allies in is a Very Bad Idea.
The realist in her wins out as she stares at Jounouchi-] So...
[Her breath hitches -At least Satoru's not implicated in this, thank Fate- and she can't breathe, yet still manages to force the words out.]
Y-you saw the moment I realised.
[It has to be that, with the way he's talking. It can't be anything else.
Her chest is tight and blood cold and icy, ghost-cold fingers grip her spine. She still, she smiles in the panic's face and denies fear's voice as they clamour to escape the box she's shoved her emotions in.]
What will you do with this knowledge should another from Arkea show up?
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Still, she's silent as she considers his words. She's not alone here; she's known it for... a while. Maybe. She has had nightmares, two of which woke her cabinmates at least, so... So his words are true in many respects.
Yet... yet... yet the fear, the deep-seated paranoia that's kept her alive until now says it's false, that eventually, something will give, that someone from home will come and she will be executed as befits a Traitor like her (after all, she's guilty of the crime and thoroughly unrepentant at that). That lowering her guard and allowing this hope-of-allies in is a Very Bad Idea.
The realist in her wins out as she stares at Jounouchi-] So...
[Her breath hitches -At least Satoru's not implicated in this, thank Fate- and she can't breathe, yet still manages to force the words out.]
Y-you saw the moment I realised.
[It has to be that, with the way he's talking. It can't be anything else.
Her chest is tight and blood cold and icy, ghost-cold fingers grip her spine. She still, she smiles in the panic's face and denies fear's voice as they clamour to escape the box she's shoved her emotions in.]
What will you do with this knowledge should another from Arkea show up?