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[50% encryption to Nilin]

We should talk. Think I may have actually found something useful for once.

[50% encryption to Skulduggery]

Maker I hate this thing. Skul, Akito and I came across something of interest. Did you go into that library?

[End encryptions]

Let's keep this simple so I don't have to play with this thing much longer. Who here visited the library on the island?

[He pauses for a moment.]

And someone tell Evandau to clear his schedule. I need to talk to him.

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But is it true?

Someone your age should not be so paranoid.

[But there's no reason not to reassure her.]

It doesn't help anyone if we just sit on what we know. Some of us are bound to have some puzzle pieces we can fit together.

[Should not and are not were two completely separate things, of course.]

That's true.

Unfortunately, I didn't learn much. At least...I don't think I did. I remember reading about some stories of baby turtles, but not much else.

So, nothing about the turtles saving the world or anything like that?

If there was, I hadn't gotten to that part.

I just thought they were bedtime stories. Like fairy tales, only for turtles. I thought...Riva might like to hear one.

Sometimes there's a lot of truth to a story. Especially if you happen to currently live on one.

You think this place is like something out of a fairy tale?

[Not quite the comparison she would have used, but she was only paralleling his words.]

Actually it sounds more like a story that a drunk would make up but close enough.

I'm not sure I ever knew a drunk who was that creative.

[And she had met her fair share of drunken individuals.]

Then you just haven't met the right ones. That's how I got half my entertainment in a tavern.

I've never really spent much time in taverns.

[Not no time at all. Just not much.]

[Well that's telling.]

Honestly that's probably for they best. They don't start being much fun until you've got several more years on you.

[To anyone who grew to know her...her world, and even glimpses of her past life...it wouldn't be all that surprising to learn.]

I can't imagine that being true.

Find me in ten years and let me know what you think then.

...if you insist.

But I still don't think age has anything to do with enjoying a bunch of drunken soldiers.

There's an easy solution to that. Just don't drink with soldiers. Drink with more entertaining people.

I'd rather not drink at all.

It tastes disgusting, smells worse, and turns people into idiots.

See you've got it all wrong. The goal is to drink as little as possible while encouraging everyone around you to drink more. Then you just watch the show.

What show?

The one that comes with several drunks in one place and the encouraging push to do something stupid.

I'm beginning to think you and I have different ideas of what counts as entertaining.

[Midii was drawn to knowledge. She hated not knowing things, and she hated being around people who purposely refused to know things even more. Besides that, she had never found any of the soldiers' antics to be amusing in the least.]

Probably, my ideas are usually very different from most people's.

Yet you keep trying to influence others, knowing this.

It never hurts to try. Who knows, it might work some day.

Just not today.

[But he does get points for trying. Not many, but a few.]