[In Arno's case, it was a theory, more than anything else. And Midii seemed to be so capable that it felt like a reasonable assumption to have made. Admittedly, it was a guess, but even so. The thought had occurred there all the same.]

Perhaps they both are true, in part. [After all, it seems reasonable enough to him. She could have been lucky AND lacking in things to deliver warnings about. It felt quite possible, anyway.]

I...no I was not. ["Tight" is a good word for it.] I've learned the awful things my actions, and more than that, my failures, will produce at home. I know that being here means I am apart from it. a new person, but...I am still shaken, I suppose. What I learned was...heavy.