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[unetrustworthy]

[The young girl had waited for some time.  Watching.  Listening.  She noticed a certain trend among her fellow foreigners--one that she had yet to become a part of.  And as the weeks past and she still had yet to join their ranks...]

[She didn't even bother attempting a smile as she turned the camera on.]

A lot of people have been talking about those letters.

But...what do you think it means if you didn't get one?

[It was almost a rhetorical question at this point; she might not have known for certain, but she could wager a guess.]

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[skeletonenigma]

[Skulduggery can personally vouch for that, unfortunately.]

Exactly. That's what makes it interesting. We may be in for a few more surprises before we leave.

There's also the possibility that someone else wrote all of these letters. I'm not sure why, other than to unsettle as many of us as possible. Maybe you're impossible to unsettle.

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[unetrustworthy]

[She almost burst out laughing at the irony; a lack of letter had unsettled her more than anything her "future" self might have wrote.]

I wouldn't say that.

I'm just...I don't always express it as openly as some people.

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[skeletonenigma]

Impossible to visibly unsettle, then.

[That doesn't make much sense, of course; if someone knew enough about every Foreigner to write all of the letters, it was very unlikely they didn't know what Midii's reaction would be. But the more Skulduggery learns about these letters, the less anything makes sense, and a part of him's resigned itself to being forever in the dark. Jokes come easily when you've reached that point.]

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[unetrustworthy]

[It was difficult to tell if he was being patronizing or flattering...or if he actually, truly meant it. The latter would have been a huge compliment to her "acting" skills, at least.]

Sure. We'll go with that.

It's...easier than thinking that this is all real, and the only people who didn't get letters from the future are the ones who have no future.