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[a few leaves fall out.]

I...I don't think the Leaders had anything to do with this, but I don't think it was totally an accident either. I just don't get why.

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The only guess I have is that someone really wants to win.

... You think - okay, bear with me. [ wild conspiracy theory. ] Nova's attracted to people. What if nova's something... in us. It's our memories? Or something like that, something only people have, and the fastest way to get it is to, uh - to bleed someone of it.

Harvest a person for nova. [ she looks uneasy about this. ]

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...[...hm. this is fine.]

It's not really as crazy as it sounds. They did say that the things we were supposed to find the other day were nova that took on a new form. And they were things from our worlds.

[he frowns then.] If the Realm requires nova, it might not be that it's the fastest way but that it's the more whole way. Collecting something complete to help fuel something bigger instead of little fragments.

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[ HATE THAT ]

Great. Great. So - hah. [ she takes just a second to not throw a fit. hm. ] So that probably means this is just the first one, if this is all true.

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But we don't know that it is. Maybe there's something else that'll make more sense tomorrow. Or maybe it really was just an accident.

[...except that explains nothing about the locked doors or being knocked unconscious so. hm.]

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I'll uh, I'll let you be optimistic for me. How about that.

[ ... are there more leaves in his hair. ]

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[...only a few.]

...I don't want to give up and decide it was the worst thing possible until we know a little more. That's not fair to Hajime.

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[ she sighs, picking the leaves out. ]

Whatever, kid. Let's go inside.

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[just. frowning.]

Yeah...okay. [he doesn't want to.] But what if we're missing something out there?