[ it doesn't matter if you're powerful in a good way or a bad way. what matters is that you make your powers your own. ... if he'd said that to her, that he didn't know if he was capable of protect them, she'd tell him about Rui, and how they'd taken a power that allowed a world destroyer to manipulate them, and turned it into a heroic ability. she'd tell them that people can turn anything around. nothing is determined. fate's a lying mistress that lures you away from who you are.

but all she thinks about is those big, dark wings, like a blackbirds, keeping Trip safe. she knows he'll do it. ]

Grit and Isol, too. They're helping as well. We're... [ ...she wanted to talk to Mushi about this, eventually. it seems like it's an okay time, now. ] We're trying to find out about the island. The witch. Her niece. All of it, we're trying to find out the truth.