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Yeah... they sure do.

[she leans against that tree, arms folded.]

I always suspected her. Even confronted her privately, before. She almost made me believe... [and her voice catches, and her anger spikes again.]

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[He's just vibing. More than angry, he's hurt, betrayed. He was Otome's little assistant. So he thought.]

Was she just patronizing me the entire time? ... I'm so sick of having to rhyme.

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I don't know... she was lying, but I don't think she was always lying.

That's why it's so damned frustrating...

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What are we even supposed to do? I don't know what method we're meant to win through.

[THIS SCHOOL SUCKS THE WISHES BETTER BE REAL BUT... ITS HARDER AND HARDER TO BELIEVE.]

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I...

That's what I want to know. I thought... I mean, if someone's killing us, the answer should have been to stop them. By any means necessary...

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[Nodding.]

Fuck. Sucks.
[Bitterly. Just teens being bitter here.]

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[nods... this mystical tree spirit has some good wisdom to impart. but also... she'll look up.]

Uh... that rhyming thing. Was that a curse, or extra credit, or...?

[he's been at it for so long! this poor tree.]

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It's a curse and it's the worst.

[If he was given an extra credit to do this all day he would just perish.]

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Any idea what caused it? It started partway through the trial, right?

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[Thinks about it.]

A lot of people were mad at me, so that might be.

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That's true, but is that a power that anybody here has? To make someone talk in rhyme?

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[Shrugs???]

All I can tell you; I'm not doing this because I want to

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Yeah... yeah, I believe that.