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TIGER'S EYE

You're in a small grove of trees off the side of the road. Somehow, their thick leaves muffle all sound from beyond, leaving only faint whispers and echoes at the fringe of your hearing.

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So there's hidden words? Uh, I see 'malice' in there...

'Ambition', 'spite', 'fidelity', 'fickleness'... I don't like any of these.

There's 'corruption' and 'politics' too. I guess people could betray each other for these, but they're all really shitty reasons.

[*infidelity]

And 'falsehood'. But you're right, none of these are good reasons. Just because we find them doesn't mean we have to submit them as answers.

Can't we just answer the question with our own words? It's not like we were directly told to use the ones on the scroll.

We weren't. And even if we were, don't we still have that pen?

Oh, right! We could add our own ideas to it!

We can. 'Nothing' is a good reason to betray their beloved, I can't think of a single one, and there's 'no' in there already.

[nods!]

Yeah. If he really loved her, he wouldn't have betrayed her in the first place.

Exactly. Sometimes people have their own reasons, sometimes the situation is complicated and it's not possible to explain it in a few words like this... I wouldn't accept any reasons like this.

So do we just give 'nothing' as the answer? We might need to include some kind of explanation for that so she understands what we're going for...

[Nods]

I don't want to appear like we're just dismissing her experiences, or belittling her feelings. We need to make it clear.

Yeah, otherwise she might just take it as confirmation of what she already thinks. We need to get across that she's got a right to be bitter and upset over what happened to her, but that she doesn't need to be.

[nooo i don't have the smarts for this, why can't games just be about hitting things]

...I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

[Let's write a whole song on the scroll that'll help]

No matter how tough it seems, how painful she feels, it's never so bad that things can't be made better. This is all... Deciding what we think, isn't it? Rather than asking her how it happened, or how she feels about it. Her feelings are important too, let's offer her some support. With all the games she runs, it's clear she needs someone to talk to about it.

She's probably trying to figure out her own feelings too by asking what we think. I don't really get it, but that seems to be a part of how Personae work? They can't properly decide things for themselves, so they need our help?

You're right, though. She's obviously got a lot of stuff she needs to deal with.

[...People caring about what I think...]

Mm, we need to make choices in order to help them with their freedom. To help them grow and learn and change. We'll just offer her a chance to try and express that outside of the game if she can.

It sucks that they can't make those choices themselves. That's such a messed up way to live.

It is. The 'story' is a very cruel thing, even if it saved them from the darkness. That's why we have to try our best to break it. We'll definitely free them from it.

We will. No matter how hard it is, or how long it takes. We'll free all of them and defeat the Darkness so nobody has to go through something like that ever again.

Mm! We've done it in the past, we can do it again. We won't give in, no matter what.

'No'

We don't believe there's any reason a betrayal would be justified. Not with what we can see from these words, they're all far too cruel. Rather than betraying someone for these reasons, it's better to try and understand and reconcile. Sometimes, the situation is more complicated than that, sometimes there are reasons that can't be put into a single word like this and you need to try harder to understand each other's feelings. I don't know what you went through, or why you were betrayed, but betrayal is not something you earn. It's a cruelty.

Because these feelings are so complicated and difficult to talk through, Page and I would like to offer our support, even outside of games. If you want to share your own feelings, we'll listen and try to help.

...It's pretty garbled.

[squinting]

Could that last part be something like 'We will manage all the same'? That sounds kind of similar.

That could be right. If it's 'he' they're talking about a specific person, maybe he is not on the side of evil? Or, it could be he is not evil, and 'the side of each other'?

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