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“Excuses, excuses… Blame the child for the error of the parent. There was a reason she never felt comfortable enough to try to voice her thoughts to any of you…”

Kai’s head canted slightly to the side at the sound of soft – in a relative sense – thuds impacting the ground. They were rhythmic in sets of threes, thu-thu-thump before a slight sense of silence. Ah.

“You probably should have tried to make your escape.”

The room was barren, nothing more than an empty chamber used for… well. Executions; trying to claim it was for training implied he was given more of a challenge than anyone had offered him. The parts of several dead reploids laid scattered about, as well as dark oil stains from where they had bled out as he had torn them apart; perhaps if she had enough uninterrupted time she could have done something with them?

The only exist was through the doorway behind him, one that Kai mockingly gestured towards while grinning manically at her. “Go ahead. Try. We’ll see how far you get.”

It wasn’t even just that he was blocking her way now; it was what she would find on the other side of the door.

“And how were we supposed to know said reason? We’re not psychic, we can’t just assume. And the hell makes you think I have any reason to believe you anyway? Mavericks tend to lie more than they actually tell the truth. They have no reason to.”

Rebecca hadn’t taken what Kai said to heart, Tomoe could say it herself if she truly felt this way.

She wondered if she could activate her boots in the time it took her to run, but threw away the idea until she was far enough away from Kai. Ceiling crawling could wait until she could get away a bit.

Sapphire eyes flickered to the door he gestured at before making her decision.

She bolted for it as fast as her dash jets would take her. Her Dads would be very unhappy if she died here, and she didn’t want to leave her siblings.

She didn’t know what she was going to find on the other side of the door, but anything was better than this.

Rebecca probably should know better by now than to think something like that and tempt fate but…