aštuonios} vine/action

[rueandwolf]

Vine

So, it's probably fairly obvious that the current predicament is connected to the flowers. I know some of you are tearing them up, but I don't really see why we should be aiding our captors in maintaining our prison.

Why not let them grow and see what happens?

Action

[And of course she sets the robots to work, once she shows them how to

Comments

[ofnobility]

[Utena looks tired, and her blue eyes are very bright against the pallor of her face.] You're right. Why should we help them?

[rueandwolf]

Exactly. I certainly don't intend to be their gardener.

[ofnobility]

With everything that's happened since I've been here, I bet they planted them in the first place.

[rueandwolf]

I'm not sure; why would they want to destroy their own garden?

[ofnobility]

I'm not sure either. It might be some kind of strange trick that they lost control of.

[rueandwolf]

I wonder if it happens a lot. It seems they lost control of themselves before, when they sent everyone off hunting for whatever the Queen broke.

[ofnobility]

Well, since I've been here, all sorts of odd things have happened, and no one ever tells us why. She broke something? I must've missed that.

[rueandwolf]

These odd phantoms appeared, acting like people at home, but cruel. Everyone went off to find whatever the queen had broken.

I'm wondering, now, if I shouldn't have hidden one of them somewhere.

[ofnobility]

Hidden one of what?

[rueandwolf]

The objects we were sent to find. I didn't go looking at all.

[ofnobility]

That might've made things turn out worse. [She's been thinking about this sort of thing, since her conversation with Mami.] If she couldn't find what she lost, I mean. She could've punished everyone for it.