( ah, so all his worst case scenarios end the same. falling back on the cushion of being raised as part of a transitional generation, but — ) We could be destroyed at any time. ( — the thought doesn't scare her so much. )

I think the worst case scenario for keeping it to ourselves is one day we disappear. ( she's resisted this long, but now reaches forward and picks up the friendship bracelet mizuki made him. pulls it through her fingers, feeling each fiber of string against the ridges of her fingerprints. ) You and me. None of the others have been here as long as we have. That'd leave everyone outside of Skulduggery's group, everyone of a like mind — back at square one. They'd have to waste time picking up bread crumbs and slogging through mythology in order to catch up to where we are now, and that just isn't fair.