[@Little_ninja] [@Savo][@Ebil Bunny]

Suki listened as the three guys talked, finding herself amused that she had somehow ended up in a group of guys. Did she just attract people that seemed protective? Or, and this thought annoyed her, did she just seem weak and fragile? She never considered that, with her brothers. After all, wasn't it a brothers job to protect their sister?

She decided she didn't much like Aikoto's attitue. He seemed to want to assert himself, and just assumed they were going to be foolish, at least, that's what it seemed to her. She sighed softly. Perhaps she was being too overly critical. Maybe it was just his way of dealing with things like this. Not that any of them had ever experienced something like this. Rikita seemed...almost bashful about his Beta tester Status, and Umichi...she bit her lip in thought. Well, he seemed okay, so far. At least, he didn't seem like a jerk, and so far hadn't assumed that she needed protecting-or at l east hadn't done anything to suggest that. 

She jolted when he spoke to her, as if she hadn't been listening. Which, really, she had been half listening. Or barely at all, in her thought. She blinked, and recalled what she had said about Kayaba. [color=bc8dbf]"Oh. Uh. Well, I only meant that...the log out glitch could have been in the system from the start, couldn't have it? In all that time, I'm sure the younger users at least would have had to log out, if only at their parents insistence, right? So...maybe Kayaba used that time to figure out something to tell us, to give us a goal so the panic wouldn't be so...bad"[/color] She finished lamely, sighing because she figured she wasn't doing a good job on it. 

She was silent a moment and then shrugged, as if dismissing her own theory. [color=bc8dbf]"I guess it doesn't matter now, does it? Whatever the way out of here, we have to live here now...have to survive, yes, but live here seems to be a necessity now..."[/color] She trailed off. For the first time in her life, she didn't have her brothers, or her father's protective influence over her. 

What did that mean, for her? Sometimes, her brothers seemed smothering, but now that she didn't have that...it made her feel lost. And that was when she realised how much of her...behaviour, personality, whatever, was influenced by that. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous habit. [color=bc8dbf]"In any case, I agree that we should propably head off"[/color]

She smiled, and seeing Umichi's friend request, accepted it, as well as sending one to Rikita and Aikoto.