[@ViolentViolet] Echo in her room laughed. It was out of reach of the microphone, so no one could hear her. [color=0054a6]"I'm just a sad little scientist talking to herself, aren't I? I wish you all knew. What was going on outside and what your lives were like, but I can't. It would ruin the process,"[/color] she said to herself. [i]I have to be the bad guy. But if it helps others, then the bad guy I will have to be.[/i]

For the most part, Echo wasn't really even watching Vanessa anymore. She was just thinking to herself of how mad she must be to have done what she had done, and is continuing to do.

She looked back to the screen and spoke to Vanessa. "If you want, you can go back. I really don't mind. This was just for you. I'm almost positive that Vistra would be happy to claim your prize," she told her. Echo saw that Vanessa was still skeptic of what she had given her.

It suddenly hit Echo then. A thought. An idea while they were talking in the bedroom. [i]They wouldn't accept what niceness she had to offer unless they were given a bit a torture.[/i] At first it seemed like a terrible idea. Like when one considers a thought then immediately thinks [i]oh no no, take that back that was absolutely terrible and you should have never thought of anything even like that![/i] But as it sunk in, it made sense to her. They'd want a break if they were tortured, and they'd do whatever it took to get one. Sure,it was a real bad guy move. But it'd be a quicker way to get the results she needed.
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Vistra thought. "Hmm, yeah. I guess you have a point. I wonder what's going on with Vanessa...," she said at first to the girl who had chosen the bed under hers, then in general.