[h1][color=Ivory]Marianne Shimizu[/color][/h1]

[color=Ivory]"Tch. . . so small-minded and closed off."[/color] Marianne's distant eyes seemed to focus for a split second as a tinge of disgust entered her tone after hearing the pirate's attempt at distancing herself and other like her from the wretches. [color=Ivory]"Don't you get that the existence of those like you is the reason why groups of wretches and rebels are able to act as freely as they do? Just by merely existing, you and the other oh-so-noble guilds are making an environment where these 'Rogue guilds' can do much more damage then if you weren't there in the first place. Defiance only breathes more defiance, especially when it has no purpose but to defy. You may try to seem noble and dignified in your efforts to help people, but most, if not all of you are too self-absorbed in your want for freedom to even try making things better in a way that will actually matter."[/color]

Turning her head to away from Sayuri, Marianne seemed to ruminate on her anger. A few minutes of silence would pass between the two before she finally deemed ready to speak again. [color=Ivory]"The Librarium has it's flaws, but it is all we have, and more to the point, it works. More suffer under it than need be, I'll give you that Pirate, but I don't intend to sit on the sidelines and turn my head to it."[/color] Turning back to Marianne, Sayuri would see that the Library Hunter's eyes had dimmed again, yet there was still a passion burning within them as she continued to speak. [color=Ivory]"The only way to change a system without disrupting the order is to do so from within, and that's what I intend to do. I will climb the ranks to as high a position of power as I can, and then some, in order to set the country back on the right path. It may not be as easy or care-free a path as yours, but at least I'm trying to do something greater then simple skirmishes with a force you can't even hope to defeat. The Librarium has never once sent the full force of it's might against you pirates, but one day, when you all prove to become too much of an irritation to ignore. . . they will."[/color]

With that haunting remark, Marianne felt what little strength her passion had surged into her drift away from her veins, leaving her unresponsive to anything else that Sayuri tried to say as she stared off into the space, her mind able to freely be at ease with neither worry  nor pain, nor even heartbreak to cloud her mind.