He sounded friendly as he spoke, and even as Onyx heard the reasoning in his words, she was detached, lost in a fragment of a memory. [i]I don't trust anyone, even myself, in the water. I don't know if that will ever change.[/i] As Onyx thought, she slowly realized that Tarentek was waiting for her to lead the way. Before she moved though, she spoke the only truth she knew at the moment, being careful of her wording. "I feel that I should be able to trust you. I saved you once, why would you allow me to come to danger?" As she spoke the words, she found that she was trying to convince herself even more than she had been trying to convince Tarentek. 

Forcing the last traces of the memory and fear from her mind, Onyx started walking towards the building where she would receive her tasks for that day.