[color=D6CC88]Amuné looked up at Ethan, still in tears.  "I said I'd learn and Taliya didn't care," she wept.  She managed to give him a weak and very wavery smile when she felt his hand in her hair.  She wiped the worst of the tears from her face before pulling his wrist down so she could press her cheek into his palm.  "Promise you'll help me practice?" she begged.  "He scares me and I don't wanna have to practice with him."  She spoke softer this time, trying not to let Gage hear.  Ethan's agreement reassured her and she took a deep breath, trying to gather her courage.  "O-okay.  I'll try.  I /am/ a good learner, Mommy and Daddy both say so."  She sniffled and gave her friend a hug.  "I guess I hafta go now...but we can talk later, sure."

Except she didn't quite yet, because Nymira wanted to talk now.  Of course the bossy princess would do that now instead of later.  "I still have to find my parents.  Ethan...you promised you'd help, right?  I guess I can wait a while if you need some time now that you know about Cedric...."  The girl hadn't really lost anyone she knew well, though she'd encountered death before.  People who'd lost someone they cared about needed time, and she was trying to be considerate of that, even if she lacked the knowledge of how to go about it well.

"And...I wanna help Cecil find his answers too."  Amuné looked down at her feet, only glancing up at the Machina through her lashes.  She wished she was as brave as he was, or as strong.  Maybe if she practiced /really/ hard she could be...even if she didn't really want to fight.  Violence was wrong, and killing was bad, but her daddy had also said that sometimes you didn't have a choice.  That was one reason the Ydrans trained moorcats like Wyth to work with their guards and hunters.  "After that...I don't know.  My family can't go back to Pinesgrove, not after what happened.  I thought maybe we might live here, but that's up to Mommy and Daddy.  ...You'll all visit, right?"  She directed the question mostly at Ethan and Cecil.  "And Taliya said maybe she might find someone that can help me learn about my magic, so that's another reason to come back."  The girl paused.  "I Saw you fighting that big thing -- the rokorm.  And then Taliya showed me a book that she said Cedric wrote, and I managed to use that to See again...but it didn't really work as well as I'd hoped."  Her brows drew together at the memory of the other things she'd glimpsed.  "But it's something, right?"[/color]