[color=D6CC88]Amuné jumped and looked over her shoulder guiltily when Gage spoke up.  She hadn't known he was there.  And then he went and agreed that Cecil was just a Machina.  Why didn't anyone seem to get this?  "It /does/ matter!"  She gasped when he threatened Wyth, though the moorcat didn't seem perturbed.  Still, the threat scared her, and she stepped closer to Cecil, reaching to take his hand again.

Just because she let the matter go for a little didn't mean she'd forgotten it, and no sooner had they made it to Norman's shop than the girl slipped past Gage and darted inside.  "Mr. Norman?" she called, quickly seeking him out.  "Mr. Norman, Cecil's a person, right?  I know he's Machina, not Muran, but he's not /just/ a machine, that's like...like...like saying Saint Edos is /just/ a Muran!  So why do people keep thinking he's not?"  Her words came out plaintive.  Amuné had all but forgotten how surprised she'd been to learn that Cecil was Machina, and perhaps it was because she'd thought him Muran at first that she was so certain he was a person.  Nonetheless, she found it deeply disturbing to hear Gage speak of her friend like he was just a /thing/.  That was wrong.[/color]