Violet feeling a bit embarrassed after breaking the wall, letting her emotions get the better of her again, then offends Kaath a second time by comparing her to Keepa. Unsure if it was from her recent experiences or from a natural feeling, Violet feels horrible about what she's done so far to Kaath. In addition, seeing her anger start to flair up, was enough to make her skin crawl. [color=violet]Sorry... Kaath? I'm not being considerate to you. I'm truly sorry for that. I wasn't aware of your history with... it. I'll be more careful with my words. I'm still... getting over this.... 'Nightmare Oil' so please be patient with me. I'll try to do better.[/color] Violet, trying to come off as sincere as possible. Violet hears 'string' again and starts to think back. [color=darkviolet]She's mentioned that 2 times now. What does that mean? I keep seeing Kite mention that in his visions. Maybe that has something to do with it? Kite never said it was a secret or even implied it. Maybe it's safe to tell.[/color] Then Kaath mentions Kite being dead... Violet starts to panic a bit, [color=violet][b]HE'S NOT[/b][/color] trying to calm herself down to not piss off Kaath anymore. [color=violet]He's not dead. He was... almost like this before. Not [i]this[/i] bad but he'll come back. I thought he was dead before but I was wrong and he just got back up. He's probably just really hurt and resting...[/color] Violet wasn't sure if she was trying to convince herself or if she really thought that. This looked REALLY bad but she wanted to hold out on hope. Kaath started to talk about something called 'The Scab' but Violet was too concerned with Kite. She tried to listen to his heart beat, but didn't hear anything. She wasn't even sure if he should have one or not. She had no idea what he was. Maybe his kind doesn't have a heartbeat? Thinking back, Kaath said something about a string. Maybe Violet can do something she doesn't know about and Kaath does. [color=violet]In Kite's visions, he shows me a picture of a girl holding a string a lot. Maybe that has something to do with it?[/color] Thinking back, Violet remembered Kite talked to... Sapphire? Sienna? Scarlet? in a similar way. But now she doesn't even know that woman's name. Violet looked over to her and said lowly, [color=violet]Didn't Kite talk to you as well? What'd he say to you?[/color] Not sure if that was a secret since Kite never told her, she said it lowly to [i]try[/i] to keep it out of the complete open. She was very curious what they talked about and if she didn't want to talk about it then... Violet didn't want to think about what that'd mean. [color=darkviolet]I'm sure that's all just in my head. That Oil is making me not trust anyone... but they haven't exactly given me a reason to trust them. We just had one fight together. I've been trying to get them to trust me but...[/color] Violet was starting to get tired of her own thinking. Violet took a fish from the ones cooking, gives Kaath an 'is this okay?' look and starts to eat a bit of it. Not really hungry from her recent experiences, she takes a few bites out of it and sets it aside. She carefully puts the stick it was roasting on in the ground to keep the fish from touchng it. [color=violet]Thanks Kaath. I'm not much for eating right now but I promise I'll finish it. I just have something I need to do.[/color] Violet then takes a seat near the wall and places her ball in her lap. She was a mess of emotions, she needed to sort this out sooner than later before she screwed something else up. The ball slowly rose from her lap and slowly flashed between blue, yellow, and red. So many thoughts were running through her head: Kite's death, the nightmare she had of Keepa, the lack of trust between the people who she's supposed to entrust her life to. Everything swirled through her mind and the ball matched it. Violet started to slow her breathing and tried to push the thoughts away, rationalizing each one. Acknowledging the futility of getting upset over nothing or of things she couldn't change herself helped her in the past and she'd try that here. And it started to help. Given how Kaath speaks of him, she's probably been in a 'war' with him for some time. Since she's still alive, she must know how to deal with him. She doesn't need to worry about that. Kaath knows something about Kite so she might be able to help with that. Last the Nightmare Oil may be making her think the way she was, not that it wasn't warranted. She shouldn't be as upset about it as she is but it needs to be spoken about with all of them. As she thought about that, the colors in the ball began to fade. Over the course of about 5 minutes, the bright blue, yellow, and red all faded until all that was left was the clear ball that floated in front of her. A calmed look was in her eyes as she opened them again. She grabbed the ball in one hand and the fish with the other and joined everyone near the fire. Calmly, she spoke, [color=violet]So how can we help Kite? You seem to know about him so I'm interested with what you can tell me. Also what's our next move from here[/color] as she starts to eat her fish again.