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I don't have much time right now, but I need to get these questions out there.

The evacuation isn't sitting right with me. Why now? Is it just because everything's going to hell in a handbasket, or is there something deeper to JORD1's reasoning? Has anyone else heard anything? Anyone who was infiltrating in there, have you heard anything that might make him want to pack up his toys and go home?

And then there's this 'important mission.' Armin-san and Yua-san got marked by ROSE, and Ambrose-san said another Trump got him before this. I'm willing to bet everyone on that list of people is marked - but Naoto's marked and she's not on it. Is anyone else conspicuously absent, and does anyone know where they are, if so? [There may be nothing to this particular rabbit hole of thought, but one of his friends is notably missing from it. Of course Naoki's worried. Besides, it might help them figure out what ROSE is up to - she almost certainly picked the people, if marked Travelers are the common thread.]

...Okay. If I'm about to get myself killed, someone else take this information and make it useful. If JORD1's up to something fishy, make sure Naoto knows. Hopefully I'll be able to myself, but I can't let myself back in if something goes wrong and I may not have the time to anyway.

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...There are at least six people who've been marked who were not on the list. So while ROSE may be choosing from the list of the marked, her criteria are obviously more selective than that.

It's still a common thread to start from, and why they're not on the list might be important.

I'd assume she only chose marked people because she wants to deprive the other Trumps of potential allies.

As far as why she didn't choose everybody with a mark... I know you're worried about Naoto, but I don't think it's as meaningful as you think it is. Kongou's vanished, probably into an dungeon. Mai's went missing during the jaunt. Leo is already helping out in her corner, I think. It's entirely possible that she didn't suggest Naoto because she knew she'd say no, or because she's more useful to her as a distraction, or because it would be too suspicious to ask of her, given her position.

Maybe. [He's... still not completely convinced, but all he can do for now is go with it.]

I doubt she'd mind so much if Hermit gets to mark some people, so she's probably hoping more of that group gets bundled off to deal with Devil. Are you planning to take her up on it?

I'm planning on going to talk to her, trying to get some answers. What happens then... depends on her response.

Good luck.

I know Yua-san already asked if the missing Trumps are dead - they are, if you missed that part. ROSE probably knows something about why Hermit got trapped here to begin with, and that's the part we need right now.

[Long as Armin-san doesn't waste time asking a question they already have an answer to.]

Thanks. But... Though I'll try to find out both, if I have to make a choice, I'm more interested in answers that will help us in the long term, not just the next few weeks.

[Things that address the more fundamental nature of Trumps and Traveling, and their place in all this, not just specific situations like this.]

Fair enough, though I wouldn't be surprised if they overlap some in this case.

We'll find out soon, hopefully.

Don't encourage him!

Do you really think discouraging him would work?

No. But if it shall keep him safe, and away from her, I'll try anything.

I leave it to you, then. You know him better.

... Thank you.

You be careful, too.

I plan to be.

[He's just also well aware he's walking into a hornets' nest intending to poke it.]

[The message is poorly locked, and so, given his skill in hearing locked messages anyway, only draws his attention to it before he realizes it's intended to be secret. He glances at Sansa, a little surprised and a little hurt, but doesn't say anything immediately, waiting till he finishes the current conversations. They deserve his full concentration, but more than that, if they have a problem, Sansa deserves his full concentration.

So, after he's able to wrap up his current conversations, he shifts his attention away from the psychic network and toward Sansa, moving around to face her - hand slipping out of hers, his expression serious.]

...You don't want me to go speak with ROSE.

[It's not really a question, so much as an invitation to speak her piece.]

[ She had thought herself to be more sneaky than she is- thought she had gotten away with it. But the second he faces her- the instant she sees his expression, she knows better. She should have been more careful- but now she's caught, left with nothing to do but try and explain herself.

She folds her newly released hand onto her lap, clasped with the other, as she lifts her head up to meet his eyes. Perhaps, she might feel betrayed that he'd intrude through her filter- if she didn't already feel the guilt, and shame of having spoken against him already. It wasn't her place to try and stop him, or to speak against him. So instead of explaining, or trying to argue, she just speaks simply. ]

No.

[Armin sighs when she does nothing to support her position.]

Just because she might hurt me?

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