We took the quick victory we had with Yukong and Aurelia and ran that theory into the ground. More of us are impulsive than would like to admit.

[Manuela, from her glass house, makeup smudged while she sits on the side of the castle pool, will not be throwing any stones tonight. She was just as rash as the rest of them in thinking that could help them dive into what they truly wanted and what they truly stood to gain from these matches.]

Why are you shoving their names together like that? Is that a thing? Like a...fan thing? [She had some fanatics during her time with opera... had they ever done that with her? Manuela's expression remains fixed at "cautious and worried."]