<p>:Easy there.<br /> You don't have to tell me everything all at once.<br /> You know?</p> <p>:It's not like I'm going anywhere.</p> <p>:Yeah, you're right.<br /> Thank you.</p> <p>:You're very welcome.</p> <p>:I'm so happy, 'cause last night you scared me a little.</p> <p>:Did I?<br /> Sorry.<br /> I just have a lot of my mind is all.</p> <p>:Hey, they say, if you fold a thousand of these cranes, your wish will come true.<br /> So there's anything at all you've been wishing for?</p> <p>:No, not really.<br /> What about you?<br /> Do you wish for anything?</p> <p>:I wish the world was a gentler place.</p> <p>:When the day finally comes as you can see again.<br /> I'm sure that it will be.</p> <p>:Really?</p> <p>:I promise.<br /> The truth is there are very few paths our future can take.<br /> The Ashford family is sheltering us for now, but how long can that last?<br /> If our identity is exposed, even Rival, Sharley, and the others will abandon us.<br /> We'll end up a political tools, a casualty of royal ambition.<br /> I have to build a world where Nunnally can at least find happiness.</p> <p>:Sayoko taught me this the other day.</p> <p> It's called a Japanese promise.</p> <p> </p> <p>:Cross my heart, hope to die, eat a thousand needles, if I lie.</p> <p> Pinky promise song.</p> <p> </p> <p>:Well that's scarty.</p> <p> I may have to eat a thousand needles someday.</p> <p> </p> <p>:That's right.</p> <p> So I'd better not catch you telling lies, okay?</p> <p>:Don't you worry.</p> <p> I'll never lie, I swear.</p> <p> Not to you anyway.</p>