one last thing

[rebells]

. . .

--and thinking first, automatically, of Saya--then Eve and Azure--Pitch, Ivory and Mitsuki, something that isn't quite "Jasper"; then Ash, Ash who voted for him--Daisy and Apple and Yuki--talking with Cassie, and Marine's clear-eyed idealism--

what comes forward, finally, isn't a person so much as an idea:

let this place continue to be somewhere where people can believe they won't let each other down.