[Eponine appears on the network, obviously a little panicked about something. She had been trying to reach Jehan, but unfortunately, she was not adept enough at technology to filter it to him.]

Monsieur? Monsieur, I have done a bad thing - but we are friends, are we not? You will not listen to the Inspector, will you? We will still be friends, won't we?

[Impatiently, she pushed her messy fringe out of her eyes.]

He is a horrible man, you know. He deserved it, I think. [She shrugged and sighed]

I wish he were gone; life here, even when I bled from my eyes, was pleasant before he came. I do not think it will remain so now.

[rikku is literally sprawled out on one of the cargo shuttle wings, holding the comm above her face so that the shot is a little crooked but it isn't as if she cares right now. she is one grumpy al bhed.]

Look, I get that sometimes getting into someone else's head can make you feel all warm and fuzzy and you know, brings us closer and whatever, but seriously. Seriously. Memories are meant to be kept inside, private, unless you decide, "Hey, I'm gonna tell so-and-so about that time I did the thing with that guy in the place!"

Our brains aren't like some big screen that anyone can just flip on whenever they want so they can watch that time my cousin wore a swimsuit that made her look exponentially hotter than me and I was maybe a teensy bit jealous because okay, she doesn't usually wear things like that and it didn't seem fair at the time.

[she does not seem to notice that she's doing exactly what she just said she didn't appreciate]

And I don't wanna see anything in your guys' brains either, you know? It's just weird. Way too weird for me.

Seriously.