"You made the righ choice, Sir."
"I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault. Desperate times. Desperate measures."
"I will lead the Construction team to arrive in the next few hours to personally take that piece of paper. Don't try any funny business with it before I arrive or else. You are in the presence of Witnesses. Yours...…and Mine."
"Kodkod, end transmission."
*Errr….rouwwwww. Roawww….raaaaoowww....MMmmuraaaaouuwuww.*
"Why did you have Kodkod just destroy your phone? How are they supposed to call back now?"
"The only way I could keep this channel encrypted was to give a number no other person has. Serials and Is' never are the same twice. So, I gave him my factory number. Can't have him calling and checking on me anytime he wants."
"He won't need to call. You heard..."
"Next time He says hi, will be in person."
"Then we shall meet him."
"......Thank you all for coming out. Now, we can only hope and pray that this time of Measure was not in vain."
"Still think you should've kept Lolli a secret."
"They may know who she is, but not where she is. If they know boundaries, the Mermaids will make sure no deep sea divers go this way.
If you want trust, you gotta give it."
"But haven't we given enough? Haven't we begged our last?"
"We will see.
Bye Mermaids, and thanks again."
Here's your Trident, sir. I think that went very smoothly."
"Thank you.
Now, let's see about that escape plan you were talking about, since we are all here. Is it far?"
"Just around this bend. Follow me."
"How big is the opening?"
"......Big enough."
*Tap...…tap*
And here we are."
"False wall. Original, yet descriptive."
"Doesn't need to be anything fancy. Jasmine built this with the standard of never having any visitors, so why should we? She needed it to be fast, discrete, and best part...….it doesn't matter how you find."
*Errrrriiiiiwwwiiiaaaankkkk...TISH....tissshhh….tisssh*
"Manhole cover over the...….That's a long drop down there. Is that real water or…?"
"That's real water, but no; you cannot touch it.
Elwin."
*Phueeem...…Phueeem, phueeem, phueeem*
*Boing........boing......boing*
"What the? They just melted in space."
"The only ones in are animal blood. Real...….blood. So, if you're not a Kid; you can't go in; and Jasmine; well.....this was her hole."
"And it is now ours."
"Only one problem, Ruby."
"Go on."
"None of us are Kids. None of you, none of us. Lolli can, but if she is out rescuing us if Bombs were to drop, then no one is here keeping the Rift open.
Can any of the Kids swim?"
"KodKod is down here."
"...Meeeeouuwwwwwwww."
"Of course he is."
"She."
"And who is...…..she?"
"Someone who jumped through the Portal with me. Don't know if we'll ever find out who, but out of all of them; she stayed right by my feet while the others quickly embraced Freedom."
"That must be a very special cat. Know why you're keeping her down here where it's safe."
"She does have that effect on people."
"Can she also calm people down when all you want to do is cut their head off?"
".....Let's....keep you down here while I take River with us to the Bridge. He'll help with all of our emotions, cause I have a feeling......…"
"We'll have a lot of them."