"...I actually know the answer," he murmurs.

"You know but you aren't telling us?"

"I—It's complicated. Yes, yes, yes, and very bad?"

"Are you supposed to help him with the tests? How much of you not explaining things is not knowing, not remembering, or not being allowed to say?"

"I'm allowed to say everything I know. I... think there are things I don't know because he's not supposed to."

Stiles doesn't say anything.

"Can you tell me what Clow Reed wanted from the cardcaptor? As far as you know."

"To find a successor."

"What makes someone a good successor? What was he looking for?"

"I'm not sure. Someone who could take good care of the cards, I think, and be more powerful than he ever was."

"How can I take care of the cards? What do they want?"

"To be useful and relevant."

"So just give them things to do? Song can sing, I guess if that's all she wants to do that's easy."

"Well, if they just do stuff for doing it it's not very useful."

"We can have her put out an album, that's useful." 

"You mean put one out using her voice. It's not like if she cares either way she can tell us." 

"He just said they want to be useful, that would be useful." 

"I'm not sure they want to be useful individually, I think it's more as a group."

"So we don't have to work with them all equally?" 

"I dunno, you should ask them."

"Fine, you meditate, I'll interrogate."

He lays his cards out on the desk. 

Song, Windy, Through, Move.

He sits down, placing one hand over the cards, and with the other hand, he holds the staff. 

"So you talked about how the element cards are above all the other cards. Are there any other cards with special relationships?"

"The cards are divided in six groups, with Windy, Firey, Watery, Earthy, Light, and Dark at the top of each, but all the other cards are equal to the others in their group."

"Sure, okay, skip the relationship thing. Back to the elements- why are Light and Dark in there? They don't really fit."