"Yes."

"Ummm..." He squints at them, "Well, one of you is lying." 

"No... Just... don't talk about Temple with us."

Temple. Huh. "Okay..." He glances over at the hallway the other guy had vanished down, and then back at them. "Is he gonna be okay? We didn't mean to make him sad..."

"Maybe, do you mind if the two of us talked for a moment?"

Headshake, "Let's go look through the book some more?" He suggests to the others. 

Sefoni nods, slipping down from her chair with the book held tightly in her arms, and then heads towards another table.

Once they are out of earshot. "That could've gone better."

"You shouldn't have said that we met Tepam's alt. I think it's Temple."

"Ah, I saw you did something and my reflex reaction was trying to reverse it. Sorry."

"Okay, maybe we should go check on Tobir?"

They do that.

He's not actually in the washroom, when they check. They'll find him outside, sitting back against a tree at the edge of the woods, coaxing a nearby bush into bloom with his plant control crystal. The flowers are a pretty light blue colour, tiny and delicate. 

He looks up at their approach, tries for a smile. "Hey. Was I gone long?"

"No, we were just worried."

"Right." He continues fiddling with the flowers for a moment, and then sighs. "You ever think about how far you'd go, to fix this?" 

"What do you mean with far?"

"I just... I had a thought, and it seemed like a smart idea, and then I realized it was actually horrible. Horrifying."

"Huh, what was your idea?"

"It was - okay, so, those kids - they're just kids right now, but in a couple years they're going to be even more powerful than we are right now. And that girl has gotta be an alt of Temple. I was thinking that I definitely never want to face a version of Temple with all that magic as an enemy. And then... how it would be so easy to lure them out of the safety of the bar room and just..." He looks down, refusing to make eye-contact, "...deal with the problem before it was even really a problem..." 

"Wow. That's brutal."

"Kenta! And Tobir... that was just a thought."

"Yeah," he sighs. "Except part of me still thinks it sounds like a smart idea. But it's - that's too far, right? That's crossing a line. Killing kids. Even if they will grow up to be enemies one day." 

"I know what you mean."

...Hug?

Hug.

Hug. Ugh, he is so small. "That's what you get for overthinking things."