You look like a ghost," Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. "You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you do not want to know. I am going to ask that you trust me when I tell you I am trying to make things better. It is an extremely delicate balance and there are a great many factors involved. The best we can do right now is take everything as it comes, and not to worry ourselves over things that have happened, or things that are to come.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

Is magic not enough to live for?