[Keith only nods.] And that Shiro means everything. Yeah.

Not things I wanted to think about the first time. [He doesn’t like the patterns now but he can see what they might mean. He traces the flowers mid-bicep.]

...I wonder...I wonder which god made this sickness. I think I know but, what did they do to them to make them so willing to go this far?

[His hand falls back down. To his side as he shakes his head.] Anbaki said the trials were about judging willing participants. Then something happened and we woke up in the trials and has to go through them.

...something isn’t adding up.