>"We do. And thank you, Hyozan. You have my trust as well.">"Though would it be prying to ask who it was you were speaking with?"
>"The Shadow realm?">"And what did they want to talk to me about? Well, other than what they said to me directly."
>"I'm willing to listen."
>"That's fine; given that I know nothing at all, it's certain to be an improvement."
>"But they can come and go from there freely?"
>"But the person you were talking to....?">"Also: there's a physical passage?"
>"Shall I assume its location is a closely-guarded secret?"
>"I was just curious. I had assumed that if they'd used it to escape persecution, its location might have been hidden.">"...what do you think I should expect from this White Lord you say is coming?"
>"We seem to have a nasty habit of ending up in the middle of factional conflicts.... But I'm sure you understand why we did what we did for the Stuntrons. I just... wanted to give them the chance to lead an honest and good life - something that had been denied them by the circumstances of their birth. To have that much malice and dark emotion thrust on you before you are even truly awake to life...."
>"Blackbloods or no, they were still people. What choice did they make to become Blackbloods? Would it not have been better if they had been something else, instead? If they had been given the opportunity to help, rather than harm?"
>"If they threaten her, we will be there to stop it; I promise this. But I wish to believe that the threat once posed by the Stuntcons is gone for good now."
>"And you were just... born knowing all this?"
>"Your powers and what they stem from."
>"Yes, I guess. Or does it need to taught?"
>"Are all Blood born to parents that are also Blood, then?"