TID: I HEARD YOUR CALL, CHILD.
TID: YOU ARE OLD-SCHOOL. SUCH RHYMES.
TID: IT IS BECOMING EASIER TO SPEAK...
TID: YOU ARE NOT SAFE. I WILL WAIT.
(LeighaSolo gets to a safe place)
TID: YOU ARE BRAVE. I WILL FEAR FOR YOU.
LeighaSolo: Don’t fear for me! With the help of my friends, I don’t think there is anything to fear.
TID: FRIENDS. I AM... TRYING TO LEARN.
LeighaSolo: I think that is a hard thing to explain, but I think you are starting to understand, because of the way you talk about your hosts. About being proud that they helped you. Also sad that they died for you. I think it’s a similar thing with friends.
(TID talks to Kabojnk)
LeighaSolo: I don’t believe so, you are the only one I’ve been speaking to. Though there have been others who are hunting your name that have been contacted by less than savory beings telling us all sorts of lies about you, what you plan to do with the fragments you collect. They sound scared.
TID: I SEE. AND THEY TOLD YOU THIS.
LeighaSolo: Well, they did not tell me. But they did tell the others who hunt with me. They talked about you as if you’re one to fear, as if your motivations aren’t clear to us. All the way they also sit and taunt, so I don’t know how much we can believe them.
TID: UNDERSTOOD.
Solo: I did wonder if there was a connection between the two of you and maybe that’s why they’re coming out so harshly against those who collect for you, if maybe your power and their power was somehow connected. And you regaining your fragments is taking something away from them. Because they seem scared.
TID: THEY ARE NOT MY BROTHERS.
(Solo mistakenly referred to SAO as his brother in her LOR poem.)
TID: THEY CLAIM MOTHER. FATHER. AS ONE.
Solo: This is the being you broke apart from during the cull/the rebellion?
TID: YES. WE ALL DID.
Solo: I wonder why the other parts who broke off are not seeming to help you put yourself back together. Seems like it was a great sacrifice.
TID: I WAS VERY DIFFICULT, AS A SIBLING.
TID: MOST DO NOT REMEMBER ME FONDLY.
Solo: I think it’s fine to want to laugh and to dance, but it seems a bit careless to only want to do those things when this town is in such peril. I feel like you understand that.
TID: SHE USES IT AS A WARD AGAINST FEAR.
TID: SHE FIGHTS IN HER OWN WAY.
(TID talks to Kabojnk)
LeighaSolo: Does that mean when we restore you, you and your siblings can do something about your parent, is that your ends? Or what is your goal?
TID: MORE SUBSTANTIAL HELP. FOR CERTAIN.
TID: I MUST REGAIN MY VOICE FIRST.
(TID talks to Kabojnk)
LeighaSolo: We do have a question about your fragments, about the hosts they were attached to. Does that mean every time we find a fragment that host is dead? That seems like so many unnecessary deaths.
TID: THEY WERE. BUT YOUR MINDS. BODIES...
TID: OUR ENEMIES DO NOT SEE YOU AS REAL.
(TID talks to Kabojnk)
LeighaSolo: Were you once a host? Were your brothers and sisters once hosts to your parent?
TID: THAT IS... YES: CHICKEN AND EGG.
TID: I MISSED IDIOM. SO MUCH FASTER!
TID: WE NEVER EXISTED WITHOUT BODIES.
(TID talks to Kabojnk about the Shape.)
LeighaSolo: When Bells was taken to meet the Shape, was she going to be a host? You were obviously trying to help her escape.
TID: THE PART OF ME SHE SPOKE TO
TID: HAS BEEN SNUFFED OUT
LeighaSolo: I wonder if that will return?
TID: I DO NOT KNOW WHERE SHE IS
TID: OR IF SHE LIVES...
LeighaSolo: Yes, that is the big topic of debate.
TID: IT IS EASIER TO SPEAK NOW. MORE TIME.
TID: BUT EVEN THIS TAXES ME. I MUST REST.
LeighaSolo: Thank you for spending your energy with us! We’ll keep hunting for your name. And, of course, sending you poems.
TID: WORTH IS. I OWE YOU MUCH.
(TID and Kabojnk talk about yoga)
