[she huffs out a laugh, completely humorless. though she also continues scrolling through her phone for a moment longer instead of meeting his gaze.]

It won't be as easy as silently accepting our judgement, no. The boy seemed to imply we'd at least have to talk about ourselves, at some point.

["the boy," like jonas isn't close in age to her. god really opened himself up to bullying by doing a face reveal this close to the end.]

... We have a number of loose ends. Ones that I get the feeling won't let us go so easily. [a sigh.] Ariel, Mary, the entity, and how the latter two caught wind of this project in the first place. From what I've been told, it wasn't announced to the public at all.