[she nods, because... well, it makes sense to her that they'd feel bad about framing simon. she hasn't once thought that ylfa did any of it specifically to be cruel - she'd always assumed there would be regret for that.]

Right. Unless the idea is to do it and keep us in the dark so that we would honestly be able to tell people we had no idea, but... he's stressed so often that he wants us all to be honest with each other. I can't imagine him keeping that from us...

[nahida sighs at that.]

...decisions like this are impossible to be purely good or purely bad. I can understand Gerard wanting to do it so that you didn't have to... although, I do wish that he hadn't felt like he had to, and that he seemed to value himself a little more. [...] If it was Kaveh, I think he would want us to find the truth, so I'll look into it. But if it wasn't, then I need to know the truth, because I need to know why Shu's pin went missing. It would be one thing if the darkness was there, but his pin was still safely with him. But it wasn't. Until we know why that is, I... have to assume that it was deliberate in some way.

[she frowns, then pulls out her phone and shows ylfa a text.]

There's also this. I received it after we finished investigating...

[it reads:]

from user saintgeorge:
I am so sorry.

[...]

It's much more coherent than the messages we got at the start of the week. And... with Shu's pin missing, the timing of it worries me.