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We're even better than that. We're an adventure team.

We're an adventure team! Enis, you should take us to dig up those black rocks!

Listen, you promised not to tell anyone that I went to dig up black rocks. That's a secret, you know.

Will you take us to Old Siesta's beach park?

I don't know if there will be much left of it... but I can take you to another amusement park.

There are water parks elsewhere too. You've seen them in Dad's photos, haven't you?

Volcano AND water park! It's a promise!

Yup, a promise between the members of the adventure team.

Goods from the Columbian partners have been loaded. On the Leithanien side...

And I have to survey the layout of the trade fair venue...

It's getting rather late, Young Master. You should get some rest. You don't have to do everything yourself.

I can't just sit around doing nothing...

The residents aren't too excited about a logistics hub. Maybe the international trade fair will change their attitude.

As an independent city state, Siesta has enormous potential in leveraging its position as a transportation hub.

It's hard for one in the middle of all this to understand one's place in changes like these. They have their minds full worrying about a new life in which they don't know what to expect.

I know. I remember how I cried when we moved from Minos when I was little.

Change is always scary. I want to make it easier on everyone.

I understand you met with Miss Swire today.

...I did.

We couldn't reach a consensus, but the conversation helped remind me...

Messenger or merchant, the power to change lives comes with great responsibility.

Are you sure this responsibility is yours to bear?

Your father has high hopes for you, but he did not ask you to shoulder such responsibility so early.

I will never leave his shadow if I only do what he wants me to.

The Siesta project is important to him. There's never been a better chance to realize the dream he had when he established MountainDash Logistics.

MountainDash is based in Lungmen, and bound by the rules of the Federation of Enterprises. He faces difficulty when it comes to the Siestan subsidiary.

Your father told me he expects you to be ready to take over his work in five years, and that he has already started planning his retirement in Rim Billiton.

Perhaps he should accelerate those plans.

Now you're just teasing me...

Still, it would be good for Father to spend more time with Mother.

Thanks, Butler. Don't worry about me. I want to get this done while I'm focused.

Enjoying yourself?

I had tons of local food and tried the artificial hot springs here! I guess they have the same effects as real volcanic hot springs. It was so good!

I didn't get to see the legendary Obsidian Festival, but I had a great time taking in the passionate atmosphere!

Very nice. Sounds like New Siesta has a lot of business potential.

Say, did you feel like you were being watched out there?

Watched?

No need to get anxious, just asking.

I completely understand if that wasn't exactly at the top of your mind.

A-Are you here in Siesta on a secret mission?

Mission? What mission? Like I said, I'm here on vacation.

I don't deal with the L.G.D. often, but I've heard stories about you, why you joined the L.G.D., and...

And your family... I can imagine how hard the decision was for you.

I shouldn't have talked to those reporters.

It's always the same thing. Getting kidnapped by terrorists when you're little is not exactly something you boast about.

I hear you've basically been in charge of the L.G.D. ever since Superintendent Ch'en left two years ago.

I don't exactly understand why you're here in Siesta now, representing your family as an investor.

And the people who followed us today were from Lungmen too, weren't they?

Well, you've got me there.

What do you think about Lungmen, Snowsant?

Well... it's my home.

I've seen how it changed from when I left Lungmen to study in Columbia, and in the years since I returned.

As an engineer, it makes me glad to see one skyscraper rise after another, firm and solid.

Firm and solid, yes... a little too much so.

It's hard for new life to get the sun and nutrition it needs when tall skyscrapers block the light.

Do you mean...?

Forget it. I'm just babbling.

Don't tell anyone what I just said to you.

It seemed a very long walk.

The massive creature plods forward slowly, quietly. Adele follows behind it, rubbing her eyes from time to time.

One step, two steps. Adele walks forward, stepping on her own shadow. The other passersby seem completely oblivious to the massive creature. Is this real, or just a dream?

What are you looking at, girl?

N-Nothing...

Aren't we going for a walk? To... where exactly?

We're almost there.

Look up.

One, two, three... a little creature stops and lifts its head in the light of the streetlamps.

Furry creatures leap and roll on the unfinished plate in the pale moonlight.

Four, five, six...

Little bits of wool drift in the air, under the scattered lamp light.

Almost like sparks, falling in this summer night that no one knows about.

Seven, eight, nine...

They leap across the container in orderly file, leaving marks on the metal with their hooves...

A-Are all these Little Black Sheep?

Mr. Little... I mean, Mr. Big Black Sheep...

Er...

Oh, I haven't introduced myself yet, have I?

I may be a lot older than you are, but you can call me by my name. It's Dolly.

Mr. Dolly...?

People in fairy tales always see strange things when they're about to die...

Really? How tasteless! That's the kind of stories parents tell their kids these days?

Don't worry, girl, it's not your time yet.

How have you been? Ah, maybe not the best question... I can see you're not too well. Not in terms of health, at least.

But there's nothing that can be done about it... I'm sorry.

Mutti said that the little sheep around me are a gift from her. Did she ask you to stay by my side?

Did you know my parents?

It's a little hard to explain just who these little guys are. Let's call them my clones.

They all have some special link to this world, and they have different personalities. The fact that they're willing to stay by your side means you're a likeable girl.

As for your parents, of course I knew them.

I remember that young couple from Leithanien, who wanted to conquer all the volcanoes across the globe.

I have to say that, for humans, trying to achieve something regarding 'everything' in the world is a fool's errand.

But it's different when it comes to volcanoes. It's a classy dream.

Stubborn, but smart, with a real eye for beauty! Especially your mother. I haven't met many people wiser than her.

Were you by their side when... at the end?

Ah, now that's a topic not to be spoken of lightly...

It was very much a surprise. No one knew the volcano would erupt there and then. But could puny humans really come to know everything about the globe?

Do you feel any sadness about it?

Thank goodness you aren't asking me why I didn't save them.

I love volcanoes, of course. Surfing on molten lava is the second best thing on the planet.

But volcanoes took the lives of two of my friends. It's the eleventh worst thing to happen in recent years.