[She knows what Bellemere is asking, then. Even so, it's a long pause while she tries to school those memories into something coherent. Into the part that stands out most of all.]

We had a fight, and I didn't mean it-- [She curls up more, practically speaking into her knees now.] And I went to see Gen-san, a-and-- and pirates came to the village. And they were monsters, and they hurt you and Gen-san and--

[...]

One of them looked like a shark, and he made you-- you were-- he had a gun, and they all tried to stop him f-from--




It's not true, is it?