Diana: (speaking entirely in American English, pulling her silver cigarette case from her jacket pocket and staring at a building as it crumbles into dust) …Everything in the world’s come down to a coin toss again. You’d think that somewhere, sometime there would’ve been something to change it… That someone would’ve found some kinda way out and forced the coin to land on its edge. (lighting a cigarette with her dragon-shaped lighter, taking a deep drag) Even in this fucking place… in a place like Mitakihara, up to its neck in circumstance and anomaly. A place that finally got marked for a Balancing after way too long. A place that earned a fucking eraser squad, even. A place that would likely survive, depending on how those kids act in the next couple hours. Even you, Mitakihara, can somehow only live by binary choices… (Diana tosses the cigarette down, putting it out with the tip of her shoe) …When I left everything behind, all those years ago, I figured something out there would be worth flipping my coin. That something would force it to land on its side, just this once. …You were the only one that could do that, old friend. The Birds couldn’t do it, the Coven couldn’t do it, the Malefica couldn’t do it, the Conductors couldn’t do it, the Arashi Family couldn’t do it… no one else who ever saw the light, or let darkness stain their eyes… and I don’t think even those girls that fight for this place now can do it. If they survive, maybe there’s a chance… but somehow, I think this whole thing might just bring the wrong kind of attention my way. (Diana pulls out an ordinary American quarter and tosses it. She catches it in her palm – Tails. Sigh.) …I really shouldn’t stick around. But god damn it all… part of me wants to see how this plays out, even if it means another goddamned game of cat and mouse later on. …I just know that something will bring you this way. All this time, and I’m still not ready to face what I did to you. Then again… I guess even I can’t run forever. (Diana tosses the quarter towards the rubble, and she doesn’t see which side it lands on) Whatever. At least it’ll break up the years of monotony.