Video; UN: Rubitsune

[rutilance]

[ The video starts and the girl on the other side of the camera looks... Concerned. ]

Just how many of us are there? [ She starts, almost tripping over her words to elaborate. ] Kids, I mean. Just how many of us here are kids?

Are we all staying at the inns?

[ She pauses, biting her lip for a moment before speaking up again, her voice a little more sure this time. ]

I think we should look out for each other. [ Because adults can't be trusted to. Even the ones who mean well. ] A lot of us are small, I'd bet. And a lot of the other kids I've seen don't really seem like fighters. Those of us that are, we should help them.

Those of us who don't know how to fight can learn from those of us who do know, and those of us who don't want to know how to fight can be taught how to keep a better eye out for themselves and the rest of us.

The more of us that know how to defend ourselves, and the more of us that can keep an eye out for each other, the better chance of survival we have in a situation where we are at a noticeable disadvantage.

[ She wasn't quite suggesting a gang of feral children, but close enough. ]

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video; un: boomerang-guy

[bendless]

Why does it sound like you're forming some gang?

[rutilance]

Gangs do illegal activities. There is no illegal activity desired with this. [ She looks at him a little annoyed. ] Unless you think kids being able to protect themselves and having a system in place that allows them to help each other is a gang.

The jobs in town allow us to make money required to eat, maybe even to eventually move out of the inns, but so long as we have access to food and housing as we do currently, there would be no reason to turn to crime.

[ Unless of course an adult did them serious harm, and no one stepped up to take care of the issue. Then it's just being prudent to team up and teach said adult a lesson. Adults didn't like to admit it when kids got the better of them, which provided the kids some safety... Though of course she wasn't going to say that. Not where adults could see and then use as proof of ill intent later! ]

[bendless]

I didn't imply you were planning illegal activities, I just think that some people might think a group of kids is weird. Gang was just the first thing that came to mind as a word.

[rutilance]

If people think it's weird then that's their problem, not mine. [ She shrugs a little. ] Besides, I don't know what's so weird about kids looking after each other. Where I'm from we all look after each other and help around The Forge. The older kids help and keep an eye on the younger kids, and the adults teach the older kids how to do that, and we all do what's needed to keep the compound running.