She can't help the grin. Temari has been so long without her brothers that one word of them doing well back home brings her a sort of bittersweet happiness that she can't -- and probably wouldn't even try to -- deny. "Yeah, he's pretty good at that. Never would have thought it, back in the day."

She'd give just about anything to hear one of those speeches again. Just one; if that's all she could have, she'd take it.

She shakes her head. "If they're to be believed, the Malnosso can't control who ends up here. Luceti's an enclosure, surrounded by a barrier none of us can break through. Whether it's to keep us from leaving or designed to protect us, I can't really say; it could be both. There's a war going on out there. We sometimes fight."