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[Flowing, almost archaic script starts to inundate the page.]

Dearest Brother,

I do not know if you will ever receive this letter. All I know is that I have been spirited away to this dastardly, horrid, menacing, troubling, and mysterious place known as Isla Empieza. I am very much afraid – who knows what the people here would do to a young maiden such as myself? Oh, oh, my dearest brother, my virtue is at stake – you must come at once! If I die here, I will come back to haunt you and you will never hear the end of it, so I suggest that you come and fetch me at this very moment! One such man asked me my name, and I threw him off the dock. I am truly helpless, waif-like, and defenseless, and I need your aid!

Please, also let my darling fiance Ranma-sama know that I am longing for him. I will simply not entertain thoughts of any other until I find myself in his arms once more. I know how he grieves, but console him, my dearest sibling. How he must pine for me – it is unthinkable.

Brother, I will put this letter in a bottle and hope that it reaches you. I will perhaps ask a turtle to bear it for me. When you receive this, please come and rescue me!

Love,
The Star of Hope of the Gymnast World
The Black Rose
Your Beloved Sister
Kodachi

[voice]

[Some time later . . .]

I can't rip the page out! I've been trying for hours! It just . . . flies back into the journal . . . !!! Magic exists, but only to taunt me! The fates are against me! I'll never be rescued now!

[Cue shrieks, wails, and sobs. When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.]

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If you mean the poem at the fountain, then yes. That's the one I mean.

I have been here for several months. So far, that is the best lead I have seen, and it's what drives most of us here.

Do you think perhaps there are other ways out, other than the jewel and our kidnapper's wishes?

It's entirely possible, but we would have no idea where to start.

There are a great many islands we have yet to explore, so anything out there that might provide us with other solutions hasn't yet been discovered.

Hmm . . .

[She's quiet for a moment as she ponders this. For all of Kodachi's feigned airheadedness, she's quite shrewd - she has to be, as martial artists such as herself don't become champions without using their brains.]

The fact that there's a way out, other than the way that we came in, makes it a fact that there are several ways in and ways out.

There must be an exit if we look hard enough. I refuse to be stuck here without my family and my fiance!

Edited 2014-03-17 15:35 (UTC)

I would hope that's the case. That's the importance of exploration, for as little good as it's done us so far.

If you want to help, my earlier advice still stands.

[He doesn't feel right inviting those he has no connection with before speaking with the captain, given the reaction when he'd invited himself aboard.]

[Help? Perhaps not. Find her own way out - definitely.]

Thank you, Itachi-san. You have been most kind to a lost girl like me . . . [Sniff.]

There is little point in not working with others in the same situation.

[That she had been sobbing over the airwaves didn't really matter.]

The more we cooperate, the better chance we have of getting everyone back where they want to be.

Of course. ♥ I will do my best to survive!

I'm sure you're capable of more than that.

I wish you good luck.