Just one table?





Chiaki believes trust is earned. If she has no reason to trust someone, she won't readily make a leap of faith. Unless, of course, her own goals coincide with the person she doesn't trust; because then she's not really going into unknown territory.





She's smart, though; she knows how to manipulate her enemies into believing she's cooperative until the right time to break away. It's a function of her extremely patient nature, and how she often manages to look like she's on their side until she turns on them at the right moment and dismantles them. It's way more efficient than a last stand that ends badly.

Lara does something similar because she learned from Chiaki. She'll "hide her true power" (Chiaki's words) and patiently wait until she can cause maximum damage.

Yuki is the opposite; she'd insult her enemies, and then make a last stand. Not because he's reckless or crazy, though. She thinks *very* quickly, and depends on that to turn any fight to her favor.





If Chiaki doesn't have the time, she falls back to personally interfering somehow. She's not really into sacrificing herself, but she might take the chance at being hurt to force Vinnie to see what this person is really like.

I'm glad this part ended with a Chiaki comment, because she would definitely be amused with the outcome of today's post. It's an art of subtlety to have 3 children sneak into Faerie and turn things around using 3 mirrors. She might suspect Faite had a hand in it, because Faite is usually the subtle one.