Rose was shocked as Ethic began to walk off, seemingly ditching them all, before he whispered to her, "Hey, don't get the wrong idea here, I'm not abandoning you guys. I just have things that need to be taken care of... That and the fact that I know I won't be helping anything if I continue talking to her." Rose nodded once, showing she understood, and then watched as Annie jumped up into a tree. Kenny called out, "Good idea, Annie!" and opened a portal for them all to head up into the treetops.
Glancing at Kenny, Rose nodded. "Thanks, that is a good idea," she said, grabbing Enya and Ellaria's hands while motioning for Damian to grab onto a free hand. She then led the small group into the treetops through Kenny's portal, taking a seat on a branch while gazing to where she thought Annie would be.
"Annie," she called softly, "my name is Rose, my last name is of no importance." As she said this, she felt the burden she had carried lift from her heart, and felt lighter and happier to have denounced her family. "Could you join us please, and tell us what you know of this place?"
While waiting for a response, Rose began going through her trick jacket, counting her supplies. She had three decks of cards left: Svengali, Marked, and Invisible. Sighing, she wished idly that she hadn't gotten rid of her Stripper deck; it would be awhile before she could get another. She had rope and handkerchiefs coiled up in an inside poker of the jacket, but didn't know when that would come in handy, though she knew it inevitably would. Glancing in her bag, she sighed with relief upon seeing she still had plenty of pencils.
Rose then turned to her friends, and studied one object in particular: Ace. Enya had said that the bear spoke to her, but to hear the bear was sentenced to a circle of hell itself was a bit unsettling. "How does a bear commit crimes bad enough to go to hell?" she wondered.