Thinking the whole thing a joke, Jade ignored the babble and leaned back against the wall, staring out the door.<br/><br/>Yume jumped, then her jaw dropped in shock for a full minute before she finaly started to giggle and shake her head.  "I can't believe this," she leaned her head down on Darius's shoulder to get a better look at the book.  "True confessions of the empress, this is too sureal for words.  And people are fickle, Darius, my grandmother Inada Navda says it's because our brains are split in two, with only a tiny bit of connection at the top of the skull.  She thinks the reason we drive ourselves to greatness is because of our inherent internal conflicts."