Konoka frowned a bit as she watched the girl struggle to speak.  It was starting to become clearer and clearer that there was something going on here.  Unfortunately, her skills tended more towards beating things up than convincing people with simple words.  "Ai, I get the feeling there's something you're not telling me, something more going on here," she said, a little more gently than before.  "You're very nervous and wound up about something.  I want to help the two of you, but if there's something important you haven't said, I need to know what it is before I can do anything."<br/><br/>((Diplomacy of 11))