Jude looked up from his pineapple as the speech began.  He listened quietly and intently throughout, his expression never changing.<br/>--Do you think she really did that?--<br/>--Do you think she didn't?--<br/>--I'd be more worried about what Jude thinks--<br/>--You made life pretty hard for the boy--<br/>--No, the Amazons did that.  I just tried to set things right--<br/>Jude's voice broke the silence after his companion's questions finished.  "Yes."  He looked around the cave, his eyes taking in the roughly-hewn weapons, the guttering fires, and the complete absence of all technology (and indeed most practical magic).  When he spoke, his voice contained none of the desperation Ryudo had heard; it was as calm as if he were a professor explaining the concept of 'sine.'<br/><br/>"What possible reason can you give for any of us to believe that you even came from Earth, especially the incredibly advanced earth we knew 15 years ago?  Let alone accept your story that the girl I've known for years killed every man on the planet?  How do you expect me, an expert thaumaturgist who's been taunted by seven demons ever since I got here, to believe there's some kind of powerful evil-suppressing magic on this place?  What is it that makes you believe I would willingly abandon one of the only two people who can keep those demons in check and leave her here with the sadists who stripped me, starved me, and nearly ripped my male organ off?"<br/><br/>The thin line of his lips was the only outward sign of emotion he gave.  "And honestly?  I saw Moka's demon in action on the way here.  This gives me reason to believe two things.  First, that your suppressing spell is seriously flawed.  Second, that the entity my friends and I watched fight was...  Well, it was certainly dangerous, but able to kill all the men on earth?  And curse all the women?  I know more about magic than most, and I assure everyone present that the energies involved in something like that would be unfathomable!  The being I watched was simply not capable of such things.  And if you do have a way of sealing her," his voice hissed slightly, "<em>why didn't you use it on Earth</em>?  Preferably before all the men died?  So here's my question: after all of your torture, all of your unprovoked violence, all of your pointless cruelty in the name of 'caution,' what conceivable reason do you have for us to believe you?"