[ perhaps it is, and though blaze is uncertain just what that would entail, she offers fio a smile at the suggestion. but earth too, hm? how ambitious! blaze can't help but like it. ]

Then it seems our goals are aligned. I must also protect my friends' world, so why don't we work together to protect all of them?

[ the cage, earth, and sonic's world too. blaze would like to see them all survive this pruning of universes that aurora talks about, and she's determined to prove their worth. after all, ever since she's learned the lessons that she has from sonic, don't they seem a little brighter? blaze is certain that those lessons and that power she's felt, so different from this place, will earn their place among those deemed deserving—and it doesn't seem as though fio needs any help in learning those lessons herself, either.

but she's getting carried away. they're just coming up to the library doors now. ]