Vous.

I asked for help and you answered.
Tu es venu. You helped me. Merci. Mes dieus, merci.
I do not know what I have done to be worthy of you, but I am so grateful and I will do my best to continue to please you. Thank you. Merci. Thank you. Thank you.
 
There was the tiniest - la plus petite partie de moi qui pensait - maybe I was crazy. That maybe you were...but you came. Vee heard you. He heard your voice. So did Lucas and Jasper, though. That must have been safe - they must be trustworthy if you revealed yourself to them too.
 
Et s'ils pensent que je suis fou?
We'll all have to be crazy together, I suppose. Lucas said he would prove he is trustworthy. We'll see. Nous verrons. I'll know soon enough.
 
A part of me hopes so. It would be nice to have friends. Edgewater friends, though? Je ne le sait pas...They are not...Vee is right. If we are going to travel together, we need to trust each other, or...something like that.
 
You showed me something today. You showed all of us. Someone is taking advantage of the lizardfolk. Or...killing them to take what is theirs. Pourquoi? Why do they need to? That is the thing I have not understood. Spider seems to be so...happy to call our home a dungheap, but it is so beautiful. It is beautiful and tidy and people have...
 
But...the people - the foresters. They are used to having two or three jobs. Each! Why is there so much work? Why do they need to do so much work?
 
I thought work was like what Maman does. She runs the house. And the servants at home do one job. They cook, or they clean, or guard or...Vee said his wages go to a charity. And he understands the idea of three jobs at once. I can't imagine Vee doing anything but looking after me and grandmère.
 
You know, I think I am already doing three jobs. We must stop the lizardfolk killing the people here, and we must protect the dam for now, although I don't think we will be protecting the dam any more (will we still get the money?)...and I need to do what you say I should.
 
Mais je ne comprends toujours pas. If we break the dam, are we halting progress?
 
Should we be stopping progress?
 
I don't think some should have three jobs while others have no job at all.
 
Maybe they're not trying hard enough...but still. It is my job as someone more fortunate to help lift the others.
 
I will help others to get more jobs.
 
Does this mean I have four jobs now? Zut alors...they just keep gathering.