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[It's late, and people should probably be trying to sleep. That appears to be what the very grumpy figure on the feed is attempting to do, but it's cold and the ground is still a little snowy and he looks pretty miserable, given that there is what appears to be the entirety of a tent collapsed on him. He's also wrapped in about three sweaters and a coat, and looks incredibly unamused.]

[The camera pans over to a rather nervous-looking Rapidash, along with a Vulpix and an Onix who looks more confused than anything. The camera then turns around to display a somewhat annoyed-looking Kadabra, who just glances to the side in a 'look at this bullshit I have to deal with' expression before shutting off.]

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All right, you had me and then you lost me. Should I be taking notes?

[He's joking, though. He settles into his seat and waves a hand briefly.]

I got tripped up at Project Ark and then Sengoku, I think.

Ryouma Sengoku, the man who developed the Drivers. He's... to call him a 'mad scientist' is about accurate.

[The other half of that... he runs a hand through his hair.]

So there's seven billion people on Earth. There's not enough materials or time to make seven billion Drivers, which would help people survive the Forest. Not guarantee their survival, but help it. The projected number that could be made over the next ten years - which is the time until the Earth was totally covered that was the working timeline we had until about a month or so before I was brought here - was one billion.

That was Project Ark - that only certain people could be saved. That only certain people would be saved.

I... the Inves that live in the Forest, the Overlords that rule them... I made a deal with one of them to try to up that number to half of humanity, to just get her to have the Forest leave them alone. The other half of humanity...

[He lowered his gaze, a pained smile working its way onto his face.]

... They'd be hooked up to a machine and their life force would be drained to try to revive the previous King of the Overlord's wife. That plan fell through, and there's no way Project Ark is working, so... I guess I have to go after the Fruit.

[York's quiet for a good, long time as he absorbs that. Finally, in the end, all he can think to say is:]

Damn, dude...

[Half of humanity. Six sevenths of humanity, if not, and if Delta were here, he could calculate that percentage to as many decimal places as there are, but that doesn't mean the loss is even imaginable.

How many did they lose to the Covenant? York doesn't even know.]

Hell, that's fucked up. That those were the options you all had, I mean. Son of a bitch.

God, I really hope you get that fruit.

... If I hadn't been so stupid... if I hadn't been so focused on just saving one person... I could have listened to Kouta. Sure, he's... he was... an idiot who ran into things blindly with no strategy or sense of what was going on, but... if I'd been there to support him instead of kill him, he could have won. He could have saved people and he would have done it right.

I bet we could have saved everyone. ... So I'll just have to do the best I can to do that, instead.

[York closes his eyes for a moment and remembers what it was to think that Carolina was alive, to burn everything he had waiting for her. Then to believe that she was dead, to come to terms with never seeing her again. And now to know, beyond all belief, that she survived them all, and that she's here, and that she's both forgiven him and let him go.]

Yeah. ...I know what you mean.

So for real, good luck, dude. Do better than I ever did.

... I'll try. Thanks.

[His Rapidash wanders over and nudges him in the side of the head, and he laughs a little bit.]

Hey there.

Your horse there telling you to get some shuteye, cowboy?

I think so. She's kind of low-energy a lot of the time, anyway.

Sleep well then, man. If you need help with your tent again, let me know.

Yeah. Hopefully tomorrow we can get pretty close to Ecruteak, and there's at least an inn there.

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