Before she knew what she was doing, Eight had leaned up against Inigo, pressing against him. This event was an important thing, and she wanted him to share it. This also meant that he was important for her to want to share it with him.

"I didn't use to. This was my first." She smiled, rewinding it to the point of a small person fighting a giant two-fisted robot mech. "This changed everything."

She paused, her tentacles drifting over her eyes. "I used to be a soldier, with no thought of anything outside my world. We were taught--are taught--that the outside world was not for us. That we just needed each other and that the Octarian society was all there needed to be."

Click. The two idols jump back on the screen, their energy is infectious. It made Eight smile. "I saw this and the scaled dropped from my eyes. I knew that what I was told was a lie. I had a glimpse of a world I didn't know existed. That I didn't know that I wanted to be a part of. Before I watched them all, I was certain of everything. After, I was certain of nothing, because I knew there weas so much more."

"And I felt the same way when I watched you dance."