[Listening carefully, she nods at each point as he makes them, her attention fully on him and his notebook. If Mai was honest, she got a little distracted by all the experiments and trying to find a pattern to them to really catch on to some of the subtleties that he is pin pointing.

But something he says doesn't sit right with her.]

I don't think that it's a disguise so much as an aspect of herself. I got the feeling that Thoth is her own person while also being Thirteen. Like the fox has split herself spiritually into multiple people. The fact that she practically looks the same in both form and can exist simultaneously feels like proof.

[Something in her heart tells her that Thoth is both the same and individual.]

And I also heard a lot of people say they weren't here because they volunteered but because they were pulled in. Which honestly doesn't sit right with me. Why pretend people have a choice when they don't?