Chapter 42: Rest Twenty One - Evaluation

*"You try to make sense of things"*

## Major Events

* Ten wakes up in a peach colored bed and calls out to Yosuke but it turns out Gale is in the room with her instead
* Gale tells her that she is in Six's room and that Yosuke had asked them to watch over Ten but insisted not in Ten's room. With permission (likely from their Boss), Gale was able to house her
* Gale inquires about Ten's day and comments on her hard time with Mom - but Ten notices that Gale is ignoring the events of the previous day
* Ten asks about Jay but Gale deflects any knowledge of the prisoner. Ten insists that what happened was real despite being told to pretend it didn't happen. Ten also mentions she had met the Boss and his Gunman
* Gale asks Ten to recall her day - she mentions details here and there but glosses over the argument between Violet and Cyrus
* After recalling the incident at the gate, Gale subtly confirms that what happened was real but says they are concerned with Ten's tendency to rely on the numbers more than the doctors
* Gale urges Ten to do as she was told and pretend it didn't happened - and that it would make them and Yosuke sad if she had disappeared. After all, it is a bad sign of someone were to see the Boss and his Gunman according to Gale
* Gale excuses themselves to get light food for Ten, Ten sneaks around Six's room and sees a journal in her desk drawer
* Curious Ten flips through the journal entries - below are the summaries for the corresponding entries:
	1. Six mentions Gale of telling her to journal
	2. Six knows Gale reads the entries and refuses to be specific in her notes. Mentions the quality of food changed and suspects there is a new chef. She also played in the arcade and the back cabinets needs to be fixed
	3. Mentions "she" is on edge and that "Eight" is too timid to be snappy. And how no one is really prepared to be in the Facility (Ten knows this is a different Eight since the current Eight is far from timid)
	4. New girl showed up (likely Seven) since "Olive" went away. Violet had snapped at Five a bit when attempting to console her
	5. Jade's disappeared and that Cyrus hadn't bothered to talk about it. Six wishes of being under the sun going outside. She mentions how Gale told her not to think too much of what they can't have but that "Ten" doesn't believe that. And that "his" doctor has been talking about him to the rest of the doctors
* Ten realizes the last entry cuts off and that there are no further entries. If Six had truly stopped writing, it would have been a long time ago since the last entry was long before Ten's arrival
* Gale enters the room again with food and another journal. While Ten eats the food, Gale replaces Six's old journal with the new one (Ten is sure Gale knows she flipped through it)
* Gale mentions journal writing was a practice they grew up with and that it's a good way to speak their mind. Growing up, they liked being in the background, observing people - how different interactions fascinated them
* Gale says they make Six continue this practice as a way to guide her. Turns out that Gale cares for Six and that they try to support her where they can while not forgetting where they work
* Ten mentions how the Peaches have the same color and asks if it was intentional. Gale says no and says it was a nice color and just so happened to associate it with Six. However, Five is like a second number to Gale
* While Gale is sweetly talking about the other numbers, Ten grows uncomfortable and upset. However, when Ten asks to see her friends, Gale says they were asked to keep her for the whole day and will hold their end of that request - in respect to Yosuke.
* Gale hints at a visit to make Ten feel better, she reluctantly submits - knowing that nothing would stop Gale from visiting her. She asks to do it outside of Six's room out of respect

## Trivia

* Despite the disgusting things Yosuke has done to Ten, she still relies on him emotionally and doesn't want to admit that she was disappointed he wasn't the one with her
* Yosuke had considered asking Nathaniel or Jonathan to watch over Ten but they were busy (showing Yosuke only trusts the gentler doctors)
* At this point in the story, it's clear that Gale specializes in psychology of some sort - being suggestive the entire conversation and making sure that Ten led the conversation to extract the needed information under the guise of "talking about feelings"
* "*Proximity and sameness are, after all, very big factors in attachment.*" is a statement from Gale that Ten ponders on in future chapters
* Deep insight of the previous Numbers
* It is highly speculated that the previous Ten, knew too much hence why he "disappeared" and was wiped from the other number's memories
* Gale's statement of not knowing that Six's color was the same as Five's is a lie - after all, Gale had mentioned taking care of Five long before Six's arrival. There was no way for Gale to have been unaware of Five's peach color