>>Speaking about growing up and coming closer to goals and whatnot, I
>>sort of have to ask: Are Juri and Shiori going to be reunited at some
>>point?
>
>Well, you ought to know by now that I don't answer questions like this
>one, either because the answers give away things I would prefer to
>keep as surprises or because I don't want to lock things into a solid
>path ahead of time and prefer to let them evolve at their own pace.
>
>But in this case, I'll break with that. No, no they aren't.
>("Reunited" is a bad choice of words anyway, since they were never
>together in the first place.)

I didn't mean solely romantically, but that was certainly what I had primarily had in mind.

>
>Why not? Well, assuming for the sake of argument that our Cephirean
>friends are going to get the opportunity to go home at some point,
>it's really very simple: However much she might have grown and
>matured, Shiori's just plain not interested. She might be nicer about
>it than she's been in the past, now that she's not... well, you know,
>a mindless puppet of Evil... but she simply doesn't wanna go there.
>It's too bad for Juri, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

Well, when you start talking about things like miracles and preordained destinies, I had to wonder. At least it isn't the usual 'No, because I think Shiori should be shot' reflex. =P Why some people want to see Shiori shot and can tolerate people like Touga and Akio, I'll never understand.

--"I invoke the rites of fiery Muspelheim, and give thy soul up to the inferno's embrace..."