"It wasn't the writings I was looking to decipher," Bakura replied. "It was those doing the writing. I've managed to track down nearly all of the kedan who were incarcerated there at the time of the Palace's takeover... I've been looking for links between them. Something was done to them."

He purposefully didn't elaborate, not with two present hatchlings who would, most likely, get inadvertent images of what Bakura was picturing based on the fact that the messages had been written in blood. "I was planning to ask you about it later, actually."