"I will tell you that I am not a liar, and that I am the one arguing with the anonymous poster. I will also tell you that the poster is Mello, who will no doubt be enraged when he overhears that I've told you that. I think it's likely he will even come over here to tell us that himself when he loses his temper." But Near knew better. Now that he'd said the words, Mello wouldn't come over, simply to prove Near wrong, that he couldn't be so easily predicted. Which was why Near had been working where Mello couldn't see even as he regathered his tools from the tower's fall. Carrots on the table had been arranged to form a message, block letters only gradually becoming clear over time, and none moved independently of a carrotstick being placed into the tower.

WONT COME. PRETENDS NOT TO CARE. DONT REACT.