Even after the trial is well under way, Kira doesn’t entirely understand the rules of the courtroom—for instance, she speaks when it isn’t her turn to speak. In part this is because Kira is a child, but it’s also because she hasn’t yet been conditioned to respect authority without understanding it. Thus, it wouldn’t be fair to say that Vandara is cleverer or wiser than Kira—Vandara blindly accepts the Council’s authority, and Kira does not. It’s in this section that we first see Kira touching her cloth. This cloth, which she made, often seems like an extension of Kira herself—it tells her how to feel, and what to do.