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Heart Game (Continued)

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FF: Roxy?

[I'll just continue having a seat, then.]

You're a fan, huh?

TG: yes?

"It can be a lot at first. You'll get there. Belt's a pretty good source of info too."

[She nods.]

[She holds out a hand to him.]

[She does indeed flinch away from that.]

Yaksinis.

M....more....

[Stuttering, stammering, forcing out the word.]

Mm. Leo, Rook and Belt have helped me a lot since I arrived.

[ there's just only so much you can shove on a person in one day, though. but they were really informative and he's super grateful to them ]

[Roxy laughs, though it's bitter, hollow, very different from her usual laugh that doesn't seem to have any care and really are half snorts.] Bitterness as fuel?

[And Rook can see it. A little girl whose unsure if she believe the boy in the screen is real. If the grey text is really a friend. How she can only go beyond her area of the Neighborhood with white Carapacians because she doesn't trust going alone. How her bitterness almost got her and Dirk killed because she refused to play. The fear that her bitterness made her needlessly cruel to Dirk.]

[How her bitterness made her drink and drink and drink.]

[She crossed her arms, turning her back on them.]

How am I supposed to believe you understand when you say that? Bitterness is why I pondered not reviving a race.

Saying that shit can be useful, that is can help, then follow up it can all get better? How am I supposed to believe shit can go well with these stupid feelings.

[As she talks, it feels like pathways are closing down.]

"You'll get it in time."

I hope so.

[ so he doesn't mess up like he almost did here ]

[She squeezes his hands.]

"We all make mistakes."

"You fixed it."

I--

[ No Rook shut up like you know anything about this when you haven't remembered anything good happening for you in that regard-- just a cycle of figuring out how to get by without dying or feeling your sister's wrath and still feeling it anyway, trying to escape and being dragged back home. Nothing else he said even seems to have registered now because of that one thing. He shakes his head. ]

I'm sorry. I ... didn't mean it like that, channeling it in that way, I just-- people like UU-- those friends are what should be your main driving force even above that. Not...

[ It's all yours Lucciola because you got the phone up and now I'm getting pinged in my bad places I'm a fuckup hooray. \o\ ]

[ still surprised by that insight, nodding softly ]

That's good...

[Poff. There is another.]

So... You're lonely, right?

[Eating.]

[Still...rather ravenously.]

[She pauses and shakes her head.]

...

"I wouldn't have held it against you, even if you did."

"I can understand how easy it is, to misstep."

Or think you took a misstep.

[ might be referring to the Cry Wolf thing he saw. just maybe ]

[...all right, flinching away from all contact.

In that case, are there any vines still around that he could set on fire without burning any corpses or causing a chain reaction that would be bad? Because if so he's going to set vines on fire. Call it stress relief.]

...Yaksinis, huh. That same Echo that was working with Nyssa that other time.

They're to blame. For all of this.

[And he does mean all.]

I only have that option because I'm not going to allow there to BE another option!

If I focused on what I remember, then I've lost them all, too. The only difference is that I know he's out there with an Echo somewhere, that maybe somehow, if things can be changed, he can make it home and not have to disappear like he always does! And I can't accept that there's any other option than that, because I can't accept being left with nothing again!

I don't care what it takes, Roxy, but if that world isn't something you can accept, then can't you realize you're in one of the ONLY positions you'll ever manage to try and actually change it? Whether it's changing your world or, hell, finding something for yourself somewhere else, something that actually has some joy for once.

[Making more as necessary.]

So then, how do you feel?

"I don't mean Cry Wolf. It's another memory. No one encountered in Rage. When I fucked up in a heart."

"I wasn't able to trust like all of you did."

[There are some vines not on corpses. Who knows about that chain reaction though.]

It was in the rules. Loopholes I should have spotted.

Someone else told me they made a mistake in a heart before. It sounds like it's an easy thing to do. I wouldn't have been able to fix things on my own.

[Can they be picked up? ...If not he'll pull out his sword and hack off a piece.]

I told Miss Emotions Don't Work Here this, and I'll tell you too. You did everything you could to try and prevent more death. You made a mistake, but you tried as hard as you could.

Mistakes don't make you a bad person.

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