[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

While he went off, Shiva remained there on the table, now alone with Ventus (And Valder if he's there, but he's fine to hear everything). Taking a look at him from the rim of her cup of coffee - this morning: Extra strong brewing - , it wasn't actually hard for her to cotton on what was wrong with the , if you look at the biologicaly age, the youngest Trainer in their group after Larry's departure. Should have known that while he did a well job on hide any problems of his during the mission, it will come back eventually. She was familiar with that trait of the human mind from her own bottled-up feelings of being overshadowed. However...it was not that this time, it was her fault... Or Ventus'... No, this time, Nathan brought despair over himself on his own.

... This didn't mean that the bridge between them is completely burned, though. Fairies are very loyal creatures as soon as they have grown a liking for a person, Cottonee who grew very close to Shiva rather quickly as well as Azurill developing confidence under her care were alive proof. However, they can as well be rather resentful if betrayed or hurted... Shiva herself was not much of an exception in this case, it was true that her trust in Nathan suffered a crack, but this crack can be patched. There are ways. Too precious is the friendship to Nathan to throw it away over a mess at the entrance of the group, luckily nothing really bad happened, luckily they didn't got swarmed by the Scimitars because they were too loud at the entrance... Only that one Scimitar was alerted, by they made it to contain him before he could alert his companions...

She prefered to say nothing concerning this for now, though, and fell into comfortable silence at the table. Neither Ventus nor Kilria would pick any toxic feelings towards Nathan though; in fact, she displayed herself rather calm and open to rebuild bridges. This won't happen right away, a simple 'I'm sorry' won't fix the things right away, but it was clear that she's granting him a second chance and is all willing and open towards anything into that direction. It's just that she won't initate thing this time. All she could do was wait for him to learn from his mistakes and approach her on her own at some point as soon as he feels ready for it.

When she DID spoke up, her voice had the normal soft tone in it. She's doing okay, while she was indeed somewhat worried whether Nathan would get over things, this was not her own problem, and she is not a therapeut plus it's not like she has enough other issues to mull over currently. Like that... TM of practically THE Poison move in her possession...

"So... Ven... What do you want to do know concerning Nathan? I won't throw my friendship with him away just because he messed with both of us; in fact, I'm very open to rebuilding bridges. While my trust in him suffered a crack, it's not like this crack cannot be patched over time. Indeed...give both of us time... This time, however, it has to be Nathan to approach me with the issue. It's not like I did something wrong to him, did I...?" The next words were spoken more to herself, which means in a lower tone. "Fairies...are loyal and trustworthy if they've grown a liking to a person, but they can be so resentful... Way more resentful than I am..."


(Deleted that part of my post, and posted it here at this point to match the timeline of happenings. @Lord Windos, waiting for your reply now!)