[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Once Nathan had left the room with Kirlia in tow, Ventus expression went from happy to looking quite worn out, as motivating the boy sufficiently to get out of bed and begin his day while also trying to moderate everyone was quite taxing on the empath. Letting out a huff of breath, he turned towards his dearest friend and tried to give her another one of his winning smiles to help ease her tensions, and said to them: "Well, I would call our efforts to persuade Nathan into a better mindset and mood to be a success, or at the very least a partial one. Exhausting as it was to get that far with him, progress is still progress, so we should thank Reshirim we were able to offer that much reassurance to him."

When Nathan has eventually left the room, Shiva decrossed her arms again, only to facepalm and not really caring whether her sigh was impercible like most of the time or clearly audible. She noticed out of the corner of her eye that her oddball of a researcher was giving her a winning smile, causing her to withdraw her hands from face to faintly return it - it looked kinda weird on her tired and agonized expression.

"...it's fine to see it was some sort of success. But that doesn't change how tirering it also is. Pressured, burdened and whatelse, I can see, but this all is getting out of the hands if things continue. I told him I'll be there for him if he need to talk, but if he doesn't come and instead keeps on shouldering everything until he can't take it anymore... We can't be always be there for him, I fear."

A downcasted expression mixed itself up with her tortured expression now, but Ven would only get to see that for a mere secound as she entangled him in a hug, hoping to comfort both of them. Her voice wasn't more than a whisper. "It's also that I... I cannot forget what has happened already. How he put us in danger at the Scimitar Base, that battle, how he keeps that demondog... It just gets tougher and tougher to rebuild my trust in him, and he's not really trying to do so either."

Before Ventus lefts the room, she'll also tell him what she would like to do: Pay the Generel Store a visit, find a battle to have her sweet blue mouse enjoy her newgained STAB and eventually searching for a cottinwood tree the Professor/Reverend described. She also askes him whether they can meet at the Eternal Bonfire in around two hours, and whether he can bring along the Shamisen of his.