[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

"...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.

*Emergency Flashback!*

Ventus didn't really have anything to add to her initial statement that didn't mirror his own sentiments, so he tiredly nodded his head in agreement and tried to project an aura of calm/traquility to ease Shiva's spirits. Unfortunately, that was not the full extent of his dearest, most cherished friend's sorrows, as in a blink of an eye so was clutching him with a frantic, almost desperate passion as she recounted the various greviances that Nathan had laid at both of their feet.

Seeing a normally kind hearted, caring, viberant person be reduced to such a pitiful state, all because of the thoughtless, selfish actions of a single boy.......

If he hadn't already agonized over such things himself and made his peace/contempt in regards to his understanding/relationship with Nathan, he'd probably by in a similar state she was currently in. Either that, or, if he also lacked self control, he'd storm off them to show the full extent of his displeasure over all the Tarous shit he caused for ALL of them....

Shaking his head to clear such dour thoughts, the sociologist returned his blessed friend hug with as much tender affection as he could spare without it becoming uncomfortable. It would do them no good to pillary Nathan for his actions, as everyone had to work together as a functional unit in order to solve the Crisis of the Vines, or all would be lost beneath their creeping grasp. I didn't mean he have to enjoy being forced to work alongside and get along with someone you have every good reason in the world to despise, yet still despite it all sympathized with his plight and wanted to keep them mentally stable and afloat.

Didn't mean that he was not Zekrom awfully tired of it all, and wished it would just bloody stop.

He kept such bone aching weariness, such righteous anger, such rueful sorrow to himself,  deep within his heart and far beyond the reach of any empath other than himself. Ventus couldn't afford to express such weakness right now. He had to be the strong, compassionate, supporting figure of the group needed. Otherwise, how would any of them function, with how dysfunctional everything seems between them all?

"Neither can I, Shiva. You are not alone in feeling the way you do, my dearest friend, for I feel much the same as you, if only more strongly about it. The only difference is that I hide it better, and can should such unhappiness with the ease of experience. Stay strong, and one day we'll make a breakthrough with him, and hopefully find some form of peace between the all of us. So please, don't despair dear......"

They stayed like that in silence for as long as she wished, before she detached from him and told of her day plans/request. He readily agreed with both, and soon enough both were on their way to get their respective tasks done for the day.

*End of Emergency Flashback!*