[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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Flashback: Evening of Day 47

Upon giving Kirlia both of Nathan's Pokémon back, Ventus gaze is drawn towards were Nathan sleeps when their own child goes flying over to sleep with them......and then witnesses the sight of the boy slumbering with Orthros in his embrace.

The researcher's eyes widened, and he takes a half step back at seeing.....feeling such....such peace and comfort emanating from the strange and unlikely duo. Despite being asleep and in extreme proximity to that nightmarish abomination of a dog, the boy wasn't in any discomfort or in the throws of some horrid dream; in fact, the exact opposite effect to be taking place. What....what in Reshirim's name was he seeing?!

'This....is this reality? Nathan and that....beast, so closely connect to one another, bonded tightly.....yet nothing foul or insidious is occurring.....? That....that shouldn't be possible, not with that thing , but......my senses are not deceiving. How.........why? Why? Why.......?'

Numbly staring at Nathan + Orthros, another vision comes to him unannounced: his own sister, happily and blissfully snoozing away with her own pet Lillipup in her arms, totally unaware of her brother checking in on her for the night........ A vision which Kirlia, if he was paying attention at the time, could see/share if he choose to.

Ventus visibly flitches badly as this vision/comparison, and Kirlia in that instance saw several things flint across the empath's face, thing most rare for the individual in question: Fear , Unease, Uncertainty, Anxiety, Hurt, Sadness, Sorrow, Pain, Understanding. The young psychic doesn't get to see much more, though, for the researcher started to swiftly backpeddle out of their master's room, before practically bolts away to their own, as if something was chasing after him.

Perhaps there was.

Flashback End.

(I'll post more when Phantom comes back, alright? Have Kirlia react however they please, Dragonstrike!)

Kirlia's taken aback by that memory of Ventus's.

...he doesn't know how to react.  It hadn't been what he'd been expecting.  He'd been prepared to reinforce himself for the...usual reactions, not...that.

...

...he quietly shuts the door after a moment of stunned silence when Ventus flees the scene, then heads to the other bed in the room.  Nathan has all the comfort he needs right now, and there's no more space in his friend's bed anyways.  

...if Ventus has something to say about this, it'll probably come up later...if it does at all...

...but regardless of whether it does, Kirlia couldn't deny that it seems to have made an impact.  Positive or negative, he couldn't quite fully tell...what Ventus was feeling was all such a jumbled mess, strangely...