[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

(...) Still, he managed to hide the worst of his discontent (though not all of it; he doesn't want to close out Shiva totally on his mood, no matter how much he wants to shield her from the worst of it) and responds to her request with a small smile and a nod of his head, along with the words: "That is more than reasonable, dear. Take your time, and don't feel the need to rush on my behalf. We have plenty of time to....while away together...."

Again, with that hesitant tone and look in his eyes, but it was less noticeable now than it was before. Conscious effort to suppress those tell tell signs of reservation/anxiety/???, perhaps?

Even if Ven's actively hiding the worst of his discontent, she can guess that he wasn't to delighted over these news/this relaization either, mostly because she simply is aware that this wasn't to be expected from coming over to Chresire for him likewise, it couldn't have been anticipitated either. None of them could as they simply met up there in Professor Mallorn's lab, thinking nothing bad. Now, this day felt like a step into the wrong and equally right direction for Shiva, things have become so dire and more than once unpleasant, annoying and outright dangerous for them all, but on the other hand she would never want to trade the positive experiences she made with Pokemon and people of the region. If she wouldn't have come here, she'd likely never met this oddball of a researcher beside her either.

Via a tired sigh and a slight smile, she opts to let go of these thoughts now, it won't serve to overthink them. Drawing and starting to page through her infamous star-patterned hardcover journal, she let's Ventus know that "It won't take long, dear... But, thanks for the patience and help." before she adds the revealed info to the page where she also kept track of the visions Lilith has shown her plus things concerning her personality, notes the meaning to a stylized constallation of a Whimsicott and a Charizard, and closes journal again. It's nothing she really keeps secret, she doesn't mind Ventus reading what she has written.

Having things packed away then and Cottonee being back on her head, she does face Ventus again - rather carefully however, a hint of nervousness visible in her. All caused by the anxious way he behaves towards her; she won't exactly ask what's wrong as she can assume what it might be, he said 'It's nothing' assuming he isn't prone to talk about it either, and will leave the pace of whiling away fully to him. "Done. I'm done with my things here in Atheneum, I...mean...." Her eyes look away for a moment. "Guide me then, please... Hehe, it came...suprising that you're the one asking for my company, but who'd I be to deny it...?"