[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

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Her expression was neutral when she shook her head at one point, telling him that "....I'm sticking with my believe that you should be proud of yourself. Not for the way you've acted towards me or all, but for opening up to me DESPITE you were so...fearful. The courage within you... There's something within you that doesn't want to let go of me as it seems, something so strong that it doesn't wish for us to end like this. It's not worth it, we don't deserve it... YOU don't deserve it. I won't drop you because of....such a thing.... You can be as sure as a Swift after Lock-On has been used not missing it's target on that, dear. I'll mark today as the day you've said that you...love me. That alone makes me not loosing hope in you."


"...Fear is a nasty and pestering thing, is it.... Sometimes your ally, somethings your enemy. But... Maybe you hadn't a chance to prevent things with your mother, but nothing says that you haven't now with me...  I'll BE patient with you. I'll give you all the alone time you need. I won't allow myself to be hurted if you avoid my company while we travel back to the surface....   But please don't outright reject me should I come to you and ask how you're doing when we're back in Cress City again.... The mending of things between us takes us both, Ven.  You aren't on your own anymore since we've met - remember that. Please TRY to keep that in mind..."



Silence followed where she only repeated a few phrases from the song he once sang to her. ".......................Ven... I'm so sorry for what has happened. For what...all of this is doing to you.... I should have known better, haven't I?"



A little after that Shiva sat upright in the hammock and began to search for something her stuff. "I'm also sticking with my viewpoint that you HAVE done the right thing, though. If you haven't...noble and fluffy Reshiram knows how things will go for and between us.... *silent hint to the Reshi-Plush she has made and given to him, maybe it helps him remembering it* "If you....allow, I wanted to give you something before I'll leave you alone now..... give me your hand, please." If he does and she withdraws her own hand again, Ventus finds the Dragon Scale laying in his cupped hand. The throws a soft smile over her shoulder to him. "....I got it as a reward for a job once, it's been a charm of mine ever since. I-I....I've intended to gift it to you for Ao Guang to enjoy shortly after you adopted him, but I must have...missed the right opportunity....... And lately, I got my own small dragon. I can introduce you to her once.... But for now, I'd like for you to keep a hold on this scale. Once you are ready to embrace me again, give it back to me.... Until then, take good care of it."

A 'last' glance for Ventus and Shiva made her way off his presence and hammock, Cottonee and Nightshade (especially Cottonee) giving Ventus a wondering and - if it's possible for the fluffball - compassionate look before she made haste to follow her beloved Master back to the table she formerly occupied. Chi was probably still there, napping as a statue. Shiva herself smiled lightly after this time with Ventus - but her eyes are wet.

".....I won't dissuade you of it any further then. I may be scared.....tired.....miserable because of everything that has happened because of that Gauntlet......but none of that changes what I feel for you in the deepest, least accessible reaches of my....heart. Its just.....just so[i] hard[/i] to...to embrace those feelings......now....with how...….conflicted I am...… One day....one day....

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[i]"....Thank you, my love.[/i] Thank you for being so understanding.....so caring to a terror ridden fool. I'll...….I'll try, as I said...… Always....Always [i]trying[/i]....."

Ven didn't say anything before or after[i] that song,[/i] but he seemed to slump a little less than before. Her mention of the Glorious Incadescent Truth that is Reshirim[i] does[/i] remind of the adorably and wonderful plusie, causing a hand to drift towards the side of his satchel......before Shiva request froze them. Several LONG minutes passed in silence, before he slowly shook his head, a miserable frown on his face that could be glimpse when the fae fancy could see it. He....he wasn't ready for such contact. Not yet.[i] Curse hit fearful weakness, curse it to Kyurem's frostry domain and back!

[/i]Once his most blessed girlfriend and her gorgeous Grass types left his side (something which he was VERY torn over, but still relieved), Ven sat on his hammock stock still for the longest time.....until he finally pulled out the Reshirim plushie she had given him and collapsed fully onto his 'seating' (FYI: Laying on the hammock) . He held it out far away in front of him, staring at it with tired,[i] upset[/i] eyes.....until he brought it close to his chest in a hug, closing his eyes as he fought the urge to start crying and tried to calm himself down. If....If he couldn't stand to be in Shiva's presence for so long without risking breaking down into a haunted, horrified mess (or worse, LASHING OUT AT HER), then perhaps he could share his POSITIVE feelings with a proxy. He wished he could do this with her.....[i]oh how he wished.[/i] One day, that wish would come true, after he has fully come to peace with all that has happened in Antheneum…..

….but today is not that day.

After calming down, Ven proceeds to wander off in search of Nathan, in order to teach his Forrestress Rock Smash. He'll also be the one to remind him its time to leave Antheneum, when the time comes for the group to gather together and depart.

And so the timeline is now complete.