[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

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Either way, she can now return to the shore/beach to do some wailord-watching, can she? She'll run into Terra there. But before that she'll gently ask Ventus "So, eh, what will you do now? Go to see Dagny right away? Or stay a little longer here on Garlicburg? I myself, uh... I don't want nor wish to stay here on the island for much longer, gonna travel a bit eastwards on my own again. Exploring some places and h-hopefully making it to win in the Gym's I haven't visited yet!~"

Later on, when his magnificent and darling angel raised her question, the eccentric researcher frowned mildly yet somewhat reproachfully at her.

"....You know very well my vacation here isn't quite over, my dear. As much as I have enjoyed spending precioius time with you dear across Garliburg- for everyone second is priceless when shared with a sweet treasure like you - I have yet to have my fill of this tropical local. Much is left to explore, unique Pokemon to study, and I've hardly spent any of my respite with our other friends - and no, our investigation of that lab doesn't count - so I can't very leave until I've fully indulged the rest of my desires. I wish you'd stay with us and enjoy yourself too, but.....*Sighs* I understand if you need to go. You're a free, whimsical spirit, for better and worse, and I shan't keep you close with me, no matter how much I never again want to let you go. ....That, and perhaps some more distance between us might be for the best - I've yet to.....fully come to grips with the changes you and everyone else, despite my best efforts."

The hidden message of this dialogue: He's remaining because Nathan has yet to find and secure the Genesect Fossil, he's not too please that his girlfriend has either forgotten about that or doesn't care enough to continue helping out, but he's ultimately fine with it for a number of reasons. Shiva should more or less get the underlying gist of it, given her Super Empathy and her sheer familarity with her orange haired lover.

Before she'd leave, though, he'd leaned in close to her and whisper in her ear this: "When I have finished my sojourn here, though, I have a.....gift that matches your radiance for you later, among several others. Meet me at the hotel we had our first date. I'll call you when I'm ready. Okay, my dearest?"

He'd then lean back for a bit....right before giving her a brief but loving kiss on the lips, giving her a light but somehow fiesty smile , waiting and watching for her to leave (if she does) and then rejoining the rest of the group. If she elects to stay after all, though....well, he's certainly going to express his joy with that decision, oh ho ho ho!

(Yeah, Ventus can't hand off Half Life to her right away, due to it being in Apsis' stomach right now and he doesn't want to chance the gov goons discovering her regurgitating them for him [and to a lesser extent revealing this to Shiva - a man like him likes to keep his secrets, just in case], so Shiva will have to wait until later to get it. I don't think that will be too much of a problem for you or her, though.....)
(Waiting is not a problem at all, especially since you seem to have plans about how to hand it to her and smol Nucleon!~ So happy that you changed you mind about these Nuclear TMs. <3 )

When being given that mildly-and-reproachful-frowning-glance from Ven, the sensitive fae-enthusiast does not flinch away, but she becomes a little meek and eventually looks to the side with a somewhat sad expression. Yet however, she's smiling, and this smile of hers conveys nothing but understanding and insight. "Ah well, I see... But, but.... *timid smile intensifies* I kinda DON'T want to let you go either, but I DON'T want to hinder your recovery in any way either! Weird yet interesting that for you being able to fully embrace me you I need to be away from you, isn't it? Haha...~ But so be it then, I'll endure and comply, there's no gain without pain, and for us to be fully happy together we both have to go through this pain, don't we? But... IT'S WORTH IT, I know it is, definitely!~ I just... believe in you, you see?" With these words said, Shiva leans in closer for a shy yet loving hug.
Related song.
(Just replace 'strong a man' @0:38 with 'woman')

She's for certain pick up the undertones of the reaons why Ven stays, and she smiles knowingly-mischivously at him concerning that. "Weeeeell, right now I won't leave, my dearest, no!~ I think I can...stay for another day here on the island, to do things with you all as well as planning my travels a bit and such. A bit of downtime after exploring these labs sounds good, now doesn't it? (･ω<)☆ And if anything comes up, I'll be just a call and short flight away!~" (Metawise this means that Shiva does stay for a little longer, but mostly to wrap up any loose ends. I'm somewhat reluctant to actively help on retriving that Genesect Fossil though - for reasons that this is Nathan's and partly Ven's aim, I don't want to interfere nor do I know how much of a help Shiva can be...)

Oh and she blushes VIVIDLY as the eccetric sociologist's last words concerning any 'gifts'. "Veheeeeeen!!! (>//<) W-we're in public, eeeekkk!" But when she leans in as if to hide her face in his chest, she mutters a timid yet honestly-joyous "Okay, my likewise dearest".