Just a rainy day...

[oi_theoi]

Who: Anyone
When: Day 59, Noon
Where: Anywhere
What: A soggy mingle.

[ The mist around headquarters is mostly cleared along with the morning air, but people may have noticed that it hung around much later into the morning than usual. The rain that started in last night has also been continuing, strong enough to be heard anywhere inside the stone headquarters and much heavier than one would expect for a sudden tropical rain. It also looks as if it'll be lasting the rest of the day and then some. Hope you've got plenty of indoor activities planned for the day. Or don't mind getting a little wet if you don't. ]

[ So what are your plans, Thusia? ]

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[theshadowturnedhero]

WHO?!

[pencilpremonition]

Me, Muppet, Toph, somebody whose name I forget, and somebody I didn't recognise.

[And she doesn't know Gary was there.]

I...could draw the other two people?

[theshadowturnedhero]

Draw them.

[pencilpremonition]

[have two portraits, drawn quickly but accurately]

[theshadowturnedhero]

Yuto...don't know this other guy...

[pencilpremonition]

[carefully tears them out and hands them over]

You can find them and talk to them.

...I...know how you really feel about me...

[theshadowturnedhero]

I need to. Damn it, if ya saw that much, then what did they...

[Wait, what.]

How can ya not know?

[pencilpremonition]

I knew you cared.

I found out that you're afraid.

[theshadowturnedhero]

[A second too long pause.]

...really, Becca? Why would I be afraid? [Turning back to the cabinets, grabbing some of the blue nuts.] I'm worried about what others founds out, but ya already know the bad stuff.

[pencilpremonition]

B-because being my friend is asking to backslide into your old ways. I'm encouraging you to go back to that. It's...more than the fact that I'd let you do anything to me, it's...that I'd let you do anything.

In your head, there's a place. It's...it's where everyone important to you is. Zelda was there, she told me about it.

[starts sketching the shrines]

There's Link and Vio and Green and Blue and Red... There's Zelda... But here's me... The most important person to you after them... But look at this. This is how I'm represented in your thoughts. A Shadow. All dark and angsty... And locked up in a glass case. Zelda says you're afraid of breaking me. Vio said you're afraid of me. I'm...everything that could go wrong in your quest to be a better person...

[a few tears falling]

Maybe we shouldn't be friends...

[theshadowturnedhero]

[It's like someone just punched him in the gut.]

W-wha...

[pencilpremonition]

Shadow, I love you...so much. But... I think... I'm just hurting you.

[theshadowturnedhero]

[It's probably good he doesn't NEED to breathe because it's rather hard to do right now.]

Becca...you...you can't...

[pencilpremonition]

Shadow... I love you. I love you so much...so much that... I don't... want to keep hurting you...

We can be friends again later. W-when you think I'm not going to hurt you any more.

[theshadowturnedhero]

That...you're not...

[He can't even words right now.]

[pencilpremonition]

Shadow, I love you.

[tries to lean in for a kiss]

[theshadowturnedhero]

[His hands shoot up to grab her shoulders.]

...is...is this about the kissing thing again...

[pencilpremonition]

No. It's not. I was gonna kiss you goodbye, that's all.

[theshadowturnedhero]

Goodb-

No! I refuse a goodbye!

[pencilpremonition]

Shadow... I-Is it...really...good for us f-for me to...be friends with you? [struggling breath] I-I'm...h-hurting you. I'm r-r-risking...m-making you...slide b-back...to how you...how you used to be. I-Is that what you w-want?

[Tears run down her cheeks as she speaks.]

[theshadowturnedhero]

No! I mean-there's-

Do you even fully understand the situation?! You just...you always like to assume the extremes!

[pencilpremonition]

I-I know w-what I saw. ...I-in your head.

[sniffles and wipes at her face]

[theshadowturnedhero]

Do you even know what it was?! It could have just been using things and...warping it or something!

[pencilpremonition]

You k-keep pushing me aw-way... I sh-should've listened...

[theshadowturnedhero]

I wasn-

[Closes his mouth, gritting his teeth. He can't really deny it, but he never wanted her GONE.]