Heart to Heart to Heart

Heart to Heart to Heart
Date of Scene:	15 October 2012
Location:	Fluorgis - Shard Seekers HQ
Synopsis:	Worried about Reize's disappearence, Shiki ends up spilling things to Lenn and Lily. Plans are made.
Cast of Characters:	Shiki Misaki, Lenn, Lily

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Shiki Misaki has posed:
It's morning on Monday the 15th. One day after Sora left, following his short convalescence.
Two days after Reize disappeared into a sinkhole with Priel and hasn't come back.

Shiki hasn't taken it well. She's been alternating between watching the doorway so hard it could burn a hole in the frame, lying around on her bed, sitting around on the table, general moping and occasional weeping.

The worst part is nobody probably even knows why.

Lenn has posed:
Lenn steps back into the workshop. She's been getting a stand in the local market to sell the jewelry she makes, to bring back some of her profit for the guild's establishment. She looks around, hoping to find Reize, and sighs at him not being present. It's been a while, too. Maybe he's out on a long mission?

Shiki Misaki has posed:
Shiki Misaki's head shoots up from the table it's slumped on when she hears someone moving around.

Seeing it's not Reize, she brings it down again; just as quickly, in fact.

"Ow."

She grumbles a little, and rubs her face against the table a second. She looks from that position over to Lenn, waiting to see what her reaction is: of course, for whatever reason, Shiki already assumes that everyone else probably already knows she got Reize killed, despite the obvious fact that there is absolutely no way this could possibly be disseminated among them without her saying it.

Lenn has posed:
Lenn winces, as Shiki headbutts the table. "Ow... you know, that's not particularly good for a designer... scrambled brains don't work as well." She walks over to Shiki. "Something wrong?"

Shiki Misaki has posed:
Shiki goes mmmmmmfff.

"You don't already know? It's only what I've been sitting around for two days about... I thought everyone else was just keeping quiet because they didn't want to talk to me any more."

She shifts her head around ninety degrees so she's looking at Priel, then back down so her face is mostly looking at the table.

"I don't need to a designer now, anyway. I'm only good as a snack for one of those monsters out in the deserts."

"Don't deserve any better after I got Reize killed."

Lily has posed:
It is a terrible time to be coming in from the garden. Especially if you are Lily.

This horrible noise like a wail of disbelief combined with a shouty gasp echoes down towards the central table from near the door.

Lily had been just walking in when a combination of words that should never, ever be done reached her ears, and she's now standing still at the doorway...

Shiki Misaki has posed:
Well, thinks Shiki.

If they didn't know before, they do now.

Time to get run out of town.

She turns her head down to entirely staring directly at the table, smushing her nose into it entirely because it hurts, probably.

"I went out into the desert to try and learn how to fight by myself without a partner, and I found Priel. She drove me crazy and mocked everything the Shard Seekers were."

"Then she turned into a dragon and started chasing me across the desert. She was going crazy and cackling, and said she was going to pull my arms and legs off like a bug. Then roast me and eat me."

"Reize came to save me and hooked her with a rope, then both of them crashed and fell into some kind of sinkhole. Somewhere underground."

"So she probably ate him."
"All my fault."

Lenn has posed:
Lenn looks to Shiki. "So... you didn't see him die..." She lets out a breath. "Then he's probably not dead. He'll find his way out, and he'll be back, soon." She smiles. "In the meantime... Maybe I should get started on a project I wanted to do, that would help if this ever happens again..." She heads for one of the workbenches she's claimed as her own territory.

Lily has posed:
Lily's still in shock as the story's told, but she bravely - and carefully, SLOWLY sort of tiptoes over to the table, right up behind Lenn and away from Shiki. "Sink...hole...?" It's not that she can't hear Lenn.

It's more like her brain just started flip-flopping like a trainwreck.

Shiki Misaki has posed:
Yeah, not surprised you'd keep away from me, Lily. She barely even notices what Lenn said.

"How can you..."

She lets out a long, miserable noise, similar in concept if not volume to the one Lily made.

"I don't even know, Lily. Some underground cave or something. That's why he's been gone. He would have come back by /now/, wouldn't he?"

Of course not, Shiki, this is Reize we're talking about, you know he'd get lost in a convenience store.

"Of course something bad's happened to him."
She sniffs. "Never even got to tell him..."

Lenn has posed:
Lenn nods, "I know a few things about geology. If there was a sinkhole, and you didn't see him afterward, he probably fell into a network of caverns. The fall probably wouldn't hurt him TOO badly, so while he's probably lost down there... He'll be able to make it out of there, eventually. It'll just take him a couple days." She smiles. "You'll see. He wouldn't die that easily.

Lily has posed:
"Caverns? ... under the ground?" LIly finally breathes, gasping out, and still trembling from behind Lenn. In fact, she GRABS onto the elf girl from behind, hugging tight fearfully. "There could be bad things in the dark... what if Shiki's right...?! We have to go help! I have to help!"

Shiki Misaki has posed:
"Yeah but," Shiki says, "Yeah but."

"Priel. Dragon. Chasing. Psycho. /Hungry/."

She wraps her arms around herself and shakes visibly as the nightmare images start coming back. It's really been pretty hard on her, these past few weeks. She looks at Lily, who is staying away, and whispers something inaudible and frantic, and it may be growing more obvious that there's something more than just ignorance blunting the effect of Lenn's reassurances.

"If he is alive," Shiki says, "And he comes back, do you think he'll hate me? I couldn't bear it if he hated me. He's my Partner... I was starting to like him... like, /like/ him like him... if he hates me now..."

Lenn has posed:
Lenn takes a breath at that last part. So I WAS right. She then looks to Shiki. "I'm not sure he's capable of hate. And it sounds like he jumped into the danger to save you, knowing what could happen. That's just..." She blushes. "The kind of guy he is."

Lily has posed:
"...I don't know.. I don't know... th... there's something about Priel though... Ivo said she's... I don't remember... something about not... being worth hating." The girl in white shivers before going back to stand on her own again. This talk of other people liking Reize? Doesn't seem to be bothering her at all.

"Which... which way was it? I-I have to go to him... he... there was... when it was nothing but darkness and hurt... that's what I woke up to... I think..." She shivers right there where she stands and grabs onto a chair to steady herself. "It was awful... I thought that's all there was to the world. Pain, darkness, struggling, and those awful claws... those creatures all over the place made of Shadow.. but then I saw something out in the distance... there was a light, and I chased after it... a-and it was Reize! He was fighting hard to break away from them all, I feel... The light from that pendant guided me... but then it all gets fuzzy, and I remember... waking up in Traverse Town. ... he showed me the way to this world where there's light and warmth and it's not full of pain..."

Tears start forming in her eyes. "I felt safe... thanks to him. E-even if I have to go back to that awful darkness, I can't leave him alone out there..."

Shiki Misaki has posed:
"I don't hate her," Shiki replies. "I'm /terrified/ of her. You know what happened when I came back last night? I just dreamed all night of her eating me. And cooking me. And other monsters eating me... and him... again and again, and again and again and again and ag-"

Thankfully Lily stops all of that mess by giving an inspiring speech. Shiki stops dead and listens.
And listens.
And listens.

"...Lily's right," she says, her voice wavering. "We have to go out there and look. E-even if we find... if we... we have to go and look for him."

Lenn has posed:
Lenn nods, "We can do it... We'll just need some supplies, and we can go search for him." She nods. "Are you two with us?"

Lily has posed:
"Supplies! Food, water... and directions..." Lily mumbles uncertainly. She does in fact look pretty spooked, her eyes are still teary, but she starts scampering about the room as if looking for anything useful...

Shiki Misaki has posed:
Mr. Mew hops up on the table and flexes his arm.

"OK!" Shiki says, standing up and getting out of the chair of woe, pursing her lips and mimicing Mr. Mew's stance (or is it the other way around?).

"Let's do it! We can't just sit around! Let's go and so something about it! Let's find some stuff and go!"

And around about this time she realises what she said a couple minutes ago. Her arm droops.

"Oh my gosh, I said I like-liked him. I did say that, didn't I."

Shiki begins to make small, nervous squeaking noises.

Lenn has posed:
Lenn nods. "You did. But I don't think you're in bad company, there." She blushes. "I'll admit my own desire to court our young hero.

Lily has posed:
"... what's courting mean?" Lily asks warily with her head stuck in a large barrel and arms grabbing towards the bottom of it.

Shiki Misaki has posed:
Shiki Misaki looks at Lenn.
Shiki Misaki looks at Lily.

"I'll tell you when you're older. This... is gonna be one interesting rescue."

And an interesting future.