TEST 8.

[azumods]

FLOW. The feeling of pressure in here is immense. It's stronger than it was with Darkrai, something you can feel down to your core, something that you couldn't shake off even if you tried; there's nothing to do but power through it. Saturn, for his part, either isn't feeling it at all or is incapable of reacting in any sort of appropriate way even if he could; he simply continues to regard you from across the room, his words hanging heavy in the room. It's a far cry from his behavior during the first month you were here; he was civil then, willing to do you favors in exchange for the chance to talk to you. It's plain that he will be doing no such thing today; it may be difficult to know where to start, really. Especially when your Pokémon don't seem to be doing well - whatever's happening here, they seem reluctant, even unwilling, to fight anything in this room. Perhaps it's not surprising; the energy in the room is likely familiar to them, and it's the sort associated with someone deciding to take their spirit away last time it was angered. Whatever the reason, you're on your own for now; whatever happens is your choice, and yours alone.

Comments

[divinedescendant]

Oh, Saturn...

[She sounds, of all things, a little close to heartbroken—but she moves towards the front of the group, not especially concerned with Camilla's team's protection either way even with her own Pokémon still put away. By the time she gets there, the calm sympathy remains but she doesn't sound so affected.]

You have been in our thoughts all this time. Has our meeting at the resort been forgotten, or has it simply been deemed unimportant?

[azumods]

[If he's at all affected by that, it isn't visible; he just watches her, though he doesn't make a move to do anything to her, either.]

Neither.

[divinedescendant]

Ah. Too important, if I am understanding correctly, then?

[azumods]

[Ah.]

...Something like that, maybe.

[divinedescendant]

Is there another way you would prefer it be described?

[azumods]

No, that seems accurate enough.

[...]

I assume you're troubled as well by all of this. There's no reason to be.

[divinedescendant]

I am. I have prayed for your safety since our last meeting, and never did I wish that we would fin you again like this.

I have seen you with hope in your heart for the days to come beneath the fear you may have carried. Why should I not be troubled to now see you cast it aside?

[azumods]

My hope for the future still stands. Its course has just been corrected, that's all.

[divinedescendant]

No, this is not hope. The future you have been forced towards is one where even those wishes are blemishes against it. There is no light to this, no growth.

I had wanted better than that for you as for everyone. I still do.

[azumods]

I haven't been forced towards anything; this is what I want. It's what I've always wanted - I was promised a new world, and I accepted that promise willingly.

[divinedescendant]

And yet you found enough doubt in that world to have hope for the forces aiming to deconstruct it. How can the choice be wholly yours when that doubt scared you enough to sooner see it erased than explored?

[azumods]

That doubt was an imperfection, something that needed to be erased in the first place. What I did was necessary.