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

[azumods]

Because of those imperfections I've had removed since then. I wanted to see what you would accomplish, to see if maybe you could bring all of this to an end.

It's nothing that concerns me anymore. But at the time it was important to me.

[anythingforyou]

[...Gods she hates him, she hates him so much and this just proves it further--]

I cannot actually believe you. Or, perhaps more accurately, the person that you were.

[azumods]

And why is that?

[anythingforyou]

Because you're our enemy, despite everything? You don't sympathize with or actively have hope for your enemies on the battlefield.

[azumods]

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to. As I said, I don't tend to personally believe in lost causes.

[anythingforyou]

[...]

I suppose you're lucky in that regard. That such a mindset wouldn't be enough to see you branded a traitor or enough of a liability to be discarded.

[azumods]

It would if I refused to fight, or if I turned my back on our cause when I was needed. As it stands, I'm not willing to do that, no matter what I think personally about you.

[anythingforyou]

Well, good for you, then.

[That's flippant as all hell, and quite frankly, she's content to discard the subject before it goes further. She's not going to instigate without proper orders to do so, but...]

...I suppose there's at least solace in the fact that one part of that promise can be meaningfully fulfilled. As little as it likely means to you now.