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TEST 8.
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. |
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I still don't believe you.
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...will you really kill us? If we don't leave?
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[She's well aware that she's potentially playing with fire, but....there's something....]
...I...
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...I don't think you're that sort of person, regardless of what you say. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'll pay for it. I have in the past.
But I want to believe you're capable of rising past what's been done to you. No lost causes, right....?
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[That's...it's agitated, almost, in a way that he hasn't been all day; he'll recover himself well enough, it's just...mnngh.]
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[She noticed.]
You must know that.
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I've already told you that I'll do anything on Master Cyrus' behalf. I don't know what else you want me to tell you.
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...ah.]
...I know what it's like to feel worthless. To be worthless, really; my parents only got drinking money when they sold me. For a long time, I just accepted that.
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But I've realised now that...I do have worth. I'm...smart, I'm resilient, I'm a survivor. When I look at you, I don't see the pathetic person you seem to think you are.
I see someone talented, capable - you must be, to get so high in Team Galactic, working right below someone as brilliant as Cyrus.
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If the circumstances were different - and Cyrus just manufactured those machines from his journal - I think I would have actually liked working for you. I think I could have learned a lot.
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I'm next to take over, you know. If something...happens to Master Cyrus, or he dies. Team Galactic is left to me.
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You've never struck me as a worthless person.
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That...
...she has held it together this entire time, she is not. going. to start crying now over one comment, just...
...let her quickly turn away and deal with this, although it's. not really possible to hide the tremor in her voice, um]
....I don't believe I am any more, but...admittedly, it is nice to hear it from someone else...
[She's even able to force a small smile, at that. How could one small sentence just derail her like this?
...let's just. focus on you again so she can get herself under control-]
You see? You're the second in command. That's bloody brilliant. You could actually make all of those visions a reality, if Cyrus can't do it himself. He thinks you're worthy of his legacy. You, over all the others.
If that isn't worth something, I don't know what is.
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...I suppose, yes.
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..you seem to have a habit of applying chains to yourself, whether literally or metaphorically. I hope we've been able to help you break some of them.
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...and thank you, by the way. For saying what you said before. It...made me incredibly happy.