ღ don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on saturn

[anythingforyou]

[The Galactic Building is certainly one of the odder places to spend some time at, but it seems to be what some have agreed to do. It'll be interesting, if nothing else; a place that originally served to remind them of how far they were from home, being a place they willingly stayed at? It was almost unthinkable, but here we are.

Once the ordeal is finished, Camilla and Ignis are once again off into the kitchen; a long day like this deserves some good meals to go along with it. The stuff they have to work with is certainly...interesting, if nothing else; hopefully nobody minds eating vegetarian tonight, because that seems to be what the menu is comprised of tonight. Hopefully nobody minds eating their vegetables!

Get some rest, everybody; it's been earned after all that's happened today.]

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[azumods]

[Well, they've been having a good(? arguably good, Saturn's Pokémon don't care one way or another because hahahaholy fuck let's not talk bout that) time destroying things, it's oddly therapeutic and he's pretty content in doing it, and he's currently talking to his This Unholy Thing which has been helping hi with the destruction, kind of petting it like doing anything of the sort is going to matter at all.]

...Good evening, Emmeryn. Did you need something?

[...did you need something, does duma want to come break things with his face, either way.]

[divinedescendant]

[Emmeryn would likely be way more unsettled by the giant hell bell if Saturn wasn't making some attempt to show it affection—like, she's not allowed to find that weird when she's carrying a dead-eyed egg friend around and after how long she spent bidding spiritless Duma into her lap when he was still small enough to fit.]

Good evening, Saturn. Nothing so important as to be worth interrupting if you are busy, but I have an extra set of hands if you would care for the assistance. Ah, metaphorical hands...

[a face. duma's face. which is also just about the entire rest of him.]

[azumods]

Of course. That sort of thing is always welcome.

[...okay like

what now

he's not actively antagonizing you anymore oh god what now]

[divinedescendant]

[just kind of awkwardly hovering in silence has worked well enough for him, historically speaking, wherein we define historically as within the past couple of hours, and well enough as ends in a relaxed enough atmosphere to permit questions about david bowie. either way he'll have a couple of seconds to figure out what's next as she crouches down to meet Duma at eye level.]

Duma, dearest, I have the most wondrous task for you.

[She kind of winces against the giant crunch noise that follows Duma, so horrifically eager after receiving his instructions that Emmeryn doesn't even get to finish standing before he bounds off, smashing his entire goddamn face into the machinery, but she smiles still.]

Honestly, it's like sending a child out to play so perhaps they'll tire themselves out enough to take a nap afterwards.

[we call this small talk it's what people do when you aren't actively antagonizing them to lighten the mood]

[azumods]

[...]

It's good to see your Pokémon so enthusiastic.

[He doesn't sound troubled about it, but then, he's not troubled about most things nowadays.]

It's one of the things I've missed, I suppose. Not just my own, but in general.

[divinedescendant]

Mm. It isn't easy to walk along routes and woods left so quiet. [She shifts her Togepi in her arms and glances aside at the horrifying elder relic bell, somehow only fondly.] But every day we come closer to seeing the life brought back to them again—I can hardly imagine what it will be like when even only the four who have found me are such a handful.

[azumods]

...Mine will probably be angry with me, honestly.

[About the, you know. All of this.]

[divinedescendant]

Oh, I don't know. They have been your companions for quite a while, haven't they? I would think they will realize that they have missed you, too.

[azumods]

Maybe.

[He shrugs a bit. Goes back to watching whatever Duma is doing, because it's easier than looking at Emmeryn.]

Everyone likes to yell at me about how much they're suffering, after all. About how I should have done better, and just allowed it to happen.

[divinedescendant]

[Duma, presently, is trying to climb up on machinery scrap and only crushing it under his weight in the process, thereby ruining...whatever it is he's trying for. Latona's ears twitch up a small storm with every metal crunch. ]

This has not been fair to them, but not to you, either. It is easier, sometimes, to blame than to understand, but that does not make it right. It is not your fault.

[azumods]

...You don't have to be nice to me like this, you know.

[divinedescendant]

Why would I treat you any other way?

[azumods]

I'd think you have more reason not to.

[divinedescendant]

Not when we are all standing, still alive, in a world now more rightly in its place because you had courage enough to see it fixed.

[azumods]

...It still doesn't seem right to me, having betrayed Master Cyrus like this.

[So there's. That.]

Part of me wants to go back immediately. To make things right by him somehow.

[divinedescendant]

I would not expect all those feelings and all their history to simply undo themselves at once. Allowing yourself time to think things over despite that part of you shows a tremendous strength.

[azumods]

...I'm going to need to contact him tonight.

[Which is something he hasn't really told anyone else, because he can already sort of tell what their reaction would be, but- ]

I'm sure he's noticed that the flow of time has been restarted itself; he's going to want to know why. Your intervention will be kept out of it, of course... He won't come here in person, either, unless I make it sound necessary.

I meant what I said, though. No harm will come to any of you while you're in this city.

[divinedescendant]

I do trust you, that we will be safe here.

[but. hm. obviously she does not especially care for that but she understands its necessity, too.]

Will you be all right, being by yourself after having to do that?

[azumods]

Of course. I've delivered unpleasant news to him before, it isn't as though he's the sort to kill the messenger.

[It's not what she's talking about and he knows it, though.]

It may be a bit rough, but it won't be terrible. I don't feel a lot of the things that would make it terrible anymore, after all. I'll be fine.

[divinedescendant]

Hm.

[That is the response of someone who knows you know damn well that isn't what she means but is too polite to directly call him out on it.]

...Ah, Duma is having far too much fun with this... Perhaps I could leave him in your company for a while, if he can be of use, and come to retrieve him later in the evening.

[emmeryn]