[ Truth be told, even she doesn't know where Terra and Ventus are anymore. She's caught glimpses of the both of them here, briefly, too short to be sure whether it was just another memory masquerading as a dream. (Some part of her hopes they're elsewhere within ALASTAIR, just across another timeline. Still out of reach, but safe.) A voice relentlessly drifts to her mind, and perhaps it's one Lancer's heard, too.
I'm asking you, as a friend... Just...put an end to me. ]
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[ They're important to her, yes, forever her guiding lights home. ...But home is yet far away, and she'll not be going back any time soon. Though she knows Lancer speaks out of a sense of concern, it's been months since he's seen her dreams. He hasn't seen her desperately search the ashen remains of Nalawi for him, the times she's been startled mid-mission on another planet thinking she'd seen his ghost, too.
She looks to him now, and her smile fades. ]
...That's not for you to decide.
[ Her tone is soft, and if he listens closely enough he might hear something else there. (She isn't here to argue with him.) She straightens herself, collecting her things, and turns to leave.
...She pauses for just a heartbeat, because it feels too much like walking away from Terra, from Ven. But in the end, she doesn't look back. ]
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I'm asking you, as a friend... Just...put an end to me. ]
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[ They're important to her, yes, forever her guiding lights home. ...But home is yet far away, and she'll not be going back any time soon. Though she knows Lancer speaks out of a sense of concern, it's been months since he's seen her dreams. He hasn't seen her desperately search the ashen remains of Nalawi for him, the times she's been startled mid-mission on another planet thinking she'd seen his ghost, too.
She looks to him now, and her smile fades. ]
...That's not for you to decide.
[ Her tone is soft, and if he listens closely enough he might hear something else there. (She isn't here to argue with him.) She straightens herself, collecting her things, and turns to leave.
...She pauses for just a heartbeat, because it feels too much like walking away from Terra, from Ven. But in the end, she doesn't look back. ]
I'll see you again soon, Lancer.