MAYA;

[goalsides]

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[goalsides]

[he's about to bully her for being rude to him, but then. that happens.

a h...]

...not always. We've known each other for a long time, so sometimes this kind of thing happens.

[feytality]

[ hmmm ]

[ this seems like a touchy subject, and she doesn't want to push it too much, but... ]

Did you guy make up, in the end?

[goalsides]

Eventually, yeah. [vague...] Yamato and I argue a lot, so it's not like we were gonna stay mad at each other forever. Our friends kind of forced us to talk it out.

[feytality]

That's good.

[ friends forcing them..... ]

Well, if you guys ever have a big fight here, I can always force you to talk it out.

[ thanks maya ]

[goalsides]

[he just...laughs awkwardly.]

Thanks, Maya, but I think I'll pass. We can work out our own problem.

[feytality]

[ their problem is they need to kiss ]

[ anyway, speaking of problems. this is a problem? probably ]

[goalsides]

[that is in fact a problem.

THIS IS A BIGGER PROBLEM THOUGH? MAYA? HE JUST...STARES????]

...Maya...don't tell me this is the last thing you remember before coming here.

[feytality]

[ maya's taking two steps back like she wants to bolt despite leggie sore ]

W-Well.... no, some more things happened after that....

[goalsides]

[nope. he is just grabbing her arm carefully.]

...somehow that actually makes it worse, you know.

[feytality]

[ the kdrama wristgrab... her one weakness ]

[ she is squirmy, but not trying to get away. ]

I told you, before.... it's a bad situation...

[goalsides]

[the grip is loose enough that she could get away, but he doesn't really let her either.]

...how do these things keep happening to you?

[feytality]

[ she's not particularly trying, but she avoids looking at him ]

It just... happens. I don't know.

[goalsides]

[maya...]

...so what happened after that? How did it work out?

[feytality]

[ mmmmm she doesn't like admitting this but ]

[ he kind of deserves to know doesn't he? ]

... It didn't. I was found innocent, but... I still ended up being thrown into the flames.

[goalsides]

But...okay, wait, how? If you were innocent shouldn't you have been released? And you're alive now...aren't you?

[feytality]

... It was my fault.

[ drops her eyes ]

A friend... she was going to confess to being the great witch, so she'd get burned and no one else would have to die. It's... one way to end those trials forever.

I couldn't let that happen. So, I helped her get free.... but then they.... they locked me back in, and...

[ .... ]

Yeah, it seems like it. And I know I'm not the only one. So I don't know what happened.

[goalsides]

Something must have changed. Magic? [she's talking about witches, so.] I wouldn't say that was really your fault. You were trying to protect a friend. If anything, the fault is in those people running those trials.

[feytality]

[ nods at magic ]

Yeah... I know what you mean. Those knights were pretty awful, too, they just threw me back in there.

But Nick... must be so worried about me...

[ she can't help feeling bad ]

[goalsides]

He wouldn't be worried if he didn't care about you, so that means you're gonna be fine. Everything will be fine. [will it?]

[feytality]

Y-Yeah.... everything will be fine.

[ she seems like she is trying very hard to believe this ]

[goalsides]

...do you wanna go to the SUB and get a burger? I'll protect you from anybody else's shitty memories.

[also? he doesn't want to leave her alone just thinking about those thoughts.]

[feytality]

[ tbh she's more concerned about how it'll affect him..... fucking doofus ]

... You don't have to protect me, silly. But I won't say no to a burger.

I think... it'd be nice to know more about your memories, too. From you, not from.... whatever this is supposed to be.

[ tho taichi's memories are pretty tame in comparison.... so far :/ ]

[goalsides]

[so far :\]

You can ask me whatever you want. I don't really have secrets or anything. [not that he would tell her, which is maybe the point. but he grins and gestures for her to follow.]

C'mon. Let's go.

[feytality]

[ taichi, keeping secrets: i don't have any ]

You and Yamato were like.. the digital world together, right? What was it like?

[ she just walks along with him ]

[goalsides]

[they will walk!]

It's...big. When we first got there, we were in a place called File Island. We didn't realize there was more to the Digital World than where we were, but the island itself was pretty big. It's a lot like Earth but not a lot of buildings or cities or anything. We slept outside a lot and just took turns keeping watch for any monsters that'd attack us. We started out in a forest, but we made our way to the beach and up and mountain and all over the place.