[not again] catchall for belph

[fishingforcompliments]

Comments

[axilium]

... Sounds like it. Did you get whisked away to another dimension or something?

[fishingforcompliments]

I do not know if it was... another dimension, but we eventually found ourselves on what looked like the island we first washed up on.

Or at least, Yin Yu and I did. The two of us were separated from Lili.

[axilium]

Yikes. What then?

[fishingforcompliments]

...we encountered someone we knew there, but... younger. At the time, it did not seem at all strange. She tried to...

[Flayn hesitates.]

She wanted to hurt us. Yin Yu put himself between her and me. That is how he got hurt...

[axilium]

[a beat]

That's rough.

[belph is bad at dealing with sad people.]

... Do you blame yourself for that?

[fishingforcompliments]

...a little.

[well, at least she's honest.]

If I had been stronger, or more aware, there would have been no need for him to get hurt.

[axilium]

... Well, that's how being with people tends to go. We drag each other down at times, and pull the other along at other times.

But it's something to work on, then. So that things will be different next time.

[fishingforcompliments]

Yes.

[she can definitely agree with it being something to work on.]

Next time, I want to protect the people I am with, rather than be the one that they protect.

[axilium]

Good luck with that.

Anyway, what happened next?

[fishingforcompliments]

[thanks she's gonna need it]

...I am uncertain. I... attempted to help, but in doing so, I lost more blood, and then I lost consciousness. When I came to, we were... back here.

[axilium]

... Wow. Uh, good thing you didn't die!

[fishingforcompliments]

[she nods. yeah, it's a really good thing.]

I owe Yin Yu my life.

[axilium]

I don't know the guy very well, but something tells me that if you told him that, he brushed it off.

[fishingforcompliments]

He certainly did.

[SIGHS.]

[axilium]

Humble types are so exhausting, sometimes.

Though until you can repay the favour, you could always make him gifts and hope he's too polite to refuse.

[fishingforcompliments]

Do you think that might work?

[or is belph just messing with her. it's hard to tell.]

[axilium]

Well, you might not want to explicitly say, "this is because you saved my life" because then that gives him room to refuse, but he'd probably be touched to receive gifts even if he might get flustered about it.

[fishingforcompliments]

...hm.

[hm!

flayn looks like she's considering that very seriously]

I see... finding a suitable gift around here may be easier said than done, but it cannot hurt to try.

[axilium]

Hey, if nothing else, you know what they say about handmade gifts.

[fishingforcompliments]

...this is true! [she smiles] There are certain crafts that are quite meaningful when they are given as gifts in my homeland. Perhaps I will make one of those.