TCotM: Tenebrynn's Idylls

[Erekose13]

"Thanks, though I don't have any memory of her. She is another figment of this false reality."

 

[Bront]

"Doesn't mean you can't enjoy it," Vanitri says with a wink.

"We should catch up with the women," Vanitri says, grabbing his sword. "Your wife will be thrilled I didn't kill you."

 

[Rystil Arden]

*After deciding to get back with the others, they find Laynie and Kiara in the other room. Kiara is crying quietly. Laynie looks up with a bit of frown.*

"So are you both okay now? We need to work together if we're going to find a way to overcome this, don't you agree? Vanitri, I'm surprised with you--why are you being so distant?"

 

[Bront]

"It's a hunch, and certaintly not one I'm happy about. Not to mention you're a little older than I remember you," Vanitri says. "But right now we do indeed need each other's help. We need to find Ashnar and Rinaldo, and then head back to the Crux."

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Laynie gets a bit fed up by Vanitri's response.*

"So what, are you telling me that the Vanitri I know was going to just stop caring about me once I stopped being a little girl? Frankly, if I didn't have the evidence right here, I wouldn't believe it. Stop being so emo, Vanitri--at least you're alive and with friends who can help. It could be much worse. And I also don't like your entitlement complex. 'Right now we do need each other's help' you say, and then you treat us like crap. But that's not true. You need my help Vanitri Duskrider. I'm not affected by it. I don't need help from you. But I want to help my dear friend. But if you're going to treat me like this, maybe I should just forget it. Look, you've been mumbling about a fantasy world created by the Crux--now you're totally loony there and a bit paranoid, but if I'm a figment of such a world, what's the point of going to another room? The Crux will hear you anywhere, and the fake characters in its world can react accordingly. On the other hand, I'm really Laynie, and you're the man who rescued me when I was little...I love you like a...well something, and I want to help you get better. You may not believe that, but you'd be a bigger fool than I think if you didn't at least admit that it was possible. In your doomsday scenario, you gain nothing by secrecy. In the other scenarios, including the correct one where you lost your memory, you lose much from distancing yourself from allies and hiding information. Plus you made poor Kiara cry, and I've almost never seen that sweet and noble woman cry before..."

*Tears welling in her own eyes, Laynie calms down and comes off her tirade, catching her breath.*

 

[Bront]

Vanitri gives Laynie a hug. "Something's going on here Laynie, and I intend to find out what. And you being all grown up is a bit of a shock, as it's very sudden for me."

"Yes, we need you to help us right now, but you need us as well if you want to help us. We need to find the others, and then the Crux, as that's the source of all this."

"By the way, when we defeated Sin back in the day, how did Tenny come back? He'd been gone for quite a while in the Crux."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"He just reappeared. You all did. The effect had a limited duration and it expired with no external action on our part."

 

[Bront]

Vanitri nods, "Ok, who disapeared after I did? we should find them."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I don't remember the ordering precisely, but eventually it was everyone except Rayne, Hogarth, and myself. That includes Elektra who was exposed to the effect--did she also suffer memory loss?"

 

[Erekose13]

Tenebrynn moves to comfort Kiara more out of compassion than any familial instinct. "Vanitri and I go way back, we just needed to speak in private. No matter now, we will work together to find the others, Rinaldo and Ashnar."