audience: laudna

[mygod]

Comments

[rhine]

Like it is difficult to answer "okay" after that response...

[undread]

Really? If you're doing alright, I'm happy to hear it. Personally, I'm used to feeling awful, so it doesn't bother me all that much.

[rhine]

Ah...

Somehow, that doesn't make it any better.

[undread]

[aww. smiling.]

Things were really quite nasty for me for a very long time. Decades, really, of being on my own except for Delilah in my head, being driven out of towns, slowly going mad... I developed a lot of ways to deal with negative thinking. Like Pâté!

[she'll get Pâté out and start to puppet him.]

Miss Pesto, I'm scared to die! It's so dark! I might drown in my own despair!

[she pats him on the head.]

There, there. No need to be dramatic, silly. As for me, I won't be consumed by those feelings. I know how not to be, and it's easier here, when there's an end in sight.

[rhine]

[ this is not the first time that she thinks laudna needs intense therapy, and it will not be the last time. ]

I bet it's also been a bit easier to think, with so many weeks without Delilah with you.

[ ignoring all the times she has had effects where she thought delilah was with her ]

[undread]

...Yes.

[that's definitely true. even if delilah keeps. somehow showing up again. it's different than her being able to hear it every time laudna starts to change her mind or feel independence and start a new manipulation.]

It's been a good change without her.

[rhine]

Good. I'm glad that you've been able to make choices for yourself, even if they've had to be difficult ones.

[ smashcut to her getting possessed and not making choices for herself ]

[undread]

[haha!]

Well, I haven't been by myself... Gale, and Lavi, and Yuffie, and Kate, and Camille... they all helped me.

[rhine]

... I'm very glad that you all found each other. I'm just sorry it was under these circumstances.