[He hit her. He hit her he hit her - he's not real. She remembers this in time to make eye contact with him, Erika looking for Maya and Ryuji standing back up and looking over his shoulder and looking her directly in the eye. He's not real. He is here to disturb her with the presence of someone she's only had memories of for a year. He is here to make her want to see a little more of him. He is here to hurt -
- no -
- to drive a wedge, to make it feel like she's abandoned one for another and it's not all the same long road -
Arcadiamon catches her.]
-Maya!
[She cries out in alarm, already scared and startled at being grabbed and lifted. The monster rears back as though to toss her down its own throat. She phases free and falls to the ground, hitting and rolling with another sharp gasp.
When she tries to get up, it's not Arcadiamon that's looming anymore. Just another boy in a dingy space-station jumpsuit, face twisted in another flavor of helpless anger. I knew she did something to you, he insists with voice quavering, Erika, how could you do this to us?
He reaches out. His hands are dissolving away, swimming black and white geometry fading inky black Hunger of the Eaters into nothing and Erika is frozen at a loss for words or actions or solutions.]
no subject
- no -
- to drive a wedge, to make it feel like she's abandoned one for another and it's not all the same long road -
Arcadiamon catches her.]
-Maya!
[She cries out in alarm, already scared and startled at being grabbed and lifted. The monster rears back as though to toss her down its own throat. She phases free and falls to the ground, hitting and rolling with another sharp gasp.
When she tries to get up, it's not Arcadiamon that's looming anymore. Just another boy in a dingy space-station jumpsuit, face twisted in another flavor of helpless anger. I knew she did something to you, he insists with voice quavering, Erika, how could you do this to us?
He reaches out. His hands are dissolving away, swimming black and white geometry fading inky black Hunger of the Eaters into nothing and Erika is frozen at a loss for words or actions or solutions.]