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On Level Ground; (Lucas)
Topic Started: Apr 22 2012, 01:32 PM (305 Views)
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[Lucas: I'm at the caves. Come, I think we need to discuss things that are going on.]

Message sent.

The winged girl waited at the mouth of the caverns, the rush of the falls becoming steady, calm white noise. She had promised to wait, the need to get even with a certain girl had to be pushed aside for the sake of things smoothing over. Her friend handled himself as a man should, but still, she wanted to rid herself of the tension that had been building since what she overheard at the auditorium.

It rose and fell, waves of the absolute desire to rip that girl apart. She had the the mind to maybe talk to someone about it, flickering through her contacts. Mazo might understand it, Emerald would definitely too. A soft gaze over the most recent contact she received. Maybe she should talk to her about the urges, so many times she thought to just go find Zxaine room, knock...and something sharp in hand to slice-

Enough. It won't resolve a thing.

So, Amber would wait, putting the Aeon away her little coffin-shaped bag. She waited for any sign of Lucas, dressed to blend with the dimness of the caves. How the glow eased her, the noise of the falls filling her ears. Think...there was a point to this meeting.

They first had to address the strangeness that surrounding Stella. The girl had been acting very strange, not seeming to acknowledge the prior relationship she had with Lucas, all before the separation. Had she been fragile? Did it hurt less to believe they had never been together? And then there was Lucas and Zxaine to think about too. The argument sounded serious.

She had not the heart to ask Stella her side yet, the girl had been through enough having to seal with Ayeka and the ordeal in the Auditorium. For now, she wanted to see if Lucas was holding up all right and if he knew anything, maybe some sort of conclusion could be reached tonight. Something, anything.
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[Lucas: I'm at the caves. Come, I think we need to discuss things that are going on.]

He had never ended up sending her that message or following through with the call he had tried to make. Lucas had done his best to try and put the whole situation with Stella out of his mind but how do you ignore something that you essentially go home to every night? He received the message and thought for a moment. Of course they needed to talk about things; Amber might be the only person he can openly talk to about the whole situation with Stella without getting completely confused. Still, Lucas couldn't shake the feeling that there was going to be tension coinciding with the seriousness of their topics.

What was it that Ken had always said about these kind of situations? Never enter the lions den empty handed? He sighed. They were spending too much time together.

After a short period of time, he would find himself to the entrance of the caves. He didn't use the normal teleporting function as he'd never been one to enjoy it. Sure he would use it when he needed to, but it was not necessary at the moment. Walking was just as good. "Amber." He said to greet her. Come to think of it, apart from that one moment in her room, they hadn't seen each other in a long time. Rather than continuing to play the stoic arrival, he stepped towards her with a smile and pulled her into a welcoming embrace. Lucas didn't realise how much he had missed her until that moment. It had almost felt like no time had passed at all.
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The winged girl would be standing, resting her back against the cool, glowing cavern wall. The noise had settled her into a sort of meditative lull. In her wait for her friend, she didn't quite recall drifting off, images flicker past her eyes: a dome above her, words in an ancient language in judgement, that glass spire rising from the ground to-

"Amber."

Her eyes flew open the moment he called for her, the good fortune of him pulling her from another terrible vision. A shift of her gaze to her friend and she smiles at him. It really had been a while, she had felt that way last time she had seen him, but this time she would be able to talk to him without asking awkward questions, or in a tense setting.

So she hoped.

Amber hugged him back, once again feeling that gratefulness to be alive to see him. "I hope your break was well, Lucas. Ah, I think you grew a few inches taller too." A soft joke for him, if just to at least offer something that lacked tension. Soon, certainly, they would have to delve into the pool of confusion surrounding them, little by little.

"How are you holding up?"
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"I hope your break was well, Lucas. Ah, I think you grew a few inches taller too."

"Among other things." Lucas joked with her; the break had been kind of him in that respect. Being around his old friends really shone a light on all the things that had changed, both physically and mentally. Last time they were here together was in the presence of someone who could and would have willingly walked all over him. Times had changed.

"How are you holding up?"

Initially he only shrugged, taking his first step from the outer world into the caves and the seriousness of the conversation. "All things considered," He began, pausing for a moment to actually consider everything around him before answering, "I don't know." He gave an honest answer. This had felt like the first time since everything had happened that he was able to just stop and breathe. Everything from Stella leaving, his relationship with Zxaine, being ostracised from his parents and the development of his friendship and mentorship with Ken. It felt like a transformation he had never asked for but on one hand, willingly received. "A lot has happened." He summed it all up in a quick sentence.

But they both knew what was pulling them to say. "I wish she'd never come back."
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"A lot has happened."

The winged girl watched him carefully, noting his pauses to fins the right words. She nods at him, accepting his answer with a quiet calm. A lot has happened, she could attest to it anytime, but she wondered what had befallen on her friends. Enough had dropped into his lap, that as much as she knew.

"That seems like an understatement in many ways." She responds cheerfully as she could.

"I wish she'd never come back."

Her dark eyes looked to him, her expression neutral. Inside, maybe she felt a little sad to hear him say that. Could she blame him? After everything that had happened, their separation and Stella's subsequent departure without telling anyone...and just when he moved on, she returns in a very bizarre state of mind. The winged girl wondered if him saying those words were both truth and pain for him.

Amber closed her eyes. "Understandable...But that's not the reality of the situation." A shift of her gaze to him. "I know it's difficult for you to consider it given what you have been dealing with, but..." A pause in her own words. What was the common ground she hoped to find?

"I take it you tried to speak to her once already?"



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"Understandable...But that's not the reality of the situation. I know it's difficult for you to consider it given what you have been dealing with, but..."

Perhaps his words had seemed a little harsh; given her neutral expression Lucas could easily determine that she didn't share the sentiment. It was difficult for him to put his feelings in the right words so others could understand it. Had she simply stayed wherever she had gone, his universe could have existed without fail. But it was so much worse than her sudden appearance. Lucas thought he would have been able to handle that if it weren't for the second stab that had been waiting for him to question it.

"I take it you tried to speak to her once already?"

"I did. Once. She doesn't seem to want to acknowledge that we were ever together." Lucas spoke as though his words were fact; unfeeling, unresponsive facts that someone else had told him to pass along to the person they were meant for. "She said she had just gone away for some holiday and that there hadn't been any reception. Something like that." He recalled the details of the conversation well enough, but still clearly did not want to acknowledge any feeling on the matter. "If she wants to pretend that nothing happened, I guess that's her choice." There.

The slightest flicker of build up as his eyebrows lowered, eyes narrowing quickly at the very thought of her choosing to retract his existence in her life.
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"I did. Once. She doesn't seem to want to acknowledge that we were ever together."

The winged girl bowed her head, pressing her hand along the cool cavern wall next to her. That...just did not seem right. Being around the two long enough, Amber simply could not fathom why Stella would act that way. Her gaze fluttered up as he continued.

"She said she had just gone away for some holiday and that there hadn't been any reception. Something like that."

"Holiday...?" The girl mused in a puzzled tone. Without saying anything? Amber recalled the situation, how devastated the star girl had been to be forcibly separated from him. And then she was gone, without a message to speak of. At that moment, Amber felt a small tinge of regret no knowing more about the star girl than she should.

"If she wants to pretend that nothing happened, I guess that's her choice."

"To be fair..." Amber started, but she retracted her words. No, that can wait until she knew more. "Nevermind it for now. There's nothing I can say, or anyone could say, that could excuse that. I would offer the notion she took it harder than anyone thought but..."

The blonde shook her head. There was still so much that didn't seem right, but without anything concrete, one could only guess. "Well, let's not speak further of it if that feels better for you. I must say I'm proud of you for handling...well, your troubles with females recently."

A knowing but sweet smile. She honestly had not meant to eavesdrop that particular time, but it simply happened that way.
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"Nevermind it for now. There's nothing I can say, or anyone could say, that could excuse that. I would offer the notion she took it harder than anyone thought but..."

Lucas could feel that little hit of anger light something within him. Perhaps it was not the best time for people to even insinuate that she was not at fault here. Look at all he knew; she disappeared.

"Well, let's not speak further of it if that feels better for you. I must say I'm proud of you for handling...well, your troubles with females recently."

"Ken had told me that she said she couldn't be around anymore. And that she was worried about what would happen if she stayed for longer; she might not be able to stop herself. I don't know. She had promised that we would both just deal with it until I found a way out of it with my family. And I did. But it was too late." He paused; no one knew yet how he managed to get himself ostracised from his family. He hadn't even taken the time to tell Zxaine any of these details. She knew that they were no longer speaking, but not why. And every time she would ask where he was staying on the break, Lucas would always say he couldn't tell her. "Ken said that sometimes this happens. Women 'take flight as quickly as they land'." He would use the exact quoting of their teacher there, for he had still not found complete understanding.

"That unless they feel grounded, they spring up and want to leave again. He suggested doing what was needed to move on. But I didn't really know what to do." Not to blame the man for his choices, but at the very least it might make things make more sense. Though, Lucas would be the first one to admit that the man never made a lot of sense with his metaphors and quotes.
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"Ken had told me that she said she couldn't be around anymore. And that she was worried about what would happen if she stayed for longer; she might not be able to stop herself. I don't know. She had promised that we would both just deal with it until I found a way out of it with my family. And I did. But it was too late."

A curious flicker of a gaze to Lucas. Namiashi-sensei had said that to him?

"Ken said that sometimes this happens. Women 'take flight as quickly as they land'."

Curious blink. "Eh? They do?" That was new to her, but then Amber was not an ordinary female by any means. What did that even mean?

"That unless they feel grounded, they spring up and want to leave again. He suggested doing what was needed to move on. But I didn't really know what to do."

Amber tilted her head a moment then smiled it off for now. Suppose she was not one to understand it. "I suppose I'll take your word, or Namiashi-sensei's at least. Quite surprising...you speak with such familiarity about him. May I ask why or how?"
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Amber had asked how Lucas was able to talk about Ken Namiashi so easily now. He had done it as though it were second nature, getting to the point by now where he almost didn't see the man as a teacher. It was something he was going to have to transition back into, it seemed. Well, he supposed that there was no shame or pain in telling her a little about what had happened.

"I broke away from my family a little bit before the break. The control they had was too much for me and I had to get away. It left me with no where to go since I couldn't really go home, but Ken seemed to know that already." Beat. How had he known that? He always seemed to know what was going on in the blue haired boy's life, almost before he did. "He offered me a place to stay over the break. He wasn't around all the time, but when he was that was pretty much how he was talking." Lucas informed, looking to Amber at his side quickly.

She seemed confused, and it made him chuckle lightly. "I don't really understand it either, so I wouldn't worry so much."
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"You broke from your family? I'm sorry to hear that..."

Suppose the pair had that in common, only it had been a different set of situations certainly. She couldn't imagine living with such constricting family. Amber smiled warmly at him. She was always amazed at the way the teachers were when it came to their personal lives, but Ken was always one who dealt best with the students. And it didn't help all the girls adored him.

"I'm glad Namiashi-sensei helped you out, it would have been troubling if you had nowhere to go. He's big-hearted like that."

Amber bowed her head a little. There was still one other facet that bothered her. The urge thundered in her again and she would quell it with all her might in silence.

"What of Zxaine?" She asked gently, idly reaching into her coffin bag, pulling out a bottle of pills - take one three times a day. Poor Lucas had no idea how much hinged on this answer, and with emphasis on how he answers it.
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"What of Zxaine?"

Lucas looked to her idly as she had asked the question, noting the thing she took out of her bag. Pills? What might she need those for? "What of these?" He rephrased her question, reaching over to tap the bottom of the bottle gently. He shrugged the thought away after that, deciding it best to leave it behind. If she wanted to tell him, she would in her own way. Such was the nature of their relationship. Lucas looked to the walls of the cave; their natural shine stealing his attention for a moment. It was so easy to get lost where they were, and every time he seemed to go there he always felt the same way.

"Zxaine is..." He began, once more not sure how to turn his answer. At the moment, he didn't know what she was, or who she was. The way she had acted was so out of character from what he had previously seen that he was not sure he knew as much about her as he would have liked. But Lucas had to step back; Zxaine was there for a long time and Amber probably didn't know the extent of their story. "She was good to me, for the most part." He laughed a little at the thought; all the times she would try to be perfect and falter, even back when he was with Stella. "She used to make trouble for us a lot." Us; it had been a while since he had used the phrase to encapsulate himself and his former love. "But it's so different than it was with Stella. Instead of the two of us coexisting peacefully, she challenges me. Makes me realise things that I was ignoring, or things about myself that I didn't see. That I could be a person beyond my relationship." After all, there had yet to be a concept of Lucas and Zxaine.

They were not one entity, but two different people enjoying themselves. "Nothing is definite. But I like where she makes me go. Was there something specific you wanted to know?" He knew she would not be so likely to ask without a reason. He understood that Amber had always known Lucas as StellaandLucas, and while he was sure she was confused or worried to see that falter at all, he wondered if she could accept him outside of such a thing. Outside to the point of having to live for oneself, not the significant other.
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"What of these?"

A tap-tap of the pill bottle, clearly labeled as being dispensed by Stein, and Amber would look at him with a complicated expression. She had told so few of what happened - technically she only told one person, the others were privy to the information via the mad science teacher.

"Vitamins. Least that what Stein told me. It hasn't made me grow any extra limbs or anything, so..." Was it just as draining for her to say it, or was she over-thinking it. Lucas didn't ask further thankfully, it was how it worked at times, a steady and intuitive friendship.

He answered her question in the manner befitting of Lucas - with as much genuine honesty as he was known to have. The more she spoke, the more the urge inside gnawed at her and the more she had to push it deeper into the recesses of her soul. A difference in existence? Amber would swallow the a blue pill, imagining it was to ease the murderous tendencies she keeps swelling and receding.

"No." She answered softly. Amber was against her for reasons beyond Lucas&Stella; reasons that had no credence or sense, but it felt like sense. However, she was not about to bring it up to him. He really seemed to care about that emotionally unsteady girl "I feel better to see you happy than miserable. I suppose that...just be aware to know when to take a step back and make certain of where you are going. I am guilty of that myself. Much can be avoided and confronted when you have a clear head."

She had not and Amber paid for it. She looked at the pill bottle in her hand before putting it away. "These." The pills she meant. "Are to help me recover quicker. My break was rough to say the least. Had I stepped back and cleared my head, I could have avoided much of what befell me." A slide of a gaze to Lucas again, smiling her words away. No worries, she was here and fine.
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"I feel better to see you happy than miserable. I suppose that...just be aware to know when to take a step back and make certain of where you are going. I am guilty of that myself. Much can be avoided and confronted when you have a clear head."

For the most part, Lucas had to ponder what was behind what she had said. She was talking about something clear to her but not to him, especially when she went on to briefly mention that her break had been less than normal. She was recovering from something, and it was obviously serious. But the way she looked to him with that smile did exactly what she seemed to want it to; it was compelling him not to worry. As always, if she wanted to elaborate later, she had every way to do so. So his mind went back to her previous notion. "I think I know where I am going. For now, anyway. How long it will stay that way isn't something I can predict. Maybe that's cause for concern." He shrugged.

"There was something else you wanted to say. About Zxaine?" He wondered for a moment if she knew what happened, then reserved his interests into knowing she did after previously mentioning it. "We aren't speaking much at the moment, She was wrong for what she did to Stella, but I don't think she sees it that way. She wants to protect me more than anything; I just wish people would stop pretending like I need it." He did understand; the presence of Stella was painful to the very core, but going about it the way she did was not necessary. "I'll always struggle with Stella coming back. The longer she is around, the more I remember all the things I tried to forget." He paused long enough to breathe a heavy sigh.

"She seems to have, though. Forgotten. Honestly forgotten. Or maybe she likes it better if we both say nothing happened." He shrugged again, this time trying to push whatever forming were bubbling back down.
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A small wave of relief washed over her. Lucas was a perceptive enough of a friend to see that whatever she had endured over the break, it was no need for him to force it out of her. It was one of a multitude of reasons why the nephlet respected the boy the way she did.

"I think I know where I am going. For now, anyway. How long it will stay that way isn't something I can predict. Maybe that's cause for concern."

"It's never that simple when you'd like it to be." A gentle response.

And then about Zxaine, she glanced over to him to listen.

"We aren't speaking much at the moment, She was wrong for what she did to Stella, but I don't think she sees it that way. She wants to protect me more than anything; I just wish people would stop pretending like I need it."

Amber frowned a little, not at Lucas but at Zxaine's handling of the situation. It was one thing to have attacked Stella the way she had, in fact, the winged girl had been straight on the edge of barging in to cut off her hand for touching the star girl. She closed her eyes to will away the dark-stained thought. No matter how much Amber despised her, she had to remember that she meant enough to Lucas, speaking or not.

First she spoke of Stella...Amber closed her eyes again. "I am honestly bothered by it...but at the same time, I don't really understand how one can cut out something that was important at one time. But I know little about it...everything before the break happened so fast and without warning, and then coming back. I haven't the chance to really ask her."

A slide of a gaze to Lucas. Given his earlier tone, the boy seemed he would continue on the way he wanted. In that case, she quietly would support whatever he decided to do, completely removing her feelings about situation. Or at least she would try, if for her friend's sake.

"You know Lucas, I can say with fair amount of certainty that you are not one that needs protection. You look benign, but I have seen you step up in the face of danger. However...that desire to protect is what one does when you care about someone else. I know I'd do everything in my ability to keep my loved ones from harmful things. So...Zxaine may have allowed her emotions to take over reason. It's not an excuse for what she did to Stella in the least, but she may really have felt she was within reason."

Yes, she was reasoning for that woman, but Amber took no delight in it. It may have been evident through the somber tone of her voice. She was more of supporting Lucas's search for happiness rather than actually caring about Zxaine or her feelings.

"Take that as you will. In the meantime, do your best to deal with what is given to you. I'm just sorry that it's is not too easy to resolve, Lucas. "
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"Take that as you will. In the meantime, do your best to deal with what is given to you. I'm just sorry that it's is not too easy to resolve, Lucas."

"I have always thought it's impossible to completely cut out a section of your life. You always remember the first person you fall for, and they're always going to mean something to you. That's the hardest thing." Lucas reasoned, thereby admitting that at least he knew he would never be able to stop caring for her. "I don't want to forget her. If she would just tell me what happened I would be able to find a way do deal with it." He seemed as though he was now trying to work through all the questions she had left him with through this conversation. What he had needed was a level head to help him; he could hardly ask Zxaine.

When it came to the topic of Stella, it was always draining. In his head there was a variable missing; why. Since he couldn't fill it at all, he didn't understand how to go about dealing with it. "I think I'll always love her." That was something that he didn't want to readily admit; actually saying it was the most difficult thing about the situation. "She's the biggest part of my time here. Every time I go somewhere, my mind reminds me that we were there together. I don't sleep because I can't sleep with her right there," His eyes shut tight, as he tried to when he would try and stop her ridiculous glowing from entering the far corners of his head. "Because she's right there. But she should be here. And she doesn't want to be."
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"I have always thought it's impossible to completely cut out a section of your life. You always remember the first person you fall for, and they're always going to mean something to you. That's the hardest thing. I don't want to forget her. If she would just tell me what happened I would be able to find a way do deal with it."

Somehow, that tugged a little at Amber's heart, but she couldn't place why. She had never known that sort of thing outside of her friendships, but it would probably be fundamentally painful. She could never deny this world she came to know willingly. How could anyone? Stella managed this somehow. How could she deal with a friend who harms a friend?

"I think I'll always love her. She's the biggest part of my time here. Every time I go somewhere, my mind reminds me that we were there together. I don't sleep because I can't sleep with her right there, because she's right there. But she should be here. And she doesn't want to be."

The winged girl walked over and hugged him. What more could she do? There was nothing she could say to ease him or smooth over the complicated nature of this problem. It really wasn't that simple.

"I'll talk to her. If anything just to see if there's an answer, a reason as to why she's acting this way. In the meantime, is there any way you could switch rooms or something?" She'd release him to look at him, maybe to gauge if that's what he wanted to do or could do. Anything to at least give him a moment to breathe.
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Suddenly Amber was with him, holding onto him as if it were the only way she knew how to try and make him feel better. And it did; the simple act caused Lucas to find his footing back in the world again. It had been a difficult thing for him to admit what he had, especially so openly, but it felt relieving to be able to say that he honestly knew he would probably never get over her completely. How was he supposed to? It was an endless mess, one that she was never going to give him a way out of.

"I'll talk to her. If anything just to see if there's an answer, a reason as to why she's acting this way. In the meantime, is there any way you could switch rooms or something?"

As she finally released him, Lucas could do nothing but give a soft shrug initially. He didn't know what could be done, or if there was any way people could do anything in the first place. "I'm not sure what good speaking to her would do. I tried, and I got no where. But maybe that's because it was me." Perhaps there was something to it that Stella felt as though she couldn't say to him. Lucas would almost understand that if it had been something he had done that she felt unstable telling him. "I don't think I can move away either. I might have to find another place to stay for a little while. It's going to take some getting used to." He gave a defeated sigh with his words, beginning to accept that there was nothing he could do to stop what was already happening.

"She did kiss me, in the auditorium." He recalled suddenly; a piece of information that probably meant nothing by now. "No reason why. She just did it. It felt normal; almost like old times. But then it was gone as quickly as it had come back. It made me think she was toying with me." He had laughed then. How could Stella ever think to do such a thing for her own enjoyment.
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"I'm not sure what good speaking to her would do. I tried, and I got no where. But maybe that's because it was me."

Amber gave him a mournful look. It saddened her that it really looked that way without bare trace of why. But a small part of her refused to believe it truly was like that. Both figures in this were her friends after all and she would be damned to take a side.

"I don't think I can move away either. I might have to find another place to stay for a little while. It's going to take some getting used to."

"Please, try talking to Namiashi-sensei." Amber offered gently. It was the most obvious choice, maybe he could at least have a room change if to keep his sanity. It was a long shot, there had been a reason why the two had been put together in the first place but circumstances change. "He's in your corner, he'd understand if you tell him, I'm sure."

"She did kiss me, in the auditorium." He recalled the situation. Amber looked at him first with a head-tilt. Eh? It occurred to her that she and Emerald must've heard right near the middle to end of the situation. "No reason why. She just did it. It felt normal; almost like old times. But then it was gone as quickly as it had come back. It made me think she was toying with me."

"Ohh...Is that why the situation unraveled that way?" The nephlet asked, completely disclosing that yes, she knew about it. Amber smiled sadly at him. "Think about it a moment...you were with her longer than most of us had known her. Do you think she'd be capable of that, just to toy with someone's feelings?"
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"Think about it a moment...you were with her longer than most of us had known her. Do you think she'd be capable of that, just to toy with someone's feelings?"

It only took him a moment to think of it before he had an answer. "No, of course not. Can you imagine her even understanding how toying with someone works?" There; sometimes recalling memories was not so bad. Lucas could never think that of Stella, especially if there had been so many times where she would misread situation and things other people would say. It was probably a lot easier on him if he just assumed that she was capable of such a thing. This was all getting more confusing, and a lot more complex as he spoke more on the subject.

"I think I would have let her if it weren't for Zxaine. I care a lot about both of them and I know that I will for a long time, but does it make it fair if I have possible feelings for one but stay with the other? How are we supposed to grow with that hanging over me?" Had he rushed into things with Zxaine? He hadn't thought so, but this whole situation with Stella was panning out in such a way that made him question the relationships he had with both of them for now. "Maybe it would be easier to take a step back for a while. For both of us." There, he referred to himself and Zxaine. Surely it would be better for the two of them if they just waited until this thing about Stella dissipated.
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"No, of course not. Can you imagine her even understanding how toying with someone works?"

A soft nod of Amber's head, maybe he could concur with her untold worried suspicions after all? The girl would continue to do as she did best, be silent. Sometimes, people needed the silence that listened so that one could sort in their head what was most important.

He would have let her, Lucas admitting those words made her heart sink a little. What had been so normal to see now seemed painful, muddled by uncertainty and unseen complexity. After all they had to endure...it came to this? It was clear he had deep feelings for both of the girls in his life, one that lingered and one may have rushed to snap him up at his lowest - at least that's how Amber figure it privately.

"I'm inclined to agree with you. Those two are such grand forces in your life already. It may be for the best that you take a step back and sort things out." The winged girl shot him a warm smile again. "You're a kind person Lucas. But please...think of your happiness first. I know you don't want either to be hurt and this is a complex situation as it is. Once it is all clear to you and you make your decision, don't regret it. Okay?"
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"I'm inclined to agree with you. Those two are such grand forces in your life already. It may be for the best that you take a step back and sort things out."

Sometimes it took the words of another to help realise the answer that was glaringly clear. Lucas gave a gentle sigh, relaxing into the idea that was proposed to him; one that he was inclined to agree with and take on board.

"You're a kind person Lucas. But please...think of your happiness first. I know you don't want either to be hurt and this is a complex situation as it is. Once it is all clear to you and you make your decision, don't regret it. Okay?"

"I've never been the kind of person to think of myself first." Lucas said initially, but he didn't feel the need to elaborate because he knew she was aware of that quality in the boy already. He had never really done anything to completely benefit himself, knowing how much it might hurt another. And that was one of the things that held him up in this situation; fear that he was going to break Zxaine's still fragile disposition over the whole thing. He hardly wanted to have that on his mind afterwards. "But I think it's clear. I just hope she doesn't get so upset that she lashes out or anything. After what happened though, I don't think she would." He had said, knowing how that there was a lingering flare of anger inside her daring to come out in certain situations.

Lucas allowed his arm to rise up, swinging around the winged girl's form to pull her a little closer by his side; in part he had missed her so much more than he realised. "I wonder if I should apologise to Stella." He mused with a little upbeat tone, emerald eyes shining forward against the glow of the rocks.
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"I've never been the kind of person to think of myself first."

Just a knowing smile out of her from that statement. He really was that kind of person, he would never do a thing that would hurt others. The one exception had included their lives, and even then that had been painful. Amber did not have to elaborate in the least for that.

"But I think it's clear. I just hope she doesn't get so upset that she lashes out or anything. After what happened though, I don't think she would."

"She better not." Dark and seriously spoken, a rarity out of the gentle winged girl. Lashing out at him or Stella had already a big no-no on her eyes. But despite it, Amber would sigh it away. This was not her fight, it would only become her fight if it spilled over again. It also helped that the arm around her in to draw her closer had cooled her, grounded her - no, she would calm herself.

It's his situation. Not mine. I will only watch and standby.

"I wonder if I should apologise to Stella."

"Depends on how you feel, Lucas" The girl says, closing her eyes. She really had missed her friend, even more that she had woken up from death. It was a friendship that was not born of violence - one of the few she maintained. "If it makes things easier on your mind, you should do so. Approach things with a clear mind."
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"If it makes things easier on your mind, you should do so. Approach things with a clear mind."

This was something that Lucas would definitely need to think about for a while before anything would happen. He did feel a little compelled to apologise, but he had yet to determine whether or not it was because he felt the need to apologise for Zxaine's actions, or for his own motives. If it weren't for himself, then he knew he shouldn't do it. He had spent to much time telling the both of them to sort their own issues out amongst themselves; he couldn't very well turn back on that whole concept because he might have felt bad about it. It was still all such a mess, but at least he could see some things a little clearer now.

Emerald eyes cast their gaze to the girl in his arm brightly. No more need to dwell on the negative; they should move to enjoy each other's company instead of hanging depression into the air. "See, this is why I've missed you so much." Lucas said finally. After all, something about her would always put him at east, and she knew exactly what to say to get his head clear.
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"See, this is why I've missed you so much."

"Because I make sense in a senseless world?"

Amber smiled, both tired but as cheerfully as she could muster. Yes, she can manage a joke however weak and untrue it was. A chaotic creature with a clear head? She may have wondered privately if she could truly manage practicing what she preached to Lucas.

Maybe soon.

So Amber would move away from that topic, fully content to discussing other things for their time in the mouth of the cavern...like having to deal with Stein's mad class again, or the news that Namiashi and Ousen were to be teaching a class together - that will be an ordeal in itself! Or a places they heard about in Axiom, like someplace called The Summerland...

Anything but the depressing.
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