route_1065 | Ghostly goings-on

All right...

[With some effort, Ryner manages to push himself up so that he's sitting up more or less straight, so that he can look right at Marian seriously.]

But Marian, there's one thing you have to remember, okay? If you ever want to change your mind for any reason, you can leave whenever you want to. Never feel like you're forced to stay with me, that's the last thing I want.

[...and after a moment, he sort of glances down at Rose, mildly confused.]

...Er, isn't this usually where you smack me?

["Clefair." Rose crosses her arms. She certainly doesn't care if this fake leaves. Actually, she'd like that.]

It looks like Rose is still rather upset over things...

...I really am sorry, Rose. And I know she is too.

[He starts petting her behind the ear, maybe subconsciously drawing her slightly closer to himself, into a half hug.

"Fairy clefair." You have no idea how worried she was, dear partner. She was seriously scared you wouldn't come back, since it was taking so long.

Marian is going for another piece of paper.]

She did worry a lot about you. As did Jehra, for that matter.

*glancing over to see if the absol is still sulking*

[Oh, Jehra is mostly trying to maintain a calm demeanor at this point. The way he's looking at Marian indicates that he definitely Does Not Approve, but he's not sulking anymore.

...And yeah, Ryner's going to avert his eyes at that and not really answer, because much as he knows that, he also thinks that they shouldn't have worried as much as they did, he was never in any danger and neither were they, etcetera. But saying so would probably end in him being smacked, so.]

*Sion's not even mentioning how much HE was worried....*

And it really was quite a hassle, if I do say so myself...

It's not like I went out looking for trouble. Bothersome things just tend to find me, somehow.

Perhaps you should considering taking the time to better avoid such things in the fist place, then.

It was just a regular trip to the store. I've done it dozens of times and nothing's happened. How the hell was I supposed to know that this one time there'd be a bunch of bothersome ghosts playing psychic tug-of-war?

For one, there was the unnatural fog, you know. You could at least have taken Jehra with you.

It was just fog.

"Just" fog that was behaving unnaturally and swarming with ghost types.

It was going to be a ten minute store run! Do I really need to be that paranoid about a ten minute store run?

You really need to ask that, at this point?

[flopping back onto the back of the sofa again at this point]

So let me guess, I'm forbidden from even going to the bathroom by myself anymore?

Well, that's certainly an idea...

Y'know what, screw you!

No, thank you.

[Your leg is being kicked now.]

*--hey. kicking back, then!! >/*

[Well he'll just have to kick you again, then, because at the moment you're the one who deserves it. >_<]

*no RYNER's the one who deserves it for making him worry so much!!

....which is to say kicking back again*

[No one was in any danger, so there shouldn't have been any reason to worry too much in the first place! And anyway, since how worried Sion was hasn't been actually stated, Ryner thinks this is about being overly cautious when he can handle himself when he has to most of the time, this was a fluke, and Sion knows that he can! >_<

In other words, our super-mature king and mage, everybody. Getting into a kicking fight.]

*hey he shouldn't have to SAY it okay :|||

but yes, aaaalll the maturity up in here, while their pokemon probably just look on and shake their heads because they're at it again....*

[Yeah, well, Sion's seen him waaaaaaay worse, so Ryner figures that since it wasn't anywhere near as bad Sion wouldn't worry as much.

If nothing else, Rose is actually smiling watching this, because it means things are normal.

...Also Marian is just kind of hovering there with another note but unsure whether it's a good idea to interrupt such good friends.]

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