Melus blinked at Luther's response and tilted her head, "You don't have to make promises you can't keep. I understand it was the necklace. But harm will come and you can't help that. But, I appreciate the gesture. Thanks." she looked back over towards Koa at his response and said, "Pff naaaah, my problems aren't worse than yours. Everyone's got their demons and problems, and for them, they may take things harder and that's just how it is. If you love her and you want to see her, that's equally as important. So don't apologize." Melus strummed her harp and sat down... wherever she could sit down cause the setting is unclear and Melus continued playing, "I just figured it was relevant to bring up, I don't know why many people are here, or why they are doing what they're doing. I like knowing." Melus put on a small smile, but it wasn't real, it couldn't be. She didn't care though.
Kaida followed Hikaru for the sake of following him at this point and Kaida was amused that Aux was a Lion. The charms she ended up whittling turned out to be more accurate than she expected. Or maybe it was chance? She had no idea. heard Aux's comment and wasn't sure if she was insulting how she looked or her height and she huffed and looked away, "Least I don't have a stupid hat on WHILE I'm a lion." she looked between the two and turned around, "So there must be a reason why we're here, right? Let's just try and get this over with..." Kaida didn't seem interested in trying to warm up to Aux at all, and the sooner she could finish up the world, the better off she felt this would be.
The sudden hug from Aria had made Takehiko visibly tense up for a moment at the suddenness of it. He was not used to physical contact that didn't end in pain. Not that he was unfamiliar with the hug. He had gotten some from his brother's at home, and the most recent one having come from Atmos during training. But this was different. By all accounts, Aria was a stranger to Take, not someone he had exchanged more than a few sentences with. But he didn't push her away, he let it happen, and the longer it went on, the more his shoulders seemed to relax before by the end of it, he didn't hug back, but he returned in some way by rubbing her back a bit. Not weirdly just, in a way to try and indicate comfort but he wasn't particularly good at it. When Aria stopped hugging he would be lying to himself if he didn't say he got something out of the hug too. When Aria mentioned the other students he said, "Oh, Illiana split up and... Glyde? went to follow her. So they should be on this boat... uh. We were... talking to Jim when we were..." Take walked over and saw Jim just kind of staring at the three of them at the bottom of the stairs and he said, "She's with us too. This is Aria. Don't worry, she doesn't bite... maybe."
There was a lot of stuff he had to process with Aria's reply. First, she'd seen Tinarah briefly, which at least confirmed that the Light Chaser had something to do with her being kidnapped. But then the Princess of Heart thing came up. Which... okay, so Aria was apparently one of them. So that accounted for two. Which would confirm that Kida being kidnapped had something to do with it as well. Then Aria began struggling with the bracelet and he walked forward and said, "Well, Torrin had a feeling that the Light Chaser was going to be coming after another Princess of Heart next, since he took the one from Atlantis when we were there... which is why we ended up... here... wherever here is." he stopped when he was close enough and looked at the bracelet and paused at what she said and looked up at her and said, "Well... he had you and lost you again. Maybe this is his way of finding you. Unless this was some branding of a promise or something... I don't know but... if he is going after Princesses of Heart, he might come back for you?" Take looked at the bracelet and asked quietly to himself, "There's gotta be a way to get it off though... right? It would be a tactical disadvantage to keep it there if it actually tracks you..." the boy stood in thought for a moment before snapping his fingers in realization, "I've got it." Take looked Aria dead in the eyes and said with no hint of irony to it, "We cut off your arm.... nah... just maybe loping it at the wrist." Nini hissed a little at Take before he looked at the cat and said, "What? Her life or her hand? You make the choice." Nini growled and Take held his hands up, "Fine fine. We won't cut off her hand. Sheesh cat." Take let out a sigh of defeat and rubbed the back of his head, "I just don't want another person gone again that we just got back."
Take wasn't exactly sure what he was going to answer for Jim's situation, but he hoped maybe this sudden flash of light made it so Jim was potentially distracted. He had no idea who exactly was here for a moment, then his eyes adjusted to see Torrin briefly before the flash of light happened again. Take could see it was a portal. He shifted a bit and said, "Wait... that was Torrin... did he bring back Tinarah?" As soon as he said that, there was a faint mew that came from his bag, and Nini ran out. Take had forgotten about the little cat, but when she reacted the way she did, Take couldn't help but quickly follow the cat up. Nini had made their way to the girl first, seeing the familiar face and letting out meows of excitement and rubbing against her leg. Take climbed up and looked and had a pause. It wasn't Tinarah... but, "Wait... Aria?" he didn't know the girl very well, he only knew her through introductions as he walked forward, "I thought you were... well... dead. Not meaning anything by it, I'm glad to see you're alright. I just... I was expecting Torrin to have found Tinarah." Nini kept meowing at Aria.
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Melus tilted her head at Koa's response and said, "I'm not disappointed... why would I be disappointed in you being or not being gay? I was just asking out of curiosity. But hey, pre-congratulations to the wedding. You must be real dedicated to your girl and I respect that 100%." Melus strummed a couple more times and paced away from him a bit before turning around and saying, "So, you doing this so you can eventually head on back home to your bride to be? A noble cause. I don't think I've said this before but I'm here because my world is gone." she strummed a little more before saying, "Aaaand my heart is gone." she strummed a little more and paused before saying, "I haven't addressed that before either. Probably more important than liking girls. I am a nobody. Benefits to it, I don't have to worry about emotions, clarity in mind is fantastic. Bad news. Don't have emotions, faux enjoyment. It's all an act. An act I am horribly used to." she turned to look at Luther and pointed straight at him, "It's good news for you, meatbag, because quite honestly, I'm gonna still manage to have PTSD after this despite not having emotions, but I won't hold it against you... too much..."
