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EARLY OCTOBER-PRE ARRIVALS

[soft_focus]

[Aha. Finally, after a fair amount of time, Reira manages to spot Sora before Sora spots her. The problem with her timestop is it encompasses anyone under Elias' alliance. Stopping time doesn't give her the edge she needs.

Reira blinks one eye at a time, determined not to let the other have a chance to flash-step away.]

Found you..!

[GOD!

She balls her fists, swallowing.] ...Why're you avoiding me..?

[chocolaterazor]

Avoiding you?

[Sora, don't play that dumb.]

You do know I don't always sit around in one place, right?

[soft_focus]

I'm not 7, Sora.

[Oooooh...]

And you always leave right when I come in now! It's not even something you're keeping secret now! Just tell me why!

Why can't you just tell me things?

[chocolaterazor]

[A pause and then-] What makes you think I'm supposed to tell you anything? Because you always want to know everything?

[soft_focus]

[Well now she's real ticked.]

BECAUSE WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING IS TO ME RIGHT NOW!

[The girl bristles, eyes watering as she shouts.] BECAUSE I'M THE ONE YOU'RE AVOIDING, AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY! DIO EVEN TOLD ME, AND HE'S SOMEONE WHO HATES TALKING TO PEOPLE!

...it feels like you hate me... [she finally says quietly, shaking on the spot.] ...and I don't even know why...

[chocolaterazor]

You really don't know.

[Sora's tone about it is flat, initially. He even frowns at the goblin.]

[soft_focus]

[Reira, for her part, holds the expression. If anything it grows more distressed. Confused.

And Reira. Doesn't. Lie.]

NO!

[chocolaterazor]

[For a tense second, Sora doesn't say anything further and doesn't seem quite sure of what he expected.]

I don't think I'm the only one still tense about how last month was.

[Not that this kid has ever had a polished silver tongue, but someone is certainly straining at the paradox of lying yet not lying at the same.]

But if that's how you feel, then it seems like I shouldn't have worried about anything between us.

[soft_focus]

[Reira bows her head- still shaking. She herself isn't straining at all- at the end of the day, she doesn't know. How could she? She's not Sora. Even with the cold logic from prior, her answer would be the same.

Wondering, coolly, what his deal was.]

That's not an answer, [she hisses, a few spikes threatening to erupt.] You can't just do this, and then never say why..!

[chocolaterazor]

Man, you're determined on this, aren't you?

[Sora frowning all the while, wonders to himself why this couldn't be as zero effort as it was to make their mutual Standard friends drop a subject- not that one of them is the sharpest knife in the drawer.]

I would've thought you had something else to say to me after the last time we talked. I'd be lying if I said I was eager to find out sooner rather than later, you know?

[soft_focus]

Last time we talked you were just talking about doing a bunch of stuff for Elias, as if you actually cared about him though, [she huffed, scowling.] We already know people were acting weird back then...just because I don't like you taking a key, doesn't mean I'm going to make you do anything about it...

[Which is to say, no, she did not have anything to say.]

[chocolaterazor]

[Sora needs a minute or two to compute those words, which really doesn't move the expression on his face to anything less than a lack of amusement.]

I know I was out of it thanks to that gas like a lot of other people, but I'm pretty sure I never said anything like that word for word.

[soft_focus]

It doesn't matter if it's word for word..! The point was I didn't have anything to say! You just started ignoring me!

[chocolaterazor]

... Sometimes I really don't get you.

[What a thing for Sora to say when Reira is more than likely thinking the same. And yet, the Nephilim hovers up to pat her on the head.]

But sorry for avoiding you, then.

[soft_focus]

Mnnghhhmm...

[Grumbling....] MMNGHH-

[GRUMBLING MORE WITH THE PAT- but, it does disappear as she straightens up her hair again.] ...'s okay now I guess...

Just don't do it again..! I do plenty of stuff in the house, it's not hard to join in!!