[voice] un: lionheart

[silentnarration]

I'm looking for someone who's familiar with magic involving mind control. I know someone who needs help. He's free from her control now but something must have been left behind. He still gets sick and disoriented in the morning.

Let me know if you can help. He may not think there's a cure but I do.

[Sorry Seifer. He knows this is going to piss him off but this is important. Never mind that he's put it off for a little too long himself.]

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[etherealsage]

[ABORT ABORT. THAT WAS THE WRONG THING TO SAY.
RINOA IS INCHES AWAY FROM BLOWING UP. MOUNT. SAINT. RINOA. RIGHT HERE.]

Excuse me?
You've got to be kidding me.
I don't even know where to begin. You should have known that this was the wrong way to go about this!

[silentnarration]

[The thing about Squall... He can be really stubborn when he's decided on something.

He is questioning his decision now but it's out there. He might as well keep going with it. Somehow it doesn't occur to him that showing remorse and explaining himself properly is an option.]

It's the fastest way. And it's too late to turn back.

[etherealsage]

You better make it up to him. If you don't, don't bother coming around me until you do. I'm not doing this again.

[History begs repetition. Already Rinoa is tense from having to have picked sides in the past between the two. In recognition of her ambivalence, she has to be better than she was.]

[silentnarration]

[What...]

I'm trying to help.

[Of course he'll make it up to him but it's not going to happen immediately. He has to avoid her the whole time?]

[etherealsage]

Hmph.

[And that's all he's getting. YOU BETTER FIX THIS.]

[silentnarration]

[WHAT]