*Hey, Kel.
*Long time no see, huh?
*...
*Listen.
*I have something to tell you.
*But not here. C'mon, lunch's on me.
[Later...]
*Well...
*I haven't been fully honest with you, so far.
*Remember, all that time ago...
*When i told you I kept guard of the Sunflower Fields?
*That was... to put it simply, a bit of a lie.
*My job there is just a cover-up for something bigger.
*In reality, I keep guard of whoever comes into Istoria, no matter where or when.
*Before you arrived... there were others.
*"We'll help!" they said.
*... I guess you can figure out what happened.
*Every time... they made things worse.
*Yet, most of the people here didn't see that...
*And pinned the blame on Sunny.
*That's why everyone seems so... iffy, when you say his name out loud.
*...
*I always see the worse in others.
*Call it pessimism...
*Call it paranoia...
*... It's kept me safe.
*But no one else listens.
*You'd think with how blatantly wrong those before you were...
*Someone'd notice?
*Not really.
*But that's where you come in.
*You...
*You actually care.
*At least from what i can gather.
*Lucky you, really.
*And believe me when i say this:
*If you hadn't been... so unique...
*I swear to god.
*You would've been dead the moment you stepped into Istoria.
*Luckily, that didn't come to be, huh?
*Well...
*I've got places to be.
*Just tell the guy running the place to put the food on my tab.
xrywcs
8/2/24 8:46
