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[fallenambitions]

[So, Bellemere was sent home. He didn't need anyone to tell him that though. He found out when he discovered a photo that wasn't originally on his desk. There was a message behind it and that basically told him that she had gone.

"You need to keep living or else!"

Alexei continued reading her message...how much she believed that he could still turn things around and find happiness here. Although it was through the Malnosso's influence that brought them together last month, he was able to learn more about her, properly, not what the Malnosso had implanted in his head during the last spring. And if he were to be honest...that week was the happiest he has ever felt in a very long time. Even after, they continued to spend some time together, though without the romantic flare and as friends. It was...the strangest experience. He never exactly had the time to make friends after all, nor cared to have them. It was a welcoming change.

...But now she was gone, reminding him of the instability people often forget about Luceti. Loss was something he was already familiar with. He was sure he had grown numb of that feeling by this point, but Bellemere's leave proved him wrong. He knew what was waiting for her back home as well. He held the photo against his forehead, closed his eyes for a moment and muttered quietly under his breath.

"Thank you, for everything"]


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[Sometime during the morning, Alexei can be seen around the plaza area. He's just there to visit one shop in particular and that was the flower shop.

Once his business was finished at the store, he'll be making his way over to the mikan orchard and spending the rest of his afternoon there. He had a small bouquet of flowers with him, planning to leave it at the very center of the orchard. There, if he wasn't wandering around looking over the the blossoming trees, he can be found meditating underneath the tree he placed his flowers. Although Bellemere was gone, Alexei would continue to look after this place. He always had before, but now there was more of a purpose behind it.

By the evening, Alexei will have returned to the village and settled inside Good Spirits. Vaguely he recalls that night when he lost a bet with Bellemere as he ordered himself a drink. Heh. Why did he agree to that challenge again...?]

Comments

[crisisrain]

[He smirks.]

Nothin' ta stop you from taking my notes and cross-checkin' them yerself. When have I ever given ya false information?

[fallenambitions]

That was before your betrayal. I don't expect anything from you is the complete truth now.

[...]

Although I suppose you can throw that argument back at me. What is it that you're curious about? Why I'm here?

[crisisrain]

I wouldn't call it betrayal as such, as far as you were concerned, I died at Baction, just as planned.

[He pours himself a glass of whiskey.]

All right, let's here why yer here then.

[fallenambitions]

Hmph. [He glances down at his glass.]

You were partially right on your guess before, but as I said, it's not because of Mr. Lowell's departure that I'm here.

[crisisrain]

That was a joke, I wasn't bein' serious about you missin' Yuri. Ah, nevermind, who got sent home then?

[fallenambitions]

[Taking a drink...wait for it.] A woman who was as tenacious as I was, but with a good heart.

[crisisrain]

Didn't you a have a thing with a woman here before? Geez, yer worse than I am.

[fallenambitions]

I- [...Wait a minute] I don't recall mentioning anything about her to anyone. It was a forced occasion, but she soon left as well.

[crisisrain]

I like to eavesdrop on people over the journals, yerself included. [Basically, he's calling you a casanova for talking to any woman here. Not that you need to know that.]

Ah, wouldn't happen ta have been that experiment back in February, would it?

FOREVER EDITING

[fallenambitions]

[Pff, of course]

I'd known of her beforehand, but the experiment decided to bring us together. [...And it stayed like that even after.]

MY INBOX

[crisisrain]

Was she by any chance engaged or married ta someone else who happens ta be here in Luceti?

[A strange question for Raven to suddenly ask to say the least.]

DWI

[fallenambitions]

[Apparently it puzzled Alexei] ...No, I don't believe she was. Why are you asking that in particular...?

NEVER

[crisisrain]

Oh, no reason. [Damn, he was hoping you got out of it worse than he did. Oh well.]

So she was sent home recently and it's got ya down? That's why yer in here wastin' your liver on alcohol like the rest of us then?

[fallenambitions]

That's most of it, yes. [He's thinking about his own fate, and that's not something he really wants to get into.] A little alchohol is nothing when you're already in deep water.

[crisisrain]

Don't start complain' about the fact yer already dead, you're far from the only one. [Keeping to the original subject.]

Not the first time someone you liked has been sent back though, is it?

[fallenambitions]

[Who cares about other people's deaths? ...Ok, it was more like who cares about anyone else's besides himself and Bellemere's?]

She is the first that mattered.

[crisisrain]

Aww, how cute! Our little commandant found true love in this dump!

[fallenambitions]

I found something worth my time here. [And he won't say anymore on that, choosing his drink instead]

[crisisrain]

I doubt ya even knew her for more than two months. Lemme guess, ya met in that valentines experiment, right?

[fallenambitions]

I've known her since she first arrived several months ago. [We can go even further and say last spring, when he was brainwashed to believe she WAS his wife]

It was by chance the experiment decided to put us together.

[crisisrain]

Sure, sure, if you insist. [He doesn't doubt you, there's just more satisfaction in irritating you by dismissing the coincidence.]

Ya never know with this place, she might come back.

[fallenambitions]

[:|] Perhaps, but I won't let that thought consume me. She may not remember anything after all.

[crisisrain]

What are ya talkin' about?! That's a good thing! If she doesn't remember anythin' then you can just use that to take a few little liberties, tell her you were a couple here, maybe lie and say you were married! Not like she's ever know the difference and if it worked before what's ta say it wouldn't work again?

[Logic, how does it work.]

[fallenambitions]

Lying to her would do no good, not when there are those from her world here. [And he...honestly rather not. If she doesn't remember, than she doesn't.]

I will not press her, if she doesn't recall.

[crisisrain]

That's your problem! Yer too stuck up! When's the last time you had some genuine fun that made ya really happy?