Uhhhh super tentative voice test go! Oh god.

[littlehero]

[Smash Academy is no place for a six year old boy. Then again, it's a hell of a lot less damaging than the world he came from. So here he is, looking incredibly lost and confused. He kind of looks familiar, doesn't he? Not that he's been here before, but maybe he resembles someone who is presently here. Or maybe he doesn't. It is a mystery.]

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[littlehero]

[Well, she's stopped rambling like a madwoman. That's a good sign... right? Seere hesitantly holds a hand out, but stops just short of actually touching her.]

I... really missed you, Manah.

[speaknotthewatchers]

[ She pauses. This is an unexpected action from him. He was the favorite, not her. And after she'd yelled at him and babbled at him? After everything she'd done? He missed her? She's incredibly shocked. ]

You... do?

[littlehero]

Yes! I searched for you, but when I found you... [You were even worse than now. But how can he say that?]

If you can't forgive me for what I did, I... I understand. Just don't do that again.

[speaknotthewatchers]

[ yes, that. But that was a long time ago. So much has happened since then. And once again, she was being destructive again, though she was convinced it was for good of the people. ]

Seere I... I was the bad girl. But I'm not like that anymore.

[ no, Manah was trying to be a good girl. And even going against Seere again years and years later, he doesn't seem like the Hierarch at all. Why is he being so kind? ]

Seere.... It's not your fault. It's mine.

[littlehero]

But I don't blame you at all. What happened, it wasn't... you, right? Not my sister I know.

[He finally gains the courage to take her hand, looking up at her with a tiny smile.]

Even if you've grown up a lot more than the sister I know, too.

[speaknotthewatchers]

It wasn't me. It---

[ she stops mid-sentence when he takes her hand. And the following sentence confirmed what she had thought. He's a younger Seere, before he became that Hierarch. Maybe she could prevent him from becoming the Hierarch---

No, that isn't important right now. It's that he's holding her hand. ]

It's been 18 years.

[littlehero]

[MIND

BLOWN

Eighteen years might as well be forever to someone who's only been alive for a third of that time.]

You've been here that long!? How much happened in that time?

[speaknotthewatchers]

I have been here only a short while. At home...

[ 18 years is a long time, a good deal of her own life. So much has happened but should she truly detail the events of how they turned against each other again? No, perhaps that was too much. She didn't want to think of it now, especially not since he wanted to see her. He missed her. She wouldn't give that up. ]

Much has happened. The world changed so drastically yet still there was so much pain and destruction.

[littlehero]

[How could their world still be in such a state even after everything that happened? He... didn't end up saving anyone at all in the end, did he? What a depressing thought. Seere stares at his feet for a moment.]

...I'm sorry. But this place is peaceful, isn't it?

[speaknotthewatchers]

It is. It's quite pleasant here. Many of the people here are nice.

[littlehero]

[That's enough to get his spirits up again.]

That's good. Because...

[Pause for dramatic effect!]

I am going to be learning here, too!

[speaknotthewatchers]

Ah, wonderful. [ that is good right? No chance he'd become that menacing hierarch now. And they could...... be happy, right? Is it bad to think so? To want to be happy and peaceful? That is what she was fighting for, breaking the seals. Peace and happiness. And now it seems just within reach. Perhaps she could finally be happy. ]

[littlehero]

[He fidgets a bit, shifting his weight from foot to foot. One thing about Manah being so much older and different is he can't read her as well as he might have been able to once upon a time.]

That is okay, right? I don't know where else I'd go, here.

[speaknotthewatchers]

[ she pauses for a moment. Is it okay? What is okay anymore anyway? ]

Yes. It's better here.

[littlehero]

Then I can't wait to start.

[speaknotthewatchers]

[ a pause. yes, they could be happy. ]

I will be here if you need me.

[littlehero]

You'll be seeing me a lot, then.

[He's really hesitant to leave her side, though - what if something separates them again? What if she's just an illusion? But... He's also brimming with curiosity to explore the school and see who he can meet. She said she'd be here, though. She wouldn't leave after saying that, right?

He takes a few steps back, bowing a bit.]

I'm going to look around this place some more. But I'll see you again very soon!

[speaknotthewatchers]

I would like that.

[ In a way, she felt the same way too. Was he just a hallucination? Would she awake, finding that she'd been talking to a lampshade?

No, lampshades didn't hold hands.

But that odd difference in time. It leaves a bit of a pit in her stomach, but there's that chance of happiness that comes along with it. Maybe. ]