[Day 11 - Mid Evening] RP Thread: Toast to the Departed

[Yasuki Ayame]

Ayame crossed her arms and turned a bit serious as she gave a few nods. "Yes, I did get the message about that earlier...Sooo, I guess you're just going to leave tomorrow, as you said?"

Her question lingered a little, as she still hadn't quite made up her mind about what to say. It wasn't quite to right time to confront her about this, in public and after a few cups of alcohol. Still, if she didn't quite want to let this go with a mere 'chance' bump. Ayame let out a sigh and just spoke up to get her thoughts out. "Just seemed abrupt, that's all. I get why, yeah. Surprised, in many ways. You know?"

[Bayushi Senshuken]

Ayame crossed her arms and turned a bit serious as she gave a few nods. "Yes, I did get the message about that earlier...Sooo, I guess you're just going to leave tomorrow, as you said?"

Her question lingered a little, as she still hadn't quite made up her mind about what to say. It wasn't quite to right time to confront her about this, in public and after a few cups of alcohol. Still, if she didn't quite want to let this go with a mere 'chance' bump. Ayame let out a sigh and just spoke up to get her thoughts out. "Just seemed abrupt, that's all. I get why, yeah. Surprised, in many ways. You know?"

"No, I don't know." Senshu replies immediately. A million statements and another million questions come to her mind. Why wouldn't she leave. For Ayame she's the diplomat that caused a serious incident. The type of an incident that strains clan relations and ends careers. Leaving unharmed was the best she could hope for. If you don't count, the hopes that she can't even admit to herself. "Surprised how?" She asks after a moment.

[Yasuki Ayame]

"No, I don't know." Senshu replies immediately. A million statements and another million questions come to her mind. Why wouldn't she leave. For Ayame she's the diplomat that caused a serious incident. The type of an incident that strains clan relations and ends careers. Leaving unharmed was the best she could hope for. If you don't count, the hopes that she can't even admit to herself. "Surprised how?" She asks after a moment.

Ayame frowned at Senshuken's answer, at first, the displeasure wasn't directed at her specifically but rather the realization of how vague she was with her wording. It was perhaps for the best, considering that bringing such issues would be terrible for the celebratory occasion.

"Just everything turning out like this, I guess," she said after some contemplation, doing her best to be vague. "Blindsided in some ways, taken advantage in others. Some losses. I was just hoping things would be a little more chill, that's all. I know, it was probably too hopeful of me."

[Bayushi Senshuken]

Ayame frowned at Senshuken's answer, at first, the displeasure wasn't directed at her specifically but rather the realization of how vague she was with her wording. It was perhaps for the best, considering that bringing such issues would be terrible for the celebratory occasion.

"Just everything turning out like this, I guess," she said after some contemplation, doing her best to be vague. "Blindsided in some ways, taken advantage in others. Some losses. I was just hoping things would be a little more chill, that's all. I know, it was probably too hopeful of me."

Senshuken has so many things to say about this admission, varying from a simple I-told-you-so rubbed to Ayame's face and offering important pieces of advice on how to organize her government according to how she has seen her own mother doing it to a full scale confession of... attraction. Still it is not the time or her place to do so.

"The diplomat inside me," she speaks at the end, "wants to offer words of sympathy. The Scorpion advice that is never free of charge. I want to..." She chuckles softly. "Yesterday I exchanged a few emails with my mother. She said that everyone knows that deception is perhaps the Scorpion's best tool in dealing with others. What we only know, though, is that it is also our best tool in dealing with ourselves." She pauses to let that sink in." It is the road I have to walk once I leave this island, I have no other sane choice. But I haven't left yet." She looks at her straight into the eyes.

" Would you indulge me with a walk?"

[Yasuki Honoka]

Honoka watches Ayame go, a little too slow to keep up with her movements. Wondering, perhaps, if this was maybe another little sign the world was giving her. Finding that stick in Crabbo's hand she pulls it out and grasps it firmly, but gently. As the party melted around here into a blob of sound and lights she find herself alone. Alone with a hope, and a dream, for something magical.

Hiroto would clear his throat, standing beside her and bringing her back to the world of the living and real.

"Shall we get you home then, Honoka-sama? Look like you could use some rest," he would suggest.

"Oh.. that would be a brilliant idea Hiroto-san. I could certainly use a nap, and some recuperation before tonight. Thank you," she would say, and smile to him.

Then this pair of Yasuki would depart from the festival, and Honoka would return to her penthouse up in the clouds with a renewed sense of all that was around her.

/exit

[Yasuki Ayame]

Senshuken has so many things to say about this admission, varying from a simple I-told-you-so rubbed to Ayame's face and offering important pieces of advice on how to organize her government according to how she has seen her own mother doing it to a full scale confession of... attraction. Still it is not the time or her place to do so.

"The diplomat inside me," she speaks at the end, "wants to offer words of sympathy. The Scorpion advice that is never free of charge. I want to..." She chuckles softly. "Yesterday I exchanged a few emails with my mother. She said that everyone knows that deception is perhaps the Scorpion's best tool in dealing with others. What we only know, though, is that it is also our best tool in dealing with ourselves." She pauses to let that sink in." It is the road I have to walk once I leave this island, I have no other sane choice. But I haven't left yet." She looks at her straight into the eyes.

" Would you indulge me with a walk?"

Ayame would look back at her, seemingly maintaining a neutral expression. She unfortunately didn't have much in the way of Scorpion-wisdom-speak to return anything in kind. In many ways, she more or less made up her mind, but coming to terms with it was a whole other battle entirely.

"Sure," she would say easily enough, whether it would be for a little privacy or just to clear their heads a little more. Just facing each other already had a tension to it.

[Bayushi Senshuken]

Ayame would look back at her, seemingly maintaining a neutral expression. She unfortunately didn't have much in the way of Scorpion-wisdom-speak to return anything in kind. In many ways, she more or less made up her mind, but coming to terms with it was a whole other battle entirely.

"Sure," she would say easily enough, whether it would be for a little privacy or just to clear their heads a little more. Just facing each other already had a tension to it.

The neutral expression, the one word answer. Everything is recognized for what they are. Indifference. Senshu feels a drop of sweat running down her spine.

She gestures for Ayame to lead and follows her. She walks slowly mostly because this silence offers her solace. Solace from the conversation that she's been wishing for since this morning. A soft chuckle escapes her as she realizes the hilarity of the whole situation. It is the very first time in her life that she's absolutely, utterly and devastatingly speechless.

"You broke me. Or the situation did." She says in the end and laughs. "Kami, someone broke me! I was driving a Bayushi Lightning, at least 200hp, and now I'm at a Shiba Ecomotor that barely reaches 50 km/h. And to make matters worse, I like it. I get to see the view out of the window for the first time." She looks at her. "Feel free to dismiss me, Ayame sama. I know that I blew my chances and if this ever was meant to be my last one in one million shots, I would blow it again because I don't even know what to say to you."