vatheon | Someone Give The Girl a Hug [or a Fight] Already

Who: Selphie and Anyone Else
When: Afternoon
Where: Park!
Style: Whatever you want you get.
Status: Open Sesame Street

Selphie was counting down the number of close friends that she had left. Think of all your friends, think of the people here who want to help you, that's the kind of things that people said to those who had a friend return home. That's almost what Guy had said to her when Kenshin left. Sure. And one of those few friends who had tried to help was back home. Disappeared. Gone - and Cain had been so helpful to her, and so friendly too. He was the first person in a very long time to open their doors to her, to treat her like a wanted guest.

This time, Selphie's energy is channelled into sheer anger, at the lovely park, of all places. If Vatheon was a person, Selphie would have slaughtered them. As it was, she has drawn a shaky outline of a human figure on a tree in the park, and has started directing heavy blows at it with her nunchaku. The young woman is getting so worked up that the occasional burst of fire appears - enough to burn the bark for just a moment. Here's hoping she doesn't start a forest fire.

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Aya had to pass by the park for some groceries he was running out of. Seeing a small plume of smoke form not too far away made him concerned, so Aya went over to see what was causing it. It was more like a wisp of smoke, but...they were under the ocean. What in the world is happening.

What he found was Selphie hard at work with her nunchaku. It was pretty impressive to watch, but there was quite some fury behind her blows. He knew that sign all too well.

He walked over, but kept at a distance. If he didn't get noticed by her after a few more moments, he would make himself known. For know, he'll watch. Selphie had said she was a soldier, too, so this was a good way to see her skills without being too invasive about it.

At this point, Selphie was so involved with what she was doing that she really wasn't paying attention to her surroundings. Possibly a bad thing, but hey, it was Vatheon, and she doubted she'd be under attack any time soon.

However, she was so completely in full swing that she neglected to stop herself from wasting her energy on her magic, and...oops. There goes a fire spell. The tree caught light immediately, and that had Selphie back to reality in an instant. It took her a moment or two of fumbling with her weapon before she was able to manage a small blizzard spell to get rid of the flames.

Whoa! Okay, that was pretty scary and amazing, particularly the freezing of the flames. He didn't understand what was going on. Did she know some sort of magic?

"Remind me not to get on your bad side."

Already on edge from the near forest fire, Selphie was startled like crazy when she heard someone speak. She visibly jumped, dropping her nunchaku, which she quickly bent to recover.

"Oh! Aya! Heh..."

"I didn't mean to startle you. Are you alright?" It seemed like the pertinent question to ask, as he came by to see what the smoke was about.

Selphie looked at Aya for a long moment, before turning to look back at the tree again, "Mmhmm. I'm fine. Just...hanging out...at the park." And destroying beautiful nature in the process, apparently. But that was obvious so she didn't feel the need to mention that bit.

"And the fire part?" If Selphie thought he would give up that easily...

"The fire is... for keeping warm." Still looking at the tree, she gives an obviously fake shiver. "Brr!"

Now, he had seen many attempts at acting like nothing is wrong. This was just a sadly humorous way of doing so. Aya walked over to her, standing about an arm's length away.

"Is there anything you want to talk about?" Aya decided to take the forward approach to finding out the problem here.

At his question, Selphie lowered her head, her shoulders slumped, and her arms fell limp at her sides, her nunchaku falling to the ground at her feet. When she spoke, her voice was considerably softer, "Everyone is leaving me, Aya. I'm getting so tired of it..."

Ah, so that was the problem. Aya ran a hand through his hair, not particularly liking how sad Selphie looked.

"I can't say that it's the nicest feeling in the world, but it's something we have to get used to."

Selphie took a deep breath and sighed heavily, her shoulders lowering more if that was even possible. The toe of her boot kicked at the chain of her nunchaku on the ground. "I know. It's just stupid. And...it's hard."

"I wouldn't disagree with that, but the only good thing that comes out of this is knowing that your friends would be returning to their home."

And not around anymore because they're dead.

Aya placed a hand onto her shoulder gently. "You don't have to deal with it by yourself, though."

He did have a point. And for some reason, that wasn't one of the things that people had said to try and comfort her. But it worked. A little. But when his hand touched her shoulder, Selphie turned to him immediately, her arms swiftly wrapping around him tightly.

Aya was surprised by the sudden hug, but he didn't mind it. He comforted Selphie with a hand lightly rubbing at her back. After a few quiet moments, Aya spoke up again.

"Did you still want to have some alone time?" he asked with a gentler voice than before.

Encouraged that he hadn't reacted badly, Selphie relaxed against him, staying close as she shook her head. "...Not really..."

"You're more than welcome to come over to my place." Aya lived by himself, but had good neighbors.

Selphie rested her forehead against his chest for a moment, blinking back those tears that were threatening. She then lifted her face to him, looking both grateful and relieved. "That would be nice." And she'd only stay for a little while, if she was bothering him.

He gave her shoulders a squeeze before pulling away, only to offer her an arm for her. "There's not much to do, but luckily I have some groceries at least."

Selphie moved quickly to recover her nunchaku, resting it round her neck like a scarf before taking up his arm and managing a smile, "I'm sure it'll be much better than setting tries on fire!"

It was hard to miss the sounds of the poor tree being whacked to death. The scent of singed wood was even harder to ignore. Especially if one had a nose like he did. Bugs was watching Selphie from a rabbit hole he'd just dug up, chewing thoughtfully on a carrot and wincing every time a bit of fire came out.

Obviously the dame was mad.

Throwing caution to the side, as usual, Bugs climbed out of the ground and walked casually towards her.

"Didn't tink ya could hit like dat, doll."

"I'm sure you'll be thanked for not continuing." Aya replied with a smirk, leading her towards his place in Coral Corral. ~~Or is it Corral Coral...~~ "You're pretty good with your weapon. Not many people take up the nunchaku."

Selphie smiled at that, glancing back in the direction that they'd come, glad that she hadn't caused too much damage. "Thanks!" She did seem to really appreciate the compliment, "Yeah, I dunno why. I think it's the best weapon!"

Aya rose an eyebrow at what Selphie said. "That's a bold statement to make. Why do you think so?"

"Well... It manages both close combat, and from a distance. I can pick and choose how close I wanna be. Course, it's better from further away but... yeah. So, better than a gun cause it doesn't run outta ammo, then better than a sword cause you don't haveta be so close." Clearly, she's thought about this a lot. But it was a common source of conversation amongst herself and her soldier, mercenary friends.

"Why, what do you think?" Selphie raised a brow back at him, wondering how much contact with weapons a flower shop owner would have.

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