Argenti's Palace

[beautifulknight]

The stage is set they say;
They don their masks and shields,
Shadows creep and cover their minds;
Now, what beautiful role shall they play?

𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷 𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓵𝓮


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[bloodandstars]

[ Those words had hit their mark before; even like this, Maika believed they would do so again. She lifts her chin a little as she glares up at the Shadow. ]

If you're not a coward, then prove it. You still think you can't afford to make mistakes? Tough. As long as you're alive, you're going to keep making them.

[ Like Sayaka said. Like Tuya had said, back then. Maika feels her throat tighten and burn at the reminder: what it felt like to be hopeless, to be given hope again, to have it crushed by the same hand that reached out to her. Her voice is hoarse with more than just anger as she keeps on. ]

Learning from those mistakes is hard. Remembering is hard. If you want to drown in your guilt and shame, that's a lot fucking easier. ...But I don't think you do. I think you wouldn't have made this such a fight if you did.

[ A true coward can always run faster and further, to places where they'd never be found. That Argenti is here is proof enough to her that he hasn't given up. Even if part of him might believe he had. ]

"When there is no way... you follow the way in front of you." Someone told that to me once, when I was lost. What's in front of you, Argenti?

[ She thinks his answer is the same as hers was back then. And if he's not able to reach it himself... she'll just have to give him the push that Areka had to her. ]