A wry smile crept onto Ness’s face at the last of Paula’s spoken words, shaking his head in a way that suggested almost a sort of humor about the situation - though it was far from comedic. “No. No, we didn’t.” Finally releasing the tension in his shoulders, he leaned back until he almost was laying against his back, only just barely keeping himself upright with his elbows as he stared at the sky above. Paula’s hand kept him from lying all the way back - but he didn’t mind. Her physical presence was comforting, grounding him and keeping him from straying into his darkest thoughts.
“Who decided this was okay, anyway?” A note of bitterness crept into his voice, scowling. “A band of teenagers, saving the world. It sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? I can barely even remember to do my own laundry, yet I guess God, or the universe or…or whatever set that prophecy in motion decided we were the perfect candidates. Honestly! Were any of us prepared?”
Rant building up steam, Ness lit a few sparks of PSI on his free hand to release frustration, again and again, extinguishing the pale green light just to illuminate it once more. He continuously had more PSI than he could use - if he didn’t release it often enough, and his emotions flared, things tended to explode. Not exactly ideal when he was trying to have a conversation… “I guess Poo was prepared. Better than the rest of us, anyway. At least he had some kind of training. So that makes it a grand total of one person who was ready for this whole thing.
“…But I guess it didn’t really matter in the end, huh? It was the belief everyone had in us that saved our butts.” This was said much softer than Ness ever usually spoke. “Your prayers, everyone that believed in us… it didn’t matter that we were just kids. All our skills with PSI, all our weapons, nothing mattered except for their belief. Isn’t that kinda crazy, when you think about it?”
The sparks lit the corners of her eyes, but she paid no mind to it. He needed this. It was hard to keep one’s PSI under wraps when emotions were at their all time high. She understood this despite her own control over her PSI and external emotions.
' The universe is a mystery that we shall never unravel. We may question to our hearts content, but it will never give us the answers we so desperately desire. ’
She removed her hand from Ness’s back, allowing him to sit back fully. He had the right idea, anyway. Adjusting her dress skirt, she laid back next to him and joined his gaze upon the evening sky, faint stars beginning to show their light. How had so much time passed already?
It was such a nice night. What a tragedy they couldn’t sit peacefully and marvel at its beauty. Instead they were left to revel in the trauma their destiny had bestowed upon them.
What a nice parting gift for their troubles.
‘ We were never meant to be prepared for what was to come. We were just... we were just another pawn in the grand scheme of the universe’s great plan, ’ she trailed off, eyes casting off to the side. ‘ A key item to complete the quest. ’
It was awful to put it in that light, but that was all they were. Fate had decided young children should deal with this world threatening problem and she and the others were expected to go along with that or their fate of the alternative future would soon become their own. Four young children were sacrificed for the sake of the world.
She reached out and took his hand once again. She needed it just as much as her friend if not more. What had happened petrified her. Watching her friends fall to Giygas one after the other, unable to comprehend what was truly going on around her. She was only a child. That was all they were.
They had died that day.
And yet they lived to see another day. Treated as heroes for a day, their trauma nothing more than an burden they never dared to speak to others about.
Who else could understand what they had been through beyond each other?
‘ We were lucky to be cared for so deeply. Lucky to be alive. ’
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