the captain couldn't help but feel herself resting in the same shoes as the daintha. she was just like her once, seventeen and shaking like a leaf --- it makes approaching her bright and simple, a smile across ruefa's warm visage, able to freely speak. " i found something ... something i think you'd like . " a large book emerges from behind the draph's cloak ; she only wiggles it around, quietly excited. " a book on some local l -- legends ... chance me a read together ? "
diantha couldn’t help but keep staring over the vast skies. even as her island faded from view, even as lyria and vryn showed her around the ship, even as she had her first unique dinner with many more to come in her future — this sky was her future and she couldn’t pry her eyes from it whenever she was able to see it. it fascinated her to no end, and the sunset she now stared at took her breath away. what an expanse of vibrant colors that stretched around her compared to the soft glow peaking over tree and building tops. she already shed a few tears in the quiet of her new room, but this beauty snatched one more from her eyes…
…and it cemented her decision once again. her decision to see this vast world with the blessing of xolotl; to take on new experiences and encounter anything and everything she couldn’t before as an anxious little maiden…though now she was an anxious girl instead. a whole new life at her fingertips didn’t just make those feeling evaporate. instead it now clung to not that she had to make no mistakes as a maiden, but now to she had to carry her weight and then some in this crew. she wouldn’t sit back idle during a journey across the skydom; she couldn’t; her mind would never rest until she felt she was really worthy of the captain’s invitation. she had her personal wishes, but she had to fulfill the ones the crew would put on her too, so she had to do her best to earn this vast and breathtaking sky — !
watery eyes made the sunset meld together, and the sound of footsteps made her unconsciously blink all of it away, immediately facing ruefa as she approached her. “ d-danchou! oh, you surprised me! ” feigning happiness in her shocked tone, the hand she placed on her chest as she sighed stayed there to calm her fast paced heart. and it does calm a bit thanks to ruefa’s quite warm aura, though cheeks turn bright pink once she started speaking, and the book making her heart skip a beat. eyes sparkle but without tears, breath taken once more, “ oh it looks beautiful… ” let out in an awe whisper, though her own enthusiasm made her blush more with a sheepish smile. the captain going out of her way to find this…it doesn’t calm her internal struggles, but it does make her at least feel…welcomed. a gift for her new home. “ o-oh, of course! wh-where do you want to read: out here, in the kitchen, or is there some special room? ”