Catch-all; Lucretia

[momming]

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[momming]

... I've missed being here with you. I didn't really get a chance to talk to you properly, before everything happened.

[ But you really are one of my dearest friends. That's never changed. ]

[ambiography]

I think we all had quite a bit going on, but-- we have more time, now.

[It was easier, with you here.]

[momming]

[ She smiles, warmly. ]

Enough time for me to see this painting of yours?

[ambiography]

Of course.

[she smiles, there-- i'm going to just assume she fetched it from the memorial, when everyone returned.]

Come back to my room with me, I'll show you.

[momming]

Yes!

[ With a little fistpump.

LEAD THE WAY, LUCY. ]

[ambiography]

[oh the fistpump is CUTE. she smiles, at that, leading otome back to spring dorm and to her room.

it's important to know that lucretia has a jar on her desk that contains, uh, a wood arm. wood as in made of vines, not like a mannequin arm. it's smaller than human sized.

BUT she also has the painting! she fetches it from where she left it; just like otome said, it's a painting of a beautiful blue sky.]

[momming]

[ She... looks at the arm.

She still has that?

But then she sees the painting and lets out a soft squeal of joy. ]

Lucy, it's beautiful! I can really have it??

[ambiography]

Of course you can-- I told you I'd paint it for you, Otome.

[she looks so pleased with that reaction, but after a moment, she asks-]

Why did you pick this, by the way?

[momming]

Hm? You mean, the sky?

[ambiography]

Yes. Is it important to you?

[momming]

... Where I'm from, currently, there's a growing void consuming everything. I've been trying to help with that, and to defeat the thing threatening humanity, but it's been a while since I've been able to just look up and enjoy the sky.

I wanted a picture of that, so I could remember just another part of what I'm fighting for.

[ambiography]

...ah. That-- sounds a bit like the situation I left too, actually.

[otome gets a sympathetic look, there.]

We'll get you back there.

[momming]

We need to stop having so much in common.

... But thank you. I'd like to get everyone back to where they need - or want - to be. I think after everything I've done, that's the very least I can do now.

[ambiography]

We owe it to you too, Otome, don't forget that. All of us might have agreed to the job, but-- someone was going to have to.

[momming]

I know. I just wish, selfishly...

[ She thinks back to the very beginning, with her and Rupert. The look on his face when they'd reluctantly agreed to do this in the first place. ]

I wish I could have been the person so many people thought I was, the whole time.

[ambiography]

...Otome, what you've done doesn't mean that you weren't still that person.

[she says that quietly, gently.]

Or that you aren't now.

[momming]

... You really seem to have an extraordinary amount of faith in me, Lucy.

[ with a fairly frail smile. ]

[ambiography]

Well, I think you've earned that.

[regardless of anyone else's opinions.]

[momming]

... I'm so glad I was able to meet you. And even gladder I was able to become your friend.

[ambiography]

So am I, Otome. Without you here-- it would have been pretty different.

[momming]

Then I'm definitely glad we had each other, to get as far as we did.

[ambiography]

And however this ends-- we're both going to be here for it.

[momming]

[ She nods. ]

... Let's do what we can. To get everyone to where they deserve to be.