Beautiful like the Ocean, Dangerous like the Water

Loneliness

 Weeks go by, and you're here, all by yourself again.

It's been almost two month since you hadn't saw Freminet, and you hadn't made any progress with the water, Neuvillette is too busy with his work to help you.

You can understand that they both have their own duties, but neither of them told you anything about what they where doing and why they couldn't come.

No, you're lying to yourself, Neuvillette did, every time he sees you after a trial, but Freminet hadn't, so by consequences, you are all alone.

Celeste come to see you more often when you are sitting close to the water, since you couldn't do anything with your day, you also tried to talk to Maria again, she continued to teach you how to make embroidery, in the end you became good friends.

When you were lucky, you would see Aether and Paimon, still busy to explore the city, or simply enjoying their time, you became attached to them, what people say is true, they are kind people and you are happy to be their friend.

Finally, you talked to the Melusines, you were surprise that almost all of them knew your name even if you never talked to them, one thing is sure, if they don't know your name, they all know that you are Neuvillette's friend, and at some point, they ALL connect the two informations.

You think that Melusines are adorable, really cute and kind with everyone.

But again, even if you are friend with all of them, even just a little, they are all busy and can't be with you every times.

You understand that, but you can't help but being sad, you feel lonely.

One day, you went to a trial to watch it, but in the end, you didn't even heard if the defendant was guilty or not, you were lost in thought the entire trial. You know that Neuvillette is up there, but when you sat down, your eyes where stuck, looking at nothing except maybe the void.

You're sure that Lady Furina noticed you coming to every trials recently, you remember one thing about her, on a random day, you saw that she was sitting on her usual seats, she saw you and nodded at you to greet you in the Opera, you didn't knew what to do, you were frozen, she smiled at this, clearly amused.

After some times, you nodded back, now it became a routine, it's strange to nod at your Archon, really, but it can't be a bad thing, right ?

Anyway, today you didn't looked at her, not even at Neuvillette, Furina was... really surprise about this attitude, and a bit worried she won't lie, after the trial, you didn't even moved, because you didn't noticed that it ended, as if you'd come here on autopilot.

Before you could notice anything, Furina and Neuvillette were both in front of you, you just noticed that it's Furina who is closer because you saw her shoes.

"Hello, Aniès right ?"

"O-oh hum... yes, hello Lady Furina."

"You seem lost in deep thoughts, did you lost something ?"

You stand up and look at Neuvillette behind her, he doesn't hide his expression to you, he is worried.

"No I didn't, it's just..."

"Well ? Cat got your tongue again ?"

"Lady Furina, please don't be mean, is something the matter Aniès ? You know you can trust us."

You perfectly understand that by 'us' he means 'me', you don't personally know the Archon after all.

"I... guess... I just feel lonely these days..."

"Lonely ? You ? You seem like the social girl, maybe a bit shy but every time I see you, you're always smiling, talking to that blond boy, even with Neuvillette and the traveler and his flying friend."