Essentia Animus

70-Salvaging Futures

The three girls reunited together again were thus given the opportunity to recount the events that had occured while they had remained separated. Such a story-time event effectively extended back to the similar separation they had also experienced the day before, and some of the unmentioned events such had entailed.

"My brother was fine with it, I don't see why my sisters would be all over me about it." "That's easy, because we actually know Jwyexzn. Why him, since when?" "Since yesterday, like I said. Look, this whole thing was really unexpected for all of us, even him, but I would appreciate it if the two of you weren't so critical about my own choices. Vwyx, having thought about it, I'm actually instead surprised that there seems to be nothing going on between you and Dhyinze. If you're going to be critical of my choices, explain your own." "I.. uh.. uh... Okay, maybe I don't understand the idea myself, and I might have no idea what I should even do myself.. and I really have no idea how to answer that question. Fine, whatever, you do you, right? I'm sorry for dipping into something that isn't exactly my business, but I just wanted to make sure you were going to be happy with your decision." "I thank you for that, really. I know you both care, but it's just something still beyond all three of us. Vwyx hasn't exactly put much thought into her own love live either, and Riyxia..." "Wouldn't Riyxia be closest to Eqriuxzl, the two of them seem to get along very well." "Vwyx, you're not being sensible again. Eqriuxzl is an elf, Riyxia isn't.. she's not even really designed for such feelings, right? Eqriuxzl probably doesn't understand that either, he actually honestly might actually like her, but if you've been paying attention at all.. that whole idea is probably really painful for Riyxia. Having had to work so much with her composition, way more than myself, I had really expected more from you." Sryine had started getting flustered at Vwyx's suggestion, even again surprising Vwyx. Riyxia gave a grim shrug, denying nothing. Sure, her essence was capable of measuring feelings, but her body had nothing for chemically producing responses for such intimate affection. There simply was no way she could be interested in people like that at all, it wasn't even possible. Knowing that such destined her to a lifetime without romance really was sort of sad and painful in its own way, but there really was nothing that could be done about it.

"Okay, fine, new topic then. Exactly how much longer do you expect your sister to be occupied by your gift for her in the storage, and where exactly should we go next? You're both tired, so we should keep things easy today and maybe go visit the mansion tomorrow. We also then still need to plan out where we should spend the night, there is too much complexity in most of our options." "I firmly expect my sister is probably back in the workshop, flustering over the opportunity to catch up to work she'd fall far behind on. I also expect that if we leave, she will instantly drop what we're doing and confront us. Sneaking out could work.. it would also be a bit too inconsiderate in my opinion. As a result, I expect that we should simply go to the workshop next, in order for us to be ready to go anywhere else. I will certainly want to bid my farewells to my sister before we go anywhere." "If that's the case, why don't you just go and do that now, it would be best if the two of us weren't in your way for that. We'll just wait here for your return, when we could then discuss our next move." Riyxia watched Vwyx head off towards the workshop again, bidding her farewells as recommended. Riyxia was slightly concerned about any productive use for the remainder of their day, the most they could do would be to find a quiet place to relax and maybe work on building some kind of advantage in their confrontation with Liyuzhe. She still was left without any real ideas, not even making as much progress in innovative approaches as either of the others. Neither of them had even disclosed the notes they had been mentally amassing involving harmonizing elements in two different ways, leaving Riyxia to expect that they really had nothing. However, she knew it was a good time to consider starting on such discoveries, she was even very proud of what both of them had accomplished while divided, such as their own cooking attempts.