80. [Voice/Action] Locked to Rise, backdated to the evening of October 6th

[foolishwren]

<sub>[TIME IS SHORT. The Tournament's only lasting so long, so Heather's gotta take advantage of the time she's in-town while she can. It's time to make good on a promise.]

[Which is why she's hurrying down the darkening streets of Goldenrod City for the first time in a good few months, hastily following the directions she's got written down on a scrap of paper. With the fights starting first thing in the morning, she's gotta squeeze out every last drop of bonding time the night will hold.]

[When she does reach her destination (with just a FEW wrong turns in the process), her first reaction is to stop and let out an impressed whistle.]

[... And then tug her PokeGear out of her pocket.]</sub>

[VOICE, to Rise]

RISE.

Your house is huge. Come let me in.

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[restardom.livejournal.com]

[ ... Rise can smile or laugh off a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. Especially because while she does have not-so-fond memories of a homicidal fetus, she can't even begin to relate to having to kill another human being, let alone the father of a close friend.

The screaming... she won't talk about that.

In fact, for the moment, she can't talk. She just sits there, eyes glazed in some weird, dark thought, while the rest of her scrambles desperately for a way to handle this that doesn't involve SEVERE BACKPEDALING. ]

[foolishwren]

_{[Heather was all prepared to move straight on from that as though it HAD just been a collection of random horrific but fictional details she'd thought up as an example, but the look on Rise's face stops her in her tracks and her expression goes from 'HAHA OKAY MOVING ON' to concern.]}

... Rise, I-- ... I didn't mean to-- are you okay?

... That wasn't-- that was just, you know, STUFF, for an example, I mean-- ... sorry.

[restardom.livejournal.com]

[ a headshake, almost immediately. ]

N-no, it's not that... I'm not...

[ what kind of friend is she, to have no idea that... ]

[foolishwren]

_{[Oh Rise honey no you are a great friend.]}

... You... you don't have to worry about that. That was just-- you know. Seriously.

I ... you know, say stuff like that sometimes. I didn't mean it to be...