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Maya Amano | #B9536C | Text/Action

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[scooptimistic]

Likewise, but you've looked better.

[ Ah, honesty. ]

Can you walk? We should get you home, at least.

[messianic]

Yeah, just...

[Give him a minute. His brow furrows and he grimaces, but slowly he pushes himself up, wavering only a little.

He is.

So hungry.]

Sorry... for worrying you. I'll be okay now, Amano-san.

[scooptimistic]

I don't know about "now", but I do think you're pretty resilient!

[ But all the same, she's going to move closer, reaching out to steady him. ]

So until you're okay, I think I'm feeling the urge to keep you company for a little while!

[messianic]

Are you sure...?

[Of course she is, she's Maya.]

Well... thank you, then. I think I probably just need to eat something.

[scooptimistic]

All the more reason to get you home faster.

... It's a shame we're about the same height or I'd just piggyback you.

[messianic]

[Oh my god.]

It's... it's okay.

[Let him preserve his last vestiges of manliness...]

I should be fine... so let's just walk together.

[scooptimistic]

Okay. Lean on me if you need to, though-- all right? I'm pretty tough!

[ She's concerned. ]

[messianic]

I really don't doubt that at all.

[Maya comes across as "very tough", honestly.]

But so far, so good... thank you, though.

[scooptimistic]

Of course! We're friends, after all-- it's my pleasure to help out when I can.

[messianic]

... Right, of course.

[Friendship...!!

Maya is so easygoing... it's kind of nice.]

Thankfully, I don't think I'm very far from here... it kind of works out okay that this town isn't that big.

[scooptimistic]

I was just thinking that... you could plausibly check on everyone in one day.

[ that will probably happen at some point. ]

[messianic]

That's probably true...

[Not even Minato knows everyone here.

Not yet, anyway.]

It'd take awhile, though, even with how small this place can be--since there are still a lot of empty houses.

[scooptimistic]

I wonder if people will keep appearing until the houses are filled.

[messianic]

That'd be a rather large number of people, don't you think? Especially since they like to give us roommates...

You might be right, though.

[So they have to keep expecting new people...!!!]

[scooptimistic]

Even if every house ends up with around 2-4 roommates, that's still a fairly small community.

But either way, I'm sure we'll be prepared!

[messianic]

A small community, but a lot of kidnapping victims...

[MAYA...]

[scooptimistic]

... All of whom are doing their best! I wonder what else we'll figure out about the town.

[ OPTIMISM. ]

[messianic]

[So optimistic...]

Hopefully, everything. I'd really like to know... just what happened to the people who were here before.

[scooptimistic]

I'd also like to know that. There were clearly residents here, at some point. And with a forest like that, I can't really find myself believing they migrated peacefully to some other place.

[messianic]

... A few months back, when we were cleaning out the town, there were skeletons hidden in closets and basements.

[He frowns.]

But I don't think it was everyone who was here, either.

[scooptimistic]

Just the occasional skeleton?

... Actually, in a closet sounds like a terrible place to have died.

[messianic]

I really, really hope that's not how they died, Amano-san.

[SERIOUSLY...]

I think, somehow, the bones were put there after.

[scooptimistic]

Has anyone found anything like them in the woods?

[messianic]

No, not that I know of.

[he just shakes his head quietly, looking a little troubled.]

Not that any of us have gone digging for bones, I think.

[scooptimistic]

I mean, I could see why people wouldn't... from what I can tell, the woods are their own form of distraction anyway.