029 - Rinoa - Video

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

[Rinoa is back in her room in Garden. She's curled up on the bed, hugging her dog, Angelo. The pair are inseparable. Rinoa can't look at anyone else without the memories of everything she did getting in the way. But Angelo loves her. Even though she locked Angelo up and left her, a dog's love is unconditional and Rinoa is clinging to that right now.

She looks at the camera for several long moments. She knows that she has to apologise to everyone, but what can she say?]

...I'm sorry.

[And that's all Rinoa can manage for now. She leans forward and the feed switches off.]

Comments

[video] / [locked]

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

[It's actually really difficult for Rinoa to look Ellone in the eye. The last time Rinoa saw Ellone, she tortured her. And then she'd filmed it and shown the video to Laguna. Her insides squirm horribly at the very thought.

So when Ellone mentions the favour, Rinoa jumps on it.]

Anything. Anything you want.

[Never too early to start making up for her crimes, right?]

[video] / [locked]

[winhillstime.livejournal.com]

[It's hard for her to look straight at Rinoa, too, thus the phone in her lap. But she takes a deep breath and raises it again. This is serious. This is something she has to do. Even if she's focusing her attention on Angelo and not Rinoa.]

I... [Breathe.] I want to see you. For starters.

The second. I need you to promise me you'll keep it secret. It's really important. Squall knows, and a few other people, but that's it. I haven't even told Uncle Laguna and Raine. [Which means it's reaaally important to keep quiet.]

[video] / [locked]

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

[Rinoa is holding Angelo so tightly that the dog whimpers in protest, and she has to loosen her grip a little.]

I will. For both those things.

[video] / [locked]

[winhillstime.livejournal.com]

Okay... The thing is... [This is harder to talk about with Rinoa than it was Tifa and Cloud!]

I found out who Ultimecia passed her powers to. That's why it needs to be secret. They don't want many people to know.

[video] / [locked]

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

[Rinoa nods, waiting for Ellone to go on.]

[video] / [locked]

[winhillstime.livejournal.com]

Ultimecia found a girl... a child. Marlene. Tifa and Cloud... asked for your help. You're the only person who knows anything about Sorceress powers, like how to control them. That's something I don't know.

[video] / [locked]

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

[She'd felt apprehensive when Ellone mentioned Ultimecia passing her powers on. Now Rinoa realises what that means. Someone else is a Sorceress. Her expression becomes shocked when Ellone reveals who it is. And now Ellone is asking her to help Marlene? After everything that just happened?]

You want me to help her control her powers?

[video] / [locked]

[winhillstime.livejournal.com]

Yes... You're the only one who can. [There's something unspoken in the pleading way she looks at Rinoa now, like she's trying to convey how much she wants to believe she can trust her.]

...Tifa asked, too. They just... really need someone to help. I didn't know who else to ask.

[video] / [locked]

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

[Rinoa looks so very, very troubled. She's incredibly torn by this. On the one hand, she already promised to do whatever Ellone asked. On the other...]

I - I don't know if I can face that right now.

...I need some time.

[video] / [locked]

[winhillstime.livejournal.com]

I understand. [And she looks like she does.] They will, too. It's been a hard time for everyone and I just... I want things to be okay again. I want you to be okay again and if that means waiting... then we'll wait.

It'll be okay. [Somehow.]

[video] / [locked]

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

...Okay. Yeah.

I'll try.

[video] / [locked]

[winhillstime.livejournal.com]

Just... feel better... [She looks away again, over the Sky Phone at the plains beyond her little tree.] I'll talk to you later, okay?

[video] / [locked]

[livelyangel.livejournal.com]

Okay.

See you.

[She switches off the feed.]