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There WAS a time? Since when did he stop? "Just cause I said I know the guy doesn't mean I'm his bestest best bud in the world and I'm going to know everything about him." Or anything, as it was quickly turning out to be. It seemed there was more to Deacon then she realized beyond the every day douche. "The only thing I ever heard him say were insults and threats."

"I doubt he would of come to me for help anyway." She replied with a shrug. "If he had some giant issue I don't think anyone besides you would have known about it. Not even Nuk, and they're pretty buddy buddy."

Poke's eyebrow raised at the smug look she had been receiving from Riyo, leaning about into her chair. Thoughtfully she took a bite of her dough as the other held up the card once more. Was it just her imagination, or was she attached to that piece of card? She kept touching it a lot....

"It sounds like Deacon holds you in high regard." She mused, swallowing the last morsel of food before she grasped a can. "Especially if he isn't chasing anyone else, telling you things he'll tell no one else."

The only response Poke gave was to cough uncomfortably and then continuing to listen. It came as a surprise to hear Nuk had left Deacon to fend for himself, figuring he would of done something to help him out. Apparently not.

Setting down her canned goods, Poke folded her arms and frowned at what Riyo had to say. It was becoming clear that she and Deacon were more then just close friends, but it also seemed that Deacon had done something to hurt her. It wasn't surprising considering who it was.

"Just because Deacon likes you, doesn't mean you have to like him back." The dragon offered. "Especially if he's being a jerk. What obligation do you owe him to stick around?"

Oh, wow, what the jack had she stirred up? Poke had no idea how everything went from scarentime cards to Riyo's head on the table talking about a deep seated need to be valued. It wasn't as if she couldn't understand it. Everyone wanted to be valuable to someone else, that much made sense. And if you were someone who had never been valuable to anyone else then it would of hurt like a b***h.

But then could she really understand that? She had people who valued her. Her family, her friends, there who people who thought she was a worthy person. Apparently Riyo didn't have any of this, if what she said were to be believed.

Questions began to pop into her mind, but she pushed them away in favour of coming up with a response to the bakenko. It wasn't easy. If Riyo couldn't put into words her own feelings, how the heck could she comfort her? Brawns over brain, man, she wasn't meant to be a deep thinker.

"...Well, which is worth more?" She eventually said. "To be needed by him andhurt in the process, or to not be needed by him and not get hurt?" She brushed a strand of hair behind her head and closed her eyes as if this would help her to think harder. "But then you could always talk to him about it. Get him to not hurt you and stuff." A long paused followed, before she opened her eyes and leaned forward. "...Oy, you do mean like, mentally right. Not as in like, he's punching you or anything?"