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[ Maggie : Disney Castle: Castle Entrance ]

"Kyla, why can't you just work together with them?" she blurted out, flabbergasted. She'd tried being the wise sifu, but it just wasn't her style, and it apparently wasn't getting through to one of the closest friends she'd made.

"Why can't you all face Kai? Why can't you all face the darkness?" she said stomping after the girl, her boisterous personality getting more and more worked up. "Burning bridges, trusting no one, working alone. Do you really think that's how you can help them?"

"You can't stop them alone, Kyla," she said, perhaps a bit too forceful. "You're not a one woman army. If you keep this up, others will get hurt, even if you 'pull the plug'--especially if you do! Why can't you see that some of us need you?"

{Zell, Yuffie .:. Disney Castle Town .:. Fairgrounds}

Zell rolled his eyes as Joe gave him a lesson in alcohol drinking. He'd heard it all before, and after all, this wasn't his first time at a bar. Yuffie, however… If he'd known how much of a lightweight she was, he'd have kept a stricter eye on her. He opened his mouth to say something, but the ninja tried to stand up and failed drastically, stumbling into him again just as Joe held out the horn.

"Heeeeeeyyyyy, izzat for me?" she slurred, noticing Joe for the first time.

"No," Zell said reflexively, grabbing Yuffie by the shoulders and forcing her to sit down on the nearest bench. "Just sit there like a good girl for a bit, mommy and daddy are talking." He looked at Joe with an absolutely pathetic expression. "What do you mean 'still drinking?' I haven't had a drop since I started baby-sitting! I hope that's something strong in there."



{Bobbi .:. Disney Castle .:. Chocobo Stables}

Bobbi sneezed loudly out of absolutely nowhere. Just one, single sneeze. She waited what felt like an eternity for the second to come, but it never did. She sniffed and rubbed her nose, scowling at the leftover itching.

"Dammit, if someone's talking about me, it had better be something nice," she grumbled to herself, pushing again at Xabier's head in yet another attempt to get him out of her lap. When he once again failed to move, Bobbi sighed and leaned back against the wall again, burying her fingers in the feathers near the back of his head and scratching. Xabi's sleepy, happy wark almost made up for him being a stubborn lap-sleeper. Almost. She needed to pee, and she still couldn't feel her legs.

[Kyla: Disney Castle: Hallways]

Even while that mask Maggie was now familiar with shifted into place over her reaction, Kyla stared at Maggie, listening very closely. If there was one thing someone could count on, then it was how Kyla at least let people have their say at her until the very end. Usually. When Maggie was done the artist said nothing but it was clear her mind was going a mile a minute.

That self-loathing she felt just slipped deeper and deeper into the pit of her stomach. The realization of what Maggie meant, and how wrong she’d been getting it all this time. There was a sense of uselessness in it. All by herself, Kyla couldn’t accomplish anything, like always. It was a bitter pill to swallow.
She had a choice? Seemed like that wasn’t true at all.

Why was it that Maggie’s heart was telling her this was the right thing, and Kyla’s was telling her something different? Whose heart was more correct? If she trusted Maggie, then it would mean nothing Kyla felt was valid or correct. She couldn’t trust herself... ever again. She had no smarts or instinct about anything.

She was useless.

No! No I can do it! I can save my sister and no one else has to be caught up in this! I’m not weak! I’m not helpless! She didn’t want to give up in that way just yet. She didn’t want to admit she was utterly hopeless by herself. Because when all was said and done. When this journey as over. What could she ever hope to see at the end- after everyone goes their separate ways? Kyla didn’t want to admit to anyone that if that was the future, she didn’t want to be around to see it.

~ Kyla you don’t have to prove to anyone any more, why you deserve to exist. I’m sure what happened to your sister wasn’t all your fault. In the end I promise you Kyla, you won’t be all alone. So stop preparing yourself to return to that cage. You’re not going back there- not ever again!~

Carbuncle – once again, went for that jugular shot again. Damn that summon knew exactly what to say.
"Would you just bud out for once Carbuncle?!" Kyla snapped obviously adressing the unseen participant in the moment. Clearly the summon was on Maggie side.

~ If you cannot trust your heart Kyla, then trust me. We used to be one. And if I agree with Maggie, then that means somewhere you feel the same way too about all of this! Don’t feel guilty about not understanding something you never got to experience before. Observation will only do so much. You have to experience friendship, before you can understand how it works.~

“I..”

“I need t-to...go to the.. library..”
“..think about stuff..
…Thanks Maggie.” The mumbling was bearly audible. Kyla could not look at her anymore her eyes were glued to the floor as she turned away again and started walking.
But before she was too far, something materialized next ot Maggie. The summon looked up at her, putting a tiny paw on her foot and smiling in that weird way with her eyes.
“Thank you Maggie, she needed to hear that. Don’t worry. She’ll come around, leave it to me!” And with a tiny salute with her paw, the summon bounded off after her partner as she disappeared down the hallway on route to the library.

"Unless water get's you drunk, no." He said, handing the horn off to the drunk ninja "Here, drink this to keep hydrated."

He caught Zells eye roll and sighed. OK, yes he was a**l. Incredibly so. But he'd seen alcohol poisoning do terrible things to other people before, he had no interest in letting it happen on his watch if he could help it. He'd rather be considered a**l then careless any day of the week.

Still, Zell had earned a break by this point. And since Noelle was looking for opponents...

"How about you go against Noelle for a while at beer pong and I take over mercy angel duty? At this point, you've earned a break."

[ Sora ; Kairi : Disney Castle : Central Gardens ]

"You're fine," Kairi responded with a small smile, seemingly unfazed by her teasing intent. She even motioned to the spot next to her being open to sit on.

"Yeah, not much goin on, just relaxing," Sora added, remaining in his position lying flat. "No idea when we'll get called out again, after all. Hopefully not until tomorrow."

[ Dunbroch : Disney : Pub Tent ]

Most everyone near the playing table went silent as death the moment Sayrike called the beer "disgusting". It might not have been noticeable at first as she went on, but by the time she finished talking, it would have been obvious: every patron had their shocked, almost frightened eyes on her.

"What," said a deep, Scottish accent from behind a group of people--all of whom immediately leapt out of the way to reveal a hulk of a man, his beard and hair red as fire, his eyes cold as ice. He walked forward, towering over the young woman as he approached her side of the table. "did you say about my beer?"

The pub tent seemed frozen in horror, as if watching a train wreck, while they awaited the woman's response to the primary brewer of the event.

Well, s**t.

How could this guy have heard her over the din? Although her first instinct was to babble out an apology, it didn't seem like it would help in this situation. With the large man towering over Sayrike's 5'3", it must have looked comical from an outside perspective. Keeping a calm face, Sayrike replied, "I said nothing about your beer, sir. I'm sure it's quite excellent--the food certainly was. You'll have to forgive me, though, my tongue can't quite handle beer in general--or most alcohol for that matter. Aren't there certain foods and drink that you don't eat?

"I make no slight against your personal brew, seeing as I haven't had it. However, I would be willing to try it...if you beat me in a game of beer pong."

[Kyla: Disney Castle:Library]

Tyue could see she was not getting anywhere with Kyla right that moment, the girl was distracting herself, burying herself in books. Once she got to the library Kyla began to systematically search for various topics, usually pertaining to magic.

The first thing she did was go and find the index to the contents registry, or ledger system that categorized the different books. She had to ask the brooms again for it. Once she did that Kyla put her power to creative use again and copied all the records of listed books under magic or references too magic. It was a codex of anagrams whose letter meant a type, volume and category, and based on that it fit into whatever shelves area they’d be in the library.

Once she copied the listings, Kyla took to the shelves and began looking. She decided to save herself the trouble of reading everything one by one herself, and created pictogram spell that acted much like a program searcher. Signifying the topics covered, selecting more than even one book she took off the shelf and began to let he own magic skim until it came to a stop on a specified match.

Of course once it found anything she had to check the context herself of course, but the result of all this prepare was a gilr seated perhaps ten or more volumes, some as thin as novels others as thick as your head. They were piled up around her where she sat on the floor in the farthest corner of the library. Kyla sat herself there surrounded by maybe 3 to 4 books hovering in the air, their pages turning at rapid speed as the spell in use in her book, which lay at her side spine open, continued to look through the books she took down. She herself would pluck whichever one paused first and would read the content before deciding if she’d bookmark it, or let it skip ahead and continue searching for another match.

“So this is how google feels hm?”


~ Looking for books on magical barrier huh?~

‘…yes.’

~ You know it won’t matter right? Even if you did find something, you can’t possibly keep a barrier up around herself constantly? And in the grand scale of things between your magical reservoir against the enemies- you’re just not strong enough.~

‘Yet. I’m not strong enough yet.’

~ And just how do you think you’ll become strong?~

‘By practicing of coarse.’

~ -that’s not the only way you can get stronger. You should practice with the others too.~

Kyla didn’t answer and kept reading. Carbuncle decided she’d try again in a little while. Little by little despite Kyla’s outward exterior, a crack had been made in her resolve to go this mission solo, and the crumbling began. Perhaps if she had just one more friendly person to talk to? But Carbuncle couldn’t just go around and ask anyone. If she was lucky may be someone would find the workaholic and send her to bed.