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Starr exhaled slowly through her nose, mouth dry. "Those things felt true because you'd been told them how many times? How many assholes acted like you were some kind of loose cannon ready to go off, or like you owed them your power just to be allowed to exist?" God, just talking about it was...

"Mm," Starr replied noncommittally. Brisa was practically glued to her side. Obviously trying to make it clear that she wasn't leaving. It would've been better if she'd just flinch or hesitate or something. 'Felt true at the time.' Yeah. Was any of it even a lie, though? It wasn't...

Yeah. Figures she'd want to talk about that. That obviously the reason why Brisa kept going out of her way to make everything feel normal. And why shouldn't things have been normal? It wasn't like any of the heavy shit in her past was news to Brisa. Nothing had changed, not really. Aside...

Starr shrugged impassively. "Yeah, I don't know. I guess Silver's gonna talk to him. Mewtwo-to-Mewtwo, maybe there'll be some connection there. Trigger some memories from back in their world, something like that." She held both palms up in a 'who knows' sort of way.

"Yeah, yeah," Starr said, putting on an exaggerated show of resistance as she sat up to make room. Her head was killing her. She thought about getting up for some painkillers but then didn't think she had the energy to anyway. So... yeah, food first. "Been up to anything interesting since I...

Starr heard the sound of the door opening and stirred groggily. Apparently she'd passed out on the couch while watching things on her badge. (Her sleep schedule had been several flavors of messed up all week, ugh.) "Hey, come in," she called out pointlessly, as Brisa had already walked right...

After the fight in the Radiant Void... The aftermath had been a bit of a blur. Starr remembered portaling out of that void and Brisa escorting her home in a hurry. Most likely to ensure that she didn't have to endure being crowded by the rest of the team in that state. Surrounded...

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It's been 3000 years, but I am finally here for chapter 2! 🎉 I love how quickly and strongly this conveys Dusk's personality to us. I am always here for fun with names. Birth name, chosen name, human name, sign name, naaaameesssss. Salem nooo. Stop it, ackk. This entire scene is viscerally...

"Yeah. Occasionally Brisa's right about things," Starr replied with a low chuckle. "Just goes to show I need to listen to her." Starr stretched her arms over her head and hauled herself up from the bench. Now the soreness from the training was starting to catch up with her. Not to mention...

"Yeah, it's a pretty shit deal from what I can tell. I think Ajia likes it though--the girl's insane," Starr replied with a scoff. As she'd thought, the kid was totally the sort to be psyched by something like that. If he'd been in her world, he totally would have been the sort to join the...

Starr nodded grimly. "Yeah, I know. Thoughts like that are always there. I'd be a fucking hypocrite if I told you to just get over it." Would be so, so nice to forget, though. (She could feel the glare on her back from the shadow, and she ignored it.) Aaaand mentioning the chosen had had...

Starr grabbed his shoulder. "Hey, hey. Breathe, okay? Geez. It's okay." Once she was sure he was calm, she let go, leaning back against the wall and massaging her temples. "Look, everyone screws up as a trainer. It's practically in the job description. You're trying to do right by your...

He wasn't trapped. Good, that was... good. He just... felt like he needed to prove that he wasn't like his old man? When he hadn't ever gotten a chance to go down that path anyway? (Was he worried that he would have?) Starr turned away with a scoff. "I only left Team Rocket because I was...

Starr dragged a hand down her face, pulling her eyelids down. "Look, I--yeah, I know I probably wouldn't have--hell, it probably never even would have come up. That's not what I'm bothered with, I--ugh." She glowered at the ceiling, clenching her hands in the air out of frustration. It helped...

For a long time, Starr just stared at him as all the pieces fell into place. Telling him all that stuff hadn't made him hate her more--it made him relate to her. Everything fit. Koamaru laughed the sort of broken, self-hating laugh that she knew all too well. Starr laughed back. God, what...

Starr was frozen, watching his confusion evolve into mute horror. Slowly, her eyes drifted back to the shadow as a sickening rage built in her gut. The shadow stared unflinchingly. "Were you going to lie to him?" It's not fucking LYING when I TOLD him I didn't want to talk about it. You're...

Fucking hell. Kid didn't know when to lay off. Not like she'd done a good job telling him to, though. And then the shadow was there. Well, it had been there ever since the void, hadn't it? In some ways, even longer than that. It wasn't usually visible, though. Koamaru wasn't even...

"I've talked about it with plenty of people," Starr said simply. "That doesn't change the reality of things." He was just a kid. He obviously had some kind of hero-worship thing going on. Not just with her, but with Brisa, and a few others on the team. She wasn't afraid that he'd see her...

He came to check on her. Of course he did. It didn't matter what she did, people still worried about her. "Lotta things happened on my world," Starr said gruffly. "I don't want to get into it." You've already told a bunch of people. What's one more? She had already told a bunch of people...