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"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...

Starr regarded him carefully. Man, this kid was earnest. Figures that he'd think she was worried about how people saw her, or something like that. "Brisa... yeah, I know she doesn't think any different about me." You wish she did, though. "She's been scheduling like half a million matches...

Starr raised an eyebrow when he said he was looking for her. She normally would have assumed he just wanted to see some moves, or get tips... except for the fact that he looked so nervous. And then he asked about the Voidlands and it all made sense. Of course he was nervous around her now...

Starr glanced back at the Substitute that was now fading into wisps of energy. It'd tanked more hits this time--that was good. "Going alright. Practicing moves for colo." Koamaru was standing awkwardly at the entrance like he wasn't sure if he could enter. "I'd say it's fine to watch, but I...

Starr's ears flicked toward the door. She'd been pretty focused, and hadn't expected to run into anyone else this late. (Not that the training rooms were ever private, but.) One last good hit on the substitute and she stood up straight, shaking off the dark aura from her last attack. Then...

Starr snorted. "Well, that's good, cause you probably don't need me to tell you that there's gonna be a hell of a lot more risky shit in our future. Then again, you probably wouldn't have been pulled here by Diyem if that were a dealbreaker." She had a sudden flicker of memory--herself...

Starr gave Kate a crooked smirk. "Yeah, probably best to get that one outta the way. Uh... long story short, too much Radiance and you'll pretty much wind up using Self-Destruct whether you like it or not." There really was no way to make it sound any better. "But like, you pretty much gotta...

Starr flashed a toothy grin. "Hell yeah, that was Radiant alright. Nice one." She walked forward to take a look at the substitute, inspecting the glittering frost spreading out from the slashes. It wasn't true ice--a small bit of heat, and the frost melted into beads of light instead of...

Dammit. They'd almost had a breakthrough there. Man, it had been ages since she'd had to teach one of her team to use new moves. Plus, there was kind of the fact that regular moves had something to go off, as opposed to all the nebulous bullshit surrounding Radiance. Starr tapped a claw to...

Starr scoffed. "Nah, definitely doesn't requiring doing any specific motion. Hell, I didn't even know what mine would do when I first managed to use it, it was more like..." What had it been like? That day they'd first touched that light and felt its burn... "When I first got my Radiance, it...