ᯓ⭐ WEEK THREE MINGLE

Happy third week, lovebirds! Here's to hoping you're riding high on the wave of success of one whole pair being correct! Surely you must have an idea by now how to win this thing!

Probably?

The good news is that you're not going to have to find yourselves in any weird clothes this time around, except maybe that just leads to a strange sense of foreboding for a future scenario...? Who knows. You can't quite brace yourself for it this time.

But don't worry, it's not like there's nothing happening. On the contrary!

For the entirety of this week, you'll find yourself feeling... clingy. It's going to start feeling very strange if you're not leaning on someone, holding their hand, cuddling with them, sitting in their lap, stealing a kiss, or engaging in some other form of affectionate physical contact. And if it's someone you're already feeling fond of OR someone you actually can't stand, guess what?

That feeling is doubled!

You may realize this is an unusual feeling, but so what? Trying to ignore it is only going to make it feel stronger and do you really want to make yourselves feel miserable?

Shut up, masochists.

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What, my whole back? [He gives a weak chuckle while bringing the juice towards his lips.

(At least I can drink away my sorrows...)]

Right, the whole thing will have to go. This happens when you're our age.

I can't actually give you medical advice. [It's possible she didn't intend to recommend amputation, even jokingly, but she's going to play it off like it was a goof.] But I might be able to muster up the bare minimum healing spell, if you're willing to risk it.

Hmmm... I mean, I'll take all the help I can get right now. What happens if it goes wrong?

No idea; you'd have to take it up with Riri.

[She places her hand between his shoulder blades. It isn't really necessary for the spell, but it does make her feel like she's actively doing some healing - something that's eluded her for weeks now.

The weakest and most miserable Physic cast will at least minorly reduce the inflammation and bruising, but it's bandaid-on-a-splinter level.]

That's it, huh.

[Well, Phoenix really will take any amount of relief he can get right now. And maybe his brain will placebo itself into thinking it's having more of an effect than it did!]

Well I feel something! I think. I really appreciate you trying to help at all... Thanks, Manuela.

Honestly, it's a pain not to be able to do more.

[She parks herself on the arm of the couch and crosses her legs.]

How are you feeling? I don't mean your back.

But the back pain's a lot easier to describe...

[As painful as it is, it's a lot easier to focus on the physical pain than to describe the emotional side. But he lets out a little sigh. Shifting his position just a bit so he can look towards Manuela.]

It just feels so... confusing, and bad. I really got myself thinking I was on the right track with Dr. Maruki. I got my hopes up and then... they got crushed at the bottom of that well. I guess it's like a weird kind of rejection... Instead of just getting turned down by the other person, it's like the entire universe is saying no to it.

[Poor guy. She has a lifetime of rejections built up to relate to this kind of experience, and Manuela knows that it never feels any gentler or easier. She pats his calf, which seems like a relatively safe and unbruised place.]

Yeah... and we all blew a lot of sunshine up for you both, didn't we? [By the end of their discussion, many of them had seemed so certain and confident. It had been much easier once the group delusion...no, once the group hope really started gaining steam.] For what it's worth, you two really seemed to be getting along.

Yeah, but I don't blame you. It was a hopeful possibility for us all to rally around.

[Hopes that were quickly crushed by the potato's bubbles. At least this time it doesn't come with the sting of betrayal by his partner, but it's still a very depressing scenario.]

We really were getting along... and I hope that we still do! ...Just, probably not in that way. That's the messed up thing about this game. We're supposed to find our match, but we can't get too attached in case it turns out to be wrong, so we can be open for whoever our 'real' perfect match is...

[(I still feel bad for Lucifer and Zhongli.))]

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