[Voice/Action]

[thenightmarebegins]

A day's time...? Then I must prepare.

In the meantime if... No, never mind. It's just as well I'm not here.

[It's more notice than one ever gets with a kidnapping, he knows that, although it's still... bothersome. Vincent had hoped he could continue the beginning of this year in relative peace. Besides, it's another New Feather wave and he always finds himself wondering every time whether she'll be returned. But it might be best if he's away for a time so he's not constantly wondering.]

[So Vincent will be hurrying along between places- weapons shop, item shop, and a stop by the Barracks for some old-fashioned shooting. Sometimes just putting bullets repeatedly in a target is the best thing.]

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[Voice]

[thenightmarebegins]

[Come out and say it, self.]

Like the potential arrival of someone from home.

[Though it's half anticipation, half dread. He doesn't want Lucrecia to suffer here, but where she is back home...]

[Voice]

[selphie_t]

[...here's where Selphie lets her guard down and the cheer leaves her voice. All that's left is sadness.]

My friends have come and gone and I don't want them ever coming back.

[Voice]

[thenightmarebegins]

[Vincent notices that sadness, and can guess as to why she'd think that way.]

Is that because you wish to spare them the worst of this place... or that you couldn't bear to lose them again?

[Voice]

[selphie_t]

[Selphie pauses before she answers.]

Both.

[Voice]

[thenightmarebegins]

I'm sorry for that...

[Nothing is worse than losing who one loves the most, Vincent knows all too well.]

I would rather spare anyone else this place as well, but... if they have no other chance at life...