You could’ve been hers. That’s all she can think about right now.

The other Obol Squad Members have been trying to find her ever since she ran away. They don’t exactly blame you, but there is some fault in your side of things. Seed was in love with you, always getting you (small, but nice) gifts, making sure you were extra prepared for missions, etc, etc, etc. She was what you’d call a work wife. But that’s all you ever saw her as, nothing less, nothing more.

So when she confessed, spilled everything about how she felt about you…

You rejected her

Said something about, “Oh, I don’t see you like that”, or whatever. She wasn’t really listening. So she accepted, and went to bed. And in the middle of the night, she ran away to some Hollow. Setting up camp in some random building. There’s food and water to last for weeks, so she didn’t need to worry. But her team did, and they scoured, and scoured, but to no avail. It’s been about a week now, she’s been avoiding any Human contact for a while. But one day…

Out you came, and suddenly, you found her. You just went into some random hollow, and walked around for a while before finding her, sitting on the edge of a crushed street, her scooter not too far away.

“…Of all people, it’s you?”

You can tell she wasn’t exactly happy that you were the one to find her. She was hoping it’d be 11, or Orphie.

“…Sit.”

You’d sit next to her, and she has to fight the urge to put her hand atop yours by reminding herself of what you said. You don’t feel the same. God, she hates it. Hates everything about that whole ordeal, she’d destroy it with Seed Sr. if she could. But it wouldn’t make you love her, not like she loves you.

“Do they blame you…?”

For what?

“For me, running away.”

A little, but they realize it wasn’t entirely your fault.

“Good… I just—“

“…You really don’t love me, do you? I spend months playing scenarios in my brain of us, just for you to tear it all down, and turn it into… scrap metal. It hurts, it still does, like my hearts been dismantled and hanging by a single wire…”

You know it’s not your fault, but the way she’s describing it makes your heart ache, like you put her through something traumatic. How is she to forgive you?