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[beatojuice]

[ But as she's speaking, Satoko's words hit her with a delayed impact. The sadness in her voice.

before I knew she wouldn't be around.

Sayo wanted their love the succeed. She truly did. But right now she feels a hot stab of anger toward Rika. For all that Battler had abandoned her for those six bitter years, for all that George had casually ignored her feelings and misgivings, and Jessica tried to fit her into her expectations of a loyal friend and cute boyfriend, none of them had been this callous, had left her alone without a shred of pretense. Just a day after they had pledged their love to each other. ]

She's... not around? What is she doing?

[ Sayo can't hide an angry quaver to her voice. The cruelest witch in the universe indeed. It had almost been amusing, the way she saw Bernkastel toy with Lady Lambdadelta's affections, showing affection from afar to the clingy witch. Now those memories are nauseating as they come to mind. ]

[loopsbian]

[ is sayo... angry? it's not at her, she's sure of that much. so then... for her?

is sayo- defending her? ]

That's... Ah, well, it's... [ she shifts from side to side, trying to not let too much of that nervous uncertainty shine through. ] She said... That we'd probably made quite the mess, yesterday? And, well, I told her that was normal, of course. Expected, even! But she insisted on going to check, and taking care of errands herself, and, well...

[ and now she's ended up here - alone, with an extra lunch to share with a friend instead of her new partner. her wife. her handfast. it's a bitter pill to swallow. ]

I'm... I'm sure it's nothing. Really, Miss Sayo.

[beatojuice]

[ Sayo's anger calms an iota upon learning that Rika had at least given Satoko some kind of reason for leaving her alone today, as opposed to just disappearing in the morning and leaving a note. But only a bit.

It's true that Rika had suffered terribly, and that Satoko had even played a part in that. She sympathizes deeply with that, she knows too well the ways that despair and loneliness leaves scars on the heart and turns one inward. She hopes that the two of them will be able to face each truthfully and mend all that is broken, but maybe they couldn't.

That doesn't change that Rika had hurt her friend. Perhaps Satoko's sins were greater, but she doesn't even know about those yet, and it doesn't excuse this new outrage if she had known. ]

No, there are no excuses for this, Satoko-san. It may be true that you two still have a lot to work out, and the time will come for that. It may be difficult for both of you. [ It certainly had been no easy thing for Beatrice. ] But this was a vow of love, a sacred commitment! And the next day, she decides against your protests that she wants to be somewhere else!?

[ Every time she had been abandoned and lied to, all her resentment at never being understood, stokes the bitterness like the bellows of a forge. Her voice becomes edged with that venom. ]

It's not nothing! Your feelings matter! You matter! Does her love really mean this little to her?