Who: Selphie, Yuri and open to housemates
What: Lil' Miss Sunshine isn't so sunny lately and could use some cheering up.
Where: Team Hijinks House
When: May 3rd
Warnings: n/a First thread chronologically goes to Yuri for dragging Selphie out of her room.


When they'd finally arrived back in the relative safety of their house in Aqures Ixen, Selphie promptly made a beeline directly for her bed. She was still feeling the drain from the excessive amount of magic she'd cast trying to save the life of one woman. One life she couldn't save. One life that she'd wanted to save with all her being and it hadn't worked out. She'd never had to use her own mana before to cast magic and the exhaustion had hit her like a ton of bricks. She didn't remember falling asleep on their way back to Aqures Ixen and had walked quietly with the rest of her friends back to the house they called home.

Coming home did nothing to make the feeling of failure go away. No matter how many lives she may have potentially saved back home during the war meant nothing in the eyes of that little boy who lost his mother that day. Another child had to go without their mother and it gnashed at Selphie's heart as she'd crumpled into her bed after peeling out of her clothes. Not even Jaelyn's concerned voice could rouse Selphie for a good day.

That was two days ago. When she'd woken up feeling human, Jaelyn had urged Selphie to eat something only to be met with an apathetic shrug as the perky brunette rolled over in bed and cried for the life that she couldn't save. It weighed heavily on her heart and mind. It left her wondering if she'd only trained harder, maybe she could've saved that woman.

It left Selphie broken inside and more than a little conflicted. Loss of life came with being a hero but it was something that the perky brunette would never get used to. For now, Selphie was at least sitting up in bed, staring at her hands while trying to be as small as possible in her pajama bottoms and an oversized hoodie.

One more life that she couldn't save on top of the dozens of others from back home.

Some hero of light she turned out to be.

Jaelyn hovered outside of Selphie's door after having been forced out for trying to coax her companion out of her room to eat something. The moogle was concerned for the girl who was far from herself and refused to talk about what happened.

"You have to come out sometime, Selphie," Jaelyn pleaded with no response.