- you're sitting next to a very pretty lake - you've just gone swimming in it, so you're still pretty soaked, but you're in a good mood, looking out at the scenery. there's a waterfall! very picturesque.
- the boy next to you seems to be in good spirits as well, remarking about how you should stay here all day. you joke that you should stay here forever, and he jokes back that the two of you should call off your quest (it isn't completely clear from context here what the quest is) and make a home here instead. you get a little more genuine, saying that it sounds amazing (gay).
- noting that you've gotten quieter, he asks what the matter is. you tell him that you're thinking of your mother, and what she'd say if she could see you right now. he jokes that she'd probably be glad to know you were spending time around royalty, and you tell him that she'd only be glad if you were spending time like this with a princess instead of a prince.
- when you mention she has very high ambitions for you, he asks whether she was disappointed when you became a thief, and whether that's why you ran away. after a moment, you tell him that the reason you ran away was because you don't feel like she's ever really made an effort to see who you are, just who she wants you to be. you mention that you hoped maybe if you ran away to come here and do something brave, something important, she would finally realize that you're your own person who can make your own decisions.
- he opens up a little bit in turn, talking about his relationship with his own mother. he says she's prioritized his training and education his entire life to ensure he'll have a good future, leaving him little time for socializing or spending time the way he wants to.
- he goes on to mention that during the time you've been traveling together, he understands for the first time what it's like to have someone by his side to spend his time with. you agree that for the first time, you don't feel lonely, either.
- after a charged moment of silence (gay), you break some of that tension by joking that it's too bad the two of you didn't meet sooner - you could have been friends all this time. he jokes back that if you grew up in his kingdom, he probably would have avoided befriending a thief, and you mention that maybe you wouldn't have been one if you'd grown up somewhere different.
- (you are not actually a thief. you are committing identity theft and pretending to be one. every time he brings up the thief thing you feel pretty awkward about it. it's fine.)
- either way, you joke that he'd probably like you more if you weren't one, and he quickly counters that he already likes you. you immediately assume he's teasing again and remind him that you drive him insane half the time. it turns out he's not joking, though, because he counters by telling you that he actually likes you more than anyone else he knows. that regardless of how people back home look at you, he wants you to know that he sees you.
- the memory ends right in time for you to go beet red.
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mem 8 - starry path event
- the boy next to you seems to be in good spirits as well, remarking about how you should stay here all day. you joke that you should stay here forever, and he jokes back that the two of you should call off your quest (it isn't completely clear from context here what the quest is) and make a home here instead. you get a little more genuine, saying that it sounds amazing (gay).
- noting that you've gotten quieter, he asks what the matter is. you tell him that you're thinking of your mother, and what she'd say if she could see you right now. he jokes that she'd probably be glad to know you were spending time around royalty, and you tell him that she'd only be glad if you were spending time like this with a princess instead of a prince.
- when you mention she has very high ambitions for you, he asks whether she was disappointed when you became a thief, and whether that's why you ran away. after a moment, you tell him that the reason you ran away was because you don't feel like she's ever really made an effort to see who you are, just who she wants you to be. you mention that you hoped maybe if you ran away to come here and do something brave, something important, she would finally realize that you're your own person who can make your own decisions.
- he opens up a little bit in turn, talking about his relationship with his own mother. he says she's prioritized his training and education his entire life to ensure he'll have a good future, leaving him little time for socializing or spending time the way he wants to.
- he goes on to mention that during the time you've been traveling together, he understands for the first time what it's like to have someone by his side to spend his time with. you agree that for the first time, you don't feel lonely, either.
- after a charged moment of silence (gay), you break some of that tension by joking that it's too bad the two of you didn't meet sooner - you could have been friends all this time. he jokes back that if you grew up in his kingdom, he probably would have avoided befriending a thief, and you mention that maybe you wouldn't have been one if you'd grown up somewhere different.
- (you are not actually a thief. you are committing identity theft and pretending to be one. every time he brings up the thief thing you feel pretty awkward about it. it's fine.)
- either way, you joke that he'd probably like you more if you weren't one, and he quickly counters that he already likes you. you immediately assume he's teasing again and remind him that you drive him insane half the time. it turns out he's not joking, though, because he counters by telling you that he actually likes you more than anyone else he knows. that regardless of how people back home look at you, he wants you to know that he sees you.
- the memory ends right in time for you to go beet red.