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Actually it was more Cynthia's idea.

[He's totally making a face on this side. Torture as it is, there's still an important detail that sticks out in his mind from the whole thing.]

-wait. You knew about this place the entire time and never mentioned it to me before?

Oh?

[Well that's curious... She remembers speaking with Cynthia but she hadn't realized they'd gotten so... chummy. ~~Totally not jealous, nope, nope, nope!~~]

You mean you didn't know!? I've known this place might exist since... well pretty much from the very beginning, but I couldn't believe it until I actually laid eyes on it myself. How long ago did you learn about it?

Yeah. She said it's for my own good, whatever that means.

[Maribelle, they're on a crew together. How could they not be "chummy?"]

I only heard about it like last month! You mean you've been holding out on me, Twinkles?

It probably means that she wants you to have something a little more healthy than stuffing your face with sugar on a constant basis. You'll get flabby if you're no too careful Gaius~

[Ohoho~ too true, too true. ~~There's a fine line between mere crew friendship, and a woman capable of getting Gaius to give up sweets! Clearly she is a threat!~~]

In my defense Gaius, I only visited the island about a month or so ago. [Or time has been flying past her much more quickly than she thought.] I wouldn't want to get your hopes up about a mystical candy island that might not exist, just to have you chasing the ends of the world in hopes of finding a fantasy. Besides, a woman has to keep some secrets, don't you agree?

[In other words, she may have been saving it for bribe material some day.]

Yeah, yeah...

[~~Oh gods~~]

That's still plenty of time to have said something!

[He sighs, and there's another subtle thud as he flops against the table again.]

Secrets, huh.

It never really seemed to come up in conversation... then again how do you work a magical island made of candy into conversation?

[~~Don't mind Maribelle, she's just slightly posssesive of her friends >>]~~

Surely you have secrets of your own that you've kept from me Gaius. It's not as if you'd like to disclose every single detail of your past to me before you broke into the royal treasury.

It couldn't have been that hard considering nine times out of ten you'd probably have caught me in the middle of eating something sweet!

[Grumble.]

Oh come on, that's completely different and you know it.

Oh come, come, come, there's no need to be so petty about it Gaius. Yes it was an oversight on my part, but would it have really changed the outcome of events that much? You're on the way to the island of your wildest dreams come true, and I'll be giving you a guide I personally wrote with you in mind. You should be grateful to me if anything, because I've saved you much heartache in the form of categorizing much of the island for you.

[Aaand faceplant against table again as he mutters.]

...'m not in the mood for this.

[And just a bit of a sigh from Maribelle]

I do rather pity you like this Gaius, but I have no intention of being party to swaying you to give up your commitment to cut back on sweets. While I have you on the journal here, I have been meaning to ask you a question about our world, since you seem desirous of a topic change.

Sure...whatever.

When exactly did you find yourself in this world after ours? What was the last event you can recall occurring in our world?

.....

...after we stormed Plegia and took down Gangrel.

...

......

Then you've never met Brady before he came here have you? For that matter... you don't even know who Brady's father is do you?

Nope.

Here's the only place I've spoken to him. He told me he popped in from the future because there was a big mess, so they needed to make sure it didn't happen in our time. He only mentioned you were his mother.

Yes... that's correct. Chrom's daughter was the enigmatic figure known as 'Marth' who you may have seen the night you turned sides in Ylisse's favor. She had been trying to stop the death of Emmeryn and save our world from the darkness that was to come. Brady and the others came later, dispersed around the world, seemingly dropped from portals to just about any location.

... So it never bothered you that... you theoretically could be the father without knowing it?

Wait, so that Marth is...ah, what did he call her- Lucina?

...but the Exalt still died...

......

...I hadn't considered that...

Yes, that was Lucina... a very remarkable young woman I must say.

... Yes... but apparently that was because our children from the future weren't the only ones who stepped through time to change the course of events.

...

......

You mean the thought never even occurred to you?!

...so things get a lot more complicated then we thought.

[He cringes, but moving away from the journal would take more effort.]

W-well no..! Should it have? If it were something like that, wouldn't it be something Brady should have mentioned from the start??

Yes... yes they did.

[Maribelle is just rubbing her temples, trying to ease the headache this is all causing her.]

I wouldn't be so sure Gaius, he might be trying to make sure not to upset the delicate balance of time and space, changing the future could endanger his entire existence for all we know, and could make it so he was never born. It's possible if you are his father he wouldn't want to tell you in case knowing might change the future.

[Maribelle lets out a long sigh.]

To be honest though... I don't know who Brady's father is either. I remember Brady... I remember Brady having a father but... it's as if those pieces of my memory were taken from me.

........

[Falling silent again, he listens and supposes that does make sense. But even so, if that was a possibility...

Ugh. This is giving him a headache too, not that one hasn't been impending already from his lack of sugar.]

...so you're from a lot farther along than I am when it comes to things back home. Although I figured as much since you knew that Henry guy and I didn't, but I wasn't sure just how far that was.

[It's kind of a weird thing to feel. Even with people from home that you know or should know, you could still kind of feel...alone, here.]

[Another sigh from Maribelle.]

I suppose I am at that... Look Gaius, I certainly don't know if you're Brady's father, and I certainly won't deny it's theoretically possible, but I don't want you to feel like this has to change our friendship. The most important thing is that you are my friend, even if someday you might be more, or such sparks might never ignite between us, you'll still always be someone I consider to be close to me, okay? You may not be aware of this... but I don't have many people I can call friends, especially home in Ylisse. Before Lissa I had no friends at all. So I really... cherish the friends I do have, like you.

... [He echoes that sigh, although there's a faint snort at the end, like a quiet laugh.]

Always straight up about these things. Crivens woman, for all the secrets you hint about having, you sure like laying things out pretty plainly.

...but I guess you felt that it needed to be said. Truth is, there weren't a whole lot of people I could call friends back home. at last, not until I ran into you lot. Okay, so it wasn't the best of circumstances then, but considering the alternative probably would've ended up with me dead, who am I to complain?

Heh. I never thought in my life I'd ever be hobnobbing with people like Chrom or like yourself, much less being considered a friend. ...so...thanks. For that chance. And for saying it.

I'm a woman of mysteries Gaius. I only reveal my secrets when and if I feel they should be revealed, and in this instance, I thought it most appropriate to share this one with you.

[For example, she's never revealed that she knows the location of a maid cafe in Ylisse where dozens of beautiful women cater to your every whim. ~~She saved that little secret for Lon'qu~~]

And Gaius? For what it's worth, you're welcome. I'd like for you to come visit Brady and I sometime, just so it feels like there's a little piece of the shepherds still here with us, but I understand you have responsibilities. Perhaps then I'll take some time out of my schedule to try and visit you on my own.

I wouldn't mind visiting, and I'm sure the rest of the crew here wouldn't mind if you visited too, some time. Being stuck on a ship for a while, you kinda forget that you aren't completely cut off from the rest of the world.

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[Voice] btw, I'm sending him off to get updated to ch 20 come next month. As a dread fighter. 8]

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