Ninth Rose: Back from the dead. Again. [VOICE + Action for Spades]

[formerabyssinian]

[One moment, he's on the deck of the Sun, then the next, he's in the crow's nest. Aya is disoriented as he gets up from a prone position on the floor of the crow's next and peers over the side. To say he's surprised by his new position is an understatement.]

How did I get up here? [He looks around, curiously.] Is this some sort of prank?

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[Voice]

[fierybluebird]

Fool. [It's a quiet curse and a growl all the same.]

For people who aren't born lucky enough to start off that way, they'll always be one and the same.

You owe Selphie.

[And Marco will let Aya continue to berate him, but he's pretty much done and going to find Thatch, and then Namur to have Aya added back to the roster.]

[Voice]

[formerabyssinian]

And for some of us, friends and enemies wear the same mask.

[Aya likes to think he chooses his friends wisely, but even he gets it wrong.]

I don't owe anyone. Whatever happens between Selphie and I isn't your business, anyway.

[Voice]

[fierybluebird]

[Family and enemies wear the same masks too, as Marco knows all too well. Blackbeard, Chameleone, Squardo, and how many had they lost through the years? No...]

[Marco doesn't bother to speak up, as trying to smooth things over with Lea resulted in his departure. And as easy as it might be for Aya to say that it's not Marco's business, Aya wasn't the one there dealing with Selphie's tears and fears of being left alone, specifically because Aya had been gone. So he can resent being brought back all he wants, and maybe that's his own punishment for such "foolish" words.]

[As such, Marco doesn't expect Aya to understand either. Marco would just have to trust Selphie to figure out her emotions and how to express them herself.]