After that, the conversation dies out, with a little bit of polite small talk, into a mostly companionable silence. Sheena's just thinking that maybe she should offer to clear out and give Anna and her son some time alone, because she's pretty sure they could use it, when Zelos pushes his way back through the curtain.
"Thanks," she says, touched, as she takes the cookie. And then the rest of what he's saying hits her, and... Oh. The idea of Colette joining their journey, even if it's only temporary, sounds... really nice, actually. She realizes she's been spacing out and coughs, accepting that apparently her face is just going to be kind of red the whole pilgrimage. "S-sounds great," she says, taking a bite of the cookie so she can't say anything too stupid.
She pauses to finish off her cookie (it's good; had Colette made it?) and think over her options before she says, "I guess it should probably be today. I don't know how long it'll take, so if I put it off we might not even be able to leave til the day after..." She lets herself trail off, looks up to the others. "That sound alright?"
As it turns out, it does. And it's not so bad, so far, having guardians. Maybe the Cloister of Trials takes longer for them to get through than it should have, with that many people, but - they're all still getting used to each other, right? And they make it through, in the end, without too much property damage, and then Sheena's standing in front of the entrance to Undine's chamber, feeling a whole lot less ready than she should be. At least last time, there hadn't been anyone who'd known her around to be ashamed if she'd failed. She swallows hard, glances back to her guardians one more time. "Here goes," she says, trying to keep the waver out of her voice, and steps forward, pushing the curtain aside as she vanishes from sight.
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"Thanks," she says, touched, as she takes the cookie. And then the rest of what he's saying hits her, and... Oh. The idea of Colette joining their journey, even if it's only temporary, sounds... really nice, actually. She realizes she's been spacing out and coughs, accepting that apparently her face is just going to be kind of red the whole pilgrimage. "S-sounds great," she says, taking a bite of the cookie so she can't say anything too stupid.
She pauses to finish off her cookie (it's good; had Colette made it?) and think over her options before she says, "I guess it should probably be today. I don't know how long it'll take, so if I put it off we might not even be able to leave til the day after..." She lets herself trail off, looks up to the others. "That sound alright?"
As it turns out, it does. And it's not so bad, so far, having guardians. Maybe the Cloister of Trials takes longer for them to get through than it should have, with that many people, but - they're all still getting used to each other, right? And they make it through, in the end, without too much property damage, and then Sheena's standing in front of the entrance to Undine's chamber, feeling a whole lot less ready than she should be. At least last time, there hadn't been anyone who'd known her around to be ashamed if she'd failed. She swallows hard, glances back to her guardians one more time. "Here goes," she says, trying to keep the waver out of her voice, and steps forward, pushing the curtain aside as she vanishes from sight.