Sylvi turned to see Anya stumbling towards it. It happily ran to meet her, thankful to see at least something familiar.
"Sorry, I came back to try and find you and got lost. I couldn't... Really remember which way we went before so I. Uh..." It trailed off, looking to the side as it turned its bat in its hands. They probably didn't need to say all that did they?
Anya let out an empty chuckle, running a hand through Sylvi's hair. "It alright, Sylvi. I'm already well aware of your sense of direction."
"Don't apologize. Now lets get you out of this heat, you look miserable."
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At some point on the way back to Snowdin, Anya spoke up again.
"You know, with you getting lost like this I have to wonder how you even got out of that forest. Even I had a hard time..."
Sylvi perked up. "Oh? I don't remember a forest."
Anya stopped, muttering under her breath. "... Don't worry about it, its nothing."
"No, I wanna know! For some reason I never really thought that you might actually remember stuff from before I ended up here." Sylvi wandered around to stand back in front of Anya as it spoke, "I mean it makes sense that you would, but that also means you could tell me about things! A-and then I might actually be able to remember more of it, so... So yeah, I wanna know.
"No." Anya snapped. Her tone made Sylvi go stiff. "Trust me, you don't want to know."
"A lot of this I wish I could forget. You're lucky. I just want to keep you safe, and I know you'll be happier if you don't remember."
"I'll be happier?" Sylvi repeated, "Do you not understand how scary this is? To not remember anything? I... I can handle being reminded of something bad happening. And it would help me understand how I even ended up here. You may wish you forgot but I'm not you, I don't like not knowing."
"I still can't bring myself to do that to you," Anya put a hand on Sylvi's shoulder, her tone felling cold despite clear attempts to be comforting, "lets just head back to Snowdin and we can sort this out there okay?"
"No you're- you're trying to avoid it again!" It pulled away from Anya, starting to pace as it fidgeted with its bat again, "You always act so worried about helping me and keeping me safe but you aren't doing that! You hiding things is just making me more scared than I already am, I-I don't..."
"Sylvi, I just... Please you're already overheating we could at least-"
"NO!" Sylvi interrupted, "You keep being like this, I'd rather you just leave me alone. I did fine before you came down here."
Anya took a few steps towards Sylvi but was stopped when it froze, holding its bat up as if ready to swing. It looked about ready to start crying.
"Sylvi, please. I just need you to calm down and we can-"
"N-no. I don't- you're making it worse."
Anya tried to carefully walk closer to it, but was hit with a flash of fire magic(?) to her shoulder, causing her to stumble backwards, barely catching herself before she could fall from landing on her bad leg.
Sylvi's eyes darted between Anya and its bat, it's arms shaking even more before it dropped the bat, moving its hands to hold the strap of its bag and taking a step back.
"I'm sorry." It mumbled before running back deeper into Hotland.
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