Thank you Bellonde.

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"What have you done to her."

It's more of a statement than a question. They have never seen Gaia this… angry. Furious. Concerned.

(For all his kindness and smiles, no one has ever seen him be close to truly anyone. Smiling, smiling, smiling, bright and so full of life and yet closed off to outsiders the way a giant would observe an insect crawling in its territory and take pity on its diminutive life.)

(That, or utterly crush it.)

And yet, and yet, this strange little girl has made Gaia lose his composure. 

This strange little girl with her pretty little face, the roots wrapping and looming behind her like an ethereal protection, all serene smile and blue eyes that showed an endless void.

"Gaia?"

“Ah… It's you…” The girl visibly considers the agitated man before her. 

She looks too much like Laby. She feels like Laby.

(But she isn't Laby.)

Something churns so badly in Gaia's guts.

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She had not expected to meet this man.

“That Child is fine.” The girl says. She feels the need to say this, somewhat. It is not empathy, for Nisha does not possess such a thing. 

To this man that brought Laby to the outside world and then left her to face hatred and pain… All Nisha feels for this man is... is..!

(... is nothing.)

All Nisha wants to is just... just...

"Answer me."

Fear.

Hostility. 

Anger.

(Laby had to face this, Laby had been hurt by this. Her poor Child, her sweet Child, her precious Child.)

Nisha stares unblinkingly. 

(He has no right.)

“I am the only one that Child needs.” Nisha Labyrinth says instead, a softly glowing mirror cradled in her embrace tenderly, possessively. Her eyes glow blue, an ethereal beauty that begets the foolish to walk into a world of dreams and perish amidst agony. 

(Nisha just wants to erase Gaia, delete Gaia, and then reconstruct him into a Bellonde that never left Laby, that never abandoned Laby, that makes Laby smile and smile and smile - for that is the only worth his existence has to Nisha Labyrinth.)

Nisha Labyrinth smiles.

(Just be patient a little bit more, Laby.)

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NIKI: BECAUSE I FUCKING LOVE NISHA

The fear Gaia shows is because he hasn't been able to find Laby once he was done and went back to find her, and thus had to return to Elrianode, and then meets Nisha, who is a splitting image of Laby but sort Of... wrong? He thinks Nisha ate her or sth.