Maël crossed her legs, her eyes set on Mori.
She had an expression that he couldn't totally read. Her eyes were empty, but there was still warmth somewhere in there.
She didn't fully hate him, or he thought. Yet, he could see traces of it here and there.
Even now.
"You're truly the emotional type," she said.
Mori frowned.
"I've been quite logical so far."
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"Oh, don't get me wrong, I've seen glimpses of everything. You're not totally dumb."
Mori shook his head, giving up debating her choice of words.
"But, while you've taken right decisions, most of them had an underlying emotional cause. You seem to take all of you decisions based on emotions."
"Wh-... What? Are you insane?"
"You don't think so?"
Maël's face turned away, and faced him again while looking quite different.
She had Aura's face. It was a horrible sight, Aura's head on Maël's body.
"You disgust me."
"Wow, that's your friend, no need to insult someone who's not here to defend themselves," said Maël.
"You know what I meant."
"Well, I've done some digging on your actions, Mori. Want to know what I found out?" she asked.
Mori wasn't answering, but she barely even waited for an answer before continuing.
"You've lived life passively, hoping one day things would improve while not doing anything to actively improve it. Only once your mother died, you started to take actions for yourself. I don't understand everything from your world, but it's clear working your different jobs wouldn't just fix the issue your mom had, did it?"
"You're treating me like one of them, and I hate that."
She grabbed another needle out of thin air, piercing Mori's other shoulder.
Another short scream left Mori, widening Maël's smile.
"This is so exciting..."
She was tracing his face with her finger, looking into his eyes that were now slightly red.
"I'm not one of those dregs. Aura, Maya, Lilae, Xannos... Don't treat me like them, alright?"
She leaned in, kissing Mori's forehead gently.
As she leaned back, Mori's eyes were still staring at hers. She cared little, however.
"All of them might be morons, and you'd most likely trick them. Do I look like a moron to you, Mori? Am I a stupid bitch, Mori?"
Without waving her hand, or looking away, she remained inches from Mori's face while changing.
Her face turned into Maya's dead face. It turned into Torynn, into Jeff's kid, into his mom.
And that's where she stopped.
With his mom's face.
"What is it? I can't hear you, with this in your mouth."
Mori's insults and rage were ones of the worst kind. The kind he couldn't act on. He could only stay there, and endure it, while she seemingly mocked him.
"Yeah, maybe you think I'm as stupid as her, huh?"
She had a short laugh. "You look like you want to kill me."
She got up, and walked around the room, her face changing into different people Mori had met. Most of them he recognized.
"See, you're here, lying to me about something you know I know. Right. Like, how would you like it if I argued here and now, that I'm not the one who stabbed your shoulders?"
Mori stayed still, looking at her face changing shapes.
"You knew what was happening. It's not that you didn't know, it's that you didn't want to know. With you mother, with Maya, with Aura, with everyone really. You'd let everyone die and take action after the fact. That's how you operate. That's what you've done so far."