[attr="class","littleollie"] 'ollie, i lied to freya.'

[break][break] lied.

[break][break] lied. lied. lied.

[break][break] was she asking him to lie to freya morningstar too?

[break][break] yet another notch on his belt.

[break][break] "i can't lie," he said to her, brows knitted in concern. "but i won't tell anyone if you don't want me to." the head ranger's lips pursed together.

[break][break] "but if they ask — if your life is in danger... yuina, you have to understand, i'm going to speak up."

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[attr="class","ooc"] Yuina Higashi [break]
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[attr="class","littleollie"] "my life? why do you think you're ruining my life? yuina, you - "

[break][break] it made no sense to him. why would him knowing this secret make any problems for him? what did her secrets have anything to do with him or anyone else?

[break][break] it was her life to live, after all.

[break][break] and as for the danger?

[break][break] "yuina, look around you. maybe this was before your time. but hoenn's in danger but it always has been -- we're always fighting rockets, we almost got killed by a meteor -" he shook his head. "with or without you, we're in danger."

[break][break] he reached her, hands tangling with hers.

[break][break] "but that's why you need me, or everyone else. it may not seem like it, but the league is - we're - i'm - behind you, no matter what happens."

[break][break] ollie's expression bleeds genuinity, only crumpled briefly when he sees the angry tears rush down her face. once again, he reaches for her cheek, trying to brush away her worries.

[break][break] but it doesn't work — his words fall on deaf ears. it pains ollie to see, to know that he can't comfort her in the way that he probably should. she babbles and babbles, her worries spilling out like fresh water.

[break][break] 'you're not being horrible!'

[break][break] 'you're not lying!'

[break][break] 'freya believed that?'

[break][break] he wants to ask her about all of it, to stop the worries before they even tumble out of her lips, but her final words stop him. hesitating. green eyes blink down in confusion at her.

[break][break] "wait what? your shinsoku?" the foreign words fall, uncomfortably, out of his mouth. they feel sharp and hard, like a block in his mouth - a word that's not supposed to be there. 'or here,' he thinks, reminded of what she told him before. that she isn't who he thought she was, that the life she lives isn't her own.

[break][break] "what's a shinsoku, yuina?"

[break][break] his voice comes out slow, brow furrowed, bordered on caution.

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[attr="class","littleollie"] family.

[break][break] ollie knew the importance of family, perhaps more than anyone. unlike those who had fractured remains of it, ollie was one of the people who had never had a shortage of it growing up. love, affection, loyalty — those were the bread and butter of the morales household. it was why both he and Eva Morales could be the people that they were.

[break][break] the head ranger thinks about what freya morningstar had said to him all those weeks ago, after the battle on that mirage island. how family was the thing that could keep them grounded, amidst fire and brimstone and war.

[break][break] though this - perhaps more than anything she said - was surprising, ollie was quiet as he listened. he held onto her, waiting, as she divulged yet another truth to him.

[break][break] 'there were others?'

[break][break] he pressed his lips together.

[break][break] "we've got to find them then," he says, with all the finality of someone who should know better but doesn't. "family is important. i know that more than anyone." he flashes a smile, though it's tinged with hurt. "i don't know if you know this but... i used to think my sister - Eva Morales - was dead. and it was heartbreaking."

[break][break] "i hate the idea of anyone going through that."

[break][break] with a nod, holding her hands gently, he looked into her eyes.

[break][break] "let me help you, yuina."

[break][break] let the league help you.

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[attr="class","littleollie"] for all that he was, ollie morales had never been known as someone who was hesitant.

[break][break] he charged first into everything - almost always to his own detriment - and despite the fact that he was probably out of his element when it came to this... he still acted like he wasn't. Yuina Higashi had enough anxieties and worries for herself. and plus, as her head ranger, he had a responsibility to her to make it at least seem like he was confident on his end.

[break][break] he shakes his head.

[break][break] "it doesn't matter if they're there or not. you won't know until you try. and i won't," he emphasized this. "let you do it alone. you've done all of this alone already - it's time that you had someone else by your side, yu."

[break][break] his lips dimple into a smile, his expression gentle.

[break][break] a hand brushes at a strand of hair that had fallen down her face, slipping it behind her ear.

[break][break] "stop worrying about the unexpected. we'll figure it out together, okay? step by step."

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