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one month passes before he asks to see ollie morales, having delayed meeting the head ranger until now when both his mind and body have recovered decently.

"thanks for coming out to see me."

he says as they casually stroll along a path that curves around the lake. vibrant colors surround them along with the calming sounds of nature. his hand idly scratches his arcanine's head, doting on the fire-type while he looks at ollie.

"well, thanks for a lot of things, i guess."

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[break][break] ollie morales's relationship with MATIAS SILPH has always been complicated. first as would-be brothers, then as jealous rivals, and finally, a weird sort of acceptance when knowing how exactly the volatile fit into the league, and how even those who hated him would vouch for him. he thinks of the way that PENELOPE LIVY and freya morningstar spoke about him, thinks about the way that he felt about him, in that terastallized tunnel, when they'd been caved in from the snowstorm. how far away they were from everything, away from the reality that bound them, and how bewildered matias had been when ollie had expressed his upset.

[break][break] how bad matias' apology was, and how ollie had been obliged to forgive him anyway.

[break][break] "you know," ollie says, verdant green eyes rising to meet burnt amber. "i tried to visit you in the hospital. you were always sleeping though."

[break][break] 'but you were glad, weren't you?' that sneering voice inside of him whispered. 'that he was asleep.'

[break][break] he smiles at the words of thanks, but it looks a little bit sad. brows pinch together with concern.

[break][break] "how are you feeling?"

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"i know," he says, "they told me."

ollie morales wasn't the only one who failed to meet with matias during his month stay at the hospital. he joins a relatively short list (unsurprisingly) of people who were turned away by the volatile.

"better. more myself, if that makes sense."

seeing the pinch in ollie's brows, he understands, in a way, that things will never be the same. they can't be given everything that has happened. but they can at least be different in a good way.

"you don't have to be on edge, you know. i'm not going to kill you. that desire has passed."

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[attr="class","textbox"] 'more myself.'

[break][break] ollie thinks about that. he thinks about - also - how much of a monster that MATIAS SILPH had turned into on that cliff's edge, so much so that he had been unrecognizable. the black sun that leaked from the sky like an oil spill, a toxic deluge meant to destroy them all.

[break][break] he jerks back in surprise at matias' words.

[break][break] unable to help himself, ollie flashes a wry smile.

[break][break] "you mean you wanted to kill me? i hadn't noticed."

[break][break] this time, he doesn't think of that day he and several others charged the mountain in attempt to save hoenn's chosen. no, instead, he thinks of the way that broken wood and blood had spilled on PENELOPE LIVY's floor. the crazed look in the other man's eyes when he had said - with hopeless fervor - that he'd hurt Eva Morales and would do it again if he could.

[break][break] "what happened, though? how did you ... " he trails off, unsure how to word it.

[break][break] unsure of what he's even asking for.

[break][break] is he asking about how he let primal groudon take over? is he asking about how kyle lopez died?

[break][break] maybe both.

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"you're going to have to be more specific."

despite his chuckle, he knows the gravity each question possesses, heavy enough to pull him into great depths should he not be careful.

"if you're asking how i survived, the answer is kyle.

"if you're asking how i'm less insane, the answer is kyle.

"basically, the answer is kyle."

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[attr="class","textbox"] the answer is kyle.

[break][break] even after all this time, ollie still isn't sure what to think of it. he likes - liked, his heart pangs with the terrible reminder - kyle lopez fine enough, but never had given much thought to his relationship with MATIAS SILPH. but the way that MATIAS SILPH speaks of him, with such absolute certainty and affection, reminds him of something that he can't quite name.

[break][break] he remembers the last time that he saw kyle. blazing across the sky like a shooting star, made only to save hoenn's greatest antagonist.

[break][break] it takes a minute for him to find the words.

[break][break] "what happened to you, matias?" it's not the first time that he's asked the other man this, and it certainly won't be the last. "why did you - what happened with groundon to make you like that?"

[break][break] and how much of matias in these recent months had been matias and how much of it had been groudon?

[break][break] "and how did kyle save you?"

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what happened to matias? too much to encompass in one conversation, definitely, but he knows such an answer isn't enough to appease the head ranger's curiosities. still, it's easy for him to joke with: "how much time do you have?"

he mulls it over for a moment, unsure where to start.

"many believe avatarship is simply a pact, and that the costs are little to none. the truth is far from it. you lose parts of yourself the moment you make that pact. for me, it was my mind."

then, he asks:

"have you ever wanted to be an avatar, ollie?"

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[attr="class","textbox"] "that much, huh?"

[break][break] he can't help it. the chuckle that leaves him is nearly wry with humor, a feeble attempt at smoothing over the seriousness that fills the room from the subject of conversation.

[break][break] but despite it all, he is still curious. he wants the answer no one else will give.

[break][break] a head nod supplies MATIAS SILPH answer, though it is perhaps as frustratingly vague as anything else is. but perhaps ollie will never understand it. not really, not in the way that people like Eva Morales or PENELOPE LIVY do.

[break][break] after all, ollie has never wanted to be avatar.

[break][break] "no."

[break][break] he leans back, arms folded behind his head, as he stared up at the bleeding orange sky.

[break][break] "not really. i never really wanted to be tied to anything - " not a place, not a person, and certainly not some godly diety that he couldn't explain. PENELOPE LIVY had been the exception. " - so i never really got why other people did."

[break][break] his head tilts towards MATIAS SILPH.

[break][break] "what about you? did you always know you wanted groudon?"

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"believe it or not, i never wanted to be an avatar. never planned for it and certainly never chased after it. that changed, however, after seeing groudon for the first time."

even now, the memory of mount chimney descending into absolution remains fresh in his mind. he can feel the heat of the DROUGHT, he can hear the chaos of battle. it elevates him, quickens his heart, steadies his mind.

"i realized then that groudon is a means to an end."

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[attr="class","textbox"] His head tilted.

[break][break] So, MATIAS SILPH hadn't wanted Groudon after all.

[break][break] "Do you regret it?"

[break][break] Bonding to Groudon? Allowing yourself to get that far?

[break][break] Losing yourself so deeply into the thing that you craved, only to find yourself uncertain once you got to the other side?

[break][break] "What end?"

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"no, i don't."

despite everything that has happened, all the wrongs and rights and hurt and relief he has caused, he wouldn't change a thing apart from one incident in particular.

he would have never consumed the red shard.

"hoenn's survival."

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[attr="class","textbox"] Hoenn's Survival.

[break][break] How ironic, considering that he would've been Hoenn's end, if Ollie and the others hadn't gone out there to save him from himself.

[break][break] "You really think that's true?"

[break][break] "That Groudon's the key?"

[break][break] That you're the key?

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"history would dictate it to be true, no?"

he spares a gesture to nothing in particular. the sea, perhaps, even though they are miles away from it.

"with kyogre on the loose, who else could stand against it? rayquaza is a mere peacekeeper; it cannot influence nor control; it mitigates.

"without groudon, hoenn will flood, and the world as we know it will drown."

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[attr="class","textbox"] History.

[break][break] Why did that word feel so heavy, suddenly? As if history was the thing that was supposed to dictate the rest of their futures, as if there was nothing that they could do but bend to the whims of it.

[break][break] "I wouldn't know," Ollie said, honest. "I've never been much of a book guy, ya know."

[break][break] It was true. Such things were better left to the brilliant minds of Eva Morales and illeana reyes. Even howard slayte knew better than him.

[break][break] They are miles away from the sea so Ollie just stares off at the horizon that the Elite Four gestures to. It feels sublime, now, to be standing so close to a man who had once tried to kill them.

[break][break] 'But he hadn't wanted to,' a voice inside Ollie said. 'It wasn't him.'

[break][break] "Is that why you and Eva broke up, then?" he asked, suddenly turning to him. "Because of Rayquaza? You said that it can't control Kyogre. That must mean it can't control Groudon either."

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