The Porcelain Mask

As Calypso was thrust away from Ulv by the force of the fight, she took the moment to don the Storm Regalia, the blue air-made dress donning over the red she was wearing and making a beautiful purple colour that neither were in the right head to really appreciate.

"I know you’re broken down by anger and by sadness. You feel I left you in a world that's full of madness. Wish I could talk to you, if only for a minute. Make you understand the reasons why I did it. You're not the only one who needed me, I thought you understood that"

Ulv's beautiful voice and the song sung with it attracted The Wind and she swirled it around her, sliding her feet into position as Calypso charged at her. The Wind was the ignited as Calypso got in range, and Ulv threw a punch. Nivarna Empyrean lit the world on fire. Fortunately, Ulv had ensure that Minatumi Harbour was ridiculously durable, and while it practically melted the manor they were in, the surrounding buildings were merely scorched.

Ulv listened to Calypso, her wind creating a barrier so any melted slag of the manor didn't hit them. Ignis Ragna caused massive physiological damage which made regeneration an extreme exertion to pull off at all, so Calypso didn't need hitting with a bit of melted house on top of all that.

"I've principles held too tight to be sane. You've just felt why. Every second of every day is like how you just were. Tends to reduce property value when a continent cracking woman goes on a psychotic rampage. So I have to hold them the way I do, regardless.

That day, after you got trapped in the dream land and came to me about it, we talked, I told you I am always here if you need my help. And then Algos showed up. I thought it was going to be damned messy, but you showed surprising maturity. That not only could you stand the presence of the woman who did all this to you, but that you actually talked to her and accepted advice from her. My heart...while watching you two, my heart soared. You had taken the first steps on the path and no longer needed me. Besides, between Inami, Arianda, and Vanyel, you were well supported and could take off the training wheels that is my presence. So I faded into the background"

She'd give a sad smile and walk over to Calypso, slowly so as not to spook the woman.

"But again I showcase my lack of understanding, and misplace my trust. It didn't work out like that at all. Whatever reason you had to talk to her in that moment was not a reason you took and carried on with. Nor did you take me up on the offer I have given everyone, so many times. Neither for council nor to complain, you simply....decided I was doing this to spite you and cut me out of your life. Abalia did the same. I honestly thought after everything, that I had at least earned a conversation about being cut out of your life. I never turned away from you. I merely thought you were ready to be without me, and so I looked to the next person who required my aid. As I have done since my birth. And when you did not come to correct my assumption, it reinforced it"

She would take a seat next to Calypso, and shake her head gently.
"You know, nobody has come to see me. I offer aid to those who need it, and those who know come for advice and support on their problems. But never have I ever had a person come to my house to talk about me. Never has the topic of my problems come up in conversation" she'd exhale and deflate, drifting downwards some as her tone became something akin to enforced exuberance. Like she wanted to feel anything other than what she was, but physically and spiritually could not.

"I am glad I am dying soon. This world is exhausting. Nobody acts like I think they should, there is no continuity of action. The aid I render today is forgotten tomorrow, and I am left confused as if my memories no longer hold water. That I am seeing things that don't exist. Oblivion will be a reward after all this"