Not Much But It's Home [Vivi]

"Heya! Uhm, actually to be completely honest?" Sarah's hand went to the back of her head, scratching a little and multi-tasking the motion by pulling out a tangle that she had felt for a little while. "I was staying with him for awhile after my mom, I had my own room and everything though so it wasn't like ... that. It was just... needed somewhere to live until I could afford my own place with my job."

She looked over at the brownie pan, "I... I broke up with Macht." She blurted out. She didn't know if Macht had told her yet but she wanted to. "It wasn't because I don't like him or anything, it was because I'm afraid I'm getting oo codependant with him... I feel a little enabled to not get my shit together being cared for there. So I just, I needed space to be me, time to adjust, and to grieve."

Sarah grabbed a few plates and set them down next to the brownie pan so that they could use them for pizza and brownies once the pizza got there. "I thought you'd... you'd like to know. I don't plan on getting back together with him, I think he's upset with me but I could just be projecting."

"I'm not really sure, but I'm just gonna give it some time, you know?" Sarah's apartment had stools next to a breakfast nook along the kitchen. It sounded fancier than it was, truth be told her place was a pit. Of course, she had really put a lot of effort into making it her own place through and through but she had been gone so much working or going to school or training that it never really reflected her efforts.

"I'm hoping he can be amicable about it, I know that it wasn't like a 'I don't like you I'm breaking up with you' it's specifically like a 'I'm having issues, here are the issues I'm having I need space to be by myself'. Still, I worry because of timing but like, that's part of the reason."

She looked at her missing arm, "I really hope I figure out who Aegis was. I have something to take from them." It filled her with a mindless rage that she had yet to actually beat Aegis. The door buzzed and Sarah walked over and pressed the button, letting the pizza delivery guy onto the ground floor. It'd still be a minute or so with the elevator wait and ride to her floor.

"Did you have to battle any of those things?" She asked, "You seem to be pretty unharmed but sometimes it's hard to tell."

"Yeah... Valo and Levi, by chance?" She asked as she thought about it. Those were the two who had talked to her. "I'm thinking they all might have gone to our school, if I find Aegis..." She trailed off a little. She didn't address Macht and dating because she knew down that conversation trail led her being a little bummed and she didn't want to second guess herself. This was what she needed and she wasn't in a place where she could be emotionally available or supportive to Macht, just as she was sure he wasn't in a place to be that for her either. They needed to find their own coping methods that didn't rely on the other in her opinion.

"I'm glad you only got some light injuries," She looked at her stump, "Yeah uh, Aegis. Large guy, black, didn't get a look under the mask. He went unconscious mid fight, but he cut it off with my old sword. I kept fighting after that, for quite awhile. Finally passed out from blood loss when some other thing came for him, a thing that let out a terrible screeching sound."

Her hand rubbed over the spot where the arm had been cut off and the door buzzed. Sarah walked over with the cash in hand, doing the normal greeting before handing over the rolled up bills. "Keep the change! Have a good night and stay safe okay?" She remembered the warning she had received.

'don't go out after dark'

Sarah wasn't sure what was going on but it all felt so chaotic. She set the pizza down on the breakfast nook next to where she and Vivi had been seated on stools, and grabbed a few paper plates, setting them next to the pizza and breadsticks. She tore off a few paper towels too, and pulled down a couple glasses, "Want some ice water? Or some iced tea maybe? I also have... apple juice and root beer."

"Brother? I didn't realize you two were related," She answered back but at the mention of Aegis she got a little upset, but hid it completely. She didn't let it go without comment though, "Whether through weakness of their willpower or weakness of surrendering themselves, they cost me an arm. My weakness cost me it too, but I paid the price in losing the arm. They didn't pay a price, not yet. They haven't paid enough."

Sarah was very set against punishing whoever had been Aegis, knowing full well the lengths at which she would go to hurt them and the person who created Aegis. Of course, she already had a plan for the one who made Aegis, now it was purely just finding the one who was him. She grabbed the rootbeer from the fridge, uncapping it and pouring some root beer as Vivi showed off her rock hard ab-- scar.

"Huh, looks a little like mine." She said as she pulled her shirt up over her stub where her arm was. The mark where her arm used to be was very visible and similar in fashion to the one vivi had. "Probably just means you have something inside of you, something desperate." She pulled the shirt down. She had known what her mark did, she had discovered it while training by herself, she remembered what she had done to the area around it.

"Pray you never access that power. I think... I think it's the same weakness they had." She didn't understand it completely, but she knew how dangerous she had gotten.

"The snakes..." Sarah nodded, "Yeah I've heard from them. Baba, or Shinsuke, he's one of the ones I fought. I visited him in prison, we talked for a little while." With her shirt back down she tried to think about what Vivi's ability would do, and she wanted to know really badly. She thought that if she knew, Vivi and herself, it might help Vivi to know when and if she would be desperate enough to use it. Sarah remembered how much faster the girl had seemed the last time she saw her, but no longer had that ability to gauge someone's speed outside of witnessing it first hand.

"I fought him and another, Yoshi, who apparently has some ability to take a bullet to the head without the bullet actually penetrating. Outside of that, Baba has an ability too but.. that one I'm keeping to myself. Just... don't get confident if you fight him. He's tougher to put down. I guess these guys, these two members knew Macht... used to run with them in a gang or something."

It was a huge thing that had Sarah realizing how little she knew about Macht and how she might feel about him if she knew the whole truth. It was a red flag. "Baba told me that the next time I saw him I'd want to kill him, and to avoid going out late at night if I can. I haven't seen him yet, but I've been out a night and so far nothing. I was starting to wonder if they and the whole thing with Aegis and them were somehow connected but... it's doubtful. different styles, very quantity over quality the snakes are, and Aegis and them seemed very quality over quantity."

She couldn't remember if Vivi had been there that day in the mall, "What's your experience with them?"

"Yeah, experience is a word for it. I think I can handle it though, at least as much as I feel like handling." She admittedly didn't care about the welfare of the school or most of the students in it. She cared about a few people and that was it, the rest could burn and she wouldn't shed a tear. Still, the idea of testing her might was intriguing, testing her strength against Baba and Yoshi, a matchup she had wanted to do by herself, to take them both on at once.

"Yeah I get those vibes too, I just get this overwhelming reassurance vibe that I'll be able to handle it after everything that happened with Aegis and the others." She thought about her arm and what it could do. She wouldn't be able to use it at the school unless she knew those she cared for were far away from it, the beast in her shoulder.

"Maybe it's overconfidence, or maybe it's disbelief that these guys amount to anything considering the weak ass attack at the mall. I know that it was an intentional loss for the most part, that much I gather. Whatever we did that day, we helped them in their end goals."

She grabbed a slice and bit into it, having to take another two bites to keep up with the stretching cheese that refused to break. Once she swallowed it down she had to ask Vivi something, "How have you been doing, with getting stronger? I mean it wasn't long ago that I was able to size up your capabilities but I mean your convictions, you able to take these guys on and go for the kill if necessary?"