IN HENRY'S DEFENSE, they totally did work. At least when it came to expelling hauntings. But that was home, and this was here. Just as the radio function on Heather's 'Gear has never exploded into static to alert her to the presence of nearby monsters, she's pretty sure that the only way the candles are keeping anything away from the house right now is by the suffocating smell. Nothing supernatural about that.
But ANYWAY...
"Well... we were in the same town when you showed up. First thing he did was call me up on the phone. Almost begged me to come down from my hotel room and stop him from getting on Carl and flying all the way back to New Bark, just to attack you. Maybe even try to kill you."
Actually, definitely try to kill him, at that point.
"He was a total mess. Shaking, yelling... Even poor Carl was kind of freaked out-- I remember the second I was able to get Envy to let go of the halter, he took off. Anyway, what followed that was... a long conversation. I was able to calm him down, convinced him to leave you alone-- or. Well. Kind of. For the time being."
They both knew Envy had promptly broken his promise once the opportunity struck, but HE'S GOTTEN BETTER SINCE THEN. No need to dwell on that.
"The thing is, the reason he called me, specifically, to come talk some sense into him was because not too long before that... something similar happened to me."
She shakes her head a little, drawing one leg up to her chest and wrapping an arm around it.
"I won't launch into another freaking odyssey, you've listened to me flap my lips enough today... and maybe you saw that video I posted a few weeks ago anyway. Or not, it was at ass o'clock in the morning. But long story short... someone from my past showed up. Someone who'd taken something very important away from me. Someone who I'd dedicated my very life to killing, once. And I tried to do it. Here, in Johto."
A dry, mirthless chuckle.
"Burned some bridges in the process, lemme tell ya. I think only one person supported it, wanted me to go through with it. That was Envy. ... But I couldn't. I couldn't do it. The reasons why are... irrelevant, to what we're talking about. What's important is when I got back, and I told him I hadn't been able to kill her... I don't think he understood, hell, I don't think I even totally understood why I couldn't-- but it stuck with him. He remembered. So, when you came, and he wound up in the exact same position I'd been in... he called me. Instead of charging off with guns blazing, he reached out, to me. Because he knew I'd stop him from making the same mistake I did."
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But ANYWAY...
"Well... we were in the same town when you showed up. First thing he did was call me up on the phone. Almost begged me to come down from my hotel room and stop him from getting on Carl and flying all the way back to New Bark, just to attack you. Maybe even try to kill you."
Actually, definitely try to kill him, at that point.
"He was a total mess. Shaking, yelling... Even poor Carl was kind of freaked out-- I remember the second I was able to get Envy to let go of the halter, he took off. Anyway, what followed that was... a long conversation. I was able to calm him down, convinced him to leave you alone-- or. Well. Kind of. For the time being."
They both knew Envy had promptly broken his promise once the opportunity struck, but HE'S GOTTEN BETTER SINCE THEN. No need to dwell on that.
"The thing is, the reason he called me, specifically, to come talk some sense into him was because not too long before that... something similar happened to me."
She shakes her head a little, drawing one leg up to her chest and wrapping an arm around it.
"I won't launch into another freaking odyssey, you've listened to me flap my lips enough today... and maybe you saw that video I posted a few weeks ago anyway. Or not, it was at ass o'clock in the morning. But long story short... someone from my past showed up. Someone who'd taken something very important away from me. Someone who I'd dedicated my very life to killing, once. And I tried to do it. Here, in Johto."
A dry, mirthless chuckle.
"Burned some bridges in the process, lemme tell ya. I think only one person supported it, wanted me to go through with it. That was Envy. ... But I couldn't. I couldn't do it. The reasons why are... irrelevant, to what we're talking about. What's important is when I got back, and I told him I hadn't been able to kill her... I don't think he understood, hell, I don't think I even totally understood why I couldn't-- but it stuck with him. He remembered. So, when you came, and he wound up in the exact same position I'd been in... he called me. Instead of charging off with guns blazing, he reached out, to me. Because he knew I'd stop him from making the same mistake I did."