<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=194682.msg11725146#msg11725146">Quote from: Mac84 on 14-10-2015, 20:16:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><em>Maori</em> was very shaken up by this revelation. <em>Shinano</em> wanted them. That was not good, not good at all. What was making it more strange was that she was not tearing off in the other direction. As <em>Effingham</em> sat down upon Maori's deck, the small destroyer Mental Model seemed to slip naturally into Effie's lap. It was only normal as Maori perched herself upon Effie's lap many times when they were in the same fleet. Usually after Maori was scolded for being "Brash", or "Loud". Maori rested her head upon Effie's bosom, and jammed her eyes shut. Right now, she didn't want to accept the reality that she may be losing a dear friend just moments after reuniting with her."Don't go."She whimpered. "If you go, you won't come back." she sniffled.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Effie sighed a little, as she stroked Maori's hair gently. She'd never been one who was open or good at expressing her emotions even at the best of times, if she was honest, and now here she was, trying to comfort one of her oldest friends, from a time before she'd even had a Mental Model. Way down at that back of her Core, she began to wonder if that had been the start of it all, the seed of what had lead her to be sent to that dreary little island with Ari and the others. She hugged her tightly. "I know how you feel, Maori." she said softly. "I was feeling the same way when Ari said that. But I have to; she's my friend, just like you, and friends don't allow friends to go haring off into danger without help." she then smiled. "Besides, I doubt that I'd end up getting sunk; not when I have the most awesome destroyer in all the Fleet escorting me." she said, patting her back to make it clear that she was meaning Maori by that.