Let her cook.

You find a seat nearby and lean back with a sigh. It's easy to forget how exhausting using Bunny Hop can be when it isn't a place you've frequented often. When travelling back to Castle Phoenix, it's like using your Hearthstone in World of Warcraft, or Return in the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, but when you need to jump somewhere new, or a place you've hardly been, it's at least twice as straining. That isn't to mention the increase in stamina needed to bring multiple people along with you. Still, you feel incredibly fortunate to have it to begin with. Thank you, Lepo.

Her talk of the RPG-like class system of this world makes you ponder. You've been able to forgo the system all together in very unique ways, which is how you have Bunny Hop to begin with. If Goa is real, you wonder how he or she feels about something like that, or why the system exists to begin with. Either way, it's hard to feel resentment over your position anymore. You've owned it and grown stronger because of it. Elok may have created what you are, but he's no god. He'll fall.

"Done!" Vivi holds two vials up in her hands. In her left, blue and bubbling, in her right, green and foamy. "Are you ready?"

You stand up from your chair. "Ready for what?" you ask.

She mumbles something beneath her breath and turns to looking rather serious. She then splashes your chest with the bubbling blue liquid, and splashes her own with the rest of it. Suddenly, the glowing sparkles of mana rise up from the ground, and you feel the tingle of some kind of magic taking effect. "All right. Now I need you to be willing, and then take all of this potion into your mouth. Don't swallow it though. Definitely don't. Trust me."

"That sounds incredibly ominous. Do I have to?"

"If you want to know my story, the easiest way is for you to see it yourself." She thrusts the foamy green potion into your hand. "So keep that in your mouth, and then I'll tell you what to do next. This is some ancient enchantment magic. You'll be able to briefly see my memories as you're living them."

"You trust me that much? That means a lot."

"... I do," she whispers. She glances down bashfully as colour starts to fill across her nose, but after a moment, her bright blue eyes turn back up at you. "So I'd like if you trusted me. Please. Keep it in your cheeks, and I'll explain what comes after. All right?"

You sigh and bring the vial up to your nose. It's lemony. With a shrug, you do as she says. You throw it back like a shot, but keep it in your mouth. All in all, it's rather tasty, which is great considering that you've been warned not to swallow. You don't know how long you'll have to stay like this, nor can you speak.

"Okay." She places a tender hand against the side of your face, and the other on your shoulder. Getting on her toes, she reaches the level of your lips, and hovers her own just an inch away. Her voice is even quieter now--perhaps timid, embarrassed to say what comes next. "Now Kyle. Listen closely. I need you to... give me the potion to drink."

Before you can think about that further, she kisses you with heated passion. Her grip around you tightens, and you can't help but wrap your hands around and tug her in close by her lower back. She moans softly as the two of you embrace. Then as the kiss lingers and your mouth opens, the potion within passes to her, like a raunchy kiss that steals your gum. She gulps it down, but the kiss continues. You're not certain if you're meant to stop, but she doesn't say anything. Instead, a long moment goes by of you holding one another, and enjoying the warmth of each other's lips.

When she finally pulls back, her exhale out is shaky. "Got carried away," she says under her breath. She speaks one more magic phrase, and at last, the spell begins taking effect.