There is an awkwardness to the silence after a fight. When the sword slides out of the body and the thundering hearts and heady breaths of battle reduce to quiet huffs and then to nothing. When the crushing headbutt she'd been winding up for (whether as rebuttal or in countermeasure she could not say) turns into a simple dip of her head. When the mountain and the monster fades and there is only Beri again. When false bravado shatters before she can even punch it properly, and there are no more warriors left to prove herself against.

How is a person supposed to battle against shivering confusion? The sword feels at once too heavy and too light in her hand. Mosaic lifts it and watches the pristine edge for a long moment before letting it rest on her shoulder. Again. She stands alone again.

Her knees bend, as if to pick up the now fragile wolf maiden off the floor and hold her close while she works through the confusion. She turns the motion into a simple stretch of her legs, and returns to simply standing there looming over the defeated. One hand on a blade that she called Love. The other empty, held aloft, and uncertain what to do with itself. 

"Don't look at me," she shrugs, "I'm as stupid as you are when it comes to this stuff. What's good enough? What's missing? Fuck me, I don't know."

Her hand lowers again, and hangs in the air over the Princess of the Silver Divers. Or at least, that's how she seems in the moment as she slowly uncurls on the ground. Mosaic makes no effort to pick her up this time or even reach lower. She'll have to sit up if she wants the help. The winds shift around them; salt and sand and all the promised wonders that the Sea makes to the brave.

"So come with me. I've got no answers, but we can look for them together. Help me pull that ship up, and let's leave all this behind. Even if the answer we find is terrible, or dumb... at least it'll be ours. Right?"

She smiles, and the light catches her face as it bounces off her sword. She is as radiant as the rainbow, and for once the silence of the moment she had to share with someone else wasn't awkward at all.