__**So Close, Yet So Far (Alcamoth - Audience Chamber)**__ Shulk: I would have never guessed you were a princess, Melia.\\ Melia: I’m sorry I hid it from you. I was waiting for the right time to tell you, but it never came…\\ Shulk: I should have figured it out from the way you dress.\\ Melia: I dress… differently to other girls?\\ Shulk: __[Yeah, your clothes are weird.]__ –\\ Melia: You don’t like the way I dress? I suppose that’s to be expected.\\ Shulk: What do you mean?\\ Melia: Ignore me… I was just… It’s nothing.\\ Shulk: Are you suggesting my tastes are a bit less… sophisticated?\\ Melia: What an absurd question! I would never say something like that!\\ Shulk: __[I swear you were about to.]__ –\\ Melia: I was not! I have no need to learn what type of girl you prefer!\\ Shulk: Yeah… I guess not… Sorry, Melia. You’re not annoyed at me, are you?\\ Melia: No. It was my fault. It was a silly conversation anyway. Let’s just forget about it. OK?\\ Shulk: You don’t want to get back to the point you were trying to make?\\ Melia: I’d like to, one day. But… it will have to be another time.\\ Shulk: No problem. Just remember I’m here whenever you want to talk.\\ Melia: I do not intend to forget.\\ Shulk: I would have never guessed you were a princess, Melia.\\ Melia: I’m sorry I hid it from you. I was waiting for the right time to tell you, but it never came…\\ Shulk: I should have figured it out from the way you dress.\\ Melia: I dress… differently to other girls?\\ Shulk: __[Yeah, your clothes are weird.]__ –\\ Melia: You don’t like the way I dress? I suppose that’s to be expected.\\ Shulk: What do you mean?\\ Melia: Ignore me… I was just… It’s nothing.\\ Shulk: Are you suggesting my tastes are a bit less… sophisticated?\\ Melia: What an absurd question! I would never say something like that!\\ Shulk: __[S-sorry, Melia.]__ + It just felt like you were going for something along those lines…\\ Melia: Would you be quiet?! Let’s just forget this conversation ever happened. How about that?\\ Shulk: All right, if you’re sure… But I am really sorry, Melia. That was dumb, what I just said.\\ Melia: You don’t need to apologise. It was me being silly. I put you on the spot.\\ Shulk: Melia… I look at you and all I see is you. I don’t care if you’re a High Entia, a Homs, a Nopon or a Machina. You’re my friend. You don’t have to be anything but what you are.\\ Melia: For you to say so much is appreciated, Shulk.\\ Shulk: So… don’t worry about it! I like you the way you are.\\ Melia: Then I shall remember that. And keep being me.\\ Shulk: I would have never guessed you were a princess, Melia.\\ Melia: I’m sorry I hid it from you. I was waiting for the right time to tell you, but it never came…\\ Shulk: I should have figured it out from the way you dress.\\ Melia: I dress… differently to other girls?\\ Shulk: __[It’s not a bad thing.]__ +\\ Melia: Really? That is quite a relief. I don’t really know what other girls wear, so I was worried…\\ Shulk: Clothes really aren’t that important. I like you just the way you are. You could be a princess, a pauper, or even from a crazy alien world! I’d still be your friend. I always will be.\\ Melia: If you keep talking like that, you’ll get back in my good books. But I do wonder what it would be like if I were not a princess…\\ Shulk: __[I have no idea.]__ –\\ Melia: I suspect things might have been somewhat different.\\ Shulk: How do you mean?\\ Melia: We might have been closer…\\ Shulk: Really? You think it would make that much of a difference?\\ Melia: Sometimes… I’m jealous. I mean… of others. I don’t seem to fit in. //And… you do not share the feelings that I have for you…//\\ Shulk: You don’t need to worry about any of this, Melia. Remember, you’re…\\ Melia: I know. I’m me, and I don’t need to be anyone else. You’re right.\\ Shulk: And don’t you forget it!\\ Shulk: I would have never guessed you were a princess, Melia.\\ Melia: I’m sorry I hid it from you. I was waiting for the right time to tell you, but it never came…\\ Shulk: I should have figured it out from the way you dress.\\ Melia: I dress… differently to other girls?\\ Shulk: __[It’s not a bad thing.]__ +\\ Melia: Really? That is quite a relief. I don’t really know what other girls wear, so I was worried…\\ Shulk: Clothes really aren’t that important. I like you just the way you are. You could be a princess, a pauper, or even from a crazy alien world! I’d still be your friend. I always will be.\\ Melia: If you keep talking like that, you’ll get back in my good books. But I do wonder what it would be like if I were not a princess…\\ Shulk: __[Nothing would change.]__ +\\ Melia: I suppose not. I would most likely still have met all of you and travelled with you. But… I don’t know, Shulk. Sometimes I look at everyone and I get very jealous.\\ Shulk: You do? Why?\\ Melia: Everyone is so at ease with each other. They get to be themselves. I was brought up as a member of the High Entia imperial family.\\ Shulk: But you’re not stuck in this stuffy palace anymore. You’re free now. So go on, show it off! Do something really crazy! It’ll be our secret!\\ Melia: You mean right now, in front of you?! No, I’m too embarrassed. I can’t. Please don’t make me, Shulk.\\ Shulk: Haha. You don’t have to. It’s fine. But give it some thought!\\ Melia: I shall take your advice into consideration. And maybe one day you will see me do something… crazy.