DISCLAIMER: Phoenix wright belongs to Capcom.
A/N: Veni, Vidi is Latin for "I came, I saw." (from the famous line "Veni, Vidi, Vici" - "I came, I saw, I conquered.")
~ Veni, Vidi ~
Maya was at the train station waiting on the train from Kurain Village. Pearl was coming to visit today. It had been several days since the incident with Franziska and Maya hadn't seen or heard from the surly prosecutor since. She felt a sudden surge of guilt as she recalled the startled expression on Franziska's face that time...
I shouldn't have yelled at her like that.
Maya and little Pearl arrived at Phoenix's office and were surprised to find Detective Gumshoe waiting for them.
"Did something happen?" Pearl asked nervously, eyes wide.
"Is it a case?" Maya asked, not giving the detective time to answer the first question.
"No, nothing like that, pal," Gumshoe replied with a sheepish smile. "Actually, Ms. von Karma asked me to bring you something. She said you forgot the last time she saw you." He dug in the pocket of his trenchcoat and came up with a white envelope, which he handed to Maya. "There, that's it."
As Pearl dragged the detective off to play, Maya slowly opened the envelope. She was pretty sure she hadn't dropped anything that time at the vending machine...
She tipped the contents of the envelope onto Phoenix's desk. A slip of paper and a tiny Steel Samurai fell out onto the piles of clutter. Maya picked up the figurine and looked at it closely. It was definitely one of the ones from that vending machine. Was this a peace offering of sorts, or was it a repayment so that Franziska would not feel she owed Maya anything...?
Frowning, Maya picked up the paper that fallen from the envelope. It bore only a single line of writing:
It was not my intention to insult you.
The note was signed F. von Karma.
There had been so much more that Franziska wanted to say (to apologize, to explain, to vent) but none of it had seemed appropriate and so she ended up only writing that single, inadequate sentiment that was neither apology nor explanation. Yet somehow that handful of hastily scrawled words managed to convey the sender's confused emotions perfectly.
She didn't know what it was, but there was something about Maya Fey's battle with the vending machine that stuck in Franziska's mind. Over and over she mentally replayed the image of the girl struggling desperately to get the stubborn machine to give her the toy she wanted... and failing miserably. And then, simpleminded as she was, Maya Fey had offered Franziska a share of the spoils of that peculiar battle and Franziska (struck speechless at the time) had foolishly accepted the keychain from her.
The two young women were polar opposites: one forced to grow up too fast, the other still very much a child. And yet, on this day the two of them began to understand each other's feelings just a little bit.
~ end ~
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