(XD np)

Apollo stopped their dancing, his expression shifting from content to worry. He quickly pulled his hands away from Phantom. Almost as if in a nervous manner, Apollo shifted back on his feet a bit and put his hands to his sides.

"Are you okay?"

Apollo had noticed it, he was curious to see it for longer and maybe even stare and study Phantom's face, but he couldn't get past his own anxiety. His voice came out quiet and perhaps scared, even.

"Did I do something wrong?"

Apollo breathed out a slight sigh, although he wasn't exactly relieved.

"May I ask, oh, uh, what's the scar from?" He leaned a bit, now not as cautious as he was just a second before, trying to catch what it looked like again.

"It looks cool!" Apollo smiled, now completely taking a whole new attitude. "Are you blind in that eye?" He didn't seem to realize that what he was asking could be taken as rude.

Apollo studied Phantom's face, tilting his head a bit. He found Phantom to be very pretty, and he was very truthful in thinking the scar was cool.

"Hm? Oh! I like your face," Apollo said, a bit too straightforward for anyone's taste. "Not as marvelous as mine, but it's still very nice!"

Ruin is currently spacing out, listening to the music playing rather than the conversation that he would have found boring anyway.

Apollo nodded and smiled, backing away a bit to get out of Phantom's face as he was a bit to close for comfort.

"Should we continue dancing or do you want to take a break?" Apollo asked.

(oh Echo does Apollo happen to have like some kind of telepathy or mindreading powers bc that might be v helpful)

(however you want to do it lol I just think it would be neat/helpful if Apollo could rummage around in Phantom's head like a dresser drawer and find out what's up with his weird blurry memories)

Phantom crouched down in the grass, simultaneously resting and looking at the flowers again.

Phantom shrugged. "Maybe I am. I'm just not sure what's going on. I keep seeing...glimpses. Weird, flashing memories of things that I don't recognize, yet seem familiar. They're all too blurry for me to make out properly." he squinted as if it would help him see the images floating around his head easier. "A lot of them, there's someone else in them. I can't make them out either, but I know it's the same person almost every time." he shook his head. "I don't even know where these memories are coming from. I wonder if I had some sort of past life, and these are fragments from that."

Phantom shrugged. "I lived in Specter's dimension until a few years ago, when I started exploring this world. I don't remember being anywhere else before that." He grinned ruefully. "Although I guess these memories flying around my head are proving I don't remember everything."

Phantom met his gaze unblinkingly, then slowly nodded. "I'm not sure how your powers work, but...if you can just let me remember a few memories clearly, for now, at least, that would be best, but if you can't I understand."

Satisfied with Phantom's answer, Apollo's attitude changes very quickly.

"I could probably do something... okay, so if I do, it's gonna be super weird. You're going to have to daydream... or, well, I'm going to force you to. And it's going to be super realistic. And you probably won't want to leave that dream world. Anyhow, while you're in that vulnerable daydream, I'll just enter your mind or whatever from your daydream and search out some memories!"

Apollo flops down onto his stomach, kicking his legs and propping his chin up with his hand.

"There's some problems with that, though..."

He looks at Phantom like he wants Phantom to question whatever in the world the problems could be. What a silly god.

(hehe "dead serious" bc he died I didn't even mean to make that pun)

"Huh. That's actually not as bad as I thought it'd be," Phantom said, grinning slightly. "I'll do my best to let you wake me up or whatever. Not sure how much control I'll have in a daydream, though."