2 panel comic. Panel 1: Isaac is talking to Vae and Caelle: 'Wait a minute, didn't you two grow up together and live together for like a hundred years? How did it take you so long to tell each other how you felt...?' Caelle and Vae both stare at the floor, looking embarrassed. Caelle mumbles: 'Oh, uhh... Well, um... Uh. You see...' Panel 2: Flashback to years ago. Vae is staring intensely at the floor, sweating and thinking to herself: 'She's my only friend. The only person I've ever loved or even liked. I love her so much it feels like I'm dissolving. Without her, I have nothing. Without her, my life is over. I can never tell her how I feel or I'll lose everything. Besides, it's not like she loves me back. We've known each other for over a century. If she felt the same way, she definitely would've made a move by now, right?' Meanwhile, Caelle is happily daydreaming and thinking to herself: 'Wow I sure do love my best friend Vae who is so cool and smart and pretty and I wanna spend the rest of my life with her and be her loyal knight or her handsome prince and she'll be my beautiful princess like in the stories we used to read together as kids. These are normal platonic thoughts that everybody has about their friends I'm pretty sure.'

They were like that for an embarrassingly long time

The killer combo of fear and obliviousness