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paradisabeyond2012-08-24 07:54 pm
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[Good evening, explorers! After departing from Cair Paradisa, the path was south at first, but turned west fairly early on. Skirting well south of Eldritch Forest, the travelers had camped near the edge of the Amber Steppe, not quite within sight of the forest that marks the Totem Coast. The grasses are parched brown by the heat, though greener patches mark the presence of water. It's near one of these - a small, bubbling stream leading west that Raine has chosen to follow as it will almost certainly run into the river marked on her map - that the travelers have made their camp.
The carts and wagons are arranged in a defensive circle, though the campers are free to set up their tents outside them as well as inside wher ethe rest of them are. There are small cooking fires scattered around as well as a large bonfire in the center for socializing.
Play music? Sing? Teach those poor non-Earth kids how to make s'mores? Or just sit around and socialize with others.
Or hide in your tent and ignore everyone, if you really want to.]
The carts and wagons are arranged in a defensive circle, though the campers are free to set up their tents outside them as well as inside wher ethe rest of them are. There are small cooking fires scattered around as well as a large bonfire in the center for socializing.
Play music? Sing? Teach those poor non-Earth kids how to make s'mores? Or just sit around and socialize with others.
Or hide in your tent and ignore everyone, if you really want to.]
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Their idle movements stop when he offers her the food, wondering if he had seen her earlier. She's still not hungry, but she'll feel impolite if she refuses. She nods slightly in acceptance.]
Thanks.
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Is it your first one?
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Would you like some?
[Yes, he had offered it to her, but that doesn't mean she's not going to share.
She wriggles her toes a little, causing small splashes to appear as she also takes in the nighttime noises.]
Yeah. How about you?
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I'm full. [And those words, Sheena, you'll only hear him saying them while in the Dead Zone.]
My first one here? Yeah. We were kind of in the middle of one back home. [Takes his boot off, placing them neatly beside him, together with his socks and the bandages around his ankles. Then, after folding the edge of his pants, he puts his feet into the water. It's cold and delicious and relaxing.]
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Okay. [She sets it aside for the moment. She's still not hungry, but the smell of the food may convince her stomach otherwise as they talked.]
Oh, I know what you mean about that. [All right! Something in common!] Although this is my first one here, too, I had explored a lot of places and ruins with my friends back home. So, I'm used to traveling and exploring.
[She watches him as he bares his feet, her eyes narrowing slightly in concern upon seeing the bandages. However, she doesn't say anything, instead giving him a small smile that seemed to say, "Nice, huh?"]
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Elemental Spirits.
[Wiggle. Wiggle.]
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Elemental as in...
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Elemental as in the elements: Fire, Ice, Water, and several others.
[She blinks and the wiggling stops.]
Do you know about things like that?
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Lemme guess, you were on a quest to find them and save your world. [He's SO kidding, and tossing that out there because it sounds silly! Even though it's exactly what he's been doing in his own world. If he was just someone else, he would probably laugh at that.]
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Actually, no. But you're kinda close. I was on a quest with my friends to save TWO worlds. [She can be a smart-ass, too.]
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Two, huh? [Now that honestly sounds cool, now that they are there away from those problems only, putting it on perspective. If he was still at home, he wouldn't think that's indeed too nice to have so much responsibility. Either way, please elaborate?]
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Yeah. The story's pretty complicated. The two worlds were originally one thousands of years ago, but we didn't know that as we began severing the links formed by the Summon Spirits that kept them connected to each other. Why they were still connected is also complicated, but we continued getting the Summon Spirits to help us and eventually came to the one who had originally created the item used to split the world. After I made a pact with the Spirit--called Origin--he recreated the item for us. It's called the Eternal Sword and only my friend Lloyd can wield it, and he used it rejoin the worlds.
[Elaboration, yet still unclear. "Complicated" really doesn't do the story justice. And any pride he hears in that last sentence is over Lloyd's achievement and not for anything she had done.]
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How did you get involved?
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I was sent to assassinate Colette.
But she's my friend now! I-- I couldn't kill her after seeing how nice she was, and how much she was needed.
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Have-- Have you met Colette?
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[Pauses.]
Maybe I should have mentioned that she's one of the friends from home that's here, too.
[WHOOPS.]
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I assumed that she was.
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[Yep, her simple-mindedness is showing.]
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Obvious or not it was obvious she means a lot to you if you didn't kill her in the end.
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Well, it's a bit complicated to explain, but people were suffering, and if Colette didn't do what she had to, it would have continued.
I couldn't stand that happening.
[Yep. She's a rebel; defied her orders from the King and Pope.]
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Sheena?
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Yeah?
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