week two | dates

[marriagebroker]

Kiss the girl~!

Or guy.

Or person.

Or Messmer's snake.

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[researcherstory]

I would die if I tried.

[ More seriously. ]

[ordimame]

Well, then definitely don't do it!

-- why would you die??

[man who has no idea how magic works in any universe]

[researcherstory]

[ A simple way to put it...

... is right before them, actually. ]

As water is used and discarded, so is the heat. Crafts, the "magic" of my world, act the same. It pulls from the user, intent, energy, and will in one. Using Time Craft would drain a person's life near instantaneously, particularly because it asks the known laws to bend. Even going back in time a few seconds would cause someone to pass out, or so its theorized. Make sense?

[ordimame]

So someone died freezing that whole country in time? Then what was the point!!

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[researcherstory]

No, he lived. That's why we were unable to undo it.

[ "Did he survive to the end?" Let's not talk about that. ]

Worry not, Edamura. No one can manage it a second time -- the use of Time Craft was thanks to something very specific, though I am not at liberty to speak on it. Even though I very much understand it both how and why.

[ She literally Gets It All but she isn't spilling. ]

2/2 some isat spoilers

[researcherstory]

... The point was, however, grief. A land that welcomed him after he had lost his home, without question and kindness so great, one might call it naivety. He did not wish to lose a second home, and so Vaugarde was set to freeze.

[ It's painful, however. To let go. This is going to be so important later. ]

[ordimame]

[HE IS SOOOOO CONFUUUUUSED]

. . . so he was just stupid.

[researcherstory]

Yes. He was.

[ ... ]

But fear makes people do incredibly unwise things.

[ordimame]

Does that mean I can't judge them? Because I am.

Judging them.

[Edamura]

[researcherstory]

Judge all you'd like. It was still a bad thing he did.

[ ... Still, she's pinching his side. Seemingly for no reason. ]

In any case, that's all there is to it. It was quite the fuss, and impeded my travel across Vaugarde a good bit... but now they can live in peace once more. As they always did.

[ordimame]

[flinches at the pinch! swatting at her hand!!]

Well. . . that's a happy ending, at least. How did you break the spell?

[researcherstory]

Mirabelle turned it back on him, so he froze instead.

[ ..................... ]

[ordimame]

[. . .]

Oh.

[sounds. . . horrifying]

[researcherstory]

Indeed.

[ ... ... ...

LOOK THE TEA IS BEING SERVED!!!! WHOO!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!! ]

Any other questions?

[ordimame]

[scoops up his cup]

No. . . I think I've had enough for one tea ceremony.

[sniffs]

[researcherstory]

My turn then.

[ Oh no-- ]

Do you always mirror the energy of the people around you?

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[ordimame]

[. . . . . . .]

[ordimame]

I. . . don't know? Is that what I seem to be doing?

[researcherstory]

Yes. It isn't a bad thing, Edamura, but I have noticed it.

[ Whether he knows it or not. She takes a sip of her tea, closing her eyes. ]

... It is part of the adaptivity I mentioned, that you share with Maya. I simply thought I'd ask after it.

[ordimame]

[relaxing a bit when she says "it isn't a bad thing"]

Well, I don't even notice it. Maybe I feed off of everyone's energy because everyone here has such strong personalities?

[researcherstory]

[ What an interesting person he is. ]

It does make it difficult to stand out as oneself around them at times, doesn't it? When they're all so unique and willful.

[ordimame]

[a laugh]

Take one look at me, Odile-san, and tell me that I'm the kind of guy who likes to stand out.

[researcherstory]

Nor more than I do.

[ So absolutely not at all. ]

It's simply easy to get swept up and swallowed by such strong personalities. I enjoy how utterly and boringly normal you are.

[ordimame]

Why, thank you.

[PROUD]

That's the best compliment I have ever gotten.