week three | dates

[marriagebroker]

Here we go again.

You all better kiss.

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[researcherstory]

Not a bit. Their way of life is near opposite to my own, and what features I share with them are alien when paired with those from Ka Bue, just the same as the reverse there.

[ So no. That heritage will still never be hers, still remains unclaimed behind a glass door she can't unlock.

Odile smiles slightly though, turning back to Shoko. ]

I did, however, find in that overly welcoming country many who were the same -- a country of those othered in some way, whether as I had been or lost differently. It's been a very enlightening journey, just as the one here has been.

wobbles back in here

[irreversal]

So all in all, not a fruitless journey. You still gained something important for it, even if it wasn't what you came for, originally.

[ She hums thoughtfully. ]

A country of people who have been "othered," though, huh...? What was that like?

cradles you

[researcherstory]

[ As is becoming the case here... she may not leave with a companion with whom she can travel, settle, whatever else whether romantic or not, but she is gaining a number of people who won't leave her alone. ]

... Strange, truthfully. The native Vaugardians open their arms to all without question, even those that may be coming into their lands to escape who they once were, so it is a very-- colorful place, in a sense. Those like myself can find a kind of camaraderie in simply being from outside Vaugarde itself, but many have assimilated, so to say, into the culture that now surrounds them.

[ A beat. ]

I don't plan to do so myself, but it's a personal preference. It's truly not so different than living among those we have these past few weeks, really.

[irreversal]

It does kind of sound like what we've got going on at the manor in a way, huh... I bet you met all sorts of interesting people there.

[ She can't help but chuckle, though. ]

But probably not as interesting us your fellow contestants here.~

[researcherstory]

Certainly not. You all are leagues weirder than they.

[ But it is lightly fond. ]

I realize your work does little to afford you any rest, and you may not be able to travel beyond your world in general due to that, but has anyone's caught your eye as a potential vacation spot?

[irreversal]

That's easy. I'd go to Poppy, Mame-chan, or Maya's worlds.

[ Basically the ones that sound most like her own, but with possibly less cursed shit going on, ]