IZUMO ✬

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[ she'll approach the captain's chair keeping a respectable but comfortable distance between the two of them before she starts off. she's no good at this but... might as well start off from the beginning. ]

Have you talked to your leader or any of the others about what we saw on the moon?

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[she has his full attention, at least.]

Not yet. I was going to go see them later but I've been busy with some other stuff. Why? Did yours have something to say about it?

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[ other stuff? guess she can ask about that later... ]

Yeah, they said that it was lingering memories that were formed along with the moon. That applies to both the screaming and...thing we saw.

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...that lines up with what Swan said when I asked them about it before we went. [it was one of the first things he asked them when they met in town.] I asked why space was suddenly there, they said it's because the Realm's bringing us to places where the nova's been disturbed.

So what does that mean? That thing was somebody's memory?

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I didn't ask if it was part of someone's memory but it might be a collection of memories if you want to consider how it looked with all of the arms and the noise.

[ at least, a collection of memories would make sense to her verses one singular memory. ]

My leader went to say that we should definitely expect more changes in the future with each nova that we capture. They can't say what we should be expecting, though.

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A combination of stuff to make something that doesn't look quite right. [that does, in fact, make sense.]

If that's true, then that means we're probably going to be able to connect to somewhere else next week. Especially since we played another game today to collect nova.

[...today was not a game, but whatever.] That's good to know though. We have a better idea of what to expect.

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Right, it'll just be a matter of what kind of place we'll end up connecting to. My leader hopes that it would be friendlier but we really can count on that if the Realm doesn't decides else-wise.

[ and because, well, she needs to confirm this. ]

...do you hear screaming randomly sometimes?

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Friendlier would be way nicer than this. Like maybe a flower field. Or a city.

[...but. ah. yeah. about that...] It started not long after we got back. I thought it was just me, but it's been happening for a couple of days now.

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I suggested that the next place be my home, but my leader said there were no promises.

[ she says with a sigh and when sora confirms the screaming, well, she lowers her head. ]

Same. [ though there's just one thing: ] Is your speech affected to?

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[...uh?]

My what? [that's a kneejerk reaction.] I don't think so. Why, what happened to yours?

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[ oh. ]

I can't say certain things, or, rather, whenever I try to say certain things it comes out as the opposite.

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...that's weird. Can you give me an example?

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[ SIGHS. well, at least she's gotten good at finding things that aren't embarrassing—as embarrassing. ]

I absolutely love the Realm. It's my favorite place.

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[...he just squints.]

Sooooo now you can just tell lies really easily? [that's what he's taking from this.]

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[ closes fourteen eyes.

sora, please........... ]

I think you're so clever and wonderful.

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[...haha.]

Well that's inconvenient. When'd that start?

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[ look.... ]

Today; I woke up and suddenly found that I was like this.

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Okay...well it's not from the moon, so what do you think it is? The Realm's mad about something? Or did you break a rule maybe?

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I talked to my leader and they suggested it might be prank played but tiger but when I asked tiger they didn't know.

[ she'll grumble. ]

So, no one knows.

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[...HM.]

Are you sure Tiger was telling the truth?

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Anymore truthful than any of the other leaders here.

[ don't get her started on this, sora. ]

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[fair enough.]

Okay, I get it. [hrm.] Who else have you told besides me?

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Claude and...

[ she hesitates and thinks about how to word this. ]

—the person I seem to be drawn to for the week thus far.

[ though that person might not actually realize it but it's fine. izumo is actually not always rude to everyone ever and that's shocking. ]

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[...well give him a second.]

Claude's not a bad choice. [he respects claude, actually, so. but second of all:] Is something like this going to happen every week, you think? Last week it was all touchy-feely, and now this week it's the same but it's just for one person instead of everybody.

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[ the idea of being tormented and put through even more weeks of being cuddle buddies with someone else.... ]

I hope not. It makes it hard to think.

[ her voice trails for a moment and she'll definitely turn her face and mumble her continued response. ]

...but if I could keep it to the same person then it wouldn't be so bad.