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phantasmalrift2018-09-06 11:57 pm
phantasmods) wrote in phantasmalrift2018-09-06 11:57 pm
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DUNGEON LOG - TELOVIA MINES
The day dawns bright and early - the same as most every expedition. The only difference is that you'll need to take the teleportation pad to Lodestone as a starting point - the gliders and drones are already there. There's clouds on the horizon, though, so if you're going to take a glider and go, you'd better get going.
There's some new additions, though, to the usual group of androids seeing you off. Tau is checking over the drones ready to carry those who can't or won't use the gliders, and Muon is practicing opening and collapsing the wings of a glider with bright yellow sails. She grins at anyone who approaches, shooting them a thumbs up.
"Don't worry about getting lost or falling behind! As long as Tau's here, they'll keep us all together."
And with that bit of bright cheer, it's off towards the mountains you go...
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From the air, the remains of the mining town are almost impossible to tell from any other part of the forest. The trees - especially the old ones - are much thinner, and that's really the only sign of what's below.
But Muon's bright yellow glider, leading the way, dips down into the treeline before landing in an open space, and anyone who isn't paying enough attention to follow will feel their glider being herded in the same direction by Tau's power - control not outright taken, but more of a nudge, like, hey buddy it's this way. The group lands just beyond the border of the Fissure - a tiny stable spot in whatever's left of this world.
And a good thing, too, because landing in the Fissure itself could prove quite difficult...
There's some new additions, though, to the usual group of androids seeing you off. Tau is checking over the drones ready to carry those who can't or won't use the gliders, and Muon is practicing opening and collapsing the wings of a glider with bright yellow sails. She grins at anyone who approaches, shooting them a thumbs up.
"Don't worry about getting lost or falling behind! As long as Tau's here, they'll keep us all together."
And with that bit of bright cheer, it's off towards the mountains you go...
----
From the air, the remains of the mining town are almost impossible to tell from any other part of the forest. The trees - especially the old ones - are much thinner, and that's really the only sign of what's below.
But Muon's bright yellow glider, leading the way, dips down into the treeline before landing in an open space, and anyone who isn't paying enough attention to follow will feel their glider being herded in the same direction by Tau's power - control not outright taken, but more of a nudge, like, hey buddy it's this way. The group lands just beyond the border of the Fissure - a tiny stable spot in whatever's left of this world.
And a good thing, too, because landing in the Fissure itself could prove quite difficult...
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You... I... perhaps it's just...
[She can't find any description of the situation that seems to make sense, though.]
Is everything all right?
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Yuuri's smile turns a little wan and with that, starts to look a bit more genuine. ]
It's nothing to worry about, really. [ which isn't the same as "everything's fine". ] I'm just a little worn out.
[ Except there's a silent thrum in the air, like a ripple of piano notes, felt rather than heard and the feeling it brings it exhaustion, upset and a horrible empty sense of grief. ]
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But either way...]
I cannot simply choose not to worry.
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[ And Yuuri shouldn't ask her to. It's not exactly fair.
Letting out a long sigh, Yuuri rubs her face and then sits there, not quite meeting Arianna's gaze. ]
Have you seen those little white flowers?
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[This is the least Arianna's ever liked a flower that wasn't trying to kill her.]
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[ That's all she has to say, really.
She sits there in a sort of miserably companionable silence with Arianna for a moment, before she can bring herself to speak again. ]
A lot of it was... you already know. [ The mall. The Fantasy Sweet. Ruu-chan. ] But...
[ Breathe in. Breathe out. ]
After that day at school, when it all started, I never saw my parents again.
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That uncomfortable pressure makes a good effort, but the idea of any force in the universe being able to prevent Arianna from giving Yuuri a much-needed hug right now is whatmakesyouhaha.wav.]
I never even realized...
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It's not like I've talked about it much. Which is awful, they're my parents, but I...
[ There's a whole world of implication present in the silence Yuuri falls into. Maybe it says something that she'd been so close to hysterical with grief over the loss of her sister, but remembering her parents simply results in this achy, detached sadness. ]
Is it wrong that– that we didn't save them? If they could save Ruu-chan and Megu-nee, then– then should I have asked if we could have saved my parents, too?
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...I wonder that as well, sometimes. I never thought to try to save anyone from my world. Perhaps I should have. I might have made Sir Bertrand very happy, or Dame Artelinde, or Lady Gradriel.
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[ But anyone who knows anything about Yuuri Wakasa would have known that Ruu would have always been her first choice. If it had, indeed, come down to a choice. ]
We'd run ourselves ragged if we tried to save everyone. But sometimes I just wonder...
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I wonder if that is a mercy. Knowing what I could have done differently always seemed to make things harder.
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[ That's something Yuuri and Arianna both know very well. ]
I just think sometimes, it... would've been nice. To introduce her to you, and Junpei, and everyone else.
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[Sigh.]
I suppose we can only look forward.
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[ It's what they all fought so hard to be able to do, after all. ]
Driving myself insane with the maybes won't do any good. Not when I've already been so lucky.