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[ice_echani]

Comments

[stonyfaced]

[Congratulations, Handmaiden. Your reappearance has made Stoneface pick up a pen for the first time since he got burned. The writing comes slowly (almost painfully so) and is wobbly, but it is clearly identifiable as Stoneface's signature scrawl.]

Where are you

[ice_echani]

I am about to head to Wellspring. [Because she has an eye socket full of goop and is not sure how to clean it.] But where are you?

[stonyfaced]

I'll be there

ql?

[ice_echani]

Very well.

[spandexisyouth]

Hand Brianna! Welcome back! [Pentap.] I like your name.

You were gone for three days. I am glad you came back so quickly.

[ice_echani]

Thank you, Gai.

Only that? I am glad as well. I am glad to be back, but it is good that it was for so short a time.

[spandexisyouth]

You are welcome.

I would like to see you when you have a chance!

[ice_echani]

I would like to see you as well. I need to visit Wellspring first, to see Stoneface and to take care of a medical matter.

[white_disciple]

Handmaiden

Brianna,

I'm relieved to know you are alive [pause] again. I'd hoped that would be one thing I was right about, from what I could barely remember. I hope you aren't [pause] affected by it in any way?

Signed, Rauxes

[ice_echani]

Hello, Rauxes.

I lost my left eye, but I have not noticed anything else missing, for which I am glad.

Is returning from death not unfamiliar to you?

[white_disciple]

An eye was not quite what I'd been thinking, but perhaps that can be healed in time?

Returning from death did ring familiar to me, but I wondered if perhaps there weren't the right [pause] resources among the healers to accomplish the feat. I just felt more hope that you'd return than grief upon hearing you'd died. And not just because I knew about being 'Serenity' in the past.

... Does this mean that a name you remember after death is your real name?

[ice_echani]

I do not think so. It is gone.

I see. Then wherever you are from is fortunate, perhaps. Return from death was not something I had thought possible when I first arrived here. You know of Serenity? [right, she meant to talk to Gai about that...]

It is the name I know from my dream, but not everyone remembers their true name this way.

[pompous_today]

[Pentap pentap pentap. He is going B| at you so hard you have no idea.]

Nobody ever expects to die.

[ice_echani]

[She will have to go P| at him.]

I know. I feel as though I owe you an apology.

[...]

Where are you?

[pompous_today]

[More pentaps, 'cause what do you really say in this situation?]

I am at home.

It is a relief to see your writing again.

[ice_echani]

[Clearly this is a situation for COMMUNICATION WITH FISTS.]

I will be there as soon as I can.

[ooc: ql? set sometime after she gets the gunk outta her eye and has her chat with Stony, obvs XD]

[man_genius]

Welcome back.

[ice_echani]

Thank you.