Let's pretend the language barrier. Doesn't exist.

[liveforhersake]

[Many moons had passed since Leysa said goodbye to Grandfather and ventured into the world. Through a strong will and a cunning mind, she had overcome great adversaries and crossed strange and terrifying lands. With her precious bundle weighing heavily on her back, Leysa fearlessly faced her next trial. Perhaps, she thought, this would be the place

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[ghostly_nyx]

[Oh great. A cubone. Nyx was just about to float away and ignore the stupid thing, just in case it started wailing. But then...
She had to open her mouth. As soon as Leysa had gotten out that first line, Nyx completely forgot about her train of thought, and approached her. Is it panic time? I think so.]

Hey! hey, hold up, what was that first thing you said?

[liveforhersake]

[This is a human unlike any Leysa has encountered before. But though she may be a human, Leysa cannot ignore an anxious heart. She unshoulders her bundle and unties it, revealing a smashed pile of stone that may have once been a gravestone.]

Lavender Tower has fallen. Destroyed in the name of progress. Greed took my mother as flesh and bone, and greed took my mother as stone. Where once we lived, had lived, were quiet... a radio tower is being built.

[ghostly_nyx]

[This talk is kind of confusing, but she definitely understood one thing.]

They destroyed the tower?! They can't do that! What about all the graves there?! What happened to- what- [She stops, and tries to calm down.]
...You know what happened to the other graves?

[liveforhersake]

[Leysa falls silent for a moment. Then, head bowed, she speaks.]

I could only save what remains of stone-mother. Grandfather's home carries a few memorials, but the others... fell with the tower. Crushed, swept away, gone to dust.

[ghostly_nyx]

[Congratulations, Leysa. You've known Nyx all of a minute, and you are seeing her just about as upset as she will ever be.]
They seriously... Ugh.

Didn't anybody try t'stop 'em?

[liveforhersake]

We did our best to save our home. Many humans had loved ones resting there... Even they did what they could.

But avarice is a far greater foe than any small creature can conquer. Protests and petitions were for naught. For the sake of a town that was no longer small and eerie, the tower came down.

[ghostly_nyx]

I'll never understand humans.

Y'know, you guys always kinda annoyed me, but... I guess we're kinda in the same boat, huh? I guess, uh... You ever need a hand 'round here or somethin'...
[what is being nice this is awkward.]

[liveforhersake]

[Leysa regards this creature curiously. While she has the outside of a human, her words...]

A warrior should stand alone. I ask only one thing, kindred spirit: a story. What is your connection to the Lavender Tower?

[ghostly_nyx]

Th'tower's been my home for as long as I can remember.
[she hesitates. She probably could just leave it at that, and it would make no difference, but...]
One'a those graves was mine.

[liveforhersake]

[No more needs to be said. It was known that humans were not buried in the tower while it still stood.]

I am sorry your stone-self could not be spared. You have suffered an injustice, kindred spirit.

Are you without a resting-place, or will you go to be with the all-mother now?