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[lunarianlegacy]

[For someone who's just spent the last month in the Malnosso's not-so-tender care, Ceodore is in remarkably good shape. They drop him off at the terribly inconvenient far side of the eastern lake in New Feather clothes, but he's otherwise quite well. Not sick, not disoriented. In fact, he can't tell a single thing is missing or wrong at all. He

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[puppet_paladin]

[...Thank you, Malnosso, for waiting a few more days.]

Ceodore? They've returned you! Are you unharmed?

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[lunarianlegacy]

I don't understand.

[Somehow, everyone's avoided telling Ceodore about the moon coming to gobble the planet at home so far.

But Cecil's right. Ceodore's completely lost his appetite.]

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[puppet_paladin]

...Palom and Porom were here before, were they not? Did they tell you nothing?

[Why does he always have to be the one to share bad news?]

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[lunarianlegacy]

Well uh... they said that that guy in the hood was really Kain and that everything turned out okay at home. But you came down with an illness that they were certain you'd recover from. And that there was some girl involved.

[Translation, he only got a partial report of the events.]

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[puppet_paladin]

...And of course, they forgot to mention that the girl had obtained all eight crystals and the Eidolons, and that the moon was about to collide with our planet and consume it. You'd think that would be important enough to mention.

[Seriously, guys, not cool.]

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[lunarianlegacy]

The moon was... the one that's getting bigger?

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[puppet_paladin]

That one. Moons that grow in size are never a good sign, it seems.

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[lunarianlegacy]

But... that gets stopped. Doesn't it?

[Not that staying in Luceti is high on Ceodore's list of things to do, but now it seems going home is even more urgent.]

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[puppet_paladin]

It was about to be, before I woke in the middle of the forest. Or so we believe.

[Strange creatures have a way of making such goals hard to achieve.]

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[lunarianlegacy]

You don't know?

[That's troublesome. Although if Father says it's to be, it's guaranteed to happen since the man's the embodiment of perfection and all.]

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[puppet_paladin]

...I remember that being, a powerful attack, and then the soil beneath my feet. Nothing else.

[Of course it'll happen, they spent weeks training for it. But he still thought he'd died, when he arrived.]

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[lunarianlegacy]

[Ceodore lets out a long breath and stares at the ground. Everything's gotten brutally serious all of a sudden.]

We have to get back.

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[puppet_paladin]

Of course we do. But why would the Malnosso care?

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[lunarianlegacy]

They don't.

[Hard and bitterly spoken, but Ceodore's quite had his fill of them.]

I... I'm sorry I wasn't here.

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[puppet_paladin]

Do not say that. I was glad you weren't.

[He really was.]

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[lunarianlegacy]

Uh... huh?