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[moonspirals]

[Friday night. Last one before school started. That was all well and good. The idea of going bowling with friends? Also perfectly good

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[wise_king]

[Somewhere down one of the lanes, Merem is content to wave.]

Hello there.

[wise_king]

This is the Rat King. And please, try not to treat him like an animal. He can communicate just as well as you.

[moonspirals]

Hello. [And there's a little bow.] It's nice to make your acquaintance.

[Hey, talking to animals ain't no thing.]

[wise_king]

I-It is a pleasure to meet you also.

[moonspirals]

I'm Usagi, but you probably heard that already. Um, do you mind if I ask...what's your relationship with this boy?

[wise_king]

We're close friends.

[moonspirals]

I see...then you're both good friends with Phantasmoon, too?

[wise_king]

[Merem looks down then back up.]

No, not at all.

[moonspirals]

But you were with her! Why else would you be, if you're not friends?

[wise_king]

That is a long story but we do have a long time.

[moonspirals]

I'd like to hear it...

[wise_king]

It starts three thousand years ago....

[moonspirals]

[She nods, focusing intently.]

[wise_king]

I was your age then. Of course, humans were also primitive then and I had special abilities. So they used and abused me. I was finally saved by the Crimson Moon, who killed all the tribal people and granted me immortality.

[moonspirals]

I know it's been a long time and the words won't mean much, but...I'm sorry. I'm sorry that people were so cruel. I feel like I was two thousand years too late to do anything.

I'd have changed it, had I been able.

[wise_king]

Everyone says that, of course. Either way, he became my idol. About 800 years ago, he created the Princess. Sometime after that, he was killed in a fight with a magi and part of his existence lives on inside the Princess. Soon he will reincarnate and take her body. That is our relationship.