Twenty One

[pocketsizedpal]

[Filtered to 7]

[Because he promised her he'd keep her informed of these things, Shortpack replicates the drawing 6 recently made into his journal. Then, figuring 7 would be travelling and probably less likely to pick up her journal for a while, decided to get her attention the best way he knew how. Besides, he could talk to her like this on the

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[brdskllwarrior]

[7's never had anyone inside her head besides herself, so there's startled confusion in response]

Shortpack?! Wha-where are you?

[pocketsizedpal]

[Oh...yeah. He really has to learn to prepare people for this sort of thing. Oh well]

Oh...right sorry. I'm doing the talking in your head thing, it's harmless, I promise. I just figured you'd hear this before looking in your journal.

[Way to make things awkward, Shortpack] So...uh. Here I am. ...Yeaaah.

[brdskllwarrior]

[Yeah, she's going to take a moment to process all of that.]

So .... right. [She's talking to her friend's voice in her head. Yup. Awkward.]

[A few more moments of mental flailing, and she tries to focus back on what he originally said] You'd mentioned 6 ... ?

[pocketsizedpal]

[Oh god so awkward]

Yeah, he's drawn something that look like a trident. I'm not sure what it can mean. I put it in the journal anyway, if you have it with you to take a look.

...And we could probably talk through it to make this less awkward.

Yey foresight.