♪ tenth hymn. [Action/Voice]

[seleniahymn]

[To say that these past weeks have been difficult would be putting it far too lightly, and placing her ongoing situation into a kinder light that hardly matched the turmoil she felt. Everyone she had spoken with had acted so strangely around her that she wasn't sure what to do or what to think, leading her to avoid speaking with anyone

Comments

That took longer than I thought. :|a

[subethical]

[Well, a book smacking him in the face certainly wasn't the worst of welcomes considering his current condition. Jade responds stiffly, sounding only a bit disgruntled if anything. Re-learning to swim in an awkward form like this was rather irksome. ]

More or less.

How could you. :|a

[seleniahymn]

[For once, Tear is at a loss for what to say. She had heard, and sometimes seen what had happened to people who would go missing in the forest, but to come back as something like this?]

Uncle, how...? What in the world happened?

[Action] I' a shark, I have fins? 8D

[subethical]

Well, if I were to venture a guess, I suppose it's just the usual misfortune one normally experiences living here. A residential hazard if you will.

[So, she still thought of him as an 'uncle' did she? Quite charming indeed. Now, was this just a slip of her tongue, or had their heads been mettled around with again? Now let's see... What was the cover the Malnosso gave these so-called 'experiments' back then? Something about the forest, if he wasn't mistaken.]

Now Tear, did I hear you say something about Luceti Valley?

[Action] The most adorable fins there ever were. 8D

[seleniahymn]

Y-yes... [Sorry if it takes her some moments to respond properly, Jade. She's still baffled by your current form. ]'

I wasn't aware you were gone...

[Voice/Action]

[lost_pig_boy]

[Hn.

Wandering lost.

Hey. They might collide!]

Yes. It is happening again?

[Voice/Action]

[seleniahymn]

[By collide you mean not any time soon, right?]

... What do you mean by happening again?

[Voice/Action]

[lost_pig_boy]

[It's Ryoga, he could, but probably not today.]

...You don't actually think that it was real...

Do you?

[Voice/Action]

[seleniahymn]

... And if I did? [Because right now to her, it is very real. Regardless of what else she may have heard from others.]

[Action]

[cakeblocked]

[What an awful week it's been. Van's here, Tear still doesn't know him, Asbel is stupid, Asch is paranoid, Xion is on edge now that Van's here too -

Siiigh. It's times like these that one should just flop down by the river's edge, to settle down for some time of peace, maybe to throw some rocks or let the water pass over his hand. Yes. Inner peace.]

[Action]

[subethical]

[Water passing over his hand you say? |D

If Luke's feeling like paying attention today, he may feel the water ripple just slightly, before something big sharply nudges his hand. The touch is brief, but far too forceful to be your regular river fish. Just as quickly though, whatever bumped him seems to vanish beneath the surface, leaving the water still.

... Except, of course, for the giant shadowy figure lurking beneath the surface of the water. Yes. The water is quite peaceful today Luke.]

[Action]

[cakeblocked]

[Inner peace. Inner peace. Inner WHAT.

Luke jerks his hand out of the water once it's bumped against - that wasn't a regular fish or a log, that was... something big. It was too forceful. He holds his hand for a few seconds, then leans over to see what's in there -

And ends up scooting back a little. Yes, he sees that giant... something in there. And while he does have his sword with him, it's... kind of intimidating to see something huge down there and not know what it is.

So he just stares warily down at the water. No peace for him today, it seems. ): ]

[Voice]

[de_bel_survivor]

...What about it, Tear?

[Responding not just because of the term, but because of memories of being her 'brother-in-law'.]

[Voice]

[seleniahymn]

[It's Kouki... Out of all of Asbel's brothers and sisters he was the one she favored most, but hearing voice does nothing to calm her anxiety.]

Right now... it's very different, isn't it?

[Voice]

[de_bel_survivor]

[Hm...She's talking about Luceti Valley, and her question about it being 'different'.]

Different in what way?

[Voice]

[seleniahymn]

[... How to word this when she thinks the Luceti she remembers is the real one?]

The way everyone acts... It makes me wonder if no one is daring to tell me something I should know.

[consultmybooks]

[Tear's question makes Giles go cold for several seconds, staring at his journal without seeing it, his mind forcibly transported to a hazy elsewhere.]

...I'm afraid "Luceti Valley" means a great deal.

What about it?

[seleniahymn]

... If you don't mind, I would prefer know what it means to you before I answer your question.

[consultmybooks]

Luceti Valley is...was...a place. An experiment of the Malnosso's. We lived there, the village, I mean. We thought we were family. We worshiped "The Great One" and had a festival every year and people did not come back from the dead.

That's a bit of what it means. To me, at least.

[seleniahymn]

... And it sounds a lot like the LucetiI know, rather than this one we are currently in.