un: man's greatest treasure [video]

[reparo]

Since we find ourselves in a new location, and seem to have picked up some, maybe some introductions are due. I'm Hermione Granger, and I'm from England. I'm currently assigned the role of a tax collector, it's going great. [Sarcasm.] I'm sure it'll be fine - I was a modiste in Taravast, for heaven's sake...

[Quickly, a smile! Nervous, but a smile.]

What else - oh, I'm also a witch. [Which reminds her!] I'm going to start brewing potions again, since the ground isn't being rocked from side to side by the sea and the sea monster... Supplies are limited, and alternatives to the ingredients that I normally use can be weak on the ground, so I can't brew as many as I'd like. I'd ask that we all exercise some caution and not need them as much until I can get the reserves back up.

[There is a pause, as she opens her mouth to say I also don't like being treated like a child, because-] Huh. I...don't know how old I am.

[A frown, and she seems to forget that she's recording herself now, lost in her own musings:] Let's see, it was May when I come from, but was it the same month here? [To the screen, to her audience, the question:] Does this world even work in twelve months in a year? Seasons? It was quite crisp when I woke up in Taravast for the first time, maybe autumn? [And she pales.] Oh, gods, it's been almost a year...

[A shallow inhale - I want to go back home, we just ended a war, I need to see my friends, I need to grieve my friends, I need to - and a very shaky exhale. She cuts the feed off.]

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voice; un: owl lady

[traaaaaash]

Breathe, kid.

voice; 1/2

[reparo]

[Like she hasn't even considered to just stop.] Maybe I'm twenty?!

voice; 2/2

[reparo]

[A WHILE LATER.] Sorry, hello Miss Eda.

1/2

[traaaaaash]

Yeah?

[ lmao twenty still goes under "kid" to her. ]

2/2

[traaaaaash]

Hey there. It's fine. It's a lot.

[reparo]

[There's a groan, and the next words are muffled.] I thought I'd make it back home by now. How foolish.

[traaaaaash]

Well, can't blame you for hoping.

[ Eda may have been hoping herself. May find the days getting long herself. It sucks. ]

voice; un: polaris

[chromiums]

[ hermione's situation looks familiar to lorna, who's had this kind of awful realization before. fairly recently, as a matter of fact. her voice is soft when she sends her response. ]

Hermione?

voice;

[reparo]

[She hears it, but is slower to respond, needing a few moments to just pace her room and think about how long until she actually goes home, and what the consequences of that will be.]

Hi - I'm okay.

[reparo]

I know it's pointless, but I want to find out about the calendar here.

[chromiums]

[ lorna doesn't say anything, just listens until hermione's ready to talk. not too hard, she doesn't want to intrude too much when her crisis is already so public, but she listens for changes in breathing and for tears, ready to speak up or try tracking her down if she hears either. ]

It's okay if you aren't.

voice; un: dr.mccoy

[biomed]

This place asks too much of y'all.

But you made it. Don't lose sight of that.

un: daozhang | audio;

[binghua]

[Oh. Oh that's the sound of an impending crisis. Xingchen speaks softly, keeping his voice even and calm, as if speaking to a spooked animal.]

Take a breath. Center yourself. You will be fine.

video; un: wooden horse

[gautiheir]

[ He was all ready to do the usual introductions thing, but that last - ]

Whoa. Okay, uh, so if we've got people who have been here long enough to lose track, I am really not liking my odds of getting home in time for - anything.

[ He's still fighting a war! Was. Probably only one war, since they just finished slapfighting the Sreng and those invasions usually have a decent respite between, but -

- his own moment of oh, shit is probably not helping hers, so he pauses for a breath and pushes that to the side. ]

- sorry, I may be screaming inside but that doesn't mean I'm going to be rude. [ His best Dazzling Smile™. Aaaand there's that old Gautier charm. ] Sylvain Jose Gautier, a pleasure to meet you despite...everything.

un: qishan (voice)

[silverneedles]

A meeting in the Sanctuary, when we can find the time. I have some salves to pass to you.

[ And then softer, less demanding: ] If it is possible to sneak into one of the cities, we will have tea.

[traaaaaash]

Well, that shouldn't be too hard. They gotta have calendars somewhere in this city. Cities.

Weird system they've got going on here.

[reparo]

No stranger than the political war of Taravast, or the political war of Ke-Waihu. Unless you mean all the added bits.

Dragons, robots...so on.

[reparo]

[quietly,] If I say I'm not, it'll sink in and I'm scared I'll just...burrow under blankets and do nothing else.

voice;

[reparo]

Yes, well. That part isn't new.

[traaaaaash]

I meant the up-and-down thing they've got going on. But eh, who am I to judge, I live on a corpse.

video;

[reparo]

[Sir, that's a lot of enthusiasm for an introduction. This is a Wendy's.]

Hi - hello. Welcome to the group of unfortunate travellers East, I guess? [She pulls a little face, sheepish and distressed.]

Sorry about the screaming inside you just witnessed.

(voice)

[reparo]

[Such reassurring messages - one of the reasons she likes Wen Qing so much.] It shouldn't be hard to manage, I think my role affords more more movement around the place, but... I just realised that this might be the first time we've been so separated.

It will be strange to not brew together, Lady Wen.

audio;

[reparo]

I'm fine! It's fine! Just trying to figure out how old I am now, like that's something that matters. Haha! I'm fine.

un : dappled peals of the parted seas (voice)

[beitangmoran]

A tax collector, hm? That should prove interesting.

Maybe you should sit down and have a spot of tea, though. Seasons are hard to gauge, especially given that we have bene travelling over rather considerable distances, but I wager by my count, I have been here over a year and a half.

[biomed]

Sometimes we all need the reminder.

We won't be here forever, Miss Granger. Don't lose hope.