[Dragonmail: Reilanin]

[transfer_student]

Reilanin:

I've...

somehow lost a duck. [sorrow]

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[winterwhite]

Lost a duck?

[transfer_student]

One of your ducks is missing.

I'm not quite sure how.

[winterwhite]

Ah... but they were bound to the pond.

Did you take one out?

[transfer_student]

I didn't, I just came by to feed them today and one of them was missing.

[winterwhite]

Are you sure?

[transfer_student]

I'll look around for it some more.

[time passes]

There's some blood on the rug...

[winterwhite]

[waiting, waiting... maybe it drowned? can ducks drown? she's never considered it because they swim so well. maybe it was hungry? too hungry?? but no, nova has been looking after them, they should be fed... maybe he talked too much and forgot to feed them?? plausible, but no, she can't believe that's the reason... maybe it just got through the binding somehow? but she's certain it was set tightly... d-does that mean the other one could go free at some point?? pendleton??

terrible, terrible thoughts

somehow she is taken aback by the news because it is so not what she was thinking]

Why is there blood on the rug?

[transfer_student]

[omz Reilanin he doesn't know this is a mysterious duck murder that needs to be solved

but he only has ONE CLUE

except Alex is back? maybe Alex knows?

.............

...okay Alex knowing DID NOT MAKE IT BETTER]

...Alex said it died.

[winterwhite]

It died??

[but... but it was in the pond... wouldn't it have died in the pond?? unless... unless he was hungry? ...but alex doesn't like birds to eat... or things in the water... or birds that are in the water!]

It... it didn't even have a name... [she didn't even know if it was male or female actually, not that it would have stopped the naming process at all]

Was it the yellow one, or the blue one?

[...that might determine how sad she is]

[transfer_student]

The yellow one.

Alex can probably explain [when he's done being a jerk]

[winterwhite]

[what! but she liked the yellow one! (please note this answer would be the same if it were the blue duck)

she scowls over this and probably makes gabriel nervous while she does it]

I'll ask him later, I suppose.

Maybe we can get another when I get back...

[transfer_student]

I can help, if you like.

It's a shame about the original, though. [but totally Alex's fault omz!]

How are things over there?

[winterwhite]

Mm... it was such a trial to get the first two... maybe it's all right like this... [ sigh ]

Oh, well. It's all right. It's not very fun by myself.

[transfer_student]

You're alone?

Have you tried to find your player?

[winterwhite]

Ah, no, not really alone, but for going out, it's just me.

I've met Theresa, yes. I've bound myself at her house.

[transfer_student]

[ahhhh he really met her!]

What was that like?

[winterwhite]

[ ...insert shrug here. ]

We discussed the issue of my being here and she allowed me to stay. Then I went to find the Asha.

[transfer_student]

I mean...

Wasn't it strange to meet her?

[winterwhite]

[ ...was it? ]

Not really. I was expecting to, sooner or later. She had already established herself as a person, so there wasn't much to consider strange... [ almost as though theresa were the alt lol ]

[transfer_student]

I just feel like it would be important. Meaningful. [INFURIATING] Something like that?

[winterwhite]

An establishment of sorts, I suppose.

[transfer_student]

Do you like her?

[winterwhite]

[ that's a better question.

she isn't sure. there doesn't seem to be a reason to? even with earlier concerns, what her purpose is, why she was needed... it doesn't seem to be an issue anymore for either of them. she understood that when she saw gunnar. acknowledged, moved on from, both of them.

nova doesn't like players. neither does alex. but she knows a few. she doesn't mind some of them. some of them are worse. it's like people, regular people. nothing special. ]

I suppose so.

She has a lot of different teas...

[transfer_student]

[haha wtf Reilanin he is so confused]

Are those things related?

[winterwhite]

She doesn't mind if I use any of them. That's nice of her.

[ she doesn't really know, tbh, but that seems to be a point in her favour ]

I don't think I dislike her. She is open with me, and has done her best to be helpful.

And she has never considered me a mistake. I find I am grateful for that.