[Both being able to swim and less cultists. Both are better than the alternative for sure.
As for her question, the answer is... Complicated, and he's not sure it's helpful to tell her that they probably could make decent improvised weapons from the bones of all the dead bodies in this room. Somehow that probably won't be encouraging, and he knows she has enough to be worrying about right now, so he'll leave that part out in favor of a single, but still more positive case.]
Someone has a mace, which I think they got from one of the shrines somehow.
[It's gross and creepy, but what else is new. He takes a deep breath, sorting through his thoughts and going over the situation to try to offer her anything else she might need to know without her having to ask, not wanting to distract for much longer. He distinctly remembers the stress and pressure of being on the other side of trying to find someone before it's too late, and she has multiple someones to be looking for.]
We have a better water source now, and a little food, so those aren't pressing problems. The cultists seem distracted, so they're ignoring us for the moment, and with any luck it'll stay that way. It'll be awhile before the flooding's a problem. We're okay right now.
[It's easier to make that seem true when it's just a written message, though since he has to think it to send it, perhaps he'll be able to believe it a little too.]
[ That sounds like a cursed weapon if she had to wager a broad guess. She doesn't even need to see it to guess that it is because she's dealt with enough "relics" in her lifetime to know what a creepy weapon sounds like. ]
[Everything about this entire situation has been so weird and terrible that he really hadn't considered whether it was possible for things to be actually cursed, but if anything is, this might fit the bill.]
Yeah, probably. A few people might have some small weapons I don't know about too.
[And that's true, without having to go into the whole bone knives thing.]
I don't know if they're going after the other people, but that's probably a safe guess. They're just
[The message is only half sent, as he's suddenly distracted by a bang on the sealed door of the room. It's several long seconds of waiting to see if anything else will happen--it doesn't at least not yet--before he sends another message.]
Sorry. I'm not sure what they're dealing with, but I think it's probably a lot of things. Flooding, monsters, part of the place collapsing, whatever their grand plan was falling apart, you name it.
[ Being sassy probably isn't useful in this particular situation and thankfully there's enough self-restraint left in Hilda that she refrains from saying anything of the sort.
She doesn't expect the sudden drop in communication and she almost sends a panicked one back just as she turns the corner towards the inn. ]
Yeah, but for once those things are their problem, not ours.
[Sort of, anyway. More like they're everyone's problem now, but the Acolytes having to deal with any of the things they've inflicted upon everyone else is a nice change of pace.]
Something hit the door, but it might've been a rock or something. Whatever it is, it didn't come through, so nothing to worry about right now.
The place is pretty unstable, so it really could've been a rock. Or a monster, but there's no monster noises, so I'm going to go with rock.
[Is that hopeful thinking? Maybe. But is it really all that hopeful to be choosing to believe the cave is collapsing more than it already has, even if the alternative is a monster?]
Okay. I'll let you know if anything important changes.
[ She can't help her excitement. She's nervous, but it means that they're one step closer to getting to them out of there. She can only hope that the situation hasn't become more dire. ]
[He's sitting up against a wall, half dozing--sleeping is easier said than done with no dry surfaces remaining--when the words scrawl across a nearby rock, and so he has to blink at them for a moment before he realizes they're not part of a dream.]
Good news is a nice change of pace.
[He feels like there are other things he should say or ask, but it takes several seconds before he figures out what one of those things is.]
[ It feels easier to focus on talking through everything, giving Jayden a play by play, than to focus on the things she's quickly stuffing into a pack for their journey into the mountains. ]
[Between the use of 'us' when describing that group, and the way she'd said in her first message that 'some of the Summoned' were on their way to the cave, it seems that way.]
Still low enough. We're all just kind of perpetually soggy.
[Which sucks, but then again, in some ways the water's been a nice change from being bloody and covered in dirt. But in others, it's really annoying, and he mentally rambles the next part rather than really thinking about it before sending it.]
Last place I was before I got here was wet all the time too. Just rained nonstop.
[ There is some truth to that statement, but if they were to peel it back to the root of the matter, the true culprit behind Hilda's indeciveness is her anxiety and belief that she'd be a detriment to both teams. She isn't a tracker, doesn't have any skills that could help her survive in the mountains, and certainly "can't" throw a weapon around. What she's also purposefully leaving out is that she's reluctant to leave Petra alone. ]
Makes sense. Sticking together's probably a good idea anyway.
[Cold or not. He doesn't know much of anything about her relevant skills, but there's at least a small amount of safety in numbers, and mountaineering is dangerous all on its own even without the potential of Acolytes or monsters or who even knows what else.
Being warm and dry sounds like some far off possibility, but at least he can take a little bit of enjoyment from complaining about Philadelphia.]
Just in some places. I was visiting a different city for the case I was working, where it rained all the time. Where I live has normal weather.
[Which is a totally objective statement of course.]
[ Teasing and jokes have been admittedly a little difficult the last several weeks, even for her, but she feels like even her poor, slightly off-colour ones have been landing with Jayden. And if this one happens to not land? Well, that's okay, not every joke was going to be a hit. ]
[Indeed it lands just fine, and he's joking in return. But although he means the light response, he also feels a strange mix of emotions that he could identify if he really thought about it, but he has zero intention of actually doing so and instead just ignores them.
Fodlan sounds vaguely familiar, but he's not sure why or if he's just imagining it, so he doesn't ask. But it does get mentally filed away for later, as right now he gratefully takes the distraction she offers.]
Yeah. It's the capital of the country, so it's real historic. Lots of things to do when I'm not working.
[Then he realizes something, and adds--]
You'd probably like some of the museums; lots of historic jewelry and that sort of thing. I don't know anything about it except there's a huge diamond that's supposed to be cursed.
[ Because he will come back and in one piece. As paralyzed as she is by anxiety, there's still a small part of her that wishes she could go to both places. Guilt lingers there as she thinks about not being able to go and get Jayden and Blake by extension but she had made her choice.
Hilda can't help but laugh a bit at his statement about the cursed diamond despite her words. ]
[But he's finding himself willing to entertain the idea that coming back might be possible after all. He's certainly not convinced, but there is at least some sense of hope that exists now.
And as she mentions it, he realizes curses have now come up twice in the same conversation, and that is probably a little strange yeah.]
I swear this is an outlier. Normally I don't mention curses at all.
I don't spend a lot of time in museums either, but one from a whole different world's kind of tempting. I wonder if there's weird dinosaurs or something.
[This place has monsters, after all. Who knows what kind of fossils might exist?]
[ Everyone loves a Hilda Goneril party! And even if they didnโt, surely that had to be a better prospect than everything sheโd heard about what the pit had been like. ]
[ She doesnโt think sheโs heard of anything of the sort in Fodlan, even in the books sheโs read that sheโll claim she never has because theyโre simply too dry for her liking. ]
The reunion part sounds great, it's just the 'grand' that's scaring me.
[Seeing a friendly face is a very nice thought, but he has terrible--but funny--mental images of surprise parties and people singing happy birthday in restaurants and other such events.
And how is he going to explain dinosaurs? Give him a brief moment to dredge up the concentration to made this maybe make sense.]
Yeah, they were animals that used to live in my world, but it was millions of years before humans. We just find their bones sometimes now. They're kind of like giant lizards? But they're actually birds.
[...Maybe he should thought about this description a little longer after all.]
[ That is a fair enough statement. Not everyone wanted to be the centre of attention after all. But a grand surprise party isn't what she had in mind. ]
That's true. I definitely won't object to a cake of any size.
[Aside from having strong opinions on coffee, he doesn't typically put much thought into food. But after all of this, a cake sounds amazing.]
Uh, kind of, yeah. Some look like wyverns and dragons, but they don't have wings. Some do have wings but don't look like dragons. There's also one that looks like it's got a duck face on a lizard body.
[This is surely clearing up any confusion. He'll have to make a terrible drawing for her later, or even better, conjure one up in the Horizon.]
[ The food situation hasn't been great down there. Even if they're so close to getting them out of there, the last thing she wants to do is make it worse somehow by making him think about food. ]
[Both because he doesn't want to think too much about food and because he's actually not sure what the answer is. Also who knows; maybe this world has some weird cake flavors he's never even thought of, and he'd miss out if he picked something boring.]
Hey, save calling me a liar for when I tell you about platypuses. Unless you have those in your world, in which case you shouldn't be too surprised by weird things with duck faces.
[ It's not simply for his benefit either; Hilda loved crafting surprises as much as she enjoyed receiving them.
There's a moment before her next message goes through. Petra has burst through the doors herself and there's a flurry of activity as they throw things they might need into bags. She knows that the next couple of hours will likely be filled with preparation and as reluctant as she is to cut off communication, she'd rather Jayden focus his energies on himself. ]
[The short delay doesn't alarm him, but he does notice it. It's easy enough to figure out, combined with her last message, that it's time to go and so he keeps his own response simple.]
Yeah. Be careful yourself, and see you on the other side.
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[Both being able to swim and less cultists. Both are better than the alternative for sure.
As for her question, the answer is... Complicated, and he's not sure it's helpful to tell her that they probably could make decent improvised weapons from the bones of all the dead bodies in this room. Somehow that probably won't be encouraging, and he knows she has enough to be worrying about right now, so he'll leave that part out in favor of a single, but still more positive case.]
Someone has a mace, which I think they got from one of the shrines somehow.
[It's gross and creepy, but what else is new. He takes a deep breath, sorting through his thoughts and going over the situation to try to offer her anything else she might need to know without her having to ask, not wanting to distract for much longer. He distinctly remembers the stress and pressure of being on the other side of trying to find someone before it's too late, and she has multiple someones to be looking for.]
We have a better water source now, and a little food, so those aren't pressing problems. The cultists seem distracted, so they're ignoring us for the moment, and with any luck it'll stay that way. It'll be awhile before the flooding's a problem. We're okay right now.
[It's easier to make that seem true when it's just a written message, though since he has to think it to send it, perhaps he'll be able to believe it a little too.]
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[ That sounds like a cursed weapon if she had to wager a broad guess. She doesn't even need to see it to guess that it is because she's dealt with enough "relics" in her lifetime to know what a creepy weapon sounds like. ]
๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ? ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ข๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด, ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด๐ฆ?
[ Because she hasn't forgotten about the picture that Jesper had posted out to the Summoned. ]
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[Everything about this entire situation has been so weird and terrible that he really hadn't considered whether it was possible for things to be actually cursed, but if anything is, this might fit the bill.]
Yeah, probably. A few people might have some small weapons I don't know about too.
[And that's true, without having to go into the whole bone knives thing.]
I don't know if they're going after the other people, but that's probably a safe guess. They're just
[The message is only half sent, as he's suddenly distracted by a bang on the sealed door of the room. It's several long seconds of waiting to see if anything else will happen--it doesn't at least not yet--before he sends another message.]
Sorry. I'm not sure what they're dealing with, but I think it's probably a lot of things. Flooding, monsters, part of the place collapsing, whatever their grand plan was falling apart, you name it.
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She doesn't expect the sudden drop in communication and she almost sends a panicked one back just as she turns the corner towards the inn. ]
๐๐ฉ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต, ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ช๐จ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ. ๐๐ช๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ?
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[Sort of, anyway. More like they're everyone's problem now, but the Acolytes having to deal with any of the things they've inflicted upon everyone else is a nice change of pace.]
Something hit the door, but it might've been a rock or something. Whatever it is, it didn't come through, so nothing to worry about right now.
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๐'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐'๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ค๐ธ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ.
[ Especially now that she knows most, if not all, of her messages will get through. ]
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[Is that hopeful thinking? Maybe. But is it really all that hopeful to be choosing to believe the cave is collapsing more than it already has, even if the alternative is a monster?]
Okay. I'll let you know if anything important changes.
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๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ, ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ข๐บ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ.
[ Several days later, she sends a message in part to check on him and in part to keep him informed. ]
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ท๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐๐ข๐บ! ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ.
[ She can't help her excitement. She's nervous, but it means that they're one step closer to getting to them out of there. She can only hope that the situation hasn't become more dire. ]
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Good news is a nice change of pace.
[He feels like there are other things he should say or ask, but it takes several seconds before he figures out what one of those things is.]
What about the others?
[The ones that got out.]
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[ It feels easier to focus on talking through everything, giving Jayden a play by play, than to focus on the things she's quickly stuffing into a pack for their journey into the mountains. ]
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต.
๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด?
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[Between the use of 'us' when describing that group, and the way she'd said in her first message that 'some of the Summoned' were on their way to the cave, it seems that way.]
Still low enough. We're all just kind of perpetually soggy.
[Which sucks, but then again, in some ways the water's been a nice change from being bloody and covered in dirt. But in others, it's really annoying, and he mentally rambles the next part rather than really thinking about it before sending it.]
Last place I was before I got here was wet all the time too. Just rained nonstop.
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[ There is some truth to that statement, but if they were to peel it back to the root of the matter, the true culprit behind Hilda's indeciveness is her anxiety and belief that she'd be a detriment to both teams. She isn't a tracker, doesn't have any skills that could help her survive in the mountains, and certainly "can't" throw a weapon around. What she's also purposefully leaving out is that she's reluctant to leave Petra alone. ]
๐๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐บ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ. ๐๐ช๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ? ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐บ.
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[Cold or not. He doesn't know much of anything about her relevant skills, but there's at least a small amount of safety in numbers, and mountaineering is dangerous all on its own even without the potential of Acolytes or monsters or who even knows what else.
Being warm and dry sounds like some far off possibility, but at least he can take a little bit of enjoyment from complaining about Philadelphia.]
Just in some places. I was visiting a different city for the case I was working, where it rained all the time. Where I live has normal weather.
[Which is a totally objective statement of course.]
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[ Teasing and jokes have been admittedly a little difficult the last several weeks, even for her, but she feels like even her poor, slightly off-colour ones have been landing with Jayden. And if this one happens to not land? Well, that's okay, not every joke was going to be a hit. ]
๐๐จ๐ฉ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ข๐ธ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ. ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ง ๐ข๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ง๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ด ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ?
[ She figures it might be a nice way to at least keep his mind off the slowly rising water levels. ]
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[Indeed it lands just fine, and he's joking in return. But although he means the light response, he also feels a strange mix of emotions that he could identify if he really thought about it, but he has zero intention of actually doing so and instead just ignores them.
Fodlan sounds vaguely familiar, but he's not sure why or if he's just imagining it, so he doesn't ask. But it does get mentally filed away for later, as right now he gratefully takes the distraction she offers.]
Yeah. It's the capital of the country, so it's real historic. Lots of things to do when I'm not working.
[Then he realizes something, and adds--]
You'd probably like some of the museums; lots of historic jewelry and that sort of thing. I don't know anything about it except there's a huge diamond that's supposed to be cursed.
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[ Because he will come back and in one piece. As paralyzed as she is by anxiety, there's still a small part of her that wishes she could go to both places. Guilt lingers there as she thinks about not being able to go and get Jayden and Blake by extension but she had made her choice.
Hilda can't help but laugh a bit at his statement about the cursed diamond despite her words. ]
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด?! ๐๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฃ๐ช๐จ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ด, ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ง ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ค๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ง ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ด ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ช๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต.
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[But he's finding himself willing to entertain the idea that coming back might be possible after all. He's certainly not convinced, but there is at least some sense of hope that exists now.
And as she mentions it, he realizes curses have now come up twice in the same conversation, and that is probably a little strange yeah.]
I swear this is an outlier. Normally I don't mention curses at all.
I don't spend a lot of time in museums either, but one from a whole different world's kind of tempting. I wonder if there's weird dinosaurs or something.
[This place has monsters, after all. Who knows what kind of fossils might exist?]
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[ Everyone loves a Hilda Goneril party! And even if they didnโt, surely that had to be a better prospect than everything sheโd heard about what the pit had been like. ]
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ตโ๐ด ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ด๐ข๐ถ๐ณ? ๐๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ?
[ She doesnโt think sheโs heard of anything of the sort in Fodlan, even in the books sheโs read that sheโll claim she never has because theyโre simply too dry for her liking. ]
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[Seeing a friendly face is a very nice thought, but he has terrible--but funny--mental images of surprise parties and people singing happy birthday in restaurants and other such events.
And how is he going to explain dinosaurs? Give him a brief moment to dredge up the concentration to made this maybe make sense.]
Yeah, they were animals that used to live in my world, but it was millions of years before humans. We just find their bones sometimes now. They're kind of like giant lizards? But they're actually birds.
[...Maybe he should thought about this description a little longer after all.]
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๐๐ฌ๐ข๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ข๐บ. ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ช๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ.
[ The image she conjures in her mind is...definitely ridiculous looking and she can't help but snort a little bit at the thought. ]
๐๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด? ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด? ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐บ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด?
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[Aside from having strong opinions on coffee, he doesn't typically put much thought into food. But after all of this, a cake sounds amazing.]
Uh, kind of, yeah. Some look like wyverns and dragons, but they don't have wings. Some do have wings but don't look like dragons. There's also one that looks like it's got a duck face on a lizard body.
[This is surely clearing up any confusion. He'll have to make a terrible drawing for her later, or even better, conjure one up in the Horizon.]
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[ The food situation hasn't been great down there. Even if they're so close to getting them out of there, the last thing she wants to do is make it worse somehow by making him think about food. ]
๐ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ!? ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ, ๐๐ข๐บ.
[ Nope. Definitely made it worse. ]
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[Both because he doesn't want to think too much about food and because he's actually not sure what the answer is. Also who knows; maybe this world has some weird cake flavors he's never even thought of, and he'd miss out if he picked something boring.]
Hey, save calling me a liar for when I tell you about platypuses. Unless you have those in your world, in which case you shouldn't be too surprised by weird things with duck faces.
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[ It's not simply for his benefit either; Hilda loved crafting surprises as much as she enjoyed receiving them.
There's a moment before her next message goes through. Petra has burst through the doors herself and there's a flurry of activity as they throw things they might need into bags. She knows that the next couple of hours will likely be filled with preparation and as reluctant as she is to cut off communication, she'd rather Jayden focus his energies on himself. ]
๐๐ฌ๐ข๐บ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ? ๐๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ง๐ฆ, ๐๐ข๐บ. ๐'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ.
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Yeah. Be careful yourself, and see you on the other side.