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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[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.