05 - week five

[afflictionmods]

WEEK FIVE

Come Sunday morning, the portals around Estelline fade away, but not all of the oddities hanging around disappear so quickly. The recreations of your dreams and memories are still around, ever changing and shifting. Whatever it is that brought these things here hasn’t ended, not yet.

You don’t have time to worry about all of that, though, even if you know you should exercise caution once two of you found yourselves on the bad end of a monster’s claws. The course still isn’t over, though, even if the portals changed lesson plans. Everything continues on, with new places to explore as the fog pushes back once again. This week still feels a little more like what you’re familiar with, though, after Saturday’s lack of lessons.

...For now.


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Comments

[partymagician]

I think it's more like... I'm ready to live life in general.

[ Sure, he's had fun, but he hasn't really lived for himself either. ]

[sicklysweet]

It's taken you over one hundred years and being dragged to another world to figure out your life was worth living for yourself?

[partymagician]

[ He just laughs. ]

Pretty much!

[ Fai is well aware of how pitiful and stupid that makes him look, but like, it is the truth. ]

[sicklysweet]

[Well, Owen couldn’t even remember the first century of his life until recently, so… Once again, there’s some form of hypocrisy going on here.]

Hah…

[Since they’re on the subject of memories, though, and Owen will always make the worst possible decisions no matter how horribly he wants to avoid the conversation…]

I’m surprised you’re not asking about what you saw.

[partymagician]

I had assumed that you didn't want to talk about it.

[ Because, well, it sure was a lot! ]

I'd like to know why you ended up there and how you got out, but I'd understand if you didn't tell me.

[sicklysweet]

…There was a man with purple eyes. I don’t remember much else. I don’t even know if he was human or a wizard. I didn’t remember any of that at all before that.

[His face screws up.]

I still don’t even remember how everything really happened all that well - I think those men who were outside opened the door, and then after that… I don’t know.

[Which isn’t frustrating at all or anything.]

[partymagician]

…I see.

[ Well, whatever happened, it wasn’t good. That much Fai knows. ]

Does it bother you, not knowing?

[ He thinks not knowing might bring some people peace, but he isn’t sure that Owen is one of those people. ]

[sicklysweet]

[Sure wasn’t, nope! But, hey, now there’s a beautiful forest where that village was!]

It’s annoying, but yeah. If I knew it would explain a lot of things.

[partymagician]

[ It sure would!! ]

Mm, I’m sure. I do hope you’re able to piece everything together one day.

[sicklysweet]

Maybe it'll happen.

[He's not going to hold his breath.]

...Did you hear what they were saying? It... wasn't very clear to me.

[Considering he was, perhaps, not in the best state at the time.]

[partymagician]

[ He shakes his head. ]

Not very well. They were worried about someone being in there, though. I’m sure they could hear me.

[sicklysweet]

[Well, it was worth a shot.]

They were probably afraid there was a wizard in there. Leaving was the smart thing to do.

[Not... that they survived anyways.]

[partymagician]

[ He doesn’t know that they left for sure, but… he doesn’t want to add more confusion to Owen’s memories. ]

Perhaps… they wouldn’t have been wrong.

[ … ]

Your kindness in my own memory was surprising, by the way. It was appreciated.

[sicklysweet]

[Why do you have to bring this up, Fai? He was having a passable time and you had to go and ruin it.

Owen grimaces.]

I wasn't being kind.

[Totally not what was happening.]

So don't get me wrong. I don't care about you or what was happening to you.

[Just gonna tell the most blatant lie ever, nbd.]

[partymagician]

[ Maybe Fai should be upset by a statement like that, but it makes him laugh. Probably because he doesn't fully believe Owen. ]

Is that so? I think you have the capacity to care, deep down in there somewhere.

[sicklysweet]

I think you might be the only person who would ever say that to my face, and you're wrong.

[geez, owen, reel back on being tsundere for a moment.]

[partymagician]

[ Fai considers him for a long, long moment before he laughs. ]

I don’t think I am~

[ He knows a tsundere when he sees one!! ]