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[sacredchants]

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[sacredchants]

[ wait until they find the space...ship.... ]

I guess.

[ she'll sigh once she finds a few of her things. ]

I was kind of hoping one thing would stay constant while we were here.

[infreefall]

I think things were always going to change somehow, after yesterday.

[ viridian-san... ]

Hard to believe it just happened overnight, though. I wonder what else has changed?

[sacredchants]

There was always going to be change, but I didn't expect this kind.

[ she was expecting rules and the like but not this level of scenery change. ]

Who knows. I'm sure we'll find out as soon as we go outside and take note of what's same and what's different.

[infreefall]

I don’t think anyone could have seen this coming…

[ how do you just pull off a room switch like that, ]

In that case, we should probably be careful, going out. Just in case something’s turned more dangerous.

Maybe we should go together. And if everything’s alright, we can get breakfast!

[sacredchants]

[ oh.

this is going to be a long week, isn't it? izumo has almost every right to reject ochako's suggestion that they go together but, well, there's no way they can avoid it. ]

Fine. [ ... ] You don't need anyone make you breakfast, do you?

[infreefall]

...No? [ why would she?? ] I can cook for myself. It's just nicer to share meals, you know? And since we're roommates now...

[ shrug! ]

[sacredchants]

[ no comments about sharing meals together... ]

I was just checking to see what I could expect; there are people here who don't know how to cook.

[infreefall]

Oh, I gotcha. I'm not exactly the best cook there ever was, but I can take care of myself. You don't have to worry about me, Kamiki-san!

[sacredchants]

Good.

[ she'll look like she'll want to say something else but ultimately doesn't. instead she'll meander towards the door. ]

Shall we get going and see what has and hasn't changed?

[infreefall]

Sure!

[ she bounces toward the door after izumo, and when they open to find everything all… futuristic, ochako lights up with delight. ]

This is so cool! Maybe a little inconvenient, but… [ she laughs ] So cool.

[sacredchants]

[ ochako can be excited but izumo will be not so much so. ]

Cool?

[ look, she's been exposed to some trickery pocket dimension nonsense but?? this??? ]

You're not concerned about how this all happened?

[infreefall]

Well, yeah, but it's probably another Realm thing, right? Something to do with the nova, like when those things on the scavenger hunt just disappeared?

I guess we could always ask the leaders, but it sounded like they were learning as they go, too, same as us.

[sacredchants]

[ she makes it sound so simple to understand and deal with this all?? it's kind of frustrating, honestly. ]

Understanding what is going on here is important. The more we know the better it will be over all.

[infreefall]

I never said we shouldn't try to understand it. But we can do that and still enjoy it a little, can't we? There's no reason we can't do both.

[sacredchants]

[ you can have cake and eat it too but— ]

I want to know what's going on before I get too comfortable with everything.

[infreefall]

Mm... It might take a while to figure out, though. The leaders have a better chance of figuring it out than we do, but they still seem pretty confused.

[sacredchants]

Do you really think that it'll fall into their hands to resolve all of this?

[infreefall]

[ ochako, internally: you make a lot of assumptions, don't you

ochako, externally: ]

Not all of it, but they do have a leg up on us, don't you think? They were here longer, and the Realm talks to them, not us. Sure, we can help as much as we're able, and I definitely want to, but it's hard to tell how much we will be able to.

[sacredchants]

[ hmmm. ]

Isn't that a bit of a contradiction?

[infreefall]

[ hm? ]

What do you mean?

[sacredchants]

Nothing; forget it.

[ because they will get absolutely nowhere if izumo really did just kept talking. ]

[infreefall]

...If you’re sure.

[ ochako knows better than to press someone who doesn’t want to talk. ]

Anyway, the leaders have mentioned disturbances with the nova before. Resolving the one from what Viridian-san did must have triggered a bigger one than the lost items we saw before.

[sacredchants]

[ she's definitely sure and she hums to herself slightly. ]

In a way, isn't that a good thing? —collecting big novas. It's what they say that we need to do. Collect enough nova and then we'll be gone.

[infreefall]

Yeah, exactly! That's why I don't think it's a bad thing if we make the make the most of the changes while we figure everything else out, you know? It's one step toward the way home.

[sacredchants]

In theory, at least.

[ just sayin' ]

Time will tell if they're actually going to keep good on that promise or show us just what it'll cost us.

[ since, you know, there's no defined among of nova they need to collect. ]