hey mom, dead mom, i need a little help here

[nothingcanstop]

[ ...All of that happened, huh. That's the sentiment each and every week, and it's no different this time. Except, this time they've lost more people than before. Five.

The gathering invitation is slipped under everyone's doors, but it specifies something a little different. ]



[ That's a good two hours or so of difference. Enough time to wander around, for sure.

But, in the garden, at the appointed time, there's a variable arrangement of fresh-cooked food. A good amount of beef stew, some Chinese hot pot, and...watermelon? Just, an absurd amount of watermelon, cut up and set on plates. All the food's set on tables that seem to have been moved from the library, and the ground is littered with blankets, for those who don't want to sit on the grass.

And yes, she did not lie. There is, indeed, a variable fuckton of alcohol. (And coffee, for our underaged.)

This has become routine. But, we're still here. We're still alive. ]

Comments

[ladygeryon]

[Nira shows up to the garden fairly early, early enough for her and her Pokemon to help a bit with moving stuff around. Later on, she's sitting at one of the tables, looking thoughtfully at one of the bottles of alcohol and even picking it up before putting it back down with a sigh.]

That's why she reacted like that, wasn't it?

[Later on, she heads for Rose's room, and can be found bringing some meat to Lion.]

Hey...wonder how much you know about everything that happened there. [She sits down next to Lion and sighs.] Wonder how much she said about finding you was true.

Garden

[bolderfell]

...Why who reacted like what?

[He sits at her table, his own drink in hand.]

[ladygeryon]

I made a comment wondering just how many of us here were part-rock, after Zelos' trial, and she heard. And she automatically assumed that I was also fused with a magic stone despite me not going into any detail.

[bolderfell]

Oh.

[Annnddd he's looking away. Man. Anna.]

She was like that, huh.

[ladygeryon]

She was...though it sounds like it wasn't as natural for her.

[bolderfell]

Are we talking about the stone inside her, or the way she acted? To be clear.

[ladygeryon]

The stone, specifically. Though I suppose the latter turned out to be true as well.

[bolderfell]

Wish I'd asked her more about it. But she always explained things with words I couldn't pronounce, let alone make sense of.

[ladygeryon]

I never asked her for much detail...the closest I got was when we first met and she mistook Aria for a created familiar of some sort.

[bolderfell]

Heh. Guess that's what would've made sense to her. It's so damn hard to imagine everyone's different worlds. Maybe we'd do better if we all had the same frame of reference.

[He doesn't specify at what they'd do better.]

[ladygeryon]

Probably the Professor thought it'd contribute to the distrust we had for each other. Though at least the museum has some references for all our different worlds. [Which is also kind of strange when taking some of the other locations into account.]

[bolderfell]

Only so much you can learn from a map.

[ladygeryon]

Yeah...pretty much just confirmed that there's some similarities between this world and mine, at least regarding the shapes of some coastlines.

[bolderfell]

[He shakes his head.]

Mine doesn't even have that. Orsterra doesn't look like any of the others. Even Skyrim and Thedas are different.

[ladygeryon]

[A nod.] Kind of hard to predict what might match up and what won't. I suppose it could also have something to do with different time periods, but don't quote me on that.

[bolderfell]

[He nods, too.]

...Can't remember if I ever thanked you for helping me with the technology when we first woke up here. So... thanks.

[ladygeryon]

[Aw, that gets a bit of a warm smile from her.] No problem. I'm always happy to help.