Noelle's September Quest Ho-ho-home [Catch-All]

[holidaygirl1225]

Who: Noelle & Shoka, Archnemon, Bigby
What: Quests! (Scholastic Decisions, No Pain No Grain, A Dour Struggle)
Where: Icefall Lake, around Death Blood Murder Skull Town, the woods
When: Mid/Late September
Warnings: Pokemon battling (violence/injury), potential references to death/disassociation

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[holidaygirl1225]

[A wave of anxiety, homesickness, and longing washes over her-- but Noelle follows it with resolve. Maybe she'll never go home again. Maybe she'll never see any of them again. But there has to be a reason she was brought here.]

You're right... I've never been away for this long. I wonder how everyone back there is doing... do you think they're looking for me, too? [She doesn't explain the 'too' part.]

I... know people are working on finding a way to go back. But I don't know if it's actually possible.

[wovensecrets]

[ It would be so much easier to respond with a cheery sounding "Who knows!". Were it a different situation, the two of them might not even be meeting like this, having a conversation over work. Or anything else, for that matter.

(There might be one person who'd miss her, but she doesn't - know about that. Doesn't want to Consider that. She's Here, in a new situation. Working on a way of getting back - that wasn't on her radar, not when she doesn't even know what That would be.)

Noelle was - likely a teenager by some standards? She'd observed enough of them, certainly heard woes before. ]

If time works the same here than it did there, then they would likely be aware of it, no? If you have a good relationship, then surely they would be concerned for you as well...

[ But with the amount of worlds and dimensions involved... hard to know. Hard to say. Don't worry about it? ... Constructively, how to do this. ]

... Not to complicate it another way, but there's also a chance, that time here might not be in sync with back there. So it could be that very little at all had passed, too.

[holidaygirl1225]

That might mean I'm older than everyone else in class when I go back, haha.

[Noelle isn't sure what else to say. Hatenna sure is private... but maybe she's just focused on looking forward. And it's very kind of her to listen to Noelle so much and advise her again, just like before.]

Well, either way, I'm glad we met.

[wovensecrets]

... Oh? I am as well.

[ She's slightly surprised by the sentiment. It shouldn't have been surprising to hear from someone like Noelle- but wasn't often something she'd heard from others, either. Especially not after being so... discarded. ]

Just think, you'll be able to have lots of stories for them, won't you?

would you like to wrap this one soon?

[holidaygirl1225]

A-and I bet you will also! [She's assuming that Hatenna will want to return home as well. Why wouldn't anyone, she thinks?]

[wovensecrets]

... Who knows~?

[ There, she said it, in a light sort of enigmatic way.

She's not certain of the possibility and what it would mean if she could - but she was not the best at relating those sort of concerns. Easy to see them in others, the more inclined to bury... ah, well. ]

Now, we have some more work to do, don't we? Get enough of that done, maybe you'll be able to teach me some of your songs, later.