November+December Catch-All

[loopsiedaisy]

Who: Siffrin (Shinx) + Shoka, Laios, Cedric, Chara, Anasui, Parvati
What: The fallout of the Network Incident, and also quests. Sometimes both at once!
Where: Spire, Canopy, wherever various search quests take them
When: One thread backdated to October, otherwise throughout November (including during the snowstorm) and December
Warnings: Potentially Siffrin's warnings (definitely spoilers & alluded-to suicidal ideation in Shoka's thread), the usual quest peril

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[loopsiedaisy]

[But...]

Does she think that?

I didn't realize she had such bad taste!

[telewarped]

[What happened is between her and Noelle. She needs to stop talking, keep it to herself—]

Didn't just think it...

[It slips out anyway. What was that she just said about her big mouth?

It isn't that she wants to talk about it, really. It's mortifying and feels like a betrayal of Noelle, but the thoughts have been festering in her head for days with nowhere to go. Now that she's opened the floodgates for Siffrin, it's like she can't stop. If they're still Frinrin in the ways that matter, then maybe that offer to listen to her talk about her bad days is still open, too.

I didn't realize she had such bad taste! they tell her.]

That's not—... [Despite herself, she lets out a choked sound that's almost a laugh.] Have you considered that maybe you're the one with bad taste?

[loopsiedaisy]

Couldn't be, kittycat! My taste is impeccable.

[They smirk back at her, then let the expression fade away.]

So... something happened?

[It must have been not long before when Noelle was in the clinic, and then ran off into the mountains...]

[telewarped]

Says the Shinx wearing a wizard hat.

[A hat that she made (and also a hat that looks cute on them), but it's still a bold choice. There's a brief, weak smile in her eyes before she looks away again.]

... Yeah. Something happened.

[It's embarrassingly inconsequential next to everything Siffrin's told her. For a long moment, and then another, she's silent, considering leaving it at that—but she's only delaying the inevitable.]

... Before she disappeared, she said that she didn't want to see me anymore. That she wished we never even met. [She takes a corner of the malasada between her claws and slowly, methodically tears it off as she speaks.] It's dumb. And she... was sort of out of it, when she said it. I don't think she really meant it. But...

[But what if she did? What if, even if she didn't mean it, she was right to say it?]

[loopsiedaisy]

Who wouldn't want to be seen in one of these? [They pose for a moment before she looks away, one paw behind the brim to fold it jauntily. (A wizard hat, but also a hat that she made!!)]

[Still, more seriously... their ears tilt toward her as they listen, even the one that's permanently droopy.]

[...]

She said that, and then she ran away into the mountains away from everyone...?

[Heh. That also sounds familiar! Even if their shoulders get a little stiffer over the word 'wish.']

I don't know what's going on with her, but - she didn't mean it. [They say this with a great deal of confidence, confidence that definitely isn't warranted considering that they basically don't know Noelle at all. They're not faking it, though.]

[They refrain from adding: but it's definitely a good thing they all went after her.]

...if someone else ever did, though - like I said, bad taste! They don't know what they're missing out on!