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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[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!