november catchall

[paperceptive]

Who: Odile, quest partners, & OPEN
What: catchall for November
Where: around the Bay
When: throughout November
Warnings: none atm!

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[telewarped]

Oh. [Cowabummer. She seems to be debating something with herself for a moment before she adds,] Because of that "King" creep, right...?

[paperceptive]

[ cowabummer.... ]

The very same. He's frozen in time himself now.

[ Odile's a little sorry that they didn't end up actually killing him. But the King really ended up being the lesser concern in Dormont. ]

[telewarped]

Hah! Well, at least there's that!

[That's something she knows less about: the perfect ending. She's darkly amused, yet at the same time feels a distant pang of despair that she knows isn't her own.]

How'd you manage that anyway?

[paperceptive]

Mirabelle came up with a new technique on the fly - a reflecting shield. A good thing, too.

[ Odile's time loop knowledge isn't even that complete, but she at least got a good idea of the King's first attack just from witnessing it. That would ahve been...very, very bad without a shield. ]

[telewarped]

Oh, wow. Well, that's one way to give him a taste of his own medicine... Never got to hear that part of the story.

[For reasons that are only really obvious to her.

Speaking of medicine, she seems to have settled in for the long haul, seating herself near Odile's beside with the boxed onigiri within reach as they chat. A buddy helps recovery?]

[paperceptive]

[ Hm. Well. She can piece that together well enough. ]

Shinx Siffrin wasn't up there for that. I don't think they were able to see it.

[ Do they not know? She ought to tell them. ]

[telewarped]

[Shoka's face falls. Or her disguise falls, rather, seeming to droop a bit as her eyes dart away.]

Right... [There's a long pause as she tries to think of what to say to that.] To be honest... They're the only Siffrin I'm really friends with. I've only talked to Stardust, like, once.

[So does the team Siffrin hyped up for her even include the Odile sitting in front of her right now? Or was that a different version, too?

On second thought, maybe she shouldn't have said anything after all.]

[paperceptive]

Hm.

[ It's...interesting. Speaking with people who know the both of them. Odile's not used to it; she never got any chance to get used to it, the way things went down back home. ]

Technically, I suppose I only met them briefly before this. They were the one being secretive then.

[ And then "Stardust" picked it up here, evidently. If she didn't already know they were both Siffrin... ]

[telewarped]

Yeah, that sounds like them.

[...]

Bet that's weird. [For everyone involved.] But... you can figure things out with them now, right?

[paperceptive]

Yes, I think so. This may be strange to say, but...I think I'm glad all of this happened. If only for that.

[ She doesn't trust that they ever would have caught up with the rest of them, if they'd all just stayed in Vaugarde. ]

[telewarped]

[Strange or not, it makes Shoka perk up a little.]

Maybe it is. But I'm glad, too.

[That's just one of several things she and Siffrin have in common: being here has given them chances they wouldn't have had otherwise. Or maybe that's just wishful (hah) thinking on her part.]

Frinrin's... important to me. I—want them to be happy, y'know? So... you better be good to them, got it? Or I'll do something.

[paperceptive]

[ Frinrin? That's a new one. Odile, if anything, seems rather pleased by the threat. ]

Fair enough.