outsidebones | 7rings catchall

[ he looks a little more... annoyed about this honestly. wowee. ]

Courtyard. Alphinaud and the grumpy old guy were there too.

Which grumpy old guy? [a pause.] I'm glad you're okay.

The one who really hated the word "tonguing". That guy. Barnes?

Oh, yeah. That one. He looks like a Chad to me.

[anyway] Good to know. Wow is this weird.

[ he nudges her because i looked at her saying i'm glad your okay and jsut didn't reply to it heck ]

Being on the other side of it?

[I'M CRYING go to sleep

she leans against him.]

Yeah. Not knowing sucks. On the plus side, I wasn't lunch, but on the negative side, uh, everything else.

[ headbutts my phone. ]

The not being lunch part's a pretty good bonus. But... yeah. Welcome. Hopefully we've got enough experience now to pick up on a few tricks before they're sprung.

Yep. Hooray.

[a pause, and she leans up to kiss his cheek, just once.]

Sorry about her. I talked to her once, she seemed nice.

Hooray.

[ he leans into it. thank you lup. ]

Mm. She was a very genuinely nice person. Kinda strange to deal with, honestly. But I don't think we'll find she rolled over and let her killer get away with this easily.

Probably not, no. [flayn like actually this is fine, just kill me]

We'll figure it out. You all are going to have to help me learn how to do the whole investigating thing.

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Something the matter?

[ he looks like he's thinking for a moment. ]

... Flayn's from Fódlan. Same place as me.

We fought in the war together, although I wouldn't say we were best friends or anything.

[ :( ]

Ah-- Sorry. Didn't mean to sound so blithe about it. Shouldn't have.

It's not like I'm known for sharing all my secrets. No offence taken or anything.

... it sounded like she'd been through a lot though. She said this was her third time around.

[She gives him a sympathetic look.]

Oh, Yuri...

[ a nudge. ]

I'll survive. Fate has a nasty sense of humour though, going after her.

[ fate in this instance being BRITT. ]

It does make one wonder. She seemed rather helpless to me, but if you and she fought together, perhaps appearances were deceiving.

She could definitely hold her own, certain people's attempts to coddle her aside. But I remember her being pretty powerful with magic over physical strength.

[ so. ]

Balance that with two prior death games worth of experience, and I wouldn't be surprised to see she put up some kind of a fight. Unless she was caught off guard.

I somehow doubt any of us would be caught off guard waking in the night. Let alone someone with two death games worth of experience.

I'd hope not. But for all the experience we have in knowing what to expect, there's a lot of people here who have the same knowledge.

It could mean there's a lot of people who can mess with our expectations.

...Yes. If it was someone she knew and trusted, perhaps.

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[A nudge back, frowning.]

She seemed... sweet. Even if you weren't exactly best friends, I'm still sorry, sweetie.

[ he smiles. ]

Thanks. I had no issues with her, which is more than can said for some of the people back home.

Oh. I didn't realize.

[a frown.]

I'd be a little surprised if you did. I didn't really talk about it.

There's a few people I know here this time around. [ might as well say it, given the situation. ]