hi have you seen sorry did he come back to the ship i hope hes back because he was chasing ghosts or maybe it was really his friend and i tried to stop him but he kept seeing him and now his phone is off and i dunno if that means hes gone home or that some spooky shadowy figure snatched him from the forest and doing something funky to his phone signal or whatever and that place was so sketchy but he sort of vanished right in front of me but then there were like so many of the shadowy figures that i lost track of sorry in the fog and i searched for hours but i couldnt find him and i think the forest ate him or maybe they want to do some sort of ritual sacrifice so that he joins their numbers of weird ghosts and can i have a bomb so i can go back to the forest before we move on and blow it up no wait thats probably not safe if sorry is in the forest with them and still alive and people frown on body parts flying around and dont like having blood splattered on them but i dont usually mind but sorry was my friend and i dont want him dead so maybe you have something that clears away fog or whatever because im pretty sure fire and lightning wouldnt be great and i already tried wind but that didnt work
[ Speech-to-text in one breath without stopping to correct a single mistake. Please stop her before she sends more. ]
Please tell me you're calling to say that Sorey is nestled snug in his cabin or reading some nerdy book somewhere on the ship and that the fog creatures didn't take him.
[ She doesn't know that auto-translate turned Sorey's name into sorry. ]
He was seeing someone in the fog on the competition island. Followed that person deeper into the fog. I managed to stop him for a moment, tried to get him to realize that person couldn't be here. But his friend is kind of ghost-like back home, so he thought maybe I just couldn't see him. He wasn't going to take the chance it was really his friend. So we started to look together.
Except I lost sight of Sorey and he was just poof gone in the blink of an eye! I looked for him for a little bit, waited at the edge of the forest, tried his phone. Nothing!
[ She throws both hands up. ]
Then I called you to see if he came back to the ship and make sure that he didn't get eaten by cannibalistic fog people or sacrificed to their demonic god, his phone somehow blocked from getting calls. Or if maybe, you know, he walked straight into a place that just sent him home or something! I don't know! No one has ever disappeared so close to me before!
[Really, if the topic itself wasn't so serious, he'd hold back a laugh. As it is, however...]
All right, there's one easy way to do this. Just wait a mo' and I'll see if he's still on my contacts. If he's not, then it means he's returned to his world.
[And he's already tapping through, pulling up his contacts...]
I'm gonna keep looking on the island. Just in case.
I'm used to people leaving, and getting used to those people being friends. It's definitely the creepiest leaving anyone's ever done to me, though. But I mean, I gotta be alright, because someday everyone's gonna leave.
There's a bit of a difference between knowing someone left and seeing it happen right before your very eyes.
[He still looks at her with some concern, but there's not much he can do as of this moment, knowing that she herself may not feel much better until she does what she needs to do. In this case, look around the island.]
Just don't stay out too long. If you're bored, you're welcome to hang around the ship. Even have some extra paint if you want to do some arts and crafts.
[Teasing a little, both in reference to the ship battle and "treating her like a kid."]
I mean, if he's gone then there's not really anything I can do about it. If some creepy thing on the island did take him, at least then I can go beat something up.
[ People leave her, it was just part of her life. Someday, the people here in this world will leave her too. There's not a whole lot she can do about death or the rifts right now. ]
I already do hang around the ship. You just don't always know it. [ Not spying! Just chilling. ] Arts and crafts like... you're going to let me paint on the walls of your ship? Because I'm awesome at that. If I could show you the Murder Wall I made for someone, I totally would use it as a reference to make you a business sign or a Corsair flag.
[It does feel a little weird how accepting they've all become about people returning to their worlds, but...as she said, there's not much they can do. He will miss them a bit, though, both their own unique characters that added to the "crew family."]
[ Until they find the relic that brings them here and sends them home, they just have to accept it. It is a little easier with some, those who are going home to live a lot longer. She'd be more upset if it was Cid, Zack, or any of the Eikons she knows about. ]
I'm really good at it! So if you have a space that needs a little spicing up, I could just add a tiny something.
Well, all the Eikons are basically elemental, right? I could do an epic drawing of all of that. If I knew what all your Eikons looked like, I'd do a little family drawing.
[ But please don't change just to "pose" for a family picture. ]
You might be thinking too big. I was gonna go for something like... this size for the height of everyone.
[ Nimona holds up her hands to show off the size which is about the size of a piece of paper. So one person/Eikon wouldn't cover the whole wall of a ship. ]
But hey, if you need a wall spiced up in the Roost, I'm definitely the artist for the job.
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[ Speech-to-text in one breath without stopping to correct a single mistake. Please stop her before she sends more. ]
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At first he starts to text back.
Then he thinks better of it and just calls her because he could barely make it through this. Better yet, they're going to facetime this.]
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Please tell me you're calling to say that Sorey is nestled snug in his cabin or reading some nerdy book somewhere on the ship and that the fog creatures didn't take him.
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[He was wondering who or what she was writing about. However, noting her expression and the question, his expression hardens.]
But no, I haven't seen him. Tell me again, from the beginning.
[And then a look.]
Slowly.
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[ She doesn't know that auto-translate turned Sorey's name into sorry. ]
He was seeing someone in the fog on the competition island. Followed that person deeper into the fog. I managed to stop him for a moment, tried to get him to realize that person couldn't be here. But his friend is kind of ghost-like back home, so he thought maybe I just couldn't see him. He wasn't going to take the chance it was really his friend. So we started to look together.
Except I lost sight of Sorey and he was just poof gone in the blink of an eye! I looked for him for a little bit, waited at the edge of the forest, tried his phone. Nothing!
[ She throws both hands up. ]
Then I called you to see if he came back to the ship and make sure that he didn't get eaten by cannibalistic fog people or sacrificed to their demonic god, his phone somehow blocked from getting calls. Or if maybe, you know, he walked straight into a place that just sent him home or something! I don't know! No one has ever disappeared so close to me before!
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All right, settle down. Take a few deep breaths first.
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But what if Sorey is breathing his laaaaaast?
[ She runs both hands down her face. ]
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All right, there's one easy way to do this. Just wait a mo' and I'll see if he's still on my contacts. If he's not, then it means he's returned to his world.
[And he's already tapping through, pulling up his contacts...]
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It's not there. But you heard the stories of that island! People disappear and are never heard from again. What if even his name disappeared with him?
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But he'll check himself as well, juuust in case, and...
Hm.
There will be a slight furrow of his brow.]
Then he took Eizen with him. He's also no longer on my list.
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But Eizen wasn't even there.
[ Very dramatic gasp. ]
Unless he was and I lost my ability to see him! He was one of those seraph things, right?
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I think the far more reasonable assumption is coincidental timing.
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You're really really really really absolutely really sure?
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Aye, I am.
That said, that really must be harrowing to experience, especially given the circumstances. Will you be all right?
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I'm gonna keep looking on the island. Just in case.
I'm used to people leaving, and getting used to those people being friends. It's definitely the creepiest leaving anyone's ever done to me, though. But I mean, I gotta be alright, because someday everyone's gonna leave.
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[He still looks at her with some concern, but there's not much he can do as of this moment, knowing that she herself may not feel much better until she does what she needs to do. In this case, look around the island.]
Just don't stay out too long. If you're bored, you're welcome to hang around the ship. Even have some extra paint if you want to do some arts and crafts.
[Teasing a little, both in reference to the ship battle and "treating her like a kid."]
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[ People leave her, it was just part of her life. Someday, the people here in this world will leave her too. There's not a whole lot she can do about death or the rifts right now. ]
I already do hang around the ship. You just don't always know it. [ Not spying! Just chilling. ] Arts and crafts like... you're going to let me paint on the walls of your ship? Because I'm awesome at that. If I could show you the Murder Wall I made for someone, I totally would use it as a reference to make you a business sign or a Corsair flag.
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Not the kind of painting I had in mind.
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I'm really good at it! So if you have a space that needs a little spicing up, I could just add a tiny something.
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And what kind of "tiny something" do you have in mind?
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Well, all the Eikons are basically elemental, right? I could do an epic drawing of all of that. If I knew what all your Eikons looked like, I'd do a little family drawing.
[ But please don't change just to "pose" for a family picture. ]
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That's actually not a bad idea. In fact I rather quite like it.
If it's illustrations you need, I imagine I may be able to sketch something out.
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Do you want just the Eikons, or your whole crew? I could do something separate for your whole Eikon family that you can put in your workshop.
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I feel trying to put the whole crew would be an entirely different endeavor.
[A quiet chuckle at that.]
But we do have a lot of "wall space" in the Roost.
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You might be thinking too big. I was gonna go for something like... this size for the height of everyone.
[ Nimona holds up her hands to show off the size which is about the size of a piece of paper. So one person/Eikon wouldn't cover the whole wall of a ship. ]
But hey, if you need a wall spiced up in the Roost, I'm definitely the artist for the job.
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