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[Fighting and weather chaos seem to have given way to...new arrival chaos instead. Unless someone shows up from her world, Raven'll be steering clear of the New Feathers given half an opportunity, at least until they know more about what's going on.

No, today she's taking steps toward all the things she made tentative plans about. First, to the flower shop and the item shop, looking for seeds that might result in food that could restore Rune Magic. Or a certain special kind of blue flower, one she's not likely to find until the fall - but she'll look, for the flower and the seeds.

Then she swallows her weird mix of fear-pride and goes back to the smithy. Time to ask about work. Now that her arm has healed and she's gotten a little practice in again, making accessories doesn't sound bad at all. Whoever is around in there will see her awkwardly stare at the building for several minutes before going inside to stare in a similar fashion at them.

Next comes an early dinner at Seventh Heaven, and that's where she lays out the journal and a small bag of somethings and speaks a message.]

I want to talk to some of you. I'm at the restaurant. [A very long pause.] Do all worlds have monsters?

[[ooc: Basically, if you had a moment with Raven thus far since she's been here, she made you something while she was getting herself back into accessory-crafting shape. Anyone can run into her (literally, if you wish) as she wanders around the village and tries to eat dinner in peace.]]

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[Raven flinches, glad he can't see it. It's only natural.]

You teach them to hide instead of working together. What good will that do?

[What in the world are cows and chickens.]

I don't recognize those.

Not really. [She isn't really friends with anyone here. On purpose.] But he's in charge.

-! A third one?

[Rest assured, Marco, she can do the bird thing.]

...I'm...not busy.

[This is impossibly awkward and strange and not meant to ever happen and...she thought she was the only one.]

Some of them. Others are good allies or live on farms.

[You talk like Carlos. Please stop it.]

A what like me?

[This face is the opposite of nonplussed. This is plussed.]

Someone can craft a working leg made of metal?

It's not like that. I-I mean of course it seems like they're hiding but...something is happening back home. My students are a-able to see through my magical illusions at times and they can actually perceive the mythica for what they are. But the good thing is, is that many of them haven't actually become frightened by this sudden realization. Because now that they've become friends with my mythology students...appearance doesn't really matter to some of them. As if what they look like doesn't matter, which is what I-I truly strive towards making happen.

[ A pause. It's a slow going process and it probably still has its flaws because no plan or experiment is perfect. All of this that he's worked towards is yielding results though and that's what matters, that's what makes all the hardship worth it in the end. ] A world where mythologies and humans are coexisting together regardless of what they look like. This is r-really the first step. It, it might seem like hiding but I believe that taking it slow like this will be the better course of action in the end.

Sounds amazing, right? I've been picking up a little of it myself. It's impressive.

I want to see it. [Unchecked curiosity is rare with her, and when she catches herself she shrinks back.] If...people can.

[She doesn't make weapons much but the fine details of something like an arm are so intriguing.]

Some demons can be nice too, if they try.

[Though it appears that their basic nature is to be destructive.]

Sure. Just ask her sometime. [A shrug.] There's one guy around here who has one arm and leg with automail.

Phoenix Ikki. But he's not really part bird, it's more that he has phoenix abilities, if that makes sense..

All right I'll be right over then, I'll be the one in blue. [Yup. He's just planning to walk into the restaurant in phoenix form. He's Whitebeard's son, he'll do what he wants.]

Then it'd have to be Margie. Well, if she ever comes here, she's already got a nickname set for her!

[ ... ]

Oh, she is? That's certainly nice to hear.

Everyone living in peace, you mean? I certainly wouldn't argue with that.

[Even if it might get a little boring...]

It'd definitely be better than pointless killing and fighting, though. I've had to fight more than my fair share of humanoids or monsters in my time back home, but I know better than to think the whole of a group is all bad or all good. There's always some of both, and in that way... we're all the same.

Then...do they live close to where you do?

Maybe. Dragons are ancient monsters and that's about all I know.

[She has to be kind because Marian is freaking nuts and likes to experiment on people. That's Raven's working theory.]

This place isn't so bad I guess. There's...war. But not everybody goes.

[Well.

At least he's done some thought about it, hasn't he?]

...Sorry.

[Of course, what she's expecting is a man dressed in blue. She's nervous now and fidgeting and has her eye on the door.]

[Some humans - or dwarves, or elves, or one airheaded mermaid - can be nice, too, if they try.]

What do you do? [Inflected to imply "for a living".]

[Presumably he walks and works like they are his actual limbs, or Sokka wouldn't mention it the way he is.]

...Do many people...lose their limbs here?

[It would translate very badly for a bird.]

Uh. I don't think so? He lost his way before coming here.

[You wound his heart, Raven. He'd accept you, no matter how big you are! Soren's persistence will pay one day in his mind.]

I'll bet it is. And I don't think we have anyone else like that here too, so you're pretty much the only crafter.

N-No it's, ah, nothing to apologize for. It's a-a very sensitive subject to some people. I-I apologize if I...came off as being offensive.

[ The subject was clearly a soft spot with the young girl at any rate. ]

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