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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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It doesn't mean something bad!

[Oops. Raised our voice there, we did. Raven makes a frustrated sound and looks away from the journal.]

It just shows it is a word that has many different meanings. There may even be a world where a monster is a good thing.

But might I ask why you are curious about monsters?

[You may ask and you won't get a straight answer.]

The monster races are important in my world, but humans often hate them.

Any particular reason why or is it just that humans hate them because they attack humans for seemingly no reason?

[Of course Leonhardt knows very well that often monsters attack due to hunger or because they feel threatened by a human in their territory. But perhaps he understands better since he's not really human and has been termed a monster himself for his inhuman abilities.]

Feral and wild monsters attack. [And even she fights them.] Other kinds are...they're domesticated. [The ones that can't usually comprehend or develop human speech.

Then again, Micah's a wooly.]

...The ones they hate are those that act the way humans do.

[And the initial question plus this is starting to make Leonhardt wonder if Raven may well be one of those monsters. She seems human enough, but there are definitely creatures that look human and are not.]

So the humans of your world find it easier to hate rather than to learn about them and live alongside such creatures?

Monsters are usually more...powerful than humans. Some fear them. ...Some have feuds that last for centuries.

Do humans and monsters live that long in your world, or is it carried down from parent to child?

[The pause is Raven shrugging. Despite reasons she might have wanted to, she hasn't made a study of the monster/human divide thing.]

Humans don't. Some monsters live for centuries.

It almost sounds like the humans of your world envy the long life and power than they have, and that causes fear because they do not have the same. Much like the fear one would have in a battle if they suddenly lost their weapon.

I don't know. Some people just like to fight.

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