pendantry | Three

[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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Most people don't like them. They're mean and try to hunt down monsters, even when they're just looking for food!

They don't understand.

No. [ She shakes her head, even though the audio wouldn't pick up anything. ] They can't talk to the monsters, so they don't think about them. I hate it.

Some...of our monsters can talk. They speak the human language.

Really? I've never met a monster that could do that.

Some monster races do it better than others.

[She's not sure how that fireball Kuruna carts around can do it but someday she might know.]

So do those monsters talk to people?

Some of them. Some hate humans and want nothing to do with them.

Do people like the monsters that they talk to?

[ THIS IS SO FASCINATING ]

Not always. But others become allies for life.

That sounds nice. I wish people didn't hate monsters on Auldrant.

Why do they?

Sometimes people take the monsters' food, and then they get mad when the monsters try to get the food back. Or they go into monsters' homes and get attacked. They'll even just kill monsters because they can! It's horrible...

[Little girl, your perspective is making Raven draw conclusions.]

...Are you a monster?

[ She'd be more surprised if she hadn't been asked that sort of question back in her own world when people found out she could talk to monsters. ]

No. But I was saved by monsters when my family died in a flood. Mommy Liger took care of me and raised me.

I hate everyone who's mean to monsters.

[Then...in some ways, she's just as bad as the humans who hate monsters for being mean to them.]

Hatred doesn't help.

[ She really is. Too bad she doesn't see that. ]

They deserve it!

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