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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.]]
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 snorts, the precursor to laughter in almost anyone else. She has a tail, too.]
Just one.
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[She'll pretend she didn't hear that last one.]
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Damn... I'm only blue, but with a yellow tail.
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You're-!
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But it's kind of a secret, eh. [Holds a finger over his lips for a pose.] Granted, a bunch of people know already, but it's fun to surprise the rest.
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...Well, because she's never met another one. Even a blue-and-yellow one. And she doesn't know how to make a filter. So if he can last through five minutes of silence while she wars with herself over what to say, whether to say anything at all - it's kind of a secret - looking hard at the tabletop and blushing and fuming because this isn't what she expected at all...]
Me too.
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I know of one other guy who's a phoenix, his flames are red though, and he's not so... literal. He can't change from bird to human, you know? [Not that he knows if she can either... but what better way to find out.] Hey, let's meet in person, eh. If you're not too busy with everyone else you're meeting at the restaurant.
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[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.]
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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.]
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Yeah. Definitely staring. There's also no way she'll transform inside the restaurant.]
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[He takes a guess and wanders over to Raven, judging based on the hair color and from what little the journal did show.]
Yo. [And if he's wrong, well, nothing too weird about approaching people in bird form, he's done it more times than he cares to count.]
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Hey. ...Guess you're him.
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[Switches over to human as if it's just as normal as having been a bird before and grabs a tea.] It's kind of nice how easy it is to get away with things like that here, eh. With so many ponies or non-humans running around it's almost as easy as my own ship.
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...It's...hard to remember. That people don't care.
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I don't suppose you have anyone you know from home here?
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[She already feels she owes Ondorus for a few things and it's not getting any better.
A shrug.] I don't remember my family.
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[Softer glance.] Not at all?
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Not at all. ...Gaius is like family though.
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Gaius? Who's that?
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I guess, yeah.
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