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Who: DelPavo + anyone
Where: DelPavo
When: Day 276, evening, post-plotting
What:

[Whatever locks the Geardorm has on its main doors have now been very securely locked. And then re-locked, just to be sure.

A cranky tiny is scrutinizing them as if he's seriously considering adding more.]

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[Shaking his head...]

Don't be silly. I'm not afraid of you, Feathers.

You never have been before.

What happened?

It's nothing important enough for you to trouble yourself over.

Tide . . .

There's a lot of things you can say if you don't want me to ask. And I'll listen—I will. But saying that it's not important like that . . . everything about you is important to me. No matter how big or how small it might be.

[But why 8(]

It's not that I don't want to tell you... I just don't want you to be troubled.

[Because you are a partner-teammate and deserve to be loved. Duh.]

Tide sounds like Poofy now.

[...so you're telling me I sound like a sad sadthing...]

Ah...I hadn't meant to...

It's okay to trouble me. I think . . . it's really part of being teammates. To be there in the good times, and to be able to lean on each other during the bad times, too.

[Ughh you completely dismantle my ability to bluff]

I...met Mirror, briefly. I was just reminded of that time for a moment, that's all.

[Mirror . . . ]

What did she do?

She didn't take me to her realm or anything like that! So it's fine...

If it's something that made hugs from me not okay, it's not fine at all!

What did she do?

[Hff...taking one of her hands]

...she reminded me not to forget who I am. That's all.

[Holding his hand back, grip anything but loose.]

How did she remind you?

She did...something with my head. Triggered something, I don't really know. It's nothing that has lingering effects.

. . . your eyes didn't go gold, did they?

I don't...think so? ...More red, maybe?

Tide too . . .

[jiiiii]

Maybe red is Delphinus's colour . . .

Ah...um. What?

There's a lot of people on Pavo she could affect that way. Delphinus, too . . . almost everyone like that has eyes that change.

Everyone "like that"?

When Tide said, "Remind you of who you are" . . . part of that 'who' is really 'what', isn't it?

Ah...yeah, I guess that's true.

It has to be. Because if it was just 'who', it wouldn't be a bad thing. Really, it would be the other way around . . . the reward for playing in games, for winning them is to be reminded of who we are. Even if that person is someone we don't really like, or who we're ashamed of . . . even if it's someone who scares us. We still play.

'What' is harder because it's something the person in our memories can struggle with too. And if the person we were and the person we are both feel the same way, it can be a little like there's no escape.

[...

Rubbing a hand over his face tiredly]

Mm...a lot like that.