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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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[Huffing out a slightly more genuine laugh, running his free hand over his face again]

Mm, best to avoid that...

It's part of being the person I was, to do that. To move between people, and in battles . . . even if the people are really strong, and the battles are really powerful.

But isn't that frightening?

[Shakes her head.]

I'm Ikki's link tuner. Even if the winds are so strong it's like standing in a hurricane . . . that's where I belong.

[...all of you dumb young girls doing crazy things for loved ones, what am I going to do with you...]

...I guess I'm not really surprised to hear you say something like that.

Ah, well . . . sometimes it really is like I don't notice at all, so . . . Pavo yells at me sometimes. Shiki too.

I can't really imagine most of Pavo yelling... but I'm afraid I would have to agree with them.

Of course you would. You care too.

[Squeezes his hand once more, and lets go.]

Yeah. That's why...could you do something for me?

What is it?

Just...don't wander too far when you're alone? At least for a while...

Ahh . . . I really don't think I want to go anywhere alone for the next month. Maybe more.

Good. Someone will always be willing to go with you.

...You're sure you're okay? If there's anything...

. . . I wasn't alone. So even the times it was scary . . .

If I can have dinner and sleep on something that's not the ground, I think . . . that's enough. And maybe a bath tomorrow, if one of the bath houses is free.

...she's that much of a comfort to you...

Ahh, it's just . . . she isn't really good in the dark either . . .

[Hff...what to even make of that...]

I see.

Reflections are created when light bounces off of a smooth surface. Without light, nothing reflects.

In other words, she's afraid of being powerless.

Isn't everyone?

I can't hear right when the night comes. Nothing echoes, and all the sounds are wrong . . . like the earth is moving, like the dark is swallowing everything. More than losing my way . . . that scared me more than anything.

...not always.

With the way you were that night the earth moved... I can imagine. I'm sorry.

It's okay. It's just . . . to me, that's the same as Mirror's quiet. Especially when this is the only night she's ever known.

There's a lot of things you can judge her for. But that . . . I don't think it's right if that's one of them.