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Who: Everyone
When: Day 20, evening
Where: The train and surrounding terrain

[So after all the earlier excitement.... dramatic organ music starts to play through the cars. There's no obvious source. It's just... There? All around you for a while, before fading.

Of course before the music fades there's more things going on. A mist seeps up from the earth outside the train and within the train simply seems to form like it's produced by invisible fog machines. As the mist grows into a thick fog, you can hear eerie noises. Distant wolf howls, the screech of a fox that sounds like human screaming, owls hooting hauntingly, the leathery flap of bat wings, and other, less identifiable noises of the night, strange and otherworldly.

If you go out in it, breathe it in, the mist will chill you. Make you desire... Touch.

The need to hold another person is an almost growing compulsion, but it can be fought.

However things that are harder to avoid are the flowers, night blooming wisteria in white and purple seems to have grown from nowhere in the train cars, hanging down to brush the heads of passengers with sweet scented blossoms, and the floors of the train and ground around it have become endless beds of gently glowing moonflowers.

The only places the fog and flowers don't reach are team cabins.

Effects:

Mist:

Cold that cannot be dispelled without touch, a desire to touch others.

Wisteria:

Purple blossoms cause an empathetic bond with the next person you touch.

White blossoms cause arousal and a mild to powerful aphrodisiac effect.

Moonflowers:

Share memories or thoughts with the next person you touch.

By morning the mist and flowers will vanish.]

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Yes, and now let us completely disregard it.

[It's not like Machias hasn't met them all.]

Sounds reasonable.

[She peers at him a little.]

...The coat isn't helping much, is it?

Not really, though I appreciate the gesture.

Then really, there should be someplace warmer somewhere...

[She is very concerned about this. Humans need to stay warm????]

...Are you concerned?

Yes?

[Why wouldn't she be?]

[Weird.]

...I'm fine. It's just cold.

Cold can be extremely dangerous for humans.

[You hear that, Jusis?

That's the sound of the grandma engine revving up.]

Certainly, but if this were a natural chill the jacket would have had some effect.

That makes me more concerned. I don't know how to treat magical hypothermia--

[Pause.]

...Well, of this kind.

...There are multiple types?

Well, yes. Elemental magecraft that creates ice is going to create a much faster-acting, localized sort of hypothermia you need to handle a bit differently than your regular, run-of-the-mill hypothermia. Whenever magic's involved in injury, you can't just assume you can treat it with the same kind of first aid.

[It's a shame she's not on thyme, isn't it?]

[Here he's just wondering why a tearal balm won't work for all of it.]

...I see.

[SOME OF US DON'T GET JRPG HEALING ITEMS, JUSIS.]

...The point is, I'd like to see if there's anyway to avoid all that.

I'm not sure location is going to matter much, though I appreciate the thought.

I took an oath as a healer, I can't really just let that go...

[But she is trying to consider this...]

...And I don't really have much body heat, setting aside I really doubt you'd be comfortable with that, so that's out on two levels.

Perhaps warming from inside. A hot cup of tea maybe.

...The roses bloomed, I can use the rosehips for tea.

[this appeals to her inner posh snob.]

It has been some time since I had rose hip tea.

Well then. I'll go get some of the hips and head for the dining car, then?

[Since that's where the kettles are.]

I shall meet you there.

I'll not keep you waiting.

[And she won't--she used her jackal form to get to the gardening car faster, and avoid more of the moonflowers. Plus side, this means he gets to see a jackal carrying a basket of rosehips in it's jaws come bounding into the dining car and kind of skidding to a stop before she changes back. Adjusts her coat like that wasn't ridiculous. If she pretends she's dignified no one saw anything otherwise, right? Right.]

[That's a little endearing! He won't comment anyway, having already put the kettle on.]

[I don't know how to make rose hip tea from scratch but naeva does so assume she adds the flowers to the hot water in the correct fashion!]

There...these were very fragrant, so they'll be flavorful.

I look forward to it.

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