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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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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.

Yes. It's been some time, since I had tea with someone else.

Do you not drink it with your team?

They'd have to be around to do that with, Jusis.

[SENNA'S KINDA RECLUSIVE...]

[He never socializes himself how's he supposed to know what other teams are like??]

They're all introverted I take it?

Fairly so.

[She's had a teammate the whole time she's been here she just met today.]

Well, sometimes that's how it is I suppose. Clover merely doesn't stick around.

It's a little lonely, isn't it?

Hmph. I'm fine. But you seem the social sort. I take it you're finding some interactions elsewhere.

[...She just went kinda red. Hey is the tea done let's pour that into and explicitly not answer that question!]

[He snorts in amusement but takes his cup.]

The aroma is quite pleasant.

Yes...I'd hoped so.

[Let's just have tea. With absolutely impeccable table manners, because that shit becomes reflexive after a while.]

[Yep, two people being perfect in table manners sipping tea in a spooky mist.]

It's a shame we don't have some of Sharon's coming to accompany this fine tea.

Sharon's?

[She tilts her head at a 45 degree angle.

Like a dog.]

[Weird. Kind of cute?]

A maid of exceptional skill, among other things. She works for a friend of mine, but she'd surely be able to whip up something to compliment this flavor perfectly.

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