[BOND]

[luckyheart]

Who: lucky + unfortunate bystanders
When: day 43, afternoon
Where: the dining area

[SO TRAINGOERS. You may still be having water gun fights or you may have gotten bored of it, but if you're heading into the lounge to relax (or the kitchen to refill your water gun), you'll have to get past Lucky! He's taken over the table nearest the entrance to the car, dangling fairy lights from the ceiling and sprinkling silk rose petals on the table and the floor around it. There's a hand-scrawled posterboard hanging from the table's edge:

KISSING BOOTH
FREE
for good luck!!

If you try to pass he'll call out, so good luck trying to escape. But hey, if you play along you'll get sparks...

Or, y'know, you could be doing something totally unrelated in this post.]

Comments

[daydreamshimmer]

My teammate was very insistent I just use the phone to learn about my circumstance. [Flatly.]

...you said you were Eliza?

[bowtiedbones]

[nods, yep that’s her]

The phone is an excellent source of information. The Construct in particular is very useful, especially for questions about sparks or the shop.

[daydreamshimmer]

Hm. [She's still highly skeptical on all this.]

[But skeptical or not, she still wants to Know A thing.]

I was told you'd be the one to remember the trial runner who gave you the ability to shape change?

[bowtiedbones]

I do, but I don’t know how to contact them and I doubt they will be able to provide what you’re looking for as this was a change induced within a very specific framework.

It’s not the nature of the Aurora’s initial summonings to alter our physical forms. If your body is different, the cause of that is going to be something you have yet to remember from your place of origin.

[daydreamshimmer]

Even if it was a specific framework, understanding how it happened means it can be a basis to figure out how to do it some other way. The more you understand how a thing works sometimes, the easier to make it do what you want anytime.

I highly doubt that since I didn't even know what a human was. Ponies, griffins, dragons, hippogrifs, horses, deer, yaks, cat people, parrotskind, storm creatures, I know plenty of sentient races, but nothing about what a human is.

[bowtiedbones]

You're an amnesiac. You only remember the basics, not the extremes like turning into a different unknown species.

[daydreamshimmer]

I'm an amnesiac, so I should take things with a grain of salt because it'd be very easy to take advantage of an amnesiac.

[bowtiedbones]

That's an attitude that's going to get you nowhere. Wait here.

[going into Thyme. shutting the door behind her.]

[daydreamshimmer]

Considering what's the 'gold standard' for trust worthiness on this train, I'm going to keep my attitude right where it is.

[Will lean against the wall with a sigh.]

[bowtiedbones]

[returns with two ziploc bags with instructions on them in sharpie. each has about two tablespoons of conditioner in it.

lori has also joined her, perched on her shoulder and peeking out from under her hair]

Here. Use this one while your hair is still damp. It's a leave-in conditioner but it works well as a detangler. Start from the end of your hair and work your way up, use your fingers instead of a comb and try to use as little product as possible since it's going to be heavier than a detangling spray. Use this other one next time you wash your hair, it will help against the weather and the saltspray.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Was going to take the offered bags, but freezes as she sees Iori.]

[And jerking back because HELLO MOVING SKELETON???]

[bowtiedbones]

[clacks her beak :V]

[eliza just waits, holding the baggies out]

[daydreamshimmer]

There's....a skeleton on you.

It's moving.

[bowtiedbones]

I'm aware.

[daydreamshimmer]

And you're....okay with that? You DO know cursed beings can turn feral on a bit?

[bowtiedbones]

That's a new one. She's not cursed, this is necromancy. She's mine.

[daydreamshimmer]

[ U M ]

[There is a very long pause with the most unsure look because necromancy is....isn't that dark magic?]

[Except then she's THINKING about dark magic and]

[....she....]

[She kind of knows a bunch apparently??????]

[ U M ]

[Excuse her, she's trying to wrap her mind around that]

[bowtiedbones]

[shakes the conditioner bags. plz. lady, plz.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[Excuse her, she's having a bit of a Time.]

[She knows dark magic. Nothing quite relating to skeletons, a little about bounding spirits though and changing things and gateways and memory reading and]

[Hayseed, that is a lot.]

[But why? Dark magic is bad, that's why they call it that.]

[Or maybe...maybe it's just power?]

[And humans....well, humans are apparently extremely violent and bloodthirsty.]

And....what's the point of her?

[She's not even really looking at Eliza, staring hard at the ground.]

[bowtiedbones]

She's my familiar. She helps me do even greater feats of necromancy.

[would it be mean to bring out the other two


that would PROBABLY be mean]

I have two more.

[but probably better than running into them on accident one day]

[daydreamshimmer]

...I see. And as a familiar, you can control them?

[bowtiedbones]

She has absolute loyalty to me, yes.

[daydreamshimmer]

I see.

I...

Am focusing on shapeshifting magic right now. May. Get back to you on that later.

[Once she's got her head wrapped around a few things.]

[bowtiedbones]

Sure.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Will finally look up and]

[Oh right.]

[Will. Tentatively take the baggies, still eyeing Iori with caution, but also intrigue because]

[Yeah]

[Yeah, everything is just gonna be Like This.]