mingle!

[grimpa]

Who: anyone!
When: Day 6, morning
Where: the lounge carriage (or, like, wherever, I'm not your boss)

[What's shakin', heroes? That sure was a trial last night, huh? What's on the agenda this morning-- still exploring, for new folks? Having team talks in light of having two trials'-worth of info on how this stuff is gonna go? Cooking something up in the public kitchen? Taking memories or testing out new powers? Playing with new purchases from the sparks shop? Just hanging out in the lounge? You do you; everyone's gotta find their own path on their magical interdimensional spacetrain journey.]

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[grimpa]

[Having made a killing between his team winning in the trial and waking up to an event, this scarred-up Thyme is broadcasting not one, but two memories this evening!]

[In the first, Fang sees a girl around his own age (~late teens at the time) seemingly struggling to climb down to the river. He approaches her, grabs her arm to pull her back onto the shore, and says something dismissive along the lines of "Did you think you'd be able to cross it yourself? Pay more attention to your limits. I'll carry you." The girl seems flustered and confused, but gets on his shoulders like he asked, and he wades across the river with fast-flowing water nearly up to his shoulders in places. When he reaches the opposite shore, he lets her down and walks off without another word. cw suicidal ideation: image 1, image 2.]

[And after a moment to blink away his impressions of that-- the second is just a few minutes of Fang sitting cross-legged on the floor of his house, carving an individual rail for a crib. Other completed rails and a mostly-completed headboard are scattered on the ground around him, in a room that's clearly lived-in but a little plain and bare bones.]

[crimeson]

[oh, honey...]

Yeah, I thought my impression of you was right. Looks like these prove it.

[grimpa]

[--goes RED]

What?

[crimeson]

You're a good man.

[grimpa]

--Tch! She was just being ridiculous! I couldn't bear to watch.

[two memories and he's unlocked tsun]

[crimeson]

Sure, whatever you say.

Anyway, I should apologize to you.

[grimpa]

[h-huffs but then that registers, and he looks at him, confused]

For what?

[crimeson]

I lied to you, before. I have all my memories, and my name is Randy Orlando.

[grimpa]

[oh]

[...huh.]

...Why did you feel the need to lie?

[crimeson]

There are a few people from the same place as me that I wanted to avoid some awkwardness with, since one doesn't remember me and one was... Well, I wouldn't call us allies, before this.

[grimpa]

...Have you come clean to them as well?

[crimeson]

I have, yes.

[grimpa]

Very well. I'm glad to hear you thought better of it, Randy.

...My team has named me Fang.

[crimeson]

Then, it's nice to meet you properly, Fang.

[grimpa]

Yes.

...Do you think the people you know here will turn out to be a problem?

[crimeson]

... No, I don't think they will be.

[friskmanagement]

[It's another guy in Thyme clothes. That means he's a teammate, right?

You watch what happens on the screen. After it's done, you blink and look at him.]

You really crossed a river with someone else on your shoulders?

[grimpa]

[looks down at them...]

...It appears that way. You must be one of the children.

[grimpa]

[nods!]

We all share the same goals here. It would be foolish to carry over grudges from home.

[friskmanagement]

[Your brows fall a little.]

I guess.

[You're kind of touchy about that.]

[grimpa]

My name is Fang. Are you Saber or Smile?

[friskmanagement]

I'm Smile.

[You look over your shoulder.]

Can you see them? Saber?

[ewestmarch]

[Just exploring, actually. It's much harder to accept whatever the fuck is happening when you have your memories.

But she's never seen ...a moving picture before, even one that isn't a memory, and she stops abruptly when she sees ... through the eyes of someone clearly not on the train or on this dark world.]

Where... is that?

[crimeson]

I don't know about foolish, but it couldn't hold up to those bubbles, at any rate.

[grimpa]

[he furrows his brow for a moment, before he remembers that Eliza told him one of them was a ghost]

No, I can't. I'm glad to meet you both regardless, as we'll be cooperating.