wooliefrand | BAA-TRAYAL R 1

Edgelord! Flare! Hi!

[ Looking tense, harried, and otherwise worse for the wear, but maybe a little relieved to a see another familiar face. ]

Oh, you're trapped here, too, Azdaja?

Not trapped, just passing through.

[She thinks, not knowing the doors are now locked.]

...Are you okay?

[Why is he carrying you]

How could I be okay?! There's something seriously wrong with this place!

I meant physically. Are you hurt?

[ Bitterly: ]

I was just hit with lightning, so yes. I've seen better days.

You got hit with that, too?

What triggered that?

[ Averts her gaze a little, looking slightly uncomfortable. ]

... We got into a fight with Stormy.

"We"?

Did you pick a fight with Stormy, or was it Edgelord?

Did Edgelord do something to hurt you?

[ Quickly: ]

No! ... He's acting strangely protective, if anything.

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[decisively,]

I'm gonna make sure you're okay.

[ Slowly, like she's unsure how to react to that: ]

W-Well...good, but...

Let's start by not provoking anyone else into shocking us, hm?

There won't be anyone else.

[ (UNSURE) ]

... Do you mean that as in, "Right, of course, it won't happen again"?

I mean next time I'll just kill 'em first.

[ Reaches up and squishes his cheeks between her hands. ]

It's that kind of thinking that got us in trouble in the first place! Do you get that?!

[coolly, a little wary]

...Hey. You guys are here too, huh?

I guess so, but where the fuck is this?

Is this a ritual? If so, I have no idea what the win condition is supposed to be. We've just been wandering around. You guys are the first people we've even seen.

It seems like it's some kinda memory or dream or somethin'? I thought it was Stormy's, but I killed him a minute ago, so maybe not?

Oh...

In that case, it probably doesn't belong to Blossom, Coco, or Daisy, either.

What's wrong with Flare? Is she okay?

They're dead already?

[he sounds neutral-to-relieved?

then transitions to defensive]

...Stuff keeps tryin' to attack her. People at the fightin' thing, that... vision... and Stormy hit her with lightnin'.

"Fighting thing?" Vision???

What have you guys seen since you got here?

We started in some kind of palace, then passed through a forest, and an auditorium, and now a bunch of barns....

There was a room with a bunch of portraits and a puzzle... then a banquet where Stormy saw Blossom? Seemed like a memory. Then there was a place Stormy and a buncha people were fightin' for fun, then a buncha clouds where Stormy was hangin' out. We ran into Muffin and the other yellow guy there, and they said north was safer, so I came back this way, and saw a couple o' other dates or whatever.

I... guess that makes some kinda sense, that these are memories. Lyra got attacked by a bear, and I got chased by a zmeu that looked a lot like our Emperor back home, so admittedly we spent a lot of time running through the different areas instead of exploring them...

But, in retrospect, I think we might have seen scenes from Blossom's life? A lot of embarrassing failures, mostly.

Huh... Ours were prob'ly all Stormy's, I think, so maybe you got her side.

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