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[aldebaranshit]

(April 18th - 19th)

So upon asking around in Hugel, you've learned that Arunafeltz has been abandoned for some years now. Something about the majority of the city disappearing off until the remainder moved off to Lighthalzen and left the city as a ghost town. Many of them have heard of the traveling machine, but never had seen it for themselves, except for a few who can recount their friends or family members going off world.

The journey to Arunafeltz shouldn't take more than a day. Once you get there, you should start rooting around the city center. Explore a little bit, and enjoy yourself. Your company. You're this much closer to getting home.

[Mission: Explore the city and rig your ride home.]

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[foodporn]

[trails off mid reply when she sees hel]

[:/]

[crotchbite]

[ no go on lil' duckling. no hard feelings.

she did it 4 u etc etc ]

[rhymeswithdesign]

The— Never mind. Yeah, the hole. More to the point, of how she ended up there. I was thinking of the necklace we gave her, and what gave it to us.

[when bo gets even less perky than her usual, follows her eyeline to hel. oh. frowns at the back of bo's head.]

...Ah.

[because the machine is sending them home, right? and hel and bo don't have the same home. at least he thinks he understands now. makes more sense than paranoid cynicism, for bo at any rate. he thinks.]

[foodporn]

You wanna go ahead? I'll be in in a minute.

[looks back to him. tearful goodbyes. you know.]

[rhymeswithdesign]

[stares at bo. no i don't want to go ahead, i want to. agh. goddammit.]

Yeah. Want to meet up at the castle, or what?

[doesn't have any tearful goodbyes. all of his apparently happened offscreen. just goodbyes.]

[foodporn]

[be a big boy. cuffs him on the arm and heads over to her not-gf]

[awkwardly loops fingers through her belt loops and scrunches mouth to the side]

So... not gonna. Come in? See us off?

[bon voyage? sailor kiss?]

[rhymeswithdesign]

[takes the hint all the way to the castle.]

[crotchbite]

[ oh god. she's not very good with goodbyes that don't involve slow motion and explosions and blood. oop.

leans against the wagon, shrugging a little ]

Do you want me to? [ cus she will. if. she wants. ]

[foodporn]

[shuffles a step closer and flaps hands at her waist like a kind of shrug but not really. useless flappy hands. because she feels useless with hel's not getting home thing. she thought she could do something to help.]

I want you to try. Maybe it'll work. This way? Maybe it was only for the other way.

[crotchbite]

[ looks at her flappy hands and presses her lips together in a smile. ]

Okay. I promise I'll try after you get home. [ licks her lips with a sigh, grabbing her flappy hands. stahp. ] I'm afraid I'll fuck it up for the rest of you if I try to break my promise.

[foodporn]

[she really wants to be the big hero and exclaim dramatically i'm not going without you!! or something telemundo-y, but she has to think about getting back to kenzi, dyson, trick. lauren, even if things are kind of botched between them. looks down at dirt and digs toe a little, trying not to get all emotional. failing]

How can you be so calm about it?

[crotchbite]

[ tilts her head down to catch her eyes ] Just because I'm not going this time it doesn't mean I'm not going sometime. Besides, I guess I could start a business here. I'm keeping all of our stuff.

[ trying to make light outta it ]

Come here. [ tugs her closer by the hands and slips her arms around her waist ] I'm sorry I didn't apologize sooner.

[foodporn]

Well don't do it now, you'll just make it worse.

[rests hands at her arms loosely and smiles down between them trying to keep it light but no. it's not working very well]

I just started to like you. [bats at her arm in that stubbornly not going to be miserable voice] I don't wanna lose you now.

[crotchbite]

[ weh. what do you say to that.

laughs a little and arches her eyebrows like really ]

Just started to like me? Well, that's rude.

[ leans back to holds her lil cheeks in her hands and brushes her thumbs against them ]

You're going back home. You'll get over it. [ keeping up her smile and all that but she's gonna miss her bunnyteef face a lot, which is probably why she ends up slipping up ] I'm gonna miss you.

[foodporn]

Me too.

[stop being nice you're easier to let go when you're rude. no you're not. brings her hands up to hold her wrists, scanning her face. might be the last time she sees it after all]

[crotchbite]

Don't do that.

[ that face you're making. it hurts my kokoro, b-baka.

ok too much to take, can't do this, too emotional. leans in for dat goodbye kiss

coldplay.mp3 in the background, spinning camera and close up ]

[foodporn]

[this is the saddest kiss to ever be lesbian. leans into her, rubbing hands over arms like she can keep her there]

[moves a hand up to the side of her face when she pulls away and fixes her with the pathetic kicked puppy look]

[crotchbite]

[ yep ]

[ kisses her a couple more times and leans her forehead on hers. then lets out a little sad sigh and wraps her fingers around her wrists, pulling them away from her face ]

Go. [ before it gets harder okay :( ]

[foodporn]

[shakes head and reverses grip to take her hand, giving it a little insistent tug. pls. come.]

[crotchbite]

I can't. [ don't do this to meeee ] You know I can't.

[foodporn]

[opens mouth to protest but the noise from the aborted machine attempt makes her whip her head around]

[looks back at her, panicy]

[♪ hello darkness my old friend ♪]

[crotchbite]

[ looks over the whirring noise and looks back at her ] I gave up my ticket for you to go. [ squeezes her hands ] Don't make it in vain. Please.

[foodporn]

You promised to try after we go. You better keep it.

[lets her go to tangle both hands in her hair and kiss her again. gives her her best i'm serious now face when she pulls away before dropping hands and taking a step back toward the thing]

[crotchbite]

I promise.

[ leans back against the wagon and smiles at her, before clenching her jaw and slumping a little

well this sucks. should have stayed mad it would have been easier ]

[foodporn]

...Thank you.

[comes out more like a sad huff than a words. turns on her heel and takes off running toward the source of the noise]