corrinesbell | 128. Dual [voiced/action]

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Okay, guys. Raine brought this up a while ago, but some of you are new and things've changed a little. There's a kid here in Luceti named Mithos - he looks like he's about thirteen, with blond hair - he's from my world. And he's dangerous. Not like he wants to go around tearing the place apart or anything, but...more like, he doesn't trust anybody. He doesn't need a logical reason to attack you if he thinks he's gotta.

I don't want anybody going after him or anything, 'cause that's not what this warning is about. It's just a warning. He's come after me, and then Sayo, and just recently Raine and Yuan. You don't wanna provoke him and if you can, you wanna stay outta his way. Most people, he's gonna dislike or outright hate, so it's not like he'll be coming after you for conversation.

But like I said, it's just a warning. Nobody do anything stupid.

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Anyway, I was hoping some people here were still interested in working in the tea shop. It's been great so far, but there's no way I can be there all day every day myself and not go totally crazy. I'd need someone who knows how to brew tea, and a couple people willing to take orders and serve it and stuff. I remember people saying they'd like to do it before - that's still true, right? I promise I wouldn't make you work too hard.

[The tea shop is where she happens to be at the moment. Though it's noticeably low on customers this evening.]

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I'm just frustrated that this happened to begin with. If I had been a little faster in contacting you, we could have managed to nip this in the bud. I should have stayed out of the way when I realized what was going on.

That's really easy to say days afterward when you've had lots of time to sit around and think about what you could've done. But right then maybe what you did was the best thing to do.

No, it wasn't. All it succeeded in was to give Yuan the extra guilt of attacking me once again.

[Sheena opens her mouth to contradict that and offer whatever words she thinks will be useful. There's an expert on 'thinking about how it could have gone better' sitting in front of Raine, after all.

But.]

'Again'?

[... Damn it.]

... Don't worry about it. It's a matter long resolved.

Do I sound worried?

[The answer to 'do I look worried' is yes, so she changed it.]

What happened the first time?

You're not going to say anything to him about it, are you? It's not my place to talk about it to begin with.

You have to ask that? And if it happened to you that makes it your place.

With you and him? I have to be certain. [A long sigh.] ... In any case, he was struggling with an ailment for a while, and left the village to deal with it on his own. I thought that I could help him, but there wasn't anything I could do in that situation. It was foolish.

So you went after him to help and he attacked you?

[How did she not know about this? Right now she's trying to search her memories for when this might have happened.]

...What's 'with you and him' supposed to mean anyway?

It means that I don't know what might slip out in your conversations.

[She shakes her head, but goes back to the original point.] That's what happened. In any case, someone intervened in time, and the matter was resolved.

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