Chasma: Nanaly

[aono]

Yes I'm making a pc post this late, I can't believe we don't have a PC post already

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Week 4, post-trial

[aono]

[The dungeon is awful but there's no way he's going to leave her there without visiting her.

It just takes him a couple hours to get there because this is a time for home cooking and Rin is definitely raiding a kitchen somewhere to cook her a plate of what looks like an attempt at curry with whatever spices are available in this place. It's not quite curry but it will taste good nonetheless. There is also water because yes.]

Hey, you hungry?

[burnstrike]

Haven't really thought about it, but I guess I probably should be.

[ Smiling a little. ]

Got into someone's kitchen, huh?

[aono]

Yep~! Nothing wrong with a little breaking and entering.

[burnstrike]

That's the spirit. Just don't let 'em catch you.

[ It smells good enough that she finally does feel a little hungry. ]

Now you've really got to send ingredients over to the other side, so make sure you don't leave me hanging.

[aono]

I'll see what I can get you in the next town. Got any requests?

[He WILL fill up 20 bottles with ingredients.]

[burnstrike]

Mmm... spices and rice are both useful things that should go into a bottle easy enough. Broth... Maybe lentils or something?

[aono]

Spices and lentils, got it! They'd probably last longer than meat anyway.

[burnstrike]

Yeah, that's my thought, anyway.

...Hey, you wanna bring me those clothes you needed patched up? I'm probably not gonna be sleeping much, and it'd beat staring at a wall all night.

[aono]

You sure? I don't wanna impose on you if you'd rather be talking to people or something.

[He was in that same position last week, so he gets it.]

[burnstrike]

I can talk and stitch at the same time! I've only got red thread on me, though, so if you want another color you'll have to grab that from somewhere.

[ but seriously please give her something to work on ]

[aono]

I'd rather have red thread there to remind me that you're the one who fixed it up for me.

[He does run off to get his suit though! It's the one he wore for the first three weeks, which has the mangled right sleeve from getting gnawed on by a monster.]

[burnstrike]

Red it is, then.

[ She'll take it through the bars when he's back and look it over. ]

Jeez, something did a number on it, huh?

[ She's got this, though!! She just cuts the thread with her teeth since they took her knife and everything, and then she gets to work. ]

I showed Akira how to sew a while back. Maybe you can bug him to teach you sometime. Keep him on his toes so he doesn't forget.

[aono]

Yeah, a giant snake got me. And some other stuff. But it turned out alright in the end.

[Ish. That was the incident that led to his sword breaking, after all.]

I could ask him, yeah. I know some housework-stuff, but sewing isn't one I picked up yet.

[burnstrike]

Aah, right, last week...

[ stitching! ]

What was the deal with the snake anyway? Was it the same one whose skeleton was in the middle of town?

[aono]

Maybe? It was big enough to be that snake, yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up in the past of that world.

[burnstrike]

Yeah, I heard some talk about going to the past on some of those trips. Was it trying to protect that area? The people there called it their guardian, right?

[aono]

I think so, yeah. Maybe that's why the town was an oasis in the future.

[burnstrike]

Yeah, maybe it was able to make it into one. The oasis my town was built around formed really suddenly when the land in the sky came crashing down... don't know if the snake was big enough to make that same kind of impact, but it might've been.

[ it is deeply ironic that she's dying on a floating island, actually. ]

[aono]

[Wow that irony.]

Yeah, that might be it. Fighting it was pretty brutal, and it was in a garden too so there was plenty of seeds left to grow into the oasis afterwards.