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egg raising - avante en garde

[ Your cavern offshoot is still rather spacious, even with a human-sized egg pressed to the farthest cave wall. It's also surprisingly accommodating: the ground here is carpeted with lush rugs as well as pillows and blankets.

The egg is surrounded by a number of colorful smooth stones, most small enough to hold in one palm. There are eight colors in total, though multiple of each color. Hold a stone and you'll be compelled to speak honestly about the corresponding emotion.

You'll quickly find that your offshoot seems to have reduced echo, or perhaps even sound muffling—from here, you can't hear anyone from any other unit offshoot, and you suspect they can't hear you, either. ]

TASKS & EMOTION COLORS | GENERAL DISCUSSION | INDIVIDUAL TURN-IN @ 4 HR

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...Admittedly, dragons seem to be far more straightforward to raise than princesses.

Would they really be?

Well, under these conditions, seemingly.

If you're asking whether I've ever raised a dragon before, the answer is definitely no! Really, I don't think spirits truly have children, as mortals do.

How do new spirits come into being then... ?

[ tilting her head, thinking on it ]

Mmmn... all things have a spirit, and the spirit grows—sometimes into a proper god—as that thing gains significance.

But, as far as how that very first, incredibly minor spirit comes into being... I actually don't know, except that it's the nature of Creation.

[ pause ] So, you know, perhaps it's completely different in other worlds.

I mean, I don't think my world even has dragons in it, so I couldn't really judge.

What! [ terrible. ]

Do you have something else instead?

Godzilla.

That sounds like a kind of god...? [ it's in the name and everything. ]

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Fufufu... dragons are the sort of fairytale creature that knights like us are traditionally supposed to slay in order to rescue the princess. To raise one is ironic, wouldn't you say?

[ Hello he just appeared, surrise. ]

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Ah! You're joining us, then?

I don't think I've ever heard those tales, myself. The dragons of Creation are all ancient god-elementals, after all; slaying one would be not be lightly done, even by one of the Exalted.

I would love it if you could regale me with the myths and stories regarding dragons then of your own world, sometime then, Amaranth-san. ♪

... Why are they still entrusting people with child raising here...

I do always wonder—whether these people and spirits truly exist outside of the games.

But I prefer to assume they are, and try my best to do right by them.

Mmm... yeah. There's no point in messing up something living on purpose for no reason.

I actually... kind of miss the princess that LiliS raised—really it was just me and Cypress. So it felt even more like being her parent.

I hear avante raised an athlete in that one.

Volleyball is a healthy extracurricular activity to have.

"Extracurricular"?

Mm... it's like an extra thing to do aside from your required schoolwork and classes?

Ah!

[ a beat ]

...I admit that in my homeland, physical training definitely was among the absolute requirements, at least for women.

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Why hell would assume child-rearing of any kind in such a godforsaken place is truly the mystery, to begin with. I suppose that even they desire animals and diversity among them?

Or maybe they want to see what kind of degenerate gets created.

Here upon avante we are mostly all good children though?

... Mostly.

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