You're at the reintro. You're at the heartgame. You're at the combination reintro/heartgame.

[idolpro]

Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.
- Pablo Neruda

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bought a bubblegum scented sword so the last thing
my enemies realise is how fun and cute i am
- wolfpupy

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Re: CHANCEL LELI

[gravitydefier]

...and she has to make that choice.

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[ninuanni]

Harlowe snorts, amused.

"Now that'd be nice. Would save everyone a lot of time, too."

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

"If you prefer, Harlowe, you can think of it as Kiri's choices taking her this far." (Kiri—it was one of the other names carved in that door.) "Even if she has gotten tangled up in them, that counts for something." Adalet's tone is matter-of-fact, and earns a shrug of acknowledgment from her companion. "She has been shattered twice now, after all."

Adalet turns back to you. There's something in her—a kind of tiredness—which is far more ancient than an apparently living woman should be.

"This flower rite was interrupted before it could complete, last time it took place. She is relying on her new Familia to see it through."

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[gravitydefier]

I...see.

[he already doesn't understand people very well...and he's never even spoken to her before. how can he even help her...complete this?]

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

"You are of Familia BAD END=DEAD END, aren't you...?" It is only half a question—more a confirmation, really.

"We do not know you here, but you've become part of this just the same."

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[gravitydefier]

...I am. [he says, after a moment. it still feels...awkward, given everything, but he does belong to them now.

...he still isn't the best choice for this given that he doesn't know shit about emotions, either.]

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

"Then this—or some of this—is up to you.
"You'll need to find her, and complete the rite—the miracle, that is—by freeing her of two of the flowers, so that she's no longer bound here. It is finding, though, which is likely the hard part. However, the scars she's given you are Treasure miracles, as we said. Whichever way you choose to use them, they'll set you in the right direction.
"Beyond that, though, we two cannot advise you. Axes and Injustice are the hard edge of this Familia's enforcement, not its searching heart."

Adalet half-smiles, wry. "And Kiri doesn't understand enough about Sprouts for me to help her that way, either. I'd suggest you talk to Quentin, over there—"

She points, indicating a mousey-haired young man with an oversized knapsack, currently in some kind of argument with... a centaur?

"Or... Leli. She's at the central pond." And indeed, this whole wide clearing is dotted with ponds like the one you arrived in, most with strange crumbling stone bridges that half-cross them before falling to rubble.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[gravitydefier]

...Understood. [...glances towards the young man in his argument, absolutely does not want to deal with that, and is going to head in the direction of the central pond.]

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[ninuanni]

It's not a long walk. Somewhere in the distant forest, you can see thick plumes of smoke rising, as from a wildfire. But Adalet and Harlowe had seemed entirely unconcerned, and indeed there's the feeling that it belongs here as much as anything else.

(You can probably also hear one of your new unitmates arriving here, not far behind you.)

Along the way, you see more and more of those Star of Bethlehem snowdrops. They sprout here and there around the bases of the bridges, then more and more frequently as you head towards the center of the moonlit clearing, until the ground is almost blanketed in white.

—And there, sitting on a toppled stone by the largest of the pools of water, is a woman with pale skin, night-dark hair, and a distant, sorrowful expression. She is looking up at the stars.

Re: CHANCEL LELI

[gravitydefier]

...are you Leli?