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Skylark's Ideal World | Session 1

Once, there was a maiden...
...who was driven from her land.
Great black stags chased her, and their eyes shone blue.
Monsters scrambled after her through the bush, though they found her not.
Stumbling on a log, she fell and thought to surrender, and end the torment of the hunt—

... ... ...

You're so, so tired.

Why carry on?

... Surely, it's okay to take a break—

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"She visits, sometimes. And she writes to me."

And these people?

[ Photos! ]

"They visit sometimes, too." He sounds a little annoyed at being questioned about this.

...Though it's a little strange how some people you'd think would be in the photos seem absent, if that's something Lupine might have noticed.

[ Well, probably, if they're people he knows. ]

Where's everyone visiting from?

[ He hears that annoyance and he's just pressing. Slow but steady. ]

Valor is easily the most notable one that Lupine knows personally. Okitsu, too. On tehr other hand, any pictures of Alisaie and Alphinaud, while amusing (there's one of the two of them fighting over pizza), are especially hard to place where they're being taken at.

"...From home. Some of them from Hell."

[ can he barge in here, he's going to barge in here after running over like his ENTIRE NOT LIFE DEPENDED ON IT

he's got a lacquer box held to his chest. ]

[ Well, that makes a differ—

Uh, hi, Kit. ]

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"Okitsu? You're here too?"

Excuse him, why are you in such a hurry.

Yes, I'm here. I'm not going anywhere without you.

[ after looking around the cottage, at Lupine, at the - are those pictures? he holds out the lacquer gift box. ]

And I have something for you.

Lark looks at the gift box, and he pales.

"That's -- how did you..."

I'll answer your question... But before I do, what does this mean to you?

[ why that reaction before he spills that he talked your not!mom into disappearing. ]

"Why do you have it?"

Answering a question with another question.

... We could do this all day, Lark.

[ except they shouldn't, and he's looking around the room a little. is there anything blue? ]

I have it because someone who loved you trusted me with it. ... Because a part of you might, too.

[ oookay, look, he was definitely also kind of brute-forcing this, but he's gonna grab your elbow ] [ And all smiles for Lark, this is fine, ]

Sorry, give us. One second.

[ Can he just tug you gently out of the kitchen, Kit. ]

[ backing up, then ]

Alright, alright.

Lark takes a deep breath, trying to recompose himself. Then he just, turns away from the two of them, tries to go back to cooking to ignore all this.

[ Here we go, out in the hall. And immediately no more smile. ]

His mom gave those to him on her deathbed. [ Beat. ] I kind of think he needs to know you got them from her specifically.

[ And you implied that, but. 'Someone who loves you' might not be enough to reassure the kid. ]

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I know, I know, I just...

[ he saw the memory too. once he's out of the room, there's a lot more - raw anguish. somebody had a bad time having to revisit all of this also?? ]

I'm trying. The blue, it- stands for serenity. [ he takes a breath, forcing calm. ]

...The earrings in that box are blue.

[ A murmur. And, clasping Kit's shoulder, he's just gonna add, ]

I already told him she's dead. So even though he thinks she's here, she can't be.

[ Is he attempting to commiserate with Kit over having Handled This Badly? Maybe. ]

They are.

[ another deep breath. yes, this hit a lot of traumatic buttons. no, he's not allowed to grant himself the allowance to let it seep through the cracks.

... it's probably bad that he's thinking he really should have investigated the water??? ]

And she was. Alright, alright... I'm sorry.

Something's here that looks like her.

[ An easy enough correction, for all that he's scanning Kit's face. ]

But not her-her.

—Do you want me to do this? I wouldn't mind.

[ He can take the box off your hands. ]

It's good that you found it.

[ It's enough that you found it. ]

And yet I still apologized to - that "her."

[ so stupid? because he knew? but a part of him wanted to believe that Lark might hear it. that she might. ]

I know you'd have a clearer head, but... I don't want him to feel that I'm abandoning him, either.

I can risk him thinking I'm kind of an idiot.

Hey. [ Soft, but firm, too. ] Right here with you.

You're not doing it alone.

[ Steering you back into the kitchen now. ]

... Thanks.

[ okay, okay. been on both sides of this. time to shake it off and go (with help). ]

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