be steady on your feet [ OPEN ]

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Who: Souji Seta & you!
When: Late May and through June
Where: Everywhere in Aefenglom, with focus on in-city quests, setting exploration, and neighborhood bonding in the Haven - though some quests outside of the city walls
What: Catchall open log for quests and daily life
Warnings: None currently - will update if needed!

open & closed prompts to be found in the comments - you can also drop a wildcard in here if you like!

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[Trying to look more energetic than she actually feels is something she tackles hour by hour, and today is a little worse than usual. She has no idea if time works the same in her home world, but Minako has a sneaking suspicion that Graduation Day hasn't happened in Iwatodai yet-- it's the only explanation for why her extreme exhaustion is persisting.

Still, she's making the best of it. It helps that a lot of the quests are pretty easy to complete, especially if she has an incredibly sweet and friendly partner like Souji to work with.

She's glad to see him again. Something in her heart feels a little...soothed? satisfied? but also agitated? by his presence. It's hard to explain. And it feels weird since she just met him, so she's going to keep the fact to herself.]

Yeah! We're very lucky world hoppers. I'm glad they don't seem to be struggling to accommodate us. And still have all these festivals going on. [She gives him a crooked smile as she wraps her hands around her tea.] It almost doesn't seem like they're in danger that way.

[That's the worst kind of danger, though-- creeping up on you slowly until it's become a monster that seems insurmountable. She knows very well.]

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[ Having a familiar face, even if the reason for the familiarity is the fact that you saw each other in a dream, is... a mix of emotions for him, too. Souji isn't sure what to make of it, but he holds onto the relief more than anything else, the fact that it's easy to be around Minako, around Akira. That probably says something, but he's not going to dive into it without reason to. He and Akira spoke of Shadows, and that bridged the gap and gave them understanding.

He'll see if the same thing happens with Minako.

Settling into his seat, he picks up the tea and blows lightly at the top of it before he takes a sip. But her words do give him a moment of pause, as he mulls over it. ]

We did arrive in the middle of the festival, so it might've been that it hadn't hit them that we weren't supposed to be there. [ Contemplative as he sounds, Souji also sounds a little wry to match her crooked smile. ] It wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to forget about the danger, but...

[ That doesn't seem safe, either. ]

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I guess since the Cwyld isn't a constant, immediate danger, it's easier to keep it at the back of their minds. [She looks down into her tea, thumbing the curve of the rim.] But at least they're all in this fight together. They all know the danger they're in, so they can all find their own ways, big or small, to win against their daily fear.

[If only things could've been like that for her at home. Then one group of young people wouldn't have been burdened with saving all of humanity. But instead, there were way too many people giving in, too many people letting apathy and fear overtake them. Hope and optimism were in short supply those last few months, and witnessing the decline of their city did her team no favors. They only managed to persevere by holding each other up every step of the way to the end.

So if this world's way of enduring is through festivals, then she'll help keep them happening before she inevitably fades away. Who doesn't love a good party, after all?]

And if they ever forget that they're fighting to save themselves, I'm a really good candidate for kicking people's butts into gear!