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Arrival: So you've just arrived in Nyoi-Cho. Congratulations! You must be so excited about having your wish granted. Or maybe you're upset that the result wasn't quite what you expected? If that's the case, then that's too bad! There are no take backs and no redoes, so you're stuck with what you have! Maybe you should have been more careful about how you worded that wish...

Oh well. There's no use in dwelling on it. You're a magi now, and that means adjusting to a whole new lifestyle! Maybe one of the townspeople can help you out.

Only... they're acting a bit strangely, aren't they? They're all too happy to show you around, but there's something unsettling about the way they're behaving. Almost cheerfully dissonant. Any questions about the history of the town are met with blank stares and brief silence, before they plaster a smile onto their faces and change the subject. Any attempts to tell them about your duties as a magi or anything else that relates to the magical will get similar reactions.

Isn't there anyone normal here that you can talk to at all?

Home Improvement: The houses that the magi are given access to really are something, aren't they? There's almost no limit to what they can do! Why don't you create the house of your dreams, or maybe recreate and relive your favorite childhood scenes? Invite some spectators over to marvel!

A Corrupted Soul Gem: You neglected to take care of your soul gem, and now you don't feel quite yourself anymore. You feel like you're losing your sense of self - all you seem to be able to focus on is your old regrets and past failures. What's happening to you?

A Successful Mission: Congratulations! You met up with your first Witch, and you fought valiantly. For your efforts, you've been awarded a grief seed - and with it, access to a brand new power! What sort of power did you get? Is it a useful one, or is it not so useful? Maybe you've mastered it beautifully, and now you're showing off to all of your friends. Maybe you're having a hard time keeping it under wraps, and now you're wreaking havoc across the town without meaning to!

A Dreadful Nightmare: You had an absolutely horrid day. As you drift off to sleep, your mind dwells on all the injustices you've had to endure. In response, your bed swallows you up, and your room shifts into a horrific Nightmarescape. What sort of Nightmare are you? What kind of Nightmarescape do you create? Hopefully your fellow magi can stop you before you cause too much damage!

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[ That voice. Without even need to think about it Kanaya whips around, to face the voice from behind, all too familiar as it is. It's a voice that makes her bloodpump squeeze uncomfortably in her chest, belonging to a person who shouldn't be here at all, or anywhere really, outside of a Dream Bubble. Because this is darkest timeline kanaya, and things just had no right being this easy or nice. Hell, she herself was dead, and she's pretty sure she didn't use her wish on bringing herself back, but its all fuzzy to her exactly what her wish was..

But none of that matters now, because this is Rose, or some flavor of Rose that still needs to be sussed out with a little conversing. Which she will get right to. Just as soon as she figures out how to speak again, her squawk gaper appropriately agape in surprise. ]

[Ah.

Rose isn't quite sure what she feels upon seeing Kanaya again. Surprise, for one. A bit of relief at seeing a friendly face. Guilt. Confusion. She and Kanaya were still together when Rose had made her wish, but how much of their relationship had Rose drowned under her own inebriation? Her last clear memory of Kanaya is of her destroying can town, admonishing her for being drunk right before the big day. Now, Kanaya probably thinks her a useless idiot.

Rose clears her throat. She doesn't even know that this Kanaya is from the same timeline as her, or that she remembers any of that. She just needs to... power through this awkwardness.]

Kanaya. How... nice to see you.

[Yes, if somebody could bury her alive now, that would be greatly appreciated.]

[ Kanaya's face is as hard to read as ever, despite the obvious surprise. Because her own memories are only slightly more than Rose's. Reaching Earth. Meeting the other humans. Managing to continue to not really make her relationship with Rose any better right before she ended up vaporized by a certain Fish Bitch.

But she doesn't even know where they stand either, because as they've learned, this is a two way scuttlebuggy thoroughfare. It's a give and take type thing. Though Kanaya's been feeling like someone has been taking a lot more than she has been giving amongst the two of them.

Which leads her to awkwardly try to think of a reply, blinking a few times before she speaks. ] Yes. Um. Hi. Rose. It's also the same...I mean I'm also the same. Nice to see you, I mean.

Yes. It truly is lovely that we are seeing each other, once again.

[Come on Rose. You can do this. You can talk to the girl. Find something to talk about.]

So... how did you find yourself here? Were you also approached by a strange cat-like creature who offered to grant your wishes?

[ This is going so well so far. It's not crazy awkward or anything, and Kanaya isn't shifting her weight from side to side, anxious and unsure of what to say. So of course, she just says everything. ]

Yes, lovely. So very lovely and not at all weird.

[ Some part of her really is happy, but she knows that it can be fleeting with Rose. She knows that at anytime the other girl might reveal herself to be Human Drunk, or in possession of liquor, and things will go downhill like they have been going. ]

I remember something like that. A meowbeast of questionable ancestry, who spoke, which is already pretty weird for meowbeasts if we are being honest with ourselves, and I remember a wish.

[And oh, if Rose isn't just dying to know what it is that Kanaya wished for. Did it involve her at all? The session? So many options, and most of them better than Rose's own, desperate wish.]

Yes, speaking cats are quite strange, though they aren't all bad. Jaspers was a perfect gentleman when he became my sprite.

Either way, I'm assuming you must have accepted the wish, since we are both here talking right now. Did yours come true...?

Are you sure you don't want to talk a lot more about cats and or your time living with such things inside of your hive? Maybe you could go into a long discussion and introspection of this Jaspers and what qualities of his made him such a perfect gentleman?

[ Yup, awkward Kanaya is awkward. Because she doesn't want to tell Rose everything. Because obviously if she were to have wished something it had to do with Rose, and all the things left unsaid by the time they parted the meteor. Things that are difficult to bring up now seeing how cordial Rose is being, which is to say: not drunk out of her human mind. ]

Um. Yes. I guess. You could say that. At least it seems like the thing that I wished for came true. [ She's avoiding the topic as best as possible, using her well demonstrated deflection skills! ]

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