Lian took her goodbyes with the library group, with her next destination set in mind; finding out mostly the myth behind the pact was a bummer, but she couldn’t admit that it wasn’t fun. Researching through tons of musty pages, learning adjacent world tid-bits was craic, challenging, and energy consuming, but fun nonetheless. Still, she also counted it as a work day, which meant that she was allowed some time to recharge and relax.
-” Oh sweety, back so soon?” asked the small goat firbolg glancing at Lian, then at the time on her human device. “Ah, I’m actually the one that’s overtiming it. Oh well-I’ll put the kettle on. Do you want tea or something harder today?”
-”Eh, I could go with some normal tea, actually. Mint if you have? And I brought some snacks this time, thought we might switch from our usual cookies and such.” The girl picked from her bag two boxes of freshly baked goods from a local place the office lady told her about.
-” Perfect, truth be told, I got tired of the one from the office like ten years ago. Let’s just see if they mix with what my other guest will bring.”
-” Other..guest?”, Lian asked, raising her eyebrow and forcing the corner of her lips to raise slightly. She knew that her host knew more than half of the city, but still never expected her to spring on Lian a surprise like that without asking beforehand.
Lian found herself sitting at a coffee table across a human, another teenager like Mira. The teen carried a little camera around their neck, and they fidgeted with it since they got there. Only said a very low-energy “Hi” to her and in rest replied with small nods to the office lady.
-” Deary, you look absolutely pale today. Did something? Is there anything I can do to help you out?”
The teen flinched at the question and meagerly gathered the strength to reply after rotating the camera for a few spins.
-” It’s…it’s my pact partner.”
-” The small coral one? Mincha?”, asked the office lady with her sweet ignorance, to which the teen squint their eyes before responding.
-” What? No, that’s the bland…that’s the smaller sister. I was talking about Kira, the symmetrical one. She was…injured a few hours ago. In an accident. She’s better now, but still, it was quite…terrible. ” The boy put his shaking cup down, before the memory from the incident brought about another accident.
Lian stopped for the first time from sipping her tea silently and gave him her regrets, choosing to ignore for now the comment he made about Mincha though. “ Sounds rough…Oh, I’m Liandan by the way, but people shortened it to Lian all of the sudden.”
-” Right, right, Finley is my preferred name”, they replied, blowing their running nose in a handkerchief. '' Lady Olpio told me she had a new brunch buddy, so I heard a few things about you so far…amnesia?”
The girl thought she had to feel upset about the two gossiping about her, but that’s also wha she was there as well, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that she and Ogda would be gossip topics from time to time. “ That’s something we can get into another time. So, you were talking about your partner, Kira? And Mincha- how does that work?”
The teen started retelling their morning meeting with Feth, which sent Lian a cold shiver down her spine, the testing, and how Kira got involved. “And she’s sleeping in a healing pod; the healers told me she will recover soon. It was quite the tragedy, the whole ordeal! Dam that…” but he stopped before cursing. “ Excuse my outburst”, they then politely asked the other guests.
-” Deary, no. Deary, it’s alright, you are in good company here, we aren’t going to judge you for something like that, right Lian?”, turned Olpio to the girl, with a demanding smile to agree with her;
-” Oh? Right, of course, as she said. That was an outburst?” thought the girl, who was starting to compare Finley to Maci; it was very difficult for her to find a common point between today’s teens. Still, that was just her issue, as there was something else she was more curious about. “So, are you in pact with this Kira? From the context between you and Olpio, I kinda get the impression Mincha is also your partner? Or am I wrong?”
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