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[wilder]

[Zelos is currently resting against a tree in the castle garden. He looks pretty exhausted from helping in the town most of the night, is pretty dirty from all the rubble and a couple scraps- but overall seems no worse for wear.]

[At least he has enough energy to talk]

Aw man, what a night! Just what was that any way?! Just the run of a mill earthquake or should we expect a giant sandworm to come breaking through the surface and try to eat us-

[a groan] You know that? Scratch that! I so don't care right now!

Right now? I am way too tired and way too comfortable to run around looking for all you people- so if I know you and you're okay? You better speak up right now!

...Oh you know, if you're a cute hunny that needs some warm post-tremors comfort, you can speak up too. ♥

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[hard_talker]

[Mark wanders over and flops down next to him, holding out a cherry pepsi]

So, how bad is it out there?

[wilder]

[He'll eye the cherry pepsi before taking it. He'll have a swig of it and makes a face because ew, still getting used to carbonation]

Pretty bad. A lot of stuff got wrecked. It'll take awhile to fix it all.

[whichwayyoulean]

Here I am. Not dead and not needing any post-tremor comfort.

[wilder]

Once-ler. We've been over this.

You are neither cute or a hunny. I'm sorry!

Dictated

[rose_of_battle]

[Have a sigh come over the journal, Zelos.]

Watch out for that huge crack outside of town.

[Yep. No hidden meaning there. Not like she fell into it or anything.]

Dictated

[wilder]

Huge crack?

- Oh yeah! I thought I saw something like that when I was leaving town this morning. Freaky.

Dictated

[rose_of_battle]

Of course, he wouldn't have fallen into it...

Yeah. It's pretty deep.

[Quick topic change.]

Have you been back to the house?

Dictated

[wilder]

Did you fall into it?

The house? Uh...for a little bit. Looks like it got off pretty easy overall.

Dictated always.

[rose_of_battle]

*SIGH*

Yeah, I did. Broke my leg, too!

[And she is SO frustrated by that, since it stopped her from helping people.]

That's good. I was afraid that... Well, with the town...

Was anyone there?

dictated;

[axwielding]

I hate this place. [because that answers right.]

dictated;

[wilder]

Presea? You okay?

[wilder]

Seriously? You okay?

I didn't see anyone hurt there, if that's what you're worried about.

[whichwayyoulean]

...I feel kind of insulted and relieved at the same time.

[Then, after a pause] You ok?

[wilder]

I would feel pretty insulted too if I was you.

Me? [Time to be overly melodramatic!] Oh no way! I really liked this outfit and it's totally ruined!

[whichwayyoulean]

You're such a good friend, Zelos.

[Pause] Wow, that's a tragedy. You must be totally heartbroken.

[rose_of_battle]

Yeahhh. I was found by a girl named Mabel and Doctor Muraki. They got me out of there.

[Said in that embarrassed, frustrated, resigned tone one gets.]

Good. [A beat. Sorry, Zelos, she has to know.] How about the animals? Are they okay?

[You know, like a certain big-eared not dog?]

[wilder]

Devastated, really.

If it wasn't for my castle closet, I don't know how I'd go on.

[wilder]

And your leg?

[A beat]

Uh...I saw Curry, but I didn't have time to get a headcount on all of them.

[whichwayyoulean]

You have my deepest sympathy in this obviously super trying time for you.

[wilder]

Thank you, that warms my heart.

How about you? Please tell me you had the sense to leave that tower.

[rose_of_battle]

It's wrapped in a cast right now. I told them to worry about people who are worse off than me.

[She can wait. Sorta.]

Curry's okay, though, right? Noishe and the others might have taken off, which would explain no one being there.

[wilder]

Right, just don't wait too long will you?

[Though he's kinda spent magically so he's no good right now]

Curry's fine. And I'm guessing it's more the others care about the townspeople that they weren't around.

[whichwayyoulean]

Yeah, I'm fine. No wardrobe disasters or anything. And I did leave it, I had something I needed to check up on.

...Ted too.

[wilder]

[....]

There was something you needed to check on before the kid that's your responsibility?

[whichwayyoulean]

Technically we checked on it at the same time, but yeah.

[There's a pause, followed by a sigh]

[Zelos]

We planted a Truffula in the gardens. The last one. [Well... he has his own seed, still, but only Martel and Ted know about that and that's how he plans to keep it. But given they're technically the same seed, just taken from different points in time, he's sure it still counts]