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[ino]

[Private]

I never know which way to take it anymore. It's only fair for people to be warned about the dangers of this place, but ... maybe I'm just getting really cynical. Most people who pass through here aren't going to ever have to deal with the kind of stuff us older residents have.

Either way, I'm not sure I like this. I don't think all this nice stuff is going to happen without any consequences ... I hate being kept waiting on the edge like this, though.

There haven't been any other people coming through with memories, either. I'm really beginning to think we're going to have to go find them ourselves, as crazy as that sounds.

... Well. Not any more crazy than most of the stuff I hear around here everyday.

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[awhile after that private filter ... there is a dressed up blonde ninja wandering from the town over to the duck pond, just taking in all of the decorations while she walks. it's nice, reminds her of home a little :'( but she dictates into the journal finally:]

So those ghost people sitting around in town every day are people of authority in different worlds, huh? I wonder if any of the Hokage will show up. ... Or maybe a different Kage?

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[azuredemonic]

Perhaps. But it also lends to exaggerations and falsehoods.

[ino]

Everyone's biased, though. Anything you hear about someone, especially someone who's in charge of a big group of people, is probably going to blow up their accomplishments a little bit, if not make things up entirely.

So really, in the end, unless you saw it with your own eyes, it could be a lie. [a pause, before she adds thoughtfully] Actually, even if you did see it with your own eyes it could still be a lie. Illusions and all that.

[azuredemonic]

Hm. Perhaps. [Peers at her] I would not have expected such insight.

Still, even if it is just a story, there are narrators far better than the rest at relating tales of powerful figures.

[ino]

Wouldn't have expected it from me, you mean? [she lifts an eyebrow, looking a little mischievous] Appearances can be deceiving, you know.

That's probably true. There's a reason certain people write for their job and all.

[azuredemonic]

In more ways than you would know. Sometimes what something looks like is exactly what something is. [SNOOTY SNOOTY DOUCHEBAG MAXIMUS HERE]

Any one person can recite to you a legend. It is the people that have chronicled and followed the legend that can truly relate to you it's power.

[ino]

[THE BIGGEST eyeroll here] That's exactly the kind of attitude that will get you in trouble around here.

I wonder if there's anyone like that around ... ?

[azuredemonic]

[A cocked eyebrow, and then a small smirk] Perhaps. Though I'm sure it'll be no trouble at all.

Hm. One would hope so. It would be a great shame if there was not.

[ino]

[crosses her arms and lifts an eyebrow right back] Well, I'll be looking forward to the day I get to say "I told you so" when you're laid up in the clinic.

I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't. Most of the people who end up here only know how to fight, nothing else.

[azuredemonic]

[Hmph] Then I suggest you get comfy and equip yourself with things to past the time, because that day is going to be a long time coming.

Interesting. This place, so strange a place, prefers to stock itself with capable fighters and beings of combat and war.

[ino]

[smiiiirk] I can be patient.

Yeah, it's really weird. They're usually people central to some sort of conflict, too, not just a random soldier or something.

[azuredemonic]

[A smirk of his own] You're going to have to be.

Strange for a place that seems to play itself as some sort of paradise. It is almost as though it has an addiction for conflict and figures immersed in it.

[ino]

Well, we all know the paradise thing is a load of bullshit. [sighs, brushing a little snow off her shoulder] It's been a lot quieter lately than it used to be, though.

[azuredemonic]

Would not have expected the language either. I'll attribute that to Dante.

A calm before a storm, perhaps?

[ino]

[a flat look] I knew how to swear before I met Dante, you know. It's not like I was some sort of pure, innocent little girl when I got here.

Probably. It's just annoying waiting for the storm.

[azuredemonic]

No, apparently you're a flower girl in some kind of warrior village. I'm rather suspect of the former claim too

Hm. I cannot say I would not mind a little chaos myself.

[ino]

[... okay, she can't help but laugh a little at that] The former and not the latter? Really?

That's what they all say. Nothing like a little stress relief via killing zombies, or whatever.

[azuredemonic]

You act and seem about as much the flower girl as I might the club goer. Though the latter is not much more believable, I will confess.

Yes yes. Be careful what one wishes for. I realize. I stand by my claim at the least.

[ino]

Like I said, appearances can be deceiving~ I'm pretty normal compared to most people here, though. Especially, like, the talking ponies and all of that.

Huh? [blinks] Oh, I wasn't saying you were wrong. It really does improve people's moods sometimes, when we have monsters, or something like that. After all, if all you know how to do is fight, and then you can't even do that ... people get restless.

[azuredemonic]

[Sorry Ino. ALL of that just got derailed by a single thing you've just said]

Talking. Ponies.

[ino]

Yep. We had a talking blue hedgehog, too. [said as if this is the most boring, obvious thing ever]

[azuredemonic]

You are actually being serious about this?

[ino]

Trust me, I couldn't make up half of the weird stuff that happens here if I tried.

[azuredemonic]

[He sighs, and presses a palm to his head] This place is insane.

[ino]

Look who's talking. [a grin ... she's obviously teasing, here, even though it's pretty true.


... but she'll do him a favor, and return to a saner topic]

So if I'm not a flower girl, then what am I?

[azuredemonic]

[Small glare. Bitch please.

And then he crosses his arms and stares at her levelly]

I...cannot be sure. I do not have the answer, only rightly doubt the one given. For one thing, regardless of what changes or experiences I had last, I doubt I would be "taken" with someone that...normal.