16. [voiced]

[frost_jewel]

[It’s been a long few days since the Kin’corrans went “home”; Mia doesn’t remember most of them. Since the 31st she’s been, for the most part, sound asleep in the battledome clinic, trying to recover from…well, everything. Dealing with the fire didn’t help, leaving her spent and dehydrated and coughing. The time she’s spent awake, though, convinced her that things in the village were getting back to normal.

So her first mission of the day, after waking and sorting herself out, is to find something to do that will alleviate this boredom and, just perhaps, help make her case for just going home to lie about there instead.]

I know it has been very difficult and busy in the village just recently. Given the date, it will only stay busy. If it is at all possible, though, I would ask a small favor: would anyone be willing to bring a few books from the library to the battle dome clinic? I promise to return them at the first opportunity. …Once I’m done with them, that is.

While I am thinking about it…well, I would not mind a little company either. I want to hear that everyone is all right.

[Missing out on more than a day always leaves her too disoriented for her liking.]

[[ooc: We interrupt the delicious intro train to bring you If you work in the clinic and would like to have that argument about going home, step right up! She's a patient woman.]]

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[eyesofstrength]

[And he's the villain of one of those tales.]

Then I will find you some and bring them.

[In fact, he thinks the tale he read to Noa some time back might be a good one, even if it was a children's tale. Even he found the story entertaining. That Walt Disney man did know how to write a good story it seemed and Leonhardt is secretly a sucker for stories with romance that ends happily.]

[frost_jewel]

Thank you very much, Leonhardt. ...Are you well after everything that happened? [She won't hear of you doing some extra-effort thing for her if you should be resting too.]

[eyesofstrength]

[Hah, he doesn't tire easily. His curse does make him quite powerful, after all.]

I am well. I do miss all the children being around, but am otherwise doing well.

[Yeah, also a sucker for children who don't have parents. And never mind the fact that he's looking for books in the library and talking on the journal.]

[frost_jewel]

I would have liked to spend more time talking to the refugees about living in their village instead of trying to stop fights and keep everyone from hurting each other.

[eyesofstrength]

From what I heard from them, it sounded a lot like Segretar in appearance. Rather small and they only have the very basics. Perhaps in time they will build like we have now that they have seen that they can.

[frost_jewel]

They seemed to know about us...but I suppose, since we all go on missions together, it makes sense.

...Did you meet anyone who...knew you?

[eyesofstrength]

I did not and I consider that a very good thing.

[frost_jewel]

Neither did I. I would not want anyone else I knew to live in a village away from here.

[eyesofstrength]

And also to be experimented on. No matter how much I would like to see those I grew up with again, I'd rather they rest in peace than be stuck in this place.

[frost_jewel]

[He does realize that what she hears in that is that all of the people he grew up with are dead, right?]

I feel the same way.

[eyesofstrength]

[That is because they are and have been for 11 years for him. He and Joshua are the only survivors. And then most people he knows after that are not exactly people he is friendly with.

At least he didn't include himself among those who should be able to rest in peace? He's quite dead as well.]

And we wouldn't want our loved ones to show up even in this village as well.

[And of course while he's been talking on the journal, he's on his way over to the Battle Dome now since he has the book he was looking for.]

[frost_jewel]

No, of course not. [Even if she misses them terribly.] I would never want them to go through some of these things.

[eyesofstrength]

[He understands that very well. Among those people who he grew up with who are now dead is his fiancee. He very much misses her, but would be scared to have her arrive here because he wouldn't be able to protect her from drafts and experiments.]

The drafts especially. We know very well that a lack of combat skills means nothing.

[And now he walks in to the Battle Dome clinic with two books in his arms. Amusingly, he doesn't appear to have his journal with him for all that he was just talking to her over that and his approach was quite silent as well. Of course, Mia likely can figure out what he's doing since she's seen his Body-Split Craft before, just hasn't seen him use it outside of battle like this.]

[frost_jewel]

[When he appears in her doorway as his voice is saying that last part to her, it's definitely startling. She sits up straighter, glancing from the book to the visitor with a frown.]

All right. Which of you is real?

[eyesofstrength]

[Yes, it is definitely a strange ability. Especially with how difficult it is to tell the real Leonhardt from the shadow ones.]

In a way all are. I can see through the eyes of any of my shadows and speak through them. The difference is that I will not vanish.

[frost_jewel]

So it's you here, then, and not the you I am talking to using your journal.

[eyesofstrength]

It truly is a complex ability. On the journal I am using a shadow to speak, but it is still me saying it and speaking through it. That way I can be in two places at once.

[But anyway, he'll try to hand her the books. He has two. One is Disney's Aladdin for a nice tale of magic and romance that is simple, but interesting. One is a play from his world called "Madrigal of the White Magnolia". And for ooc info on that, there's a video of it here. It's basically a story from his world about a princess and two brave knights who stopped a revolt. And Mia should definitely ask more about it since it's fun to hear the story of how Joshua played the princess.]

[frost_jewel]

[She takes the books and looks at them, turning them over to read about what kind of adventure might live inside.]

I'm not familiar with either of these. Have you read them?

[eyesofstrength]

I've read both. The story of Aladdin is one I found when looking through the books for a good children's story. I still enjoyed it even if it is a children's tale. Madrigal of the White Magnolia is a favorite of both myself and Joshua. He played Princess Cecilia in a performance.

[Enjoy that thought, Joshua makes for a very believable female, after all.]

[frost_jewel]

Did he? You know, when I read it now I will be unable to picture anything else.

[eyesofstrength]

He did. The Royal Academy did a reverse casting where the men played female roles and the women played male roles. But put him in a wig and a dress and one would be hard pressed to know he is indeed male.

[frost_jewel]

I don't know if he would like to hear you say that.

[eyesofstrength]

He already has heard it from me. Isn't it normal for siblings to tease each other?

[Of course, there is the weird fact that Joshua and Leonhardt seriously look nothing alike. They aren't related by blood, but Leonhardt still raised Joshua and has known the boy since he was born.]

[frost_jewel]

I suppose it is. Jenna certainly teased her brother enough. Did you also play a woman?

[eyesofstrength]

I was merely part of the audience.