Heading for Lost Realm.

[namigational]

You've gotta be kidding me! There's a billion places out there and you choose one that doesn't even have a sky? Let alone an ocean. What happens to the Going Merry? He's got no one sailing him! I-- I didn't mean for him to get abandoned, okay--

--look, unless it's money I can take with me I'm not sure how that helps.


...well maybe it does a little.

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[touchofrogue]

Even the plans they think are good? Rarely good. But you'd better get used ta it. It ain't like there's any real exit strategy.

['cause if they let you go, you just disappear, BUT HUSH, ROGUE, THAT'S TOO META.]

[namigational]

She says to just treat it like a vacation. That's all well and good, but she's taking me from the exact point I'm gonna spend all my time panicking, I can just tell.

What's the place you're at like?

[touchofrogue]

[She jerks her thumb over to her back. Notice the slightly glowy itty bitty white wings?]

Peachy. A regular paradise.

[namigational]

...

...wait, they give you wings there? Can you even fly with something that small?

[touchofrogue]

Not really at all.

[She shakes her head.]

An' no, I don't know why.

[namigational]

Talk about a waste of time, then. Maybe they've got some kind of bird fetish.

[...] Yeah, okay. I think I'm luckier not dealing with those. You've got my sympathy.

[touchofrogue]

Yeah, they're a pain. But don't waste your sympathy.

[She's got this, yo.]

Wings could be the least of your concerns.

[namigational]

Could be. There are monsters out there, apparently. But supposedly all the residents are just left alone. They just have to "earn" their way back to their real homes. [There's a sigh, and she blows her bangs out of her face.] It's not like I had important things to do at home or anything.

[touchofrogue]

Monsters that leave you alone. That sounds real reliable.

[Rogue gives the girl a veiled concerned look.]

Time stop for ya there too?

[namigational]

I don't know. [She's worried about that.] I hope so.

[touchofrogue]

[...]

From what I hear, that's usually the way of it. Don't let it get to you.

[namigational]

If that's the way they do things, it won't be so bad...? I'm in no real hurry to go where I'm going at home. [It's more a matter of duty and necessity. A time out sounds like it might be nice.]

[touchofrogue]

[Dryly:] Tell me about it.

[namigational]

Oh you too, huh? I guess there are upsides, then.

[touchofrogue]

That's life - upsides, downsides, ya just gotta make due with the best ya can.

[namigational]

I know.

...keep smiling, and eventually good things will come your way.

[touchofrogue]

[Rogue doesn't really go in for mushy stuff.

Okay, that's a lie. She so does. She just doesn't like to show it.]

Sounds like you've got a handle on it.

[namigational]

[Her mama knew everything, Rogue. She's just passing it on.]

Guess so. Good luck with your...uh. The wings. [Seriously, they look like a pain in the ass.]

[touchofrogue]

[Heh. Oh, if only you knew...]

Good luck with the monsters.

[AND SO THEY PART, NEVER TO MEET AGAIN.]