Walkabout investigators, late week 3

[leftbehindagain]

We have a slight problem, guys. You know that dragon-hunt meeting at the beginning of the week?

The dragon organised it. I've bumped into the kid who knows that actual person a couple times, and she said she spotted the difference right away. It's probably too late to do much with that information, but I'm almost certain it tried to focus people on the Magicians' Quarter on purpose.

I'd bet it's anywhere but there, and I bet it won't be there much in the next few weeks.

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[leftbehindagain]

And like I said last time we talked about it, you're not stuck with what everyone else's Kanji would've expected. It's something you can make yours.

[creativefool]

Yeah. I'm me. I ain't them.

But - it's still weird thinkin' about the... other guys sometimes, you know? What the one over where Souji-san 'n Naoto come from's like, or from anywhere else that's out there. The idea that there's a me who's never had to step up and do what I've done... never got things sorted out like that?

I dunno if I envy him or feel bad for him.

[leftbehindagain]

Oh, I know the feeling. [There's a reason he gives Souji-san so much credit, and it's certainly not that he seems to be notably With It. But Souji clearly made an effort to get to know Naoki, back in his Inaba, and that must have been exponentially harder without something to do.]

It's still kind of you. I'm sure they got their shit together sooner or later.

[creativefool]

I hope so, man. I really hope so. But they ain't any sort of me if they gave up, right?

[leftbehindagain]

Exactly. Giving up's not really in your wheelhouse.

[creativefool]

[In his ... give him a second here.]

...Damn right.