Sometime between the party and the jaunt

[doitforhim]

Um... hello! My name's Connie? Hi.

Wow, this is weird. [ she giggles softly and nervously ]

So, um, I had a question for the people who've been here a little longer than me? Um, see, the last place we went, I sort of ended up coming back with a gryphon egg. Aaaand it may have hatched earlier today.

And I remember how to take care of it, mostly! So that's okay, um, just... well, first, I don't really know how to get him food? But also, um, I was wondering what would happen to him if I end up thinking I'm someone else again? Because if he's stuck here and I can't take care of him, he could die, and I really... really don't want that to happen.

Anyway, thank you very much and I'm sorry for taking up so much of your time!

Comments

[happyhalloween]

When I was in Misericordia and was an unaware piece, Sakutarou turned into a mountain lion! So maybe your gryphon will turn into something too.

[As always when she (rarely) uses the network, Maria thinks in first person.]

Also, food-making people like Mr. Leo will probably make you gryphon food too!

Is your gryphon cute? Is it a boy or a girl? I don't know what my egg is going to be. If it's a girl I'm gonna name her Syaoko and if it's a boy he's gonna be Tomosuke! How do you know when your egg is gonna hatch? I think mine should hatch soon.

[doitforhim]

Oh! That's good, I was really worried!

[ she sounds very relieved ]

He's a boy! I think. I haven't really come up with a good name yet, though... I want it to be just right and I haven't really been able to think of one.

[happyhalloween]

Maybe our Gryphons will be friends!

Also, have you met Ladybird? Lady for short! Lady's Mr Daneel's gryphon! She's very nice. And she's happy to help people with baby gryphons! I know! I asked!

[doitforhim]

Oh, I hope so! That would be so cool!

Other people have gryphons, too? That's amazing! I had no idea! Can Ladybird talk, or can you speak gryphon?

[happyhalloween]

I used to be able to speak gryphon! When I was Green I had a spell for that, but I lost all the spells I knew when I was her when I stopped being her! But Ladybird can talk like a person too, just a little.

I'm gonna learn how to talk to animals again, though. Kanji said he'd help me learn how to green magic again!

[doitforhim]

Wow, really? That's so cool, I hope mine can learn to talk a little, too.

[ curiously ] You can learn magic here?

[happyhalloween]

You can! From books and people who already know it! There should be at least one person who knows every color of color magic now, you just have to get them to teach you. And there's cantrips! Those don't have color and they aren't as powerful, but they're still really useful. I have one that lets me copy pages from a book!

[doitforhim]

That's so cool! [ engage tiny fangirl mode! ] Oooooh, that would be amazing, to learn real magic!

[happyhalloween]

It's really great! We should teach you! Maybe Kanji can help you too! Or Beato! Or Mr. Leo! Or any of the ex-Cousins!

[doitforhim]

I don't know any of them, but that would be amazing! If they wanted to, I mean. I don't want to impose on anyone just so I can learn to do magic for fun...

[happyhalloween]

I'll introduce you! They're all really nice! Okay, not all the ex-Cousins are nice, but most of them are.

[doitforhim]

Ex-Cousins? Does that have to do with the color magic?

[happyhalloween]

Some of us turned into Illuminants when we were in Misericordia! Those are people who're the personifications of color magic! Well, technically we were their vessels. All the Illuminants are Cousins. But we're not them anymore. The Trumps peeled us apart after we tried to punch them.

I got to be Green! Green was the best Illuminant because she had animal magic. Yellow was almost as good because he made money and money is like magic anyone can use, except he also carried dumb grudges because one of his things was jealousy. They were all good in their way, even Red who was mean a lot.

[doitforhim]

Oooooh! I'd really like to meet them all! What's it like being the personification of magic? Does it feel different from being a person?

[happyhalloween]

Yes! It's bigger! And if your Illuminant has been someone--or a lot of someones--before, then you can remember stuff from their life before. Only sometimes it's dumb stuff about kissing.

[Despite the lack of tone in the psychic message, she still sounds disgruntled about that one.]