[71] [voice]

[silversnowfall]

Well. I seem to be in the forest now...if one can call such a place a forest.

Shiemi is totally leading on her three best friends!

Despite their...grave appearance, it appears the trees are still- ... adopted. His parents haven't even told him! - quite capable of causing trouble. My apologies, Shiemi and...ah, Billy.

That said, I have no landmarks. The trees and undergrowth look like...well, like skeletons. Bone trees, if you will.

I think Moro's getting kind of lonely, she's almost never at her den anymore.

How thoughtful of you to be concerned. [No, see, that deadpan tone is not a nice one, Nephry. Not at all.] At any rate, I could use some assistance in getting...somewhere recognizable, please.

[Then, they all start at once. Prepare yourselves, Luceti, she's walked into a small ring of very excitable trees!]

Hey! The Avatar's seemed really happy this month, right? But he also feels guilty now that Luceti's granted him his secret wish for a family.
You know all of Molly Carpenter's tattoos are lick and stick, right?
I heard that Lowell guy has a thing for cat ears.
Adell and Fenimore keep peeping on each other's baths!

Do stop that. I'm trying to send a message. [The trees are so not interested, Nephry. In fact...]

I heard Nephry was forced to marry a guy she hardly knew!

That's enough!

[But she can't close the journal. How else will she know if people reply? All she can do is keep walking and hope to get away from these creepy skeleton trees.]

[[ooc: Feel free to be actiony-lost with her too! She would welcome the company for sure. We can be plenty random if that floats your luceti boat!]]

Comments

[voice]

[selfhelp]

[He'd only been half-listening to some of the stuff on the journal - most of it is chaotic and only good for warnings of why it's better to just stay indoors this week - but the mention of his name in such close quarters with adopted makes him double-take.]

W-wait, what's that about me!?

[voice]

[silversnowfall]

[Chaotic is such an understatement.]

I'm not sure. Have we met?

[vulcanblazer]

...What did I just hear.

[silversnowfall]

[Oh, boy, she isn't sure what you're asking about.]

Perhaps it's best to disregard everything they say.

[distressedude]

[Disregarding the strange comments from the trees...]

...how exactly did you wind up in a place like that? [Skeleton trees what.]

[silversnowfall]

I was foolish enough to try entering my bedroom.

[Voice]

[ps3pirate]

[Patty wasn't entirely sure what to make of this entry, until she hears one of the trees near Nephry utter a familiar name in a rather intriguing context. Then she ends up disregarding everything Nephry said in favor of the rumor.]

Cat ears? Really?

[Voice]

[silversnowfall]

I wouldn't know. You could ask him, but I'm not sure he would take well to it.

voice;

[deceases]

A guy you hardly knew, huh.

[ natsuno, at least be less of an ass for once and don't comment on it.. ]

voice;

[silversnowfall]

[Is there a point to not owning up to the truth?]

In a way.

[Action]

[drawnbythesword]

[Nephry's lonely, you say? Well, hopefully, not for long, because she's gaining company. Nearby, she may see Asbel appear from a tree. Almost like he walked right out of it like it was a door. And now he's staring around particularly confused.]

[Action]

[silversnowfall]

[Welcome to the world of bone-trees, Asbel.]

It's still just the forest. I think only our perception has changed.

[voice]

[trueknight]

[Yuri's been trying to keep to himself with all this craziness going on, but flipping through the book and hearing his last name makes him stop and replay the entry.

......................

Maybe he should switch to using axes again.]

I sure do hope you're ignoring those things.

[Or at least what it said about him. He doesn't care too much about the other stuff.]

[voice]

[silversnowfall]

If i could, I would quiet them so I could use the journal without...this problem.

[Voice]

[childofthefullmoon]

Oh yes, Yuri really does like cat ears! Rita's were so cute they made him blush!

[Way to go Estelle.]

[NOTHING]

[trueknight]

[E--

Es ......... telle ...........

... welp. That's it. There goes his reputation. Time to go back into hiding and figure out a way to play the deny-game without coming across too strongly.]

[Voice]

[fabrecation]

[...

snrk.]

He blushed?

[Voice]

[silversnowfall]

I see. Is this something he'd like to hear discussed in the open like this?

[voice]

[seleniahymn]

[Trying her best to ignore the rumours being over heard – though she has to agree with the one regarding cat ears...]

How are we expected to function at all if we continue to find ourselves in another location altogether?

[voice]

[silversnowfall]

Thankfully it doesn't happen every time we do something. I'll find my way back, one way or the other.

[action]

[promisebythetree]

[If Nephry wanders a little way to the west trying to escape, she'll find a girl who is absorbed in conversation with the trees. Or well, trying to be.]

"Did you hear the reason Asbel wears white? He won't admit it, but he dreams of being a disco king!"

Is that why it took him so long to answer my question?

"I heard that Amarcian girl is highly allergic to bananas. She becomes delirious and can't even use proper words to speak after she's eaten one."

But Pascal always talks strangely like that. I don't think Cheria would give her food that makes her sick...

[Please rescue her before anything too weird gets lodged in her head...]

[action]

[silversnowfall]

[She's wandering everywhere. It's not like this forest is navigable. Spotting a girl with purple hair, she stops for a moment, listening to the trees almost as intently.

Finally she approaches, shaking her head.]

For now, you shouldn't listen. Sometimes they lie.

[noise]

[rashness]

[Recorded here is whatever should a journal makes when it goes up in flames. Rin heard that first bit, gritted his teeth, and felt a surge of rage go through him as he burned his book to ash right then and there.

...Sadly, this means he cannot properly reply.

Insulting Shiemi, chee]

[video]

[echotaker]

Man, I wouldn't believe a word of these trees if I were you.

[video]

[silversnowfall]

I might. Some of the things they say are true.

It would be best to check with the subject of their conversation, just in case.