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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!]]

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[Better not to worry, she says...]

W-wait, who's saying this stuff? And not everything is true?

[Someone's spreading unverified rumours about random people!?]

[...

snrk.]

He blushed?

Preventing you from seeing them? [Would she even be able to tell if she were near the village at all? This isn't good...]

Do you suppose there might be a way to go back the way yo--

[Oops. Ion was going to try and go through Nephry's room to see if he could be brought to the same place, but kind of forgot that meant going through his own door first.]

[The journal falls from where ever it was he'd been taken to, face down on the ground with only a soft squeak coming from Ion.]

Hmhmmm... [She ponders that for a moment, before piping up again.]

Lady! Hey lady! Can you ask that tree if he knows anything else about Yuri?

Yes, his face turned really red. He must have really liked them.

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[... sigh.]

Going through doors is foolish now? ... Man. It's a wonder we can even breathe in this place without something going wrong. [... Anyway, being cheeky isn't going to help this woman out, so--] So, there really aren't any landmarks at all? Nothing to go off of?

[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...]

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[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]

As strange as it may sound...the trees are saying it. They aren't ordinarily prone to gossip.

It's just a theory. I can't know if-

...Ion?

Even if I did, they don't seem to answer questions. All the same, no, I cannot do that.

Nothing I recognize at the moment. If I keep going or wait long enough, I suspect things will change back, or change again. Or both.

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

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

[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.

[There's a rather lengthy pause. And then:]

Ne... Nephry?

[His voice sounds far away from the journal... and yet at the same time, somewhat far away outside the journal, like an echo.]

...oh! Nephry, I can see you!

[...]

I'm in a tree.

[AGAIN.]

[Hearing him speak again, she holds the journal closer at first. Realizing that he's now in the forest with her, she looks around with the tiniest of frantic paces until she hears "in a tree."

He does love ending up in those.]

How close are you?

[Clearly they're his favorite place in the whole world to be.]

Not very far. If you turn around you might be able to see me. [...] I'm not very high up... th-thankfully.

[Curses, foiled again! Ah well.]

... So do you still need some help finding your bearings?

Huh? What do you mean?

[After all Yuri just really liked Rita's outfit right? What was wrong with that? There was nothing to be shy about.]

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[After several moments of thought she seems to realize something.]

Oh. Oh dear.

[There will be much apologizing the next time she sees Yuri.]

Is he a friend of yours? I'm sure he'll understand. It's an experiment.

[So turn she will, looking up slightly as she does so. The last thing Ion needs is to fall from a bony tree.]

[Oh, it's Nephry... He probably shouldn't be surprised to see her out here. If he's getting sent to strange places, so should other people.]

This is the forest?

[And sure enough, standing out quite clearly among the bony trees a short distance away is Ion, who gives a somewhat sheepish wave.]

[He also totally landed in it upside-down, and is looking all kinds of graceful right now, yep.]

[Hi mom!]

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