fortunefail | - 89 [Action]

[It's Thursday evening and the sun is slowly beginning to set. As dusk falls, Luceti residents who are near the south east edge of the village may notice a peculiar shimmering in the bushes. Like dancing sparkles, if you will. They may easily be mistaken for fireflies, but that is far from the truth.

Yuan has returned from his (silent) kidnapping and mana is literally evaporating from his body. Bright sparkles are rising up from his skin, before fading into the night air. Not to mention the peculiar smell coming from him. Evaporating mana emits a rather unique aroma that's neither pleasant nor unpleasant. The best way to decribe it would be... 'odd'. It's both a curious situation and an extremely embarrassing one, which is why he makes sure to stick to the forest's edge as he slowly makes his way home. He'd reach house 8 a lot faster if he crossed through the village itself, but he'd rather take a detour than make himself the center of attention.

All the way around the northern edge of the village he goes, but the closer he gets to house 8, the more exhausted he feels. Losing mana is like losing life and the more he pushes himself, the greater the fight to stay conscious. He'll get there eventually! Anyone is free to spot the peculiar sparkling man along the way.]

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[Oh Raine, you can always see right through him.] I can handle a small detour.

Difficult as ever, I see. Perhaps I should send a note to your housemate to start looking for you.

... You can, if you want.

[Yuan would've done so already if he could, but... Well, his journal was left at the house.]

He'll no doubt discover you anyway due to the trail... but it would help if he had advance notice. Particularly if anyone decided to take advantage of you in your weakening state. [Which would only apply to one or two people, all things considered, but those particular people could sense mana. He was making it difficult on himself for no reason aside from foolish pride.]

[Ironically, the notion that someone might take advantage of his weakened state is one of the reasons he's sticking to the shadows. While people like Mithos won't make a move out there in the open so easily, there's nothing stopping them from taking note of Yuan's condition and cornering him later.]

Fine, fine. Then, go ahead.

In all honesty, it would be better to have him meet you here. [But of course it isn't guaranteed that he'll even see the note to him. Sigh. But she'll do what she can.]

I'm not just going to sit here and wait. There's no telling how long it would take.

Then at the very least you'd be waiting with a healer. Of course, I could save us both the trouble and put you on Noishe. I'm certain he'd know where to go.

Don't be... [He trails off, unable to bring himself to say the word "stupid".] ... I just want to get home.

Then would like me to walk with you?

... Yes. I suppose I would. [This isn't something he would easily admit. If anything, it's a testament to just how miserable and weak he feels.]

All right, then that seems more reasonable.

All right. [As long as Raine doesn't mind the detour, because he's still flat-out refusing to go through the village.]

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