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[inkbled]

Okay, so this is the coolest place I've seen.

( hello, Avalon. welcome to the life and times of an excitable, gushing teenager. she swings her phone camera around with the ease of any good teenager and shows off... well, typical Camelot architecture. houses built into trees, rain puddling down in chunks as it rolls off the leaves shielding her from the worst of the April weather. )

You guys, like, really live like this? How do you heat a house when it's attached to a tree? Isn't that, like, a fire hazard?

( look, they didn't teach her much about nature back in Dewell but they did teach her that trees = wood = burn-y. )

Oh, so, um, funny story! I was, like, scrolling while I was on my way here and ended up with a job selling bags! ( ah. there's the reason this video's happening. Rosa moves the camera back to her to reveal a handbag in, well, her hand. )

I've got a buncha 'em still for sale so, like, tell me which you want! Otherwise they're gonna get — ( her words are cut off by a shrill yelp as a giant blob of water drops down her neck. ugh, cold. so cold. ) — soaked! Like me, okay, byeeeeeeee!

( yeah, a girl's gotta turn this off and find a place to hide from all this rain. )

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[beaumains]

[ ... Nope. ]

I have no idea what most of those are. Save for glass.

[inkbled]

( That does seem to be the case, huh... )

I guess they're, like, just a thing in my world. Weird, huh?

[beaumains]

Well that and I only really have, like... approximate knowledge of modern world stuff. The Throne of Heroes grants us enough so that we're not totally lost, but there's not really a a lot of understanding, you know?

[ Oh, wait. Now she'd have to explain the Throne... ]

[inkbled]

The... um?

( Yeah, sorry about that, G-dawg. )

[beaumains]

It's.

It's difficult to explain. I'm what is known as a "Heroic Spirit".

[inkbled]

( She knows those words separately. But together? )

Like... the spirit of a hero? Or is that, um, some sort of jargon?

[beaumains]

Well... both?

I had sufficient feats in life to be selected by the Throne of Heroes after my death. I became a Heroic Spirit, able to be summoned by sufficiently skilled mages, or by the World itself, should the need arise.

[inkbled]

So... you were, like, a boss in life and got rewarded for it?

( Wait, actually... )

... Uh. Not a reward —An honour.

[beaumains]

More like given another duty. A Heroic Spirit must be the blade, the spear, the shield of whoever summons them.

[inkbled]

... Huh.

( So, so many questions here. )

So, like, does that still apply here?

( Because Avalon seems to be summoning anyone and everyone. )

[beaumains]

Well, no, but I am still a Knight, and sworn to uphold my duties. To save this world, and all the others, I am prepared to fight till my last.

[inkbled]

... Oh! ( Well. That. That sure is what it is, but Rosa seems to be acting like she gets it, at least. ) Then I'll, like, be relying on you to keep us all safe!