text; un: stargazer

[leicesters]

Hi friends! It's me again. You'll all be thrilled to hear that I had a great idea.

What is this idea, you ask? Well... I want to throw a feast! In my homeland they're a great way for people to come together, eat ourselves stupid, and make merry. We could all use some of that with everything that's been happening lately. The spring ball already feels like forever ago, and not everyone was here to enjoy it.

There's just a few simple rules: you have to bring some food or drink from your world, or as close as you can get! And you'd better label it so we all know which foods are from where. [...He's not actually going to enforce this rule, he just thinks it'd be more fun. And educational!]

The other rules are absolutely NO fighting, and no tying each other to trees to get attention, no matter how fun and cute it may seem on paper.

[he's naming no names!! you know who you are!]

I'll send out the location of the feast closer to the time. As for timing -- how about the last day of this moon? That way you have no excuse not to prepare something, and spread the word to people who are bad at using these things!

I'm counting on you all.

Comments

[leicesters]

There isn't even one thing that's good back home? Wow.

How about food in Camelot? Anything here that you like?

[monostich]

If there isn't, it wasn't something I was fed...

The bread and bread-like stuff is pretty good?

[leicesters]

Please tell me you've been eating more than bread here.

[monostich]

I've been eating more than bread here.

It's just nicer bread than what I'm used to! It stands out.

[leicesters]

Well, okay, I can tell you're very passionate about bread.

Maybe you could try baking your own and bring some along?

[monostich]

Is that a bad thing?

Perhaps. I can give it a try, I guess.

[leicesters]

No, it's not a bad thing. It's good you've found something you enjoy.

Sure! You might even find you have a passion for baking, too.

[monostich]

Is it really?

[kaede....... please,]

And is baking really something you can be passionate about?

[leicesters]

Sure it is. For some people, it's a hobby, not just something necessary for making food.

[monostich]

I have no idea what that means.

[leicesters]

Which part? The part about hobbies?

They're things people do for fun in their free time.

[monostich]

Yes, the hobby part. That doesn’t seem like a real thing.

[leicesters]

No, it's absolutely a thing.

For example, I like going for a ride on a wyvern or a horse. For fun, and to clear my head, not just for training or battle.

[monostich]

But how do you know that’s what you should be doing with your time? Aren’t there more important things to be done?

And what’s a wyvern?

1/2

[leicesters]

If I focused only on what I needed to do rather than what I enjoyed doing, that would be a pretty dull existence. Things are tough enough in my world for me to want to take the little pleasures where I can.

As for what a wyvern is...

video

[leicesters]

[He switches to video, holding up a white wyvern the size of a large cat, and it peers at the camera with golden eyes.]

I have one right here! Although she's the size of a familiar rather than a full-sized wyvern, so just imagine this but much bigger.

[monostich]

[Oh, a video?

...Oh!]

It looks very cute.

[But there's a small pause, Kaede's brows knitting together.]

What was so bad about your world you needed to find things to enjoy? I- I mean... It sounds like you were trying to escape something.

[leicesters]

She's positively adorable, isn't she?

[She seems pleased by the praise, or at least the petting she's getting along her scaly neck as they talk.]

There was a long war in my world. Still is, really, but I can't help finish it until we're done with things here.

[monostich]

Yes, I think she is.

[A war... Kaede's frown deepens at that, before he seems to remember he's on video and schools his expression into something more neutral.]

And what do you plan on doing once the war is done?

[leicesters]

I'll go home and keep working on my dream. No rest for the wicked, and all that!

[And all the more reason to have fun while he can.]

[monostich]

The wicked?

[Does he have to reevaluate his opinion of Claude??]

What is your dream, exactly?

[leicesters]

Oh, I won't bore you with the details. The point is, it'll take a lot of hard work, so I can't let myself get burned out before I even achieve it.

[monostich]

You make it sound like you’re going to crush everyone under your heel.

[leicesters]

That's a bit of a dramatic conclusion, don't you think? I'd rather no one got crushed at all, if I can help it.

[monostich]

You’re planning on winning this war of yours, aren’t you? That’s what people who win wars do.