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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CCC-REDHORSE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 134.64.202.69 *** CCC-REDHORSE has joined 134.64.202.69 <CCC-REDHORSE> This is Reira Akaba! <CCC-REDHORSE>I'll try to answer you but sometimes I'm busy or sleeping, so I don't think about the message right away.

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[Well. Bugger. This isn't doing anything at all. Reira practically has to keep herself from dozing off, head bobbing and snapping back to awareness at least once through the whole deal. ...Eventually, she has to wonder-]

....do you think it's actually like my fog form..?

...I couldn't change to any form except four legs, whenever I took it...

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[With a soft nicker of frustration, Nagisa's eyes open once more. Wait what? Did that noise seriously just come out of him?]

[He's just...going to hope Reira didn't hear that. Or at least won't comment on it. He clears his throat.]

I mean...it's just a temporary spell so I supposed it's possible I'm an "incomplete" kelpie, so to speak. I followed her instructions perfectly though, so it can't be anything I did. [He stifles a yawn.] I'm going to go back home and get some sleep. Maybe I just need more practice with a well-rested mind. Either way, it's not the end of the world...as long as I can breathe underwater, that's all that matters.

[If he's stuck with an inconvenient horse butt the whole time, so be it. Totally worth it to make Jataro happy.]

Thanks, Reira-chan. Sorry again for waking you up, but you and Ron are the only two kelpies I know.

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I don't think it means you're incomplete..! [She protests, though it's a rather weak one given she can't really...back it up with anything. She sighs, and shakes her head.] ..Mnh...it's okay, I can still get some sleep tonight...

...Do you have to go really far to go home though?

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[Nagisa chuckles softly at the protest.] I didn't mean it as a bad thing. It's just that I'm not really a true kelpie like this. And Mana's spells don't always work exactly as requested, right? I only gave her 20 coins, so maybe that's not enough for the full kelpie experience.

[He's really not bothered, Reira, it's okay.]

Not too far though, no.

["Home" is Dyster, so...really he just has to walk out the front door, turn around, and use his key. Because using it on an inside door would be weird, because then he'd just show up in her living room or something the next time he left Dyster.]

[And that could be potentially weird since other people live here.]

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It was only 20? [Wow. Somehow she thought being a whole new monster would cost a little more but.... ...Apparently not. Well. Reira just nods then, sighing with apparent relief.] Okay...

...I hope that you figure out what it is about the shapeshifting problem though...

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[He nods.]

It's only going to last for about a month, so it didn't cost very much. If I wanted it to last longer, I could have paid more but a month is more than enough time for my purposes. And I love being a nymph...

[Because in his heart, he is a tree.]

One way or another, I'll figure it out. Nobody immediately knows how to make their monster powers work, after all. It always takes a little time to get the hang of everything.

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It feels like a lot of people that are nymphs like being nymphs most... [Though, if it took a while to master powers-] ...I just hope you make it then...

...Did it take a long time to learn plant talking?

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Not really. There wasn't really much to learn, actually. One day I could hear and understand the plants, as though a switch had been flipped in my brain.

[That day had been the first day of the conduit incident, so...not the best day to get it because it meant hearing a shitton of dying plants.]

I didn't realize what it was at first, and it took me a while to learn how to combine it with my magic, but as far as simply learning the language...it's just something nymphs instinctively know.

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So it was something that was just there... [Hmm. Well. Nothing much to talk about now-she yawns a little, and after rubbing her eyes, nods.] Mnnh. I guess we should go back to our places now.... ...I'll see you later, Nagisa.

[Good luck on the way back to...wherever (what do you mean her front door is the answer).]

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Mmm. [He nods.] Not from the start, but...not very long after I'd started changing either.

[There's a faint, fond sort of smile on his face as he says this. Because this is the thing that he truly loves most about being a nymph. That connection is something he can't bear to give up, now that he's had it.]

Sleep well, Reira-chan.

[He waves and then takes a few wobbly steps towards the door. He's been standing completely still with his knees locked for just a liiiiittle too long now. Note to self: don't ever do that again, no matter how worried you are about potentially breaking something in a friend's house. Locking your knees is completely unnecessary, lesson learned. But he reaches the door safely, and offers one final farewell before closing the door behind him:]

I'll see you later, and thank you again.

[And with that, he is gone. Out the door and off back to Dyster so he can show Jataro what happened to him and lie about how it happened so that Jataro will remain unaware of the fact that Nagisa totally read his forbidden Tanabata wishes. He's so good at this wishing tree thing. The best.]