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✆CHANNEL FREQUENCY: 141.44144
DESCRIPTION: Sometimes Reira takes a minute to answer, since she sometimes knocks the volume dial too far, and anyone shouting through it hurts her ears.

✉MAIL BOX LOCATION: Mailbox on Door
DESCRIPTION: It's a rather simple mailbox that was already built into the trailer. Reira checks it every day! (since you're supposed to, apparently)

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D7

[prazerbutterfly]

Reira, you there?

[He knows 9am is a little early for most people but he wanted to have his day planned. At least the sun is up and he himself is already in Wismuth.]

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[Early for MOST, but since Reira's job is. Well.] Eh?

[You might hear breathing.] Um, I'm here! Tyrannosaurus is too, I was feeding her...

[prazerbutterfly]

Hello, I hope I'm not bothering you then~ It sounds like a mouthful.

[He's gotten use to her strange ways with large animals so he's not worried. Automatic manners aside at least he doesn't sound like she's in trouble this time.] Have you been to Wismuth yet and are you doing anything for lunch?

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I was already done! I just have to make her think I already ate, or she keeps trying to give me pieces... [The Woes of a Bird Affinity can be Unique. Anyway.]

Umh-! I went yesterday... ...but I didn't see everything... ...I don't think I saw a lot of anything, actually, [She admits, frowning. ...Wait a minute-]

....I would be...eating? [That's a big 'No'.]

[prazerbutterfly]

I know. Isn't it fantastic?! Usually I'm able to see everything in one day.

[If he sounds over excited it is because this is a new experience the city is having a grand effect on him.]

Naturally, little one. I'm personally inviting you to lunch then~ You pick the place and I'll buy. Don't worry about the money.

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...Yeah? ...Are normal cities smaller..? [No, that's the point Reira.]

Lunch outside?! [ohno] Um-!

[Ohno-!!] ...How do I choose though, I don't know where all the places are..!

[prazerbutterfly]

I don't know really. I've never seen a building so tall before. Usually on mansions are that grand.

Well, if you want to go somewhere inside that is fine too~

But every corner I turn there is food somewhere whether on a cart, a building, a store, a restaurant. Just pick anywhere and I'll come.

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Niisama's building is taller than a lot of these ones... ...It's a school though, with lots of other things inside... ...I was always in there, though...

[Ahhhh...Hmm. Hmmmm...] Ummmm...I can try to look, but what if I still can't choose something?

[prazerbutterfly]

[The more he talks to her the more he realizes she's not given much of a choice in a lot of things or she's socially awkward to the point she doesn't realize it.]

Then we'll eat the first thing we see. There are a lot of little carts along a certain street.

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[It is, woefully enough, a very nasty combination of both.]

The first thing we see... [Well. She nods, not that he can see that.] Ok-!!

Then...the first thing there when it's lunchtime!

[prazerbutterfly]

I'll find you so don't worry about looking for me. [Just to confirm she doesn't have to worry about that either.]

Afterwards we can swing by a candy shop I saw on the way. I do need to restock.

[soft_focus]

We'll get candy and food..!?

[OSHIT] Um!! Ok!! I'll make sure to find a really good spot then!

[Reira the candy happens regardless...]

[prazerbutterfly]

I have to restock as I said so I may as well allow you to pick some of your own. It has been a good month since I've given you any.

[That night before his capture actually. It had been so long.]

Such determination. Alright then. See you around lunch.

letter in mailbox, while in Space

[spaghettimonster]

HELLO! THIS IS A NOTE ABOUT AN URGENT MATTER!

IF YOU'RE RECEIVING THIS NOTE AND YOU'RE STEVEN, STOP READING IMMEDIATELY! HOW DID YOU EVEN GET THIS, IT WASN'T IN YOUR MAILBOX!?

IF, HOWEVER, YOU ARE NOT STEVEN...

DO NOT BE ALARMED, NOTHING IS WRONG. THE URGENT MATTER IN QUESTION IS NONE OTHER... THAN A TOP-SECRET, SURPRISE SHINDIG! A PARTY TO CONGRATULATE THE -GOLD MEDALIST- AMONG US. IT WILL BE IN THE COOKHOUSE, SOON!

IF YOU'RE EAGER TO MAKE SNACKS OR DECORATIONS... OR WANT TO KNOW MORE... CONTACT JOKER! COVERTLY!

AND FEEL FREE TO HELP DISTRACT STEVEN AWAY FROM THE COOKHOUSE.

THANKS!
- PAPYRUS

Day 59, After Carly

[bananaspeedrider]

[Once he's not being cried at, being squeezed to death, cried on while being squeezed, and being scolded after fresh from escaping the Count's dissolved Elysium....

It still leaves Yugo free to roam within the safety of the carnival for now. Yet also undeterred from his want to assist in whatever plans that come next. Stubborn, this one remains to be.

Even while semi-lost in thought though, the teen spots Reira and recalls her general demeanor while on the radio.]

Oh hey Reira! Heard you on the radio, you made keeping yourself together seem easy even with everything that was going on. That's good!

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[She should really be in Bed, Yuugo. Actually she's heading back to her trailer to go to bed, but...

Well, whatever. She blinks rather owlishly, before finally realizing she should say something.] Ah-

...Um...th..thanks, [she manages, staring.] ...I don't know why everyone else was acting so scared... [Well, not everyone was, but a lot WERE and that's enough so.] ...Is it that hard?

[She says, not realizing she'd have been equally panicked in person.]

[bananaspeedrider]

It's a bit different when you're in the middle of the action instead of away from it... But that's what everyone hopes for when it comes to kids like you.

[Like Reira hasn't heard that in some form a million times already.]

[soft_focus]

Ahhh...I guess... [She does. Frown however.]

...are you going to tell me to leave the Carnival like Yuuya tried to do...

[bananaspeedrider]

He told you to do that?

[But considering that Yuya radioed him as soon as possible after finding out Reira joined, Yugo seems unsurprised by that.]

Sounds like Yuya alright. That guy worries too much sometimes.

[soft_focus]

Mnnh. I made him stop asking, but he talked to niisama too, so I think he wanted niisama to try that... [The girl sighs.]

...Why is he so scared? [she starts, only to correct herself.] Um...I guess I know why he's scared, but...

Why is he more scared? I didn't get in trouble. ..I haven't gotten in trouble ever since the Prince's place. ...and sometimes he'll say it'll be ok, but he says he doesn't know right after, and...

[Well. Another sigh.] Why is he too scared?

[That Doesn't Make Sense but hey.]

[bananaspeedrider]

Sometimes that's how your thoughts might roll. You get wound up about what might happen to the ones you do care about, what you can't do without them, being scared of what ways they're being hurt, how much they're hurting, and blaming yourself for them being gone.

[Such a heavy choice of words seems to imply Yugo's more than familiar some of what he's saying.]

... But that doesn't always go for everyone.

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...Yuuya does that too much though, [She mutters, frowning at the ground.] ....and when he does, he can't do anything...

...why can't he believe it will be ok..? ...He's strong, and can do things. ...And he tells everyone else to believe, so...

[bananaspeedrider]

Oi! Don't doubt him that much. Yuya has a habit of pulling through when it's needed the most, doesn't he?

Besides... some of us need a reminder now and then that yeah we're stronger than we think we are! It was him and Cole that helped me kick the Void out from my head.

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.... [She just frowns.] ....it's not good to be that upset, until then though...

...being upset... [Well. She keeps looking down.] ...you're supposed to say when you're upset for real, at least. ...So that people help.

...A reminder? [What about what now.]

[bananaspeedrider]

[Is that a genuine spark of annoyance pinging at Reira's empathy. Yugo certainly looks dismayed about his words making an audible whoosh right over the child's head.]

Some people don't like showing it in front of people they care about. Or just for no good reason.

[And then Yugo pauses to find a clear example of such a reminder.]

... Like with Zarc. Yeah, I know the gigantic dragon monster still happened, but tell me I'm wrong to think that Yuya gave everything he had to fight it.