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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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[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!

[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.]

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.]

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

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

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.

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.]

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.

...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...

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.

.... [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.]

[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.

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[You're mad? She's mad! Or...Annoyed. Dismayed. Whatever.]

...so I'm supposed to just pretend they're not upset anyway..?

...I don't think he didn't do anything. I just think he lets himself hurt too much. [There's a Key Difference.] ...And... ...maybe if he didn't, he'd be able to do things easier, or just be happier.

Do you think you'd be able to tell if you didn't have that power to read emotions like everyone is an open book?

[That's probably a fair point being made.]

Feelings are complicated. Stuff like people taken by Fae makes it worse. Don't poke at Yuya's problems so much and just... support him, alright? That'll help him the most.

.... [....................WELL. NO. But.]

.........if he wasn't hiding the feelings, I would try to help though... ...and I was trying to help..! [She adds, somewhat frustrated.] He said it would be ok! But then, he said he didn't know if it would be...if he doesn't believe his words, how will he make them happen..?

Helping means making him believe! ...Doesn't it?

You can't make people believe something. Not in the way you're thinking.

[Oho?]

But just tell him, especially if you believe in it yourself, that everything's definitely going to be alright! That when we fight those Fae, that we're gonna win! That's how you encourage people. You have to be strong, but nice about it too.

[Yugo's form of encouragement has a more fiery touch, but regardless maybe this time the child feels what he means.]

[There is..................an empty stare..........]

....Why does saying 'we'll win'...work more than saying they have to believe it if they say 'we'll win'...

[Explain what you mean by the way she's thinking because now she doesn't know!!]

You're lending people the strength in your own heart. To do that, words need conviction... force!

[While explaining this tangent, Yugo seems to get more animated- trying to tie in a 'demonstration' of the concept.]

Because sometimes the one person pushing everyone else forward needs one too!

[Does this remind Reira of a different metaphor with a similar concept that Yuya might've used?]

[No, because it's only going one way.

She's lost anyway, actually.] ...so... ...My words have to be the strongest words...

[Probably shouldn't have used the word conviction with a seven year old.]

If you want to believe what they're trying to make you believe, that's how you let them know.

So Yuya's gonna be alright as long as you reflect his words that way.

.....................reflect.............?

[What.] ........what do mirrors have to do with lying about feelings and having to have someone say their words back but stronger..!?

[Oh. She does pause- saying it like that makes Reflect make sense, at least, but-] ...Why does saying the same thing back help, if telling them to believe doesn't? ...I know you said lying about being happy is something he does...

...but why does it have to be like this..? ...Why can't he just make sure someone can help him, and why does help have to be this way...

[Because people are people, is why, Reira.]

Because people in general don't make sense, so I'm telling you what I know that works for Yuya right now.

[In the end, this is still Yugo- the guy that doesn't quite know the ins and outs of social interaction such as personal space.]

You'll get it after even more years of experience that this stuff is hard and hard to explain.

[Well. That's not helpful AT ALL.]

.....That's not helping now, [She mutters, starting to continue walking back to her trailer.]

...I just want him to be able to not be sad... ...For real...

[It is mostly muttered to herself, at this point- though Yuugo is welcome to chase after and insist upon something else, perhaps.]

[Just before she goes however, Yugo rests a hand on Reira's head and gives it a pat.]

It's good he has friends like us and more who care about him eh...? Night, Reira.

Ah- [Well...she pauses a minute to take that in at least, and simply sighs from there, nodding.] ...Yeah.

...goodnight. [Hwaaah! She's exhausted, it's pretty late. Off she goes back home anyway.]

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