[Kaede opens her mouth, closes it again, gaze starting to drift away. Her feelings about the Director are mixed; she's convinced the Director is a good person, doing her best in a horrible position, but she can't help thinking that until now, she'd made a mistake in rescuing Kaede from execution. Once, Lucretia had made a point of reassuring Kaede that she was bound to do great things, and no mistakes had been made; it had almost brought her to tears.
But she forces herself to focus back on Shuichi, her lips curving into a fond smile. He's taking it really, really well. Then again, she guesses that should kind of be expected! He's got to be putting his detective's brain to work.]
Um, maybe... I guess that would make sense! I don't know how, though. So far they've just all been really cursed magic artifacts. Let's see...
[She starts ticking them off on her fingers.]
There were the Space Mittens in New Aspen. I'm not sure if you've seen it yet, but that really, really, really big pine tree that looks like it's gonna scrape the moon? That was those. Um, then there was the Architect's Pen in Vista Virs, that could create anything you could imagine.
[She presses her lips tightly together for a moment. The destruction of the Architect's Pen is truly the one she doesn't understand. It could create anything, and in the efforts to retrieve it, the entire city of Vista Virs was destroyed. Couldn't they have just used the Pen to fix the city before destroying it?
But she continues, ticking off her fingers again.]
Then there was that ball of yarn that rolled up the Mines of Phandelver and launched them into space. The continent of Maru! That wasn't even anyone's fault. A stray dog found it and was playing with it and caused that whole mess. Ummm... and then most recently, there was the Soul Blade in Lyrabar. That one was really scary, it could brainwash people into following whoever held the sword. Umm... we recovered all of them except that one. That one got destroyed in Lyrabar itself. I don't know if it makes a difference where it gets destroyed, though...
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[Kaede opens her mouth, closes it again, gaze starting to drift away. Her feelings about the Director are mixed; she's convinced the Director is a good person, doing her best in a horrible position, but she can't help thinking that until now, she'd made a mistake in rescuing Kaede from execution. Once, Lucretia had made a point of reassuring Kaede that she was bound to do great things, and no mistakes had been made; it had almost brought her to tears.
But she forces herself to focus back on Shuichi, her lips curving into a fond smile. He's taking it really, really well. Then again, she guesses that should kind of be expected! He's got to be putting his detective's brain to work.]
Um, maybe... I guess that would make sense! I don't know how, though. So far they've just all been really cursed magic artifacts. Let's see...
[She starts ticking them off on her fingers.]
There were the Space Mittens in New Aspen. I'm not sure if you've seen it yet, but that really, really, really big pine tree that looks like it's gonna scrape the moon? That was those. Um, then there was the Architect's Pen in Vista Virs, that could create anything you could imagine.
[She presses her lips tightly together for a moment. The destruction of the Architect's Pen is truly the one she doesn't understand. It could create anything, and in the efforts to retrieve it, the entire city of Vista Virs was destroyed. Couldn't they have just used the Pen to fix the city before destroying it?
But she continues, ticking off her fingers again.]
Then there was that ball of yarn that rolled up the Mines of Phandelver and launched them into space. The continent of Maru! That wasn't even anyone's fault. A stray dog found it and was playing with it and caused that whole mess. Ummm... and then most recently, there was the Soul Blade in Lyrabar. That one was really scary, it could brainwash people into following whoever held the sword. Umm... we recovered all of them except that one. That one got destroyed in Lyrabar itself. I don't know if it makes a difference where it gets destroyed, though...