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[strokeofgenis]

[Genis is feeling all out of sorts. Yes, he'd been told that this massive headache and otherwise feeling completely lethargic and terrible would be gone by tomorrow, and so he would have considered putting this out there until then, but someone had told him that he looked somewhat familiar, that there was some older girl with the same hair colour. And while there were possibly a zillion people in all the infinite worlds out there that he didn't yet know about that had elder girls with a silver-white hair, the description sounded like a shoe-in for Raine. He had to make the post.

[But Genis looks just... terrible. He's tired and just feels just empty, not to mention hungry. You'll see a 12 year old's face just looking like he could use a really really nice sleep. And as a result, he's not afraid to be cranky. Granted, he's always unafraid to be cranky, but that's his excuse at the moment.]

I really hate to gripe about this first thing, but come on. I come straight from one world where I'm hated just for being a half-elf, and now I'm in a world where I'm hated just because I'm not from around here? Greeeeeat. You know, I'm beginning to wonder if there even is a world out there where people don't discriminate against other people for completely stupid reasons.

I mean, what'd you guys even do to the kedan anyway? Did you go out and kidnap everyone's kids or something? Because if it wasn't as big as something like that, I don't know what you could have possibly done to get them to hate you so badly.

[He says this with the most deadpan delivery ever. He then just shakes his head as if just in disbelief that he's already stuck in a world worse than the one he'd just left.]

Okay, at any rate, I don't know who exactly is out there listening to this, but... hey. I'm Genis Sage.  I don't suppose any of you know someone named Raine, would you?  Anyway, as for me, I guess I'm just a student at the moment, though I really haven't been attending school for a while since I've been travelling around my world for the past while with my sister and my friends.  Despite that, I could probably still graduate at the top of my class even without having been diligent on all my homework last year.  [He says this with a remarkable amount of pride despite his general malaise of feeling empty and tired.]

Anyway, I'd say that I'm looking forward to meeting all of you soon, but right now I'm much more interested in waiting for this massive headache to go away first. Though I'm told that's supposed to go away tomorrow, so that's one thing going my way.

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[jinzhong]

[WAIT A DAMN MINUTE.]

You're Raine's brother?

[She'd told Jackie about him, and the resemblance is uncanny. But man, he seems young! Come to think of it...Jackie hasn't really seen any Foreigner kids at all...]

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[strokeofgenis]

[What? Does he have a fly on his nose or something?]

Uh, yeah. That's kind of why I was asking about her. You know her?

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[jinzhong]

Yeah, she's kind of like a friend of mine. Always gettin' me out of trouble.

She told me about you, a little. I guess she never thought you'd end up here...

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[strokeofgenis]

Yeah, that sounds like my sister, alright, especially now.

I'm hoping she's said mostly good things about me. I wouldn't want her telling lies about how horrible I am.

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[gathersnomoss]

Mostly they think we all should have gone home when we finished the job the Emperor asked us to do. And, no, there probably isn't a world like that.

I've met your sister. If no one's mentioned it, she's here.

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[strokeofgenis]

That would make absolutely perfect sense if they'd stop bringing other people here.

So... who are you? And... why do you look so... different?

[Genis, the master of subtlety.]

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[gathersnomoss]

Different is one word for it. I'm a chimera.

[tries to remember if Raine knew what one was]

That's a magically altered being made of several different creatures. My name is Zelgadis Graywords, though.

And we would shut off the spell, if anyone has the controls of it. It seems to have taken on a life of its own.

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[strokeofgenis]

[Genis, in fact, vaguely knew what a chimera was. After all, he had fought them before. But they were a very specific enemy, not the broad category Zelgadis had mentioned.]

Oh you mean that's a general sort of thing? I thought it was just the mixture of a lion, something with wings, and a snake. I guess that makes sense though.

Anyway, nice to meet you, Zelgadis. But you mean to say that there's no one actually bringing people here right, it's just happening automatically? Looks like someone didn't know their magic well enough.

[highprofilerichkid]

Raine? Yeah, she's here. [Tony can see the resemblance, though this kid is obviously a lot younger. Is Raine the sister he mentioned...?] I can help you find her, if you want. She's staying here at the Hotel and working at the Healer's Guild.

And yeah, the headache goes away in about a day. Any powers you have will come back then, too. The kedan... [He shrugs and smiles wryly.] They're not happy with how we did our job, and they're not happy that we stuck around after we finished it.

[strokeofgenis]

[Well, that's extremely helpful. All his questions answered in one stop.]

That'd be really helpful. I'm assuming you're talking about the Midnight Hotel, right? And I don't suppose you would happen to have a map of the city just lying around somewhere?

Well, from what I'm hearing, the kedan don't sound like the most appreciative sort.

[highprofilerichkid]

That's the one. I'm not sure about a map... The Welcome Center used to hand them out, but I don't know if Jack's put together an updated version yet. [If not, somebody should get on that, since new foreigners keep arriving at a steady pace.] Where are you right now?

[Genis' comment about the kedan just makes him shrug.] Maybe. They have some good reasons to be pissed about the way things were handled, even if it wasn't our fault. We fought the battles, but the war was on their home turf, and things got pretty ugly.

[strokeofgenis]

I'm in one of the console cafés near what looks like a university. I'm hoping they don't charge or anything because I'm guessing they don't take gald in this world. Is the Hotel far from here?

Still, you'd think they'd just let bygones be bygones if you guys actually won, even if things went a little bad.

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[backwordscompatible]

...for somebody who 'hates' to gripe, that sure was a lot of griping going on.

[But, hey, she gets it. The kid--he definitely looked like a kid, from her perspective--was probably new. Who wouldn't want to grip on their first day?]

[Heck, after two-plus years, there were some days when she still felt like griping.]

There are some herbs you can take, I think. If you know how to boil them into tea properly.

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[strokeofgenis]

Hey, if you had the headache I have right now, you'd be griping plenty too.

[Of course, that's a completely separate issue, but Genis is totally find to use it as a temporary excuse in the short term.]

And tea? Give me a little credit. Tea's not hard to make at all, way easier than pescatore and paella, and even those aren't hard.

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[backwordscompatible]

[You'd think that, wouldn't you?]

Not here, it's not. We're talking a little more than just tea bags and hot water; you have to actually measure out the ingredients of each herb and filter by hand.

But, hey, if you can manage that much, then there you go. There's a local healer around. I'm sure she'd have something for you.

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[strokeofgenis]

If the only difficulty is measuring out things, then that's not going to be too much of a problem.

Though I'm guessing that the local healers aren't exactly charitable and just handing this stuff out for free, right?

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[denyamenti]

[ Raine told Bakura a little about Genis in one of their conversations before the final battle with Malicant, and the thief finds that yes, it was pretty well accurate. ]

What did we do to the kedan? Only saved their existence, why would anyone think that might earn us a bit of gratitude.

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[strokeofgenis]

[Well that sounds pretty much like how Genis would have viewed it.]

That's exactly what I'd like to think would happen. I mean, even if things didn't go the best, you'd think they'd at least cut you a little slack by keeping at it and making it right!

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[denyamenti]

I suppose they haven't thrown us into the ocean yet, so that's something. I wouldn't put it past them for the thought to have crossed their minds, however.

So you're her brother.

[ Not like the resemblance wouldn't have given it away. ]

She stays at the Midnight Hotel. Knock, before you walk in.

[ You know, just in case she is otherwise occupied with someone. ]

[solo_patria]

Or something.

[The question, tossed in there the way it was, reminds Enjolras of Gavroche and he can't help but grin at the new kid, literal new kid, it seems.]

Raine helped me out of a terrible spot and we did some work together during the war. It is funny, you know what 'just students' can do.

[strokeofgenis]

Or something? What? Was it really that bad?

[Because really, Genis, would like to know this one. Really.]

You know Raine too? Yup, I figured she must be here just by the description someone had given me.

So, are you trying to tell me that you're just a student too?

[solo_patria]

It was, well. Have you heard the local version, where they tell you 'there was a war'?

[The words have a fair bit of weight in Enjolras's voice right now.]

We...were caught up in the shifting sides of that war, and all that it entails. It has made returning here...tricky. For all of us.

Before I came here? Yes, I was.

[It's close enough to the truth. After all, no one's specified what SORT.]

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[valevectorian]

Do you always tell that much about yourself to a whole bunch of likely strangers?

Worlds where no one's fucking discriminated against, be it for stupid reasons or otherwise, don't exist. They're an unrealistic ideal.

[Wow, someone's great at initiating conversations with strangers. That someone is not Accelerator.]

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[strokeofgenis]

It at least smarter than telling everyone that they're idiots and threatening to freeze them all in ice.

[valevectorian]

Don't tell me this is what you resisted the temptation to do...