[Console] (Video) ❅ The Fifth

[stonebird]

(Alayne looks conflicted. She scrunches her skirt in her hands, her fingers moving restlessly.)

I pray everyone is safe. I wish I were...braver. But if there is a need for someone to watch over those injured, I am volunteering.

(She is still the sort to run away from danger rather than confront it.)

Did anyone determine the cause for the destruction? Are we...

( ...going to war? No, once she says those words, bad luck will follow her like an unshakeable shadow.)

I know how to clean wounds and see that they heal properly.

Comments

[video]

[theideaguy]

I don't think we're sinking or anything. Or at least nothing too significantly. The water's back to where it ought to be.

Too be honest, I'm not entirely sure why there was a freak flood at all. Well, there was a report of something like a tremor. Or an earthquake. But... how can we have an earthquake? We're on a turtle.

[video]

[stonebird]

I am asking myself the same questions, but if there is flooding...

Perhaps the turtle is partially submerged?

[video]

[theideaguy]

Maybe it was for a brief bit? Hard to say though since things mostly resolved themselves by the time I got there. The kedan surprisingly aren't being too vocal about the details other than it was the Chilelwhatever people who saved them.

[video]

[stonebird]

Is there a way to contact the rescuers? They might be more...vocal. (It's startling not to have a concrete answer.) I am relieved it is resolved regardless.

[video]

[theideaguy]

Considering that they've already split the scene and went back to whatever rock they live under, likely not.

[He screws up his lips in a disapproving frown.]

You'd think if we're after the same thing, they'd be a little more... y'know, visible. And otherwise helpful.

[video]

[stonebird]

Why would they hide? They should be proud of their efforts.



Unless they were forced into hiding? Could someone be threatening them?

[video]

[theideaguy]

Beats me. Probably some history thing or something. I didn't bother to ask about it.

[Because it's probably boring stuff. And irrelevant. Really, those are the same thing.]

[video]

[stonebird]

It might serve us well to know their history. (Even if it's boring.) In my experience, people either like acknowledgement for their good deeds or they shun it because of some deep-seated reason.

[video]

[theideaguy]

Yeah, but on the other hand, if they want to be acknowledged for their good deeds, they can come out and actually be thanked for it. Or go out there doing more good deeds.

I mean, have most of the kedan taken an active interest in us and found out that we're generally not horrible people? Nope. But they're at least happier that we've come to help them out a little bit.