[Console: Video]

[shroudofgray]

This new city we have come to... it is very strange, yes? It is not like an abandoned place - I know such places well and there is not- ... it is not the same. There should be something there, even if only echoes.

Are places often empty like this? Are cities not built for people?

[She grows quiet, eyes averting downwards, before lifting up a Bibiru that is contentedly munching on a root vegetable. It's a particularly pudgy specimen.]

This one needs a name also.

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[shroudofgray]

Empty cities.

[commandandcontrol]

Right.

I found a bracelet. The lock is kind of a finnicky.

[shroudofgray]

There is a boy with keys that do not open anything. Perhaps he can help?

[commandandcontrol]

I should say 'clasp' rather than lock, for clarity.

It doesn't need a key to open.

[shroudofgray]

Oh.

My light can open things. Sometimes.

I am trying to figure out how. It may not work, but if you like, I could try.

[commandandcontrol]

Your light? Is that a type of magic?

[shroudofgray]

I think so. People have said it is, and they understand these things better than I.

[commandandcontrol]

I might take you up on that, but I like it for now.

[shroudofgray]

I will be glad to try if you ever want me to.

[commandandcontrol]

I will!

I'm Sonja, you are?

[shroudofgray]

I am Yorda. I am glad to meet you, Sonja.

[commandandcontrol]

[ Oh yay, someone who she didn't alienate with brattiness! This person is either very forgiving or maybe she finally did something right! ]

Same!

[ Mostly? She hopes not every conversation is going to be like that first one. ]

Where do you tend to congregate?

[shroudofgray]

[It's hard to alienate someone who simply expects not to understand half of what is said to her]

I live at the hotel. It is also where I am given money for doing chores.

But when I am not there, I am usually somewhere else.

[Gold star, Yorda.]

[commandandcontrol]

That's a very logical conclusion, yes.

...well I guess I'll just see if I can find you at the hotel, then. If I want to get it off.

[ She just had to think of the hotel as a brand new place instead of a wrong old place. ]

[shroudofgray]

I will look for you then, Sonja.