thehometree | 001 ⚡ Amber (Action if outside)

[Hak is standing just outside of the tree with his hsu quandao across his shoulders. He's looking out at the mist and knows by now that there has been a varied response to the violin music that has played for the last few days. He's more than a little disturbed by what he is seeing so he's bringing it to the attention of everyone, if they haven't already seen.]

So, it looks like the storm is done. We can all make our way outside without fear of drowning via raindrops.

The creepy music has stopped too. [Yes, creepy music. He doesn't care what you have to say about it--it wasn't pleasant.] It looks like the musician wants to pay us all a visit though.

[Hak points his amber in the direction of the mist. It might be a little hard to see on the screen but there is definitely a person out there.]

Any volunteers want to go see what he wants? If he wants in, I vote no. The stench of rotting corpse is hard to get out of fabric.

[The amber turns back to Hak before he addresses everyone.]

I know several of us have discussed determining who here is a fighter. I think it might be a good time to get a head count in case that thing is hostile.

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[Joy of all joys, well, if he can do worse then Judar...actually Judar is pretty tame, almost nice to Hakuryuu.]

A sword? Yes. My instructors insisted on teaching it.

[No, no. He likes being different from those morons.

If the rest of the royal family wants to use the same weapon let 'em. He'll take the more difficult...except most of Kou's soldiers use it so, yeah.]

That would explain why most of my family uses them.

[Hak laughs, genuinely and outloud. You just won him over with that comment. He likes people with quick wit.]

Don't get along with them, huh?

[And Judar says he has no sense of humor, he usually doesn't.]

Not at all.

[Civil war level, even. Considering he just stole the country from under Kouen's nose for as long as he can keep it.]

[That makes it more fun for Hak.]

Well let's hope none of them arrive here, then.

[Or have they already?]

....

[Not as far as he knows.]

None of them have, as far as I've noticed. The other one here is our Magi and High Priest.

[And his sort of friend.]

[You don't say that you are enemies with that person, so he can only assume you get along well with them.]

So you aren't here alone?

No. Though he arrived first and evidently from a different time.

[Maybe half an hour, maybe. Battle tends to make time hard to tell.]

Yeah, that happened to me too.

[He's the one way behind. Not sure how far.]

[Literally right behind or in front of each other.]

Hopefully your changes were as drastic as ours.

[He was mostly intact at the point Judar remembers.]

I honestly don't have a clue.

[They believed him to be injured and haven't said much in the way of what happened.]

I know there has been a passage of time, but not sure how much.

[Maybe it's better that way?]

If it were truly important wouldn't they discuss it?

[He doesn't really know this friend stuff too well, he doesn't have much experience with it. A few months with Alibaba and them, then Judar. So he's not sure which experience is truer. He knows which he prefers.]

[He has to think about that for a moment. Though he feels like there is something they are keeping from him, he's not sure exactly what it is.]

I would think they would, probably. If it was important.

[His was hard to ignore...and he'd been confused to see Judar again so blurting happened.]

Then it's probably nothing to worry about.

[It's not like any of them died, right? Or could be seen as it anyway.]