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S'mores! And a Request

Sender: Oriphi
To: All
Subject: S'mores! And a Request

Hello, everyone!

Since there are so many new dreamwalkers who've just arrived, I thought it might be nice to encourage everyone to get together and meet! There is a communal firepit in a clearing just outside of the residential area where I've got a fire going, and I have plenty of supplies to make "s'mores," which I only just learned about recently. (Thank you, Miss Tifa!) If you haven't had this before, please come and try it, it's delicious!

Additionally, I have a request for everyone to please keep an eye out for a few individuals... I realize that this may be in vain since their names did not appear in the directory, but just in case...

Colin
He is a tall, half-elven man with long, dark hair. He is very charismatic and funny and likely to be found busking with his lute somewhere or telling stories!

Aerie
Also tall, but fully an elf, very pretty and intelligent, also with dark hair (but not related to Colin!). She usually has three wolves with her. Extremely competent hunter!

Mellon
Also tall, also fully an elf, he usually does not wear a shirt. He loves to drink and might try to clear out any supply of alcohol... Please do not get into a tavern brawl with him.

Dae
Also tall, and also fully an elf, with white hair and red eyes. He is very good at magic and possibly would want to spar with you! Would likely have an owl familiar with him.

Cibark
Even taller and very very strong! He is a half-orc with green skin and usually wears armor and wields large weapons. He has a very dashing and heroic aura about him!

Sian
Not tall! They usually wear a cloak and a mask. Usually quiet but very sassy. They might be flying around, but they also don't usually remember that they can do that.

[ Ori why are you always surrounded by tall people ]

If at any point in the future you come across anybody who seems to fit these descriptions, please let me know!

(( ooc: Naturally open to these moving into or starting as an action thread! Come get s'mores! Or not. I can't tell you what to do. ))

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I guess my mother loved the trees, the flowers in spring.

[Her mother already had that name in mind. When she had Sakura. And it does fit. The name suiting her for her optimism and the way she draws people in the same way the cherry blossom festivals do. She tilts her head as she watches the lights before glancing back to Oriphi with a smile and a rather enthusiastic nod.]

Yes! They're pretty. Is that...you? Are you making them?

[ Oh, Ori is already so endeared. What a sweet girl, and she can only imagine how sweet her mother must have been to have given her such a name. ]

That's right... "sakura" refers to cherry blossoms, don't they?

[ Ori smiles at Sakura before she closes her eyes. The motes of light floating around them seem to still for a moment before they shift and change, unfurling into little glowing, pink petals. When she opens her eyes, she gives a soft little laugh and nods at Sakura. ]

You're right! It's dreamotion.

Yes, that's right!

[Sakura tilts her head a little, admiring and curious about the lights. Her green eyes widening a little as they seem to shift, to change to petals. Sure, she had Flower before, the card that created flowers, but still. This was still pretty amazing, even if she herself was considered the most powerful back home, her power growing as she gets older.]

It's so pretty!

[ The young girl's awe really warms Ori's heart, despite the slight chill of the early spring evening, and the floating petals glow just a little bit brighter. ]

I'm glad you think so!

[ It's then that Ori turns to rummage through the various supplies she's obtained for this gathering and then holds out a stick with a marshmallow pierced through its tip for Sakura, holding another one for herself in her other hand. ]

If you'd like, we can try to make more lights together after we have our s'mores?

Together? You think I could do that?

[Sure. She had the Glow card back home for a good while, but. This is different? This is not the Cards. This was something else. She's still new and learning about this place, the particular abilities here. She isn't sure if this was something the other could do back home or something specific to this place that she could also learn. She does take the offered stick though, thanking the other and figuring the rest to add to the marshmallow. Holding it out to the fire for a little.]

Of course! Every dreamwalker is capable of using dreamotion. I think it comes to some more easily than others, but...

[ Ori is likewise in the process of roasting her marshmallow, with a smile on her face still.]

That's why practice is important! I'm sure that you'll get the hang of it in no time. Are you familiar with magic, Sakura?

Eh? M-magic? Um, that is.....

[Does she admit it? She isn't sure yet. Only having recently arrived and so used to only certain few back home knowing. Or a few others knowing but she herself isn't aware they know what is going on with her, with her abilities over the years. She fidgets, debating on whether to be honest.]

I know of magic back home?

[It isn't a lie? Just not. The whole truth in that she herself has magic? Sakura relents in at least that much, as she watches, trying not to burn her delicious treat from Oriphi.]

[ Ori, meanwhile, is asking purely out of politeness - she comes from a world where magic is ever-present and nothing like a close-kept secret, but she's met a few people by now who come from places where it either isn't as prevalent, or doesn't seem to exist at all.

So she doesn't read too much into Sakura's response - and in the first place, trying to gain insight into the words of a young girl doesn't sit quite right with her, even when she and her sister were surely up to no good at that age. ]

Oh, is that so? I'm only asking because where I'm from, magic can be very common, depending on where you are. I can use magic, too, so I think that really helped me get the hang of using dreamotion rather easily.

[ She glances over at her marshmallow and then at Sakura's and, after briefly evaluating their appearance, she adds, ]

That's almost done! We definitely wouldn't want to burn the marshmallows, haha...

I know magic is a thing back home. I just didn't expect to end up in a place like this? But I guess. If it's a dream, anything is possible, right?

[Let's. Not focus on the potential for nightmares? Not reminding herself of that one dream with Syaoran and the robes. Nope. Focusing on the delicious gooey, sugary goodness of the s'mores as it heats up with the fire and starts to melt some with the chocolate. Sakura's so far trying to avoid actually admitting or showing her magic to anyone yet. Even if that might not last the longest.]

But ah! Right!

[Don't want them getting too crispy being distracted with the conversation! Sakura is quick to withdraw hers, blowing on it to try cool it some, as she gives it a moment before tentatively trying it in hoping it isn't too hot.]

Oh, absolutely! I've been here for around five months, now, and I've experienced some rather impossible things... haha. I'm sure you've already experienced it a bit, too, right?

[ And that's coming from a lady whose world has dinosaurs and demon frogs and griffons and things like that.

In any case, Ori follows suit with her s'more, assembling it into the melty chocolatey gooey goodness that it is now that the marshmallow has been roasted. She holds hers up at Sakura with a smile and patiently waits for the young girl to ready hers! ]

Ta-dah! Shall we get to the best part, Sakura?

Five months.....that is a long time.

[She isn't sure she wants to imagine. That long, without her friends or family. Sakura can't help fretting over that, in realizing just how long she might be here for. It has her pursing her lips, glancing down to her lap with her marshmallow. She's distracted from dwelling on it too much with Oriphi's question though.]

But ah, yes!

[She grins, finishing putting together her own s'more, imitating Oriphi with the order of the marshmallow and chocolate and crackers.]

[ Oh, that momentary trepidation on Sakura's face is apparent to Ori, who realizes that she hadn't considered how 'five months' really is such a long time - especially to be away from your home at a young age. She promises herself, then, to be present for Sakura in whatever way the young girl will allow her to be! The other dreamwalkers will never be a replacement for her friends or family at home, but... they can at least make sure that she doesn't feel alone.

Starting with providing her with treats like s'mores. Mirroring her grin, Ori then turns her attention back at her s'more and takes a nice, big, gooey chomp out of it, humming with delight at the sweetness of it all before she casts another sidelong glance at Sakura to gauge her reaction. ]

Mmmph-?

[ (That's Ori asking Sakura what she thinks.) ]

[Sakura is of course, oblivious to that warm, protective instinct she elicits from others. Merely doing her best after arriving here to get to know others, to get to know this place and figure what she is to do next while she is here, however long that might be for.

She gives her own little hum of joy at the treat, savoring it with small bites initially. She raises a hand to her mouth as she can't help giggling at Oriphi. But somehow she does seem to understand the question in giving a nod, swallowing before agreeing.]

It's really good!

[ Ori wasn't always the warm, protective kind of person, but she's trying her best to be lately, and especially here in a realm where everyone's been torn away from all they've ever known. She'll just be relieved if Sakura lets her help in any way!

She takes a full moment to finish her bite of the s'more this time, before responding in kind. ]

Wonderful! I'm so glad! Please feel free to make as many as you'd like, Sakura.

Ah? I wouldn't eat too many! I might, um. If I can take one or two home though. When I go, later.

[Because she is well aware Kero will probably complain if he misses out. Knowing what a glutton he is especially about sweets. It might be a little messy but maybe if she has a paper towel or something of the sort to wrap it in or something for the trip back home to give it to him.]

Oh! You want to take some home with you? That's perfectly all right!

[ Sakura says 'one or two,' but Ori will probably send her home with at least half a dozen for good measure. You're welcome, Kero-chan, wherever you are. ]

Do you like to eat sweets, too? Ah, it's been really nice being able to make more things like desserts, actually. I was always traveling on the road before coming here, so I couldn't really do that...

I can? Ah, that's great! Thank you!

[For later. Clearly. Not for her tiny not-actually-a-stuffed-toy that is likely all but drooling in her bag. Sakura gives a nod to the question. It's hardly a secret she has a sweet tooth, for all that she does generally eat pretty well, decently healthily. She is just also a young girl and with that comes a particular fondness for sweets, even if she is less of a glutton than the likes of Kero.]

I do! I usually make more dinners or lunches than sweets but I do enjoy them!

[ Ori clasps her hands together excitedly. It's sweet of Sakura to let Ori get to know her bit by bit like this, and she's thankful for the opportunity, especially when it leads to her learning that they have interests in common! ]

Wow! You seem so dependable, Sakura. Did you learn how to cook from your family?

[ She seems like she must have had such a warm, loving family, after all, just based on how much she seems to miss them. ]

Dependable? Ah, I'm not sure on that....but yes! Sometimes, I'd be home first after school, while dad and onii-chan would be working. So I'd make dinner for everyone, ready for when they would be back home.

[It just made sense, given she would be the first to get home some afternoons. She might make more basic meals in comparison to them, in still learning and when younger, not being allowed to make certain dishes or the like but still.]

But we would also have cooking classes at school too! That was usually more sweets or desserts though. Like making cakes.

[ She would most certainly count all of that towards being dependable by any measure, and Sakura's further description only solidifies that in Ori's mind. What a sweet young lady... ]

Ah, I can only imagine how nice it must have been for them to come home to a home-cooked meal by a family member.

Perhaps we can cook together, sometime! I'm sure it'll be a very different experience than what you're used to, but... I'm always happy to learn new recipes, and I might even be able to teach you one or two, if you'd like!

Mine were more basic, compared to what onii-chan and dad can make. But it was something for them to come home to at least. Having it ready. But ah, I wouldn't mind if you wanted to try sometime! I'm not sure if you might be familiar with the sort of dishes I tend to make but we can teach each other?

[She does mostly tend to figure Japanese dishes. And of course it might be debatable how readily available some of the things she is used to having might be here but still. Even so. She isn't against the idea of maybe trying some new dishes.]

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S'mores! And a Request

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omg please let ori meet kero someday

Kero is too obnoxious and proud and loud to be contained for too long lbr. He will reveal himself.

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