1st marker;

[egeiros]

Sender: Yuki Tayuun
To: Everyone
Subject: Communal rules

A question, if I may... Does anyone look out to a formal settlement and find it altogether too dazzling at times? Or, mayhap even too much to trust that it is on offer with nearly no strings attached?

[ hm, likely not a great opener. Yuki tries again, maybe something lighter will work better. ]

Pray forgive the overly serious tone, I was once told to, as she put it, "LIGHTEN UP AND STAY IN THE HOUSE, STOP SNEAKING OUT AND SLEEPING IN THE GARDEN" before coming here.

It is something of a ...

work in progress?

Comments

very much, and thank you! <3

[egeiros]

As I thought it was when I was presented with it. I cannot fault the concerns, because I understand them.

[ therein lies a long story, one he hesitates to so boldly share with someone showing him care in this matter. ]

When the place you knew as "home" becomes as a fortress you are tasked with guarding, and one that can no longer be yours unconditionally, then... yes, wilderness seems inviting, and is a happier place to be.

[ in solitude, he bites his lip. had that been too much? this matter so often is, he thinks, thus- ]

I do mean to learn to adjust. I can also state that I am quite good at taking shelter in old storerooms and abandoned buildings. [ helpful! ]

<3!!

[lethechained]

[ Naminé thinks that perhaps they both were right, then, to see it that way - but she's well aware without being told that the tale in question probably is a long one, indeed. She won't pry about it; it's his to volunteer or not to, as many such stories must be for the comfort of their bearers.

Still, ]

It's hard for me to imagine what that must have been like.
I've lived in places that weren't home, but that was because I'd never had a real home before now.

[ That's the part of it that might bother her most - the losing. Growing out of? Becoming... no longer welcome? None of them sit right with her; they're antithetical to what a home should be, by her definition. ]

Even if it isn't worth much, I'm sorry that things turned out that way for you.
But if you're trying to learn a different way of living, this is a very good place to practice.
Although I'm sure you know that by now, if you've already gotten a head start.

[ Old storerooms and abandoned buildings count! It's not like she has any room to criticize considering how long she lived in a run-down mansion forgotten in the woods. ]