Day 54

[worldlyafflictions]

[Having kept an idle ear on the public channel for the last week and gotten a better idea of what to actually look for, Shima chimes in again today after coming across a rolled up scrap of scroll among the Scribe's writings.]

Hey guys, more news for ya. Maybe bad news? Unless RM-san's got some kind of amnesia thing going on and just doesn't remember being the last piece, [--that's a joke, mostly--] sounds like our last Miracle can run from us.

"The third, a Beast with a coat and blood of Red, with thoughts and dreams to match its will. As a being of Birth and Decay, its life was its own. It could not be held by the hands of its creator, and fled to the wild, seeking the freedom it was denied."

Looks like it escaped on its own.

Comments

[soft_focus]

...If they're a 'beast', maybe we can say 'hello', or tell them something bad is trying to catch them.

If they're at the Carnival, they could go to lots of places, but if someone else took them, they probably wouldn't get to see anything at all...

[She has the Carnival viewed in a rather grand light, see.]

[spaghettimonster]

[Honestly, even after everything, same. Papyrus has a generally high opinion of the Ringmaster and the Carnival still.]

Yeah! Better the roaming life with friends, than the roaming life alone. And we could all protect each other!

The trick is finding them, and talking to them...

[soft_focus]

Do you think they would have a favorite food? Maybe they found one by now, since they're free.

[worldlyafflictions]

Might be a problem if their favorite food is little kids.

[says the mean big kid]

[soft_focus]

No, because if their favorite food is 'kids', that means it's people, and that means going to the easier people to eat.

And that won't be me.

[Take that. No one likes to eat ROCKS, Shima!]

[worldlyafflictions]

Planning ta feed it someone else seems pretty harsh!

[soft_focus]

That just means if it's their favorite food, we have to say no, then, [she determines.]

And if they fight, we'll fight back, because now we know it's trying to eat everyone.

[It just makes sense, see.]

[worldlyafflictions]

Haha, I wonder if it understands self-defense.

Taking it fighting seems like a bad idea even if it is a people eater, if the goal is ta keep these things around for a long time.

Well, maybe you guys'll have good luck and it won't come ta that.

[soft_focus]

Mnhhh.... [Well she's taking him Just As Seriously as before, which is always a good sign. ...At least when it comes to points that actually make sense.] ...Y...yeah.... ....if they have to like us...

[wait]

..........You're not coming?

[but shiiiiiiiiiiimaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-]

[worldlyafflictions]

Ain't I the sort who's "just scared of things"?

[Is he still salty about that??]

[soft_focus]

[....Oh, she did say that, didn't she. But then....to be fair...]

Oh. Ummmm....Being scared to get in trouble isn't the same as getting scared of beasts, I don't think.

Being scared of getting in trouble is because...you don't like things, or because people will get mad, not because you'll be dead, I think... [...But, uh. Well.]

...you didn't say you weren't actually scared before, though... [Translation: PROVE HER WRONG BUDDY]

[worldlyafflictions]

Jeez, your scale of things ta be afraid of is a little broken, huh.

[DEAD IS WORSE THAN JUST IN TROUBLE, REIRA...]

'when u pal around w a necromancer and an undead sparrow'

[soft_focus]

[Wat-] ....It is?

[Wat???] ............But I'm not scared of being in trouble.............

[She just feels these are Totally Different Fear Feelings, see!!]

Um! ...Being dead isn't the scary part either I don't think though, since sometimes, you can come back from that. It's what makes you dead, that's scary.

[OKAY NOW THE SCALE IS BROKEN....]