Day 1 | ~ Riddle ~

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[pretty much immediately after Xion's conversation with Verita.]

[Xion wanders, hood up, along the street near the shops, blinking curiously into them. If asked, she wouldn't be able to tell you if she's mostly exploring or mostly trying to pick a place to eat. There are... a lot of shops to look at, but at least now she knows where the baked goods in her basket came from.

She wants to find a place to sit and eat (a real meal, not just something scavenged off shelves in abandoned houses) and think over her riddle. In the end, she just chooses somewhere at random (an Italian restaurant, not that she knows it yet -- not that she knows what Italy is, let alone what kind of food the culture is known for). It's a nice place: quiet, not too pretentious, and the lights aren't extremely bright, which puts her subconsciously more at ease.

But she lingers at the front awkwardly with the sudden realization that she'd never eaten in a restaurant before. What is she supposed to do? She fidgets with the ends of her sleeves until a waiter offers to take her to a table, and she follows shyly. Once she takes her seat (after ordering just water after the waiter asked what she wanted to drink), she takes out the piece of paper Verita gave her and lays it down on the table in front of her.]

I may not have arms or legs to tone
But if you carry me here by my spine
I can go home as your own
Only for a limited time...

[She reads it aloud, though she's immediately reminded how much her voice bothers her now. Her... male voice.

She stares at it for a long time... and then sighs.] I don't get it.

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I'm not even supposed to be... ...

[she needs to get out of this conversation.]

[bit_impossible]

Here? Well, that goes for you, me, and anyone else with these clues. So! Why don't we focus on that and see if you'll get anything different than I did, eh?

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[not what she meant, not really. but it's an out, and she'll take it. she nods a little and looks down at her piece of paper on the table. she doesn't feel so curious any more.]

[bit_impossible]

All right! Let's try this riddle from the end instead. What sort of thing is only available like that for a limited time?

... does she even know what a library is :|a

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Umm...

[... Organization emblems? The kind they made her jump all over the place to get on performance missions? ... somehow she doubts that's the case.]

...

Didn't they have something like it in the World That Never Was? Or in Castle Oblivion?

[bit_impossible]

[encouragingly] Go on, I know you can do it.

Not canonly stated. Maybe she found the one in Beast's Castle, though that's not a check-out one XD

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I...

... what do you even carry by the spine? [She doesn't think a cat would appreciate that very much. :< Or any animal, really. And you can't pick up a person...]

[bit_impossible]

Well, one planet I went to, they--no, it's probably best I don't tell you about that one, especially if you're planning on eating any time soon.

[begins scratching his chin] Perhaps you're thinking too literal, Xion. Not everything that has a spine has bones in it.

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Huh? But that doesn't make any sense.

[bit_impossible]

[lets out a breath before he speaks] Blimey, you really weren't kidding, were you?

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[.____.] Sorry.

[bit_impossible]

[blinks] What are you apologising to me for?

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[for not being smart enough? for not knowing things?] ... for being frustrating.

[bit_impossible]

Frustrating? No--well, only a little bit, but you can't exactly help that, can you? You can't know something you didn't learn or didn't inherit in some way like your ability to read, for example.

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... yeah. [she still feels bad, though. especially since he seems to expect that she'll get it on her own, and the fact that she's not going to means she's probably letting people down. she hates letting people down.

... even if she hasn't known them for very long, apparently.]

[bit_impossible]

[he starts getting up out of his seat] Look at it this way. This town is pretty small, so there aren't that many places for you to search for the answer of your riddle.

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... yeah. That's true. [aaaa now he's leaving.]

[bit_impossible]

[smiles] And if you're really stuck, ring me on your CAT.

For now though, enjoy your meal! I hear the pasta primavera is good today. [of course, it says so on a sign on the way into the restaurant, so he's a bit of a cheat there.]

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... Okay. [a response to both the offer about the CAT and the comment about the pasta. not that she knows what... primavera is, but she might as well try it, right?

-- oh, where's her manners?] Thank you.

[bit_impossible]

[he's in the process of stepping away from the table when he hears that and spins round] Hmm? Oh yes! You're welcome. [smiles and waves] See you around, Xion.

[and he turns away, heading for the exit]