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.

Comments

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I'm not the one who named it.

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Someone with far less imagination did, from the sounds of it.

hahaha EVERYONE AGREES. XEMNAS = FAILS AT NAMING STUFF.

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[She guesses so. She never really questioned the way Xemnas named things, even if she thought the names were a little... odd.]

He would've gotten along well with the Time Lords. The "[insertname] of Rassilon" indeed!

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[subject change, go!]

So! I see you met Verita as well. [taps the slip of paper set on the table]

Hahaha

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... Yes.

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[casually turns the paper around, reading the clue] Ohhhh. What do you think? Any ideas?

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No. ... I'm no good at this stuff.

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Maybe I can give you a nudge in the right direction?

... lol keywords are relevant

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... you all ready know?

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Well, I love this sort of thing, you know? Solving riddles and puzzles. Nothing like a good mystery, I say!

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Oh. [... it still makes her feel dumb, that he was able to get it in just one look and she doesn't even know where to start.]

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[he makes Einstein feel dumb, though, that's not much of a consolation, is it?]

What line's giving you the most trouble?

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[All of it?

... well, okay, fine. Maybe she's exaggerating because she's frustrated.]

... the first two.

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[reads those two lines over again] All right, let's think of things that don't have arms or legs.

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Um... A pot?

[... shut up. The first mental image that comes to mind are those tall pot-vase-things found in the Olympus Coliseum and elsewhere that hold munny inside.

Hi, Doctor. Meet some Soraspawn-grade derp.]

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Ahh, but does that have a spine?

... she probably doesn't even know that books have "spines"

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... I guess not. [hmmm.]
















... I can't think of anything.

...Oh dear...;_;

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[frowns slightly] Was there a "School That Never Was" by any chance?

He's going to have fun telling her things. She'll actually listen!

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... no. [that may be a bit of a sulkface under that hood, there.]

Aww yeah~ Hopefully he doesn't lose her with his explanations ^^;

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Well...you learned how to read, right? I mean, how would you have known what this said otherwise?

She'll catch on eventually XD and aaaaa omg why is there like no one on IM

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[She blinks. She... never really thought about it, but.]

I didn't learn. I just knew how.

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[mostly to himself] Curious, born with the knowledge instead of being taught...

At least that saves some trouble. Won't get anywhere in life not knowing how to read.

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Where are you from? [As soon as the words are out of her mouth, she's not sure where that came from, either. But he asked her, but didn't answer himself, and suddenly it seems important.]

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[an eyebrow shoots up at that sudden question] Me? Well...everywhere and nowhere. Mostly nowhere these days. Why?

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... I don't know. [It was just an impulse.

She looks down at the riddle again, though she's not really reading it over.] I wonder how I got here.

[... that was sudden, too. She's not sure where all this is coming from.]