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[spiria]

Hello, everybody!!

Does anyone have any recommendations on where to find or commission Wedding Dresses here? I'm sure they're around somewhere, I'm just not entirely sure where to start looking.

I'd also gladly talk to anyone about making a dress!

Comments

[have_hat_will_travel]

I can't say that's unfamiliar. I was 'taught' to understand the darker side of people's emotions easily and manipulate those, but seeing people as possible friends... It took quite a bit to even be able to allow myself to think that.

[spiria]

You're better about that now, though, right? I certainly think of you as a friend. To be fair, though, it's not that difficult to befriend me.

[have_hat_will_travel]

I'd like to think so, at least. and more importantly, I can have people who are friends just for its own sake now, rather than as 'what they can do for me if I do the right things for them' type transactional junk.

[spiria]

That's great! It's good to have that sort of feeling, right? To know you can have friends and not wonder what they want from you all the time?

[have_hat_will_travel]

Or what I can take from them with the right bit of manipulation, usually was more what I thought at the time.

Being brainwashed is one hell of a drug.

[spiria]

I can imagine ... I haven't ever been brainwashed, but I did kind of share my body with someone for most of my life, so she had the ability to take over whenever necessary. She didn't like doing it, though.

[have_hat_will_travel]

That. Definitely sounds like it's got a story behind it, to say the least...

[spiria]

A very long one, yes. She's not with me anymore.

[ Oh, there's that pang of sadness at knowing what happened back home ... ]

She went to sleep. I miss her.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... There's only a few I miss from my original world. More from the place I was at between then and now, honestly, but that's its own story.

[spiria]

Right, I forget sometimes that you're one of the people who are in my situation, where they had been in a different world from their own at some point.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Yup. Two-time winner of the 'interdimensional kidnappee' award. As if one... Well actually the first was objectively very good for me, if I'd come straight here from my homeworld it wouldn't have gone so well.

[spiria]

Me too. I was brought to another place before this, but I went back home in between that place and this one. It gave me some time to resolve some things back home, at least, but I hate that I had to leave Rin alone for so long. It's not like either of us had any control over that, though.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Makes you worry given people randomly disappear here, too, huh.

I can only hope I return to the Rift, or if I do get sent home I can escape to... Fuck, I don't even know where would be safe from the Demon Queen of Lust. But SOMEWHERE.

[spiria]

If it does end up happening that way, I hope that you're safe, wherever you land. I care about my friends, and even if they end up in a place where I can't see them anymore, I'd at least like to think that they're safe, you know?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Yeah. I get that feeling, for sure.

Just wish I could know how I could be safe.

[spiria]

I wish I could do more to help you know ... I'm not sure I'd be able to really help with that even knowing a bit of the situation.

[have_hat_will_travel]

For now... If I stay here, I'm fine. Just keep myself good, and hopefully it'll be enough for now...