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[lumberlady]

[Lunatia's resident centaur lady is back on screen, excitedly trying to... set her network device up somewhere where it can actually get all of a rather large frame into the shot. Not that she waits to start talking.]


Greetings, everyone! I didn't realize it's been months since I last used this for "posting"... There's probably so many new people, so, um, very quickly- If you don't know me, my name is Konoha! I'm a jinba... Or a "centaur" if you want! And oh, that's my husband, Gonta... and our friend, Mikuni! Say hello, you two!

[Catching sight of the other jinba behind her pausing in their field work, she moves the camera to show a large palomino fellow (Gonta) who gives a gruff nod and semi-wave, and an elegant ebony-coated gentleman? (Mikuni) who dips into a more proper bow with a little smile.]

We run the Tsurugi Farmstead in the Greatmoon Groves! There was a lot of damage when it flooded before, but thanks to everyone's efforts we're back up and running properly... and we've had our first fall harvest!

So... as a bit of a thank you, and also maybe to celebrate not dealing with those awful nightmares anymore, I thought we could have a hotpot party here by the river? In my village we usually make imoni in the autumn, it's so delicious! It's full of beef and taro root and leeks and konnyaku... Mmm!

[She finally gets the device set up properly and trots back into frame properly, obviously excited by the invitation she's making.]


Cordis is almost over, right? So now seems like a good time before Iris shows up... But if you have a Cordis appetite, don't worry! We'll supply all the imoni... or, the ingredients, anyway, it's more fun if you cook it outside with everyone. We also have fresh sweet potatoes, pumpkin, new rice... oh, and persimmons!

But if you want to share anything, feel free to bring your own dish, too! Let's say... tomorrow? I'll send directions for anyone who hasn't visited before, alright?

I hope we see you there! Er, here, I mean! If you have any questions, just let me know!

[And with a last smile, she gives a big, respectful bow from the "waist" before moving to grab her device, a muffled "Gonta, Mikuni, wait up- !" before the feed cuts, and a moment later a pin on the Lunatian map app becomes available.]

SENT:
📍 TSURUGI FARMSTEAD, GREATMOON GROVES

[ooc: there won't be separate log posted for this, but I'll gladly action tag within this post with anyone interested!]

Comments

[lumberlady]

Oh- Yes! We start early to get some things done before visiting the market.

[They also go to bed at an hour most other people would consider far too early for adults, but- What's a nightlife and why would she want one?]

You put them all in the same pot, that's the point! They all cook together and absorb the same broth, but they each have their own individual flavors, too!

[realimperfect]

[ Re-L's days and nights, as of late, have been getting more and more mixed. Now that she's studying and moving forward through a bit of an education, she's less focused on keeping to a routine for sleeping and waking and more focused on getting through what she has to do.

And, well. Her time between those she's fondest of in this place. ]

Oh - so like a stew, almost? [ Has it ever been more apparent that she does not cook? Possibly. ]

That sounds interesting. I'll have to clear out some time between working and studying to come.

[lumberlady]

Mmm, sort of! You eat all the stew though, the ingredients are also in the broth, but with hot pot the broth is just for flavoring the ingredients- we don't drink it.

[Did that explanation make sense, maybe?]

What are you studying, Miss Re-L?

[realimperfect]

Ah, alright. Still sounds like it would taste good provided the flavoring was correct. Granted, Hunk has spoiled me with new foods, so there's also that consideration...

[ She may as well be honest about it, right? Iggy knew how to make nutritious food, of course, but it wasn't anything nearly as (sometimes) indulgent as what Hunk could deliver. ]

I was an inspector in my world for the Security Bureau - something like a police officer or a moon knight here, I guess. So I wanted to study more to do with the law.

[lumberlady]

Well, it would definitely taste good! That I can promise!

[This Hunk person must be the boyfriend! Thank goodness he can cook! At least one in a pair ought to be able to!]

A police officer! We have those in my world, basically... well, patrol samurai! Are the moon knights giving classes or something?

[realimperfect]

[ Oh Konoha... she's so sweet thinking Re-L would put a label on things. Oh well, she doesn't have to clarify or try to awkwardly back track right now, so there's no point in dwelling in it. ]

They do offer them. I've also got a.. connection in the Moon Knights.

[ AKA she and Edgeworth sometimes discuss the Moon Knights after they're done moonlacing - but she's not going to get in to that. ]

I was also just... curious. And I was getting bored with what I was doing, so. I thought I might as well learn something.

[lumberlady]

The Moon Knights can be very nice people... If "a connection" means "a friend" then I have a connection, too!

[haha...]

Well, whatever the motive, I think it's admirable to decide to go out and learn something. Some people just don't do anything at all... and I guess that's their choice, but. It seems like a bit of a waste.

[realimperfect]

Yes, a friend.. [ A friend she sometimes moonlaces with... but who's counting. Certainly not Re-L, considering. And with her typical lean toward keeping her cards close, she's eager to move on. ]

I did rest, for a while.

But, considering I'd been surviving in a winter wasteland for a while I thought perhaps that's excusable. I grew bored of that, though, fairly quickly. I wasn't a layabout in Romdeau and I didn't intend to become it, here.

[lumberlady]

[look.............. in lunatia, sometimes you moonlace with friends. even if you're married.]

Well, I think that's admirable either way. I've learned a lot, too... like how to read and write, and how some doctor things work, and about my world's future...

I hope the people who say we'll forget everything that happened in Lunatia are wrong.

[realimperfect]

You didn't read or write before you came here? [ Sorry if she sounds shocked a little here, Konoha. It's genuinely not an insult, it's just... she's been reading philosophy since she can remember, in Latin, and it's perhaps a bit alien to her to hear others can't or couldn't read.

Still, it's easy enough to move on. ]

You would want to remember people you can't see anymore? I would think it would make it a little easier, for you, if you were to return to your world. Especially if maybe you found a deep connection with someone not from your own world..

[lumberlady]

Mmm. Not many people in my village can, and I never went to temple school.

[She shakes her head no, not at all ashamed of it when she came from a world where it just... wasn't terribly common for her social class. ... Why she never went to temple school, though, she keeps to herself.]

Of course I'd want to remember. If someone's important to me I don't want to forget them, even if it's sad to be apart... and I don't want to forget the things I've learned here, either. Like reading!

[realimperfect]

That's quite unique. No one in my world was illiterate. [ At least not that Re-L knew of. Admittedly, there was a fair bit of ignorance in her so far as what the 'little people' of Romdeau Dome went through. She was, in a way, a princess in the midst of it all. ]

I can see now why you wouldn't want to forget. I think... for me it would be different. Going back in to the wastes I wouldn't want yet another memory of comfort to dream about and wake up cold, again, I think.

[lumberlady]

A lot of Moonblessed here say the same thing... That everyone in their world knows how to read or goes to school... That’s pretty amazing.

[But what Re-L says about waking up cold... it’s not that she doesn’t understand it, but-]

That sounds sad...

[realimperfect]

Where I was born.. everyone was born to serve a purpose. They had a personality tailored to their purpose in the Dome... very cog to the wheel.

I don't know if everyone in that set up knowing to read is amazing or.. just purposeful.

[ It is sad, in its own way. Re-L can't deny as much and there's no way she can stomach telling Konoha a lie to make things seem rosier. So instead there's a rueful little huff of a laugh, and a shrug. ]

It can be, at times. But between Vincent, Pino, and Kristeeva.. it's much freer than how I was raised. I get to choose what I do, and when, and how I proceed in life without worrying about my 'purpose.'

It's.. having my own sovereignty is a novelty that will never go away.

[lumberlady]

[Always a positive thinker... what Re-L says about literacy in the Dome doesn't seem to discourage her at all. Instead-]

Isn't learning how to ready always for a purpose?

[So!]

I hope you get to keep being your own person, though... Even though I know having duties and responsibilities is normal... I think there's a difference between those and not being able to do at all what you want to.

[realimperfect]

Yes. But if you can't choose what you learn after I don't know if it's necessarily a good purpose.

[ Philosophical shit, basically. The merit of learning if it's not for the sake of your passions, that kind of thing. Re-L's not really sure if that's what they want to get in to, here, but it's something she thinks of often now that she's away from it all. ]

There's nothing else to do other than that, so I stand a fair chance at it.

[ Romdeau being rubble, and all. ] If anything, it's why I hope I don't remember it. Life has been nearly hedonistic here, and with Iggy being alive here.. let's just say it will be less of a whiplash, if I don't remember what's happened, here.

[lumberlady]

Oh...

[Konoha definitely doesn't feel qualified to debate philosophical differences between things, let alone about someone else's world... so she'll just have to trust Re-L on this one.]

Your friend isn't alive in your world anymore... ? ... I'm really sorry.

[Even still, Konoha would want to remember... but she certainly can't tell the other woman how to feel about something so personal.]