(2:28:06 PM) ***Karen_Realtin heads over to Lorretta "Heya?" She gives a small wave.
(2:28:39 PM) Narp: "OH! HEY KAREN!" she continues to jump rope.
(2:28:48 PM) Narp: "What'ya here for?"
(2:29:18 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I wanted to talk to you about...well...when we got kidnapped and what happened before."
(2:29:34 PM) Narp: "..." she stops jumping rope.
(2:29:37 PM) Narp: "What do you mean?"
(2:30:07 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I mean...when we were sparring and stuff."
(2:30:29 PM) Narp: "... uhm..." she begins.
(2:30:38 PM) Narp: "Okay? Honestly I don't remember much."
(2:30:59 PM) Narp: "Just that we were sparring and then... I think I got knocked out and had a dream?"
(2:31:26 PM) Karen_Realtin: "You don't? Because...even before you got kidnapped...something odd happened." Karen...looks a bit disapointed "A dream?"
(2:31:35 PM) Narp: "Yea."
(2:31:54 PM) Karen_Realtin: "What was it about?"
(2:31:56 PM) Narp: "I was a tech-guard. And I was saving people. And helping them!"
(2:32:10 PM) Narp: "And then... this... holo-pet? Came down in front of me."
(2:32:25 PM) Narp: "It was big though. And it looked too real to be a holo-pet!"
(2:32:39 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Wings of fire?"
(2:32:45 PM) Narp: "Yea!"
(2:32:52 PM) Narp: "How'd you know?"
(2:33:18 PM) Narp: "Anyway. It was this bird type holo-pet and it told me... 'beware the temptations of the future'."
(2:33:51 PM) Narp: "Next thing I knew... ugh I almost don't wanna remember it but I saw it."
(2:34:07 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I...umm...that was what I wanted to talk to you about...the odd thing. Did you get anything odd before we sparred?" Karen looks a bit confused. She doesn't recall saying that.
(2:34:18 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Hmm?"
(2:35:04 PM) Narp: "It was a huge eye, lite on fire and surrounded by more eyes, wheels within wheels, and it had 7 wings and 6 arms, each brandishing a sword. And it spoke to me in a language I didn't understand."
(2:35:15 PM) Narp: "But I could still understand it."
(2:35:28 PM) ***Karen_Realtin feels her jaw drop
(2:35:46 PM) Narp: "And it said to me, 'tool of god, your destiny crumbles before you' and then I ran."
(2:36:17 PM) Karen_Realtin: "That is...wow...I mean...wow..."
(2:36:24 PM) Narp: "And I kept running and then I got swallowed up by the world."
(2:36:47 PM) Narp: "And it fired an arrow at me and it pierced the bird and stabbed into me. The next thing I knew? I was a robot maid."
(2:36:53 PM) Narp: "Although not really, I guess?"
(2:37:02 PM) Karen_Realtin: "It pierced the bird?"
(2:37:31 PM) Narp: "Yea. Went right through her."
(2:38:06 PM) ***Karen_Realtin shivers. "That's...disturbing."
(2:38:22 PM) Narp: "Anyway what were you saying?"
(2:38:36 PM) Narp: "Did I get something odd before we sparred?"
(2:38:39 PM) Narp: "Uh..."
(2:38:46 PM) Narp: "I got that new gym uniform."
(2:38:48 PM) Narp: "I guess."
(2:40:09 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...I guess with the maid stuff, you don't have it any more..." Karen sighs "Even before you god kidnapped...you were acting odd...I mean, really odd."
(2:40:11 PM) Karen_Realtin: *got
(2:40:58 PM) Narp: "What do you mean?"
(2:41:07 PM) Narp: "What was I doing?"
(2:41:57 PM) Karen_Realtin: "You jumped two stories straight up and were moving faster than a human can move...I think that uniform might have done it. Maybe it augmented you? You saved someone from a burning building..."
(2:42:15 PM) Narp: "EH?" she looks at you.
(2:42:23 PM) Narp: "... but that was in my dream!"
(2:42:29 PM) Narp: "... I mean. Before the bird."
(2:42:33 PM) Narp: "And the uh... the thing."
(2:43:24 PM) Karen_Realtin: "That part happened..." She looks about to see if there is a place she can take her that isn't in LOS of anyone else.
(2:43:53 PM) Narp: You can see that her mother is not here.
(2:43:59 PM) Narp: So you should be good.
(2:44:22 PM) Karen_Realtin: "And...I think I know what the bird was."
(2:45:07 PM) Narp: "... Karen what the hell are you talking about?"
(2:46:03 PM) ***Karen_Realtin sighs "...this might take some explaining...but I'm serious. Can we go somewhere private?"
(2:46:36 PM) Narp: "... uh. Sure?" she lets you lead the way.
(2:47:33 PM) ***Karen_Realtin leads somewhere private "Umm...I trust you...but please don't tell anyone." She shifts, her body disolving into flame...and reforming a half second later as her fairy form.
(2:48:07 PM) Narp: "..." Loretta watches.
(2:48:30 PM) Narp: "... oh my god. What?"
(2:48:53 PM) Karen_Realtin: "What...what do I look like to you?" Karen...hadn't actually thought about this before.
(2:49:26 PM) Narp: "You look like Karen. With wings made of fire in a wierd costume."
(2:49:30 PM) Narp: "... what's going on?"
(2:50:13 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Not like a bird?" Karen returns to her normal form and sits. She looks a bit tired. "It's...a bit of a long story. I'll tell you though..."
(2:50:39 PM) Narp: Loretta sits.
(2:50:42 PM) Narp: And listens.
(2:51:01 PM) ***Karen_Realtin starts to recount the story, making it clear that she just wants to help people and DOESN'T want to fight techguard.
(2:51:29 PM) Narp: "... ok. Woa. This is too much..." she says.
(2:51:39 PM) Narp: "I mean. I dunno WHAT you just did there Karen."
(2:51:49 PM) Narp: "But... this is all kinda wierd."
(2:51:58 PM) Karen_Realtin: "It's weird on this end too."
(2:52:57 PM) Karen_Realtin: "It's...also how I ended up a maid. After you got caught...I was trying to find a way to find you and rescue you...and I got nabbed too."
(2:53:36 PM) Narp: "Oh... uh. Thanks for trying to find me? I guess?" you can tell she's kinda nervous.
(2:53:44 PM) Narp: "So... wait."
(2:53:59 PM) Narp: "That other girl? With the wings? The one who was faster than me?"
(2:54:03 PM) Narp: "Was she..."
(2:54:44 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...a friend."
(2:54:58 PM) Narp: "Oh. Alright then..."
(2:55:09 PM) ***Karen_Realtin gives a small smile "You are a lot faster when she's not shifted."
(2:55:44 PM) Narp: "Well I guess? I mean hearing it's all from some... magic... power..."
(2:56:12 PM) ***Karen_Realtin nods "It's...strange...I mean, it doesn't make sense to me either..."
(2:56:19 PM) Narp: "Karen?"
(2:56:24 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Yeah?"
(2:57:11 PM) Narp: "When I went home my mom was super relieved that I was safe," she explains.
(2:57:31 PM) ***Karen_Realtin nods
(2:58:22 PM) Narp: "... I never told you this, but my mom was offered to be a Tech-Guard soon after her uh... accident."
(2:58:33 PM) Narp: "According to the Empress it would've healed her legs."
(2:58:39 PM) Narp: "And let her walk again."
(2:58:49 PM) Karen_Realtin: "But she said no?"
(2:58:55 PM) Narp: She nods.
(2:59:04 PM) Narp: "She wanted to look after me. To raise me."
(2:59:20 PM) ***Karen_Realtin nods "My Mum did...otherwise."
(2:59:32 PM) Narp: "So instead she told the Empress that she'd join when I was old enough."
(2:59:54 PM) Narp: "And all that you've just told me? It's made me... kinda interested."
(3:00:22 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Interested?" Karen was...afraid that Lorretta would freak out and not want anything to do with her.
(3:00:46 PM) Narp: "But I don't know. If what you're saying is true? You're... you're a criminal."
(3:00:50 PM) Narp: "And so are your friends."
(3:01:11 PM) Narp: "I don't think I could be apart of something like that. Especially if my mom was a tech-guard."
(3:01:41 PM) ***Karen_Realtin sighs "...I don't want to be a criminal...I just want to help people..."
(3:02:11 PM) Narp: "I know! I know... I just... I dunno why you told me this."
(3:02:20 PM) Narp: "If you thought telling me would get me to join you?"
(3:02:27 PM) Karen_Realtin: "No."
(3:02:39 PM) Narp: "Then why did you tell me?"
(3:02:57 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I just...you are my friend...and I thought you deserved to know what happened..." She looks at the floor.
(3:03:43 PM) Narp: "Karen. We met like. Two days ago? I dunno if you should be this trusting about everything."
(3:04:56 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Sorry...I just..." She sighs "I thought you deserved to know what happened to you..." She's looking at the floor still.
(3:07:19 PM) Narp: "... *sigh* I'm gonna look the other way now. My mom almost had a heart-attack and I promised her I'd win the Gold Nationals before she'd become a tech-guard. Helping people? Saving them? I'd like to but... not like this. Not now. I can't deal."
(3:07:56 PM) Narp: "Karen. Don't try to talk to me at school again. I'm sorry but you're just dropping way too much on me."
(3:08:26 PM) Narp: "And I don't wanna be associated with this any more than I am. Right now I just wanna move on and put this all behind me."
(3:08:37 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I'm sorry...alright." Karen stands "...good luck with Gold Nationals..."
(3:08:56 PM) Narp: "Yea. Good luck with... whatever it is you're doing..."
(3:09:26 PM) ***Karen_Realtin heads off home, utterly depressed
(3:09:48 PM) Narp: "HELLO DAUGHTER UNIT!", Lilly shouts. She's still a maid.
(3:09:53 PM) Narp: "Hi," Zeta says.
(3:10:06 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...Hi Mum...Hi Zeta..." She start to walk towards her room
(3:11:15 PM) Narp: "I have just finished cleaning and alphabetizing your room, as well as managing all of your computer files in perfect numberical order as well! I must admit, I did not quite understand the values of cleaning and cooking until they were programmed right into me. Your father-unit seems to like them as well as he-"
(3:11:22 PM) Narp: "Sister. What is wrong?"
(3:11:24 PM) Narp: Zeta asks.
(3:12:02 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I...I just..." Karen doesn't even finish, just walking up to her room and falling face first on the bed.
(3:12:14 PM) Narp: "..."
(3:12:18 PM) Narp: Lilly watches you fall.
(3:12:21 PM) Narp: Looks around.
(3:12:38 PM) Narp: "Sister unit Zeta. I program you to speak to your sister unit!"
(3:12:41 PM) Narp: and she walks away.
(2:28:06 PM) ***Karen_Realtin heads over to Lorretta "Heya?" She gives a small wave.
(2:28:39 PM) Narp: "OH! HEY KAREN!" she continues to jump rope.
(2:28:48 PM) Narp: "What'ya here for?"
(2:29:18 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I wanted to talk to you about...well...when we got kidnapped and what happened before."
(2:29:34 PM) Narp: "..." she stops jumping rope.
(2:29:37 PM) Narp: "What do you mean?"
(2:30:07 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I mean...when we were sparring and stuff."
(2:30:29 PM) Narp: "... uhm..." she begins.
(2:30:38 PM) Narp: "Okay? Honestly I don't remember much."
(2:30:59 PM) Narp: "Just that we were sparring and then... I think I got knocked out and had a dream?"
(2:31:26 PM) Karen_Realtin: "You don't? Because...even before you got kidnapped...something odd happened." Karen...looks a bit disapointed "A dream?"
(2:31:35 PM) Narp: "Yea."
(2:31:54 PM) Karen_Realtin: "What was it about?"
(2:31:56 PM) Narp: "I was a tech-guard. And I was saving people. And helping them!"
(2:32:10 PM) Narp: "And then... this... holo-pet? Came down in front of me."
(2:32:25 PM) Narp: "It was big though. And it looked too real to be a holo-pet!"
(2:32:39 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Wings of fire?"
(2:32:45 PM) Narp: "Yea!"
(2:32:52 PM) Narp: "How'd you know?"
(2:33:18 PM) Narp: "Anyway. It was this bird type holo-pet and it told me... 'beware the temptations of the future'."
(2:33:51 PM) Narp: "Next thing I knew... ugh I almost don't wanna remember it but I saw it."
(2:34:07 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I...umm...that was what I wanted to talk to you about...the odd thing. Did you get anything odd before we sparred?" Karen looks a bit confused. She doesn't recall saying that.
(2:34:18 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Hmm?"
(2:35:04 PM) Narp: "It was a huge eye, lite on fire and surrounded by more eyes, wheels within wheels, and it had 7 wings and 6 arms, each brandishing a sword. And it spoke to me in a language I didn't understand."
(2:35:15 PM) Narp: "But I could still understand it."
(2:35:28 PM) ***Karen_Realtin feels her jaw drop
(2:35:46 PM) Narp: "And it said to me, 'tool of god, your destiny crumbles before you' and then I ran."
(2:36:17 PM) Karen_Realtin: "That is...wow...I mean...wow..."
(2:36:24 PM) Narp: "And I kept running and then I got swallowed up by the world."
(2:36:47 PM) Narp: "And it fired an arrow at me and it pierced the bird and stabbed into me. The next thing I knew? I was a robot maid."
(2:36:53 PM) Narp: "Although not really, I guess?"
(2:37:02 PM) Karen_Realtin: "It pierced the bird?"
(2:37:31 PM) Narp: "Yea. Went right through her."
(2:38:06 PM) ***Karen_Realtin shivers. "That's...disturbing."
(2:38:22 PM) Narp: "Anyway what were you saying?"
(2:38:36 PM) Narp: "Did I get something odd before we sparred?"
(2:38:39 PM) Narp: "Uh..."
(2:38:46 PM) Narp: "I got that new gym uniform."
(2:38:48 PM) Narp: "I guess."
(2:40:09 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...I guess with the maid stuff, you don't have it any more..." Karen sighs "Even before you god kidnapped...you were acting odd...I mean, really odd."
(2:40:11 PM) Karen_Realtin: *got
(2:40:58 PM) Narp: "What do you mean?"
(2:41:07 PM) Narp: "What was I doing?"
(2:41:57 PM) Karen_Realtin: "You jumped two stories straight up and were moving faster than a human can move...I think that uniform might have done it. Maybe it augmented you? You saved someone from a burning building..."
(2:42:15 PM) Narp: "EH?" she looks at you.
(2:42:23 PM) Narp: "... but that was in my dream!"
(2:42:29 PM) Narp: "... I mean. Before the bird."
(2:42:33 PM) Narp: "And the uh... the thing."
(2:43:24 PM) Karen_Realtin: "That part happened..." She looks about to see if there is a place she can take her that isn't in LOS of anyone else.
(2:43:53 PM) Narp: You can see that her mother is not here.
(2:43:59 PM) Narp: So you should be good.
(2:44:22 PM) Karen_Realtin: "And...I think I know what the bird was."
(2:45:07 PM) Narp: "... Karen what the hell are you talking about?"
(2:46:03 PM) ***Karen_Realtin sighs "...this might take some explaining...but I'm serious. Can we go somewhere private?"
(2:46:36 PM) Narp: "... uh. Sure?" she lets you lead the way.
(2:47:33 PM) ***Karen_Realtin leads somewhere private "Umm...I trust you...but please don't tell anyone." She shifts, her body disolving into flame...and reforming a half second later as her fairy form.
(2:48:07 PM) Narp: "..." Loretta watches.
(2:48:30 PM) Narp: "... oh my god. What?"
(2:48:53 PM) Karen_Realtin: "What...what do I look like to you?" Karen...hadn't actually thought about this before.
(2:49:26 PM) Narp: "You look like Karen. With wings made of fire in a wierd costume."
(2:49:30 PM) Narp: "... what's going on?"
(2:50:13 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Not like a bird?" Karen returns to her normal form and sits. She looks a bit tired. "It's...a bit of a long story. I'll tell you though..."
(2:50:39 PM) Narp: Loretta sits.
(2:50:42 PM) Narp: And listens.
(2:51:01 PM) ***Karen_Realtin starts to recount the story, making it clear that she just wants to help people and DOESN'T want to fight techguard.
(2:51:29 PM) Narp: "... ok. Woa. This is too much..." she says.
(2:51:39 PM) Narp: "I mean. I dunno WHAT you just did there Karen."
(2:51:49 PM) Narp: "But... this is all kinda wierd."
(2:51:58 PM) Karen_Realtin: "It's weird on this end too."
(2:52:57 PM) Karen_Realtin: "It's...also how I ended up a maid. After you got caught...I was trying to find a way to find you and rescue you...and I got nabbed too."
(2:53:36 PM) Narp: "Oh... uh. Thanks for trying to find me? I guess?" you can tell she's kinda nervous.
(2:53:44 PM) Narp: "So... wait."
(2:53:59 PM) Narp: "That other girl? With the wings? The one who was faster than me?"
(2:54:03 PM) Narp: "Was she..."
(2:54:44 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...a friend."
(2:54:58 PM) Narp: "Oh. Alright then..."
(2:55:09 PM) ***Karen_Realtin gives a small smile "You are a lot faster when she's not shifted."
(2:55:44 PM) Narp: "Well I guess? I mean hearing it's all from some... magic... power..."
(2:56:12 PM) ***Karen_Realtin nods "It's...strange...I mean, it doesn't make sense to me either..."
(2:56:19 PM) Narp: "Karen?"
(2:56:24 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Yeah?"
(2:57:11 PM) Narp: "When I went home my mom was super relieved that I was safe," she explains.
(2:57:31 PM) ***Karen_Realtin nods
(2:58:22 PM) Narp: "... I never told you this, but my mom was offered to be a Tech-Guard soon after her uh... accident."
(2:58:33 PM) Narp: "According to the Empress it would've healed her legs."
(2:58:39 PM) Narp: "And let her walk again."
(2:58:49 PM) Karen_Realtin: "But she said no?"
(2:58:55 PM) Narp: She nods.
(2:59:04 PM) Narp: "She wanted to look after me. To raise me."
(2:59:20 PM) ***Karen_Realtin nods "My Mum did...otherwise."
(2:59:32 PM) Narp: "So instead she told the Empress that she'd join when I was old enough."
(2:59:54 PM) Narp: "And all that you've just told me? It's made me... kinda interested."
(3:00:22 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Interested?" Karen was...afraid that Lorretta would freak out and not want anything to do with her.
(3:00:46 PM) Narp: "But I don't know. If what you're saying is true? You're... you're a criminal."
(3:00:50 PM) Narp: "And so are your friends."
(3:01:11 PM) Narp: "I don't think I could be apart of something like that. Especially if my mom was a tech-guard."
(3:01:41 PM) ***Karen_Realtin sighs "...I don't want to be a criminal...I just want to help people..."
(3:02:11 PM) Narp: "I know! I know... I just... I dunno why you told me this."
(3:02:20 PM) Narp: "If you thought telling me would get me to join you?"
(3:02:27 PM) Karen_Realtin: "No."
(3:02:39 PM) Narp: "Then why did you tell me?"
(3:02:57 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I just...you are my friend...and I thought you deserved to know what happened..." She looks at the floor.
(3:03:43 PM) Narp: "Karen. We met like. Two days ago? I dunno if you should be this trusting about everything."
(3:04:56 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Sorry...I just..." She sighs "I thought you deserved to know what happened to you..." She's looking at the floor still.
(3:07:19 PM) Narp: "... *sigh* I'm gonna look the other way now. My mom almost had a heart-attack and I promised her I'd win the Gold Nationals before she'd become a tech-guard. Helping people? Saving them? I'd like to but... not like this. Not now. I can't deal."
(3:07:56 PM) Narp: "Karen. Don't try to talk to me at school again. I'm sorry but you're just dropping way too much on me."
(3:08:26 PM) Narp: "And I don't wanna be associated with this any more than I am. Right now I just wanna move on and put this all behind me."
(3:08:37 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I'm sorry...alright." Karen stands "...good luck with Gold Nationals..."
(3:08:56 PM) Narp: "Yea. Good luck with... whatever it is you're doing..."
(3:09:26 PM) ***Karen_Realtin heads off home, utterly depressed
(3:09:48 PM) Narp: "HELLO DAUGHTER UNIT!", Lilly shouts. She's still a maid.
(3:09:53 PM) Narp: "Hi," Zeta says.
(3:10:06 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...Hi Mum...Hi Zeta..." She start to walk towards her room
(3:11:15 PM) Narp: "I have just finished cleaning and alphabetizing your room, as well as managing all of your computer files in perfect numberical order as well! I must admit, I did not quite understand the values of cleaning and cooking until they were programmed right into me. Your father-unit seems to like them as well as he-"
(3:11:22 PM) Narp: "Sister. What is wrong?"
(3:11:24 PM) Narp: Zeta asks.
(3:12:02 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I...I just..." Karen doesn't even finish, just walking up to her room and falling face first on the bed.
(3:12:14 PM) Narp: "..."
(3:12:18 PM) Narp: Lilly watches you fall.
(3:12:21 PM) Narp: Looks around.
(3:12:38 PM) Narp: "Sister unit Zeta. I program you to speak to your sister unit!"
(3:12:41 PM) Narp: and she walks away.
(3:12:57 PM) Narp: "... sister?" Zeta walks forward.
(3:13:14 PM) Karen_Realtin: "What?" Karen is crying quietly.
(3:13:37 PM) Narp: "... did something happen to invoke this negative emotional outburst?"
(3:13:57 PM) Karen_Realtin: "I'm an idiot..."
(3:14:11 PM) Narp: "... this unit can confirm such."
(3:14:55 PM) ***Karen_Realtin glowers at her for a moment "I mean...I went to talk to Lorretta..."
(3:15:40 PM) Narp: "According to your mother's datafiles, one of the first instances you were shown as part of your traditional training videos for your martial arts teaching was in fact a humorour youbvid projection of a moment in an mmo when-" she stops as you speak.
(3:15:42 PM) Narp: "... oh."
(3:15:46 PM) Narp: "... and?"
(3:16:23 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...she never wants to talk to me again..."
(3:16:43 PM) Narp: "... and?"
(3:17:52 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...I can't even be angry with her. She's right...I am too dangerous to be around..." She lowers her voice even more "And...I am a criminal..."
(3:18:39 PM) Narp: "... may I remind you. This unit hijacked citizen Kolduni's body for personal use."
(3:18:53 PM) Narp: "This unit is also a criminal."
(3:20:21 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Yeah...but...ever since I was a kid...I've just wanted to be a tech-guard...to help keep people safe and to...be a hero." She cries into her pillow "And...now...I'm a criminal...working against the techgaurd...
(3:20:54 PM) Narp: "... have you not done good?"
(3:21:24 PM) Narp: "Have you murdered innocents, stolen from the needy? Destroyed that wich is celebrated and revered?"
(3:22:17 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...not yet. But I've scared people I want to be friends with...driven people away and...hurt Tech-Guard...dammit...It's probebly only a matter of time..."
(3:22:57 PM) Narp: "... then."
(3:23:03 PM) Narp: "If you are so worried..."
(3:23:10 PM) Narp: "Why do you use your powers?"
(3:24:11 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...because...I'm selfish. I mean...Mum saved me when I got into trouble trying to help...she could have saved the day without me...I just wanted to be the hero...to have people like me...and to help them..."
(3:24:41 PM) Narp: "... your mother is a flawed individual."
(3:24:49 PM) Narp: "This will come to light. I feel."
(3:25:49 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Mum help more than I do...I mean...I've been flying about, trying to help...and setting the city on fire because I'm an idiot...Mum makes things that help thousands..."
(3:26:07 PM) Narp: "... if that is what you feel."
(3:26:16 PM) Narp: "Then I can do little to dissuade you from this."
(3:26:34 PM) Narp: "... but I feel as though events will work themselves out."
(3:26:44 PM) Narp: "However difficult things are for now."
(3:27:04 PM) Narp: "They will be clearer in time."
(3:27:21 PM) ***Karen_Realtin puts her head down into her pillow again "Lorretta hates me forever...and even if she didn't...I can't talk to her without putting her in danger...so even when I do make a friend...I can't have any..."
(3:27:43 PM) Narp: "What of Iris? And Felicia?"
(3:27:49 PM) Narp: "Are they not your friends?"
(3:28:27 PM) Karen_Realtin: "...I dragged Felicia into this...I mean, I pushed her into the pool..."
(3:28:54 PM) Narp: "Perhaps this is just my assumption. But Felicia seems to hold no resentment."
(3:29:07 PM) Narp: "Fact she may be happier with the ability to 'fight back' as it were?"
(3:29:49 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Doesn't mean I didn't drag her into this..." Karen is in a self-loathing spiral
(3:30:13 PM) Narp: "... very well. I will let you stew."
(3:30:19 PM) Narp: "... also."
(3:31:05 PM) Narp: "Unit L-105 has informed me that the Dinner Banquet you have been anticipating is tommorow."
(3:31:14 PM) Narp: "She suggests resting up for it."
(3:31:40 PM) Karen_Realtin: "Oh...I'll...I'll be presentable by then. I don't want to disapoint Mum..."
(3:31:58 PM) Narp: "Very well," she nods...
(3:32:10 PM) Narp: AND WE'LL END IT THERE