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Verina tilted her head. "Maybe you walked through a gateway and didn't notice. Or maybe you've been in a sonoro sphere for a long time!" Where to even start with Tacet Discords? She frowned. "They're like monsters. They terrorize people, and there are a lot of different kinds of them."

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That's what people say when they wear a watch.

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Total blank face. "Your librarian gives you trials?"

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Oh. They remind me that I can eat food and that, like I take care of them, I also need to take care of myself.

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|| holiday hell is over so I will be around more!

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Verina was moved. She smiled at Coco warmly. "I'd do anything I could if it meant I would be able to save my mother. If I can't save her, then, maybe I can help you save yours!"

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"Yes..." the question made her wonder. "Have you not heard of them before? I thought everyone knew what a Tacet Discord was..." she trailed off, waiting for his answer.

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|| watch me make danjin instead and then just make up the most absurd backstory /j

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I can tell you what I know! But it might take a while... Do you have time?

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"That's awful!" She emphaised with Coco. Her own mother had passed, and she realized that someone turned to stone was somehow worse. "That's almost worst than her dying. You're faced with the tantalizing possibility of her return, or the chance that she'll be a stone for forever... I'm sorry."

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I smell some delicious cookies!

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The word 'magic' still seemed a bit strange to her, like the magic from the old stories, before the Lament. Her brows furrowed briefly. "Someone to save? How so?"

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She answered his question with an eager nod. "I do! I work in gardens all around Jinzhou... Tacet Discords have made me expand how far I go lately. They've been becoming more aggressive lately." Her lips pursed and she tucked away the disposable baggy her sandwich had been in. "I don't know why."

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Introductions! One thing she managed to be so consistently bad at. "Verina! And your name?" The lunch she withdrew from the pack, then opened and eagerly grabbed the sandwich and began to eat.

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The comparison made her laugh. "It's an unexpected stew! Why did you want to learn magic?"

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That's okay. We can make connections with other people... I put all my energy into my plants and they help me keep focused and stay alive.

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It would be! it would be so dark!

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She mimicked his pose and thought about his comment. "I think I would make a bad trader," she countered, "cuz I'm too busy! I'm always in the garden." And in the backpack's side pocket sat her untouched lunch in a sealed bag. She smelled the tea and her stomach lurched, reminding her of her missed

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That's weird. I know about Fortes and Resonance energy and Frequencies because of the Lament, but I haven't heard of this stuff. Or doing that stuff with it. Does the word Fractsidus mean anything to you?

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"We don't either!" she exclaimed. "I've only met them in one place, and it's not like this place." Wherever this place is.

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