audience: izutsumi

[mygod]

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[mygod]

Or, consider: you could start a rumor about me to deter visitors.

[ why are they entrusting cat with this ]

[nyas]

[ ears perk up. wait, she is Listening ]

A rumor? ...Yeah, I could do that, it'd have to be a convincing one though.

[mygod]

Sure, whatever. I don't care what you say, as long as it gets people to bother me less.

[ words said moments before disaster ]

[nyas]

I know exactly how to keep people away, it works for me.

[ disaster will be coming and it opens up many possibilities. though... ]

Hey. What was your life like before coming here? Were you hounded by people then too?

[mygod]

Yes. Constantly, even more lately. There's always someone who needs something.

[ complains... it's not unlike here though ]

[nyas]

You could always just tell them no, it's easy.

[ says izutsumi, who demanded a bunch of blankets from famine. ]

Or dump them onto someone else. I'm sure the weird one [ who ] wouldn't mind taking people.

[mygod]

I would if I could, but they're helpless.

[ truly this cat loafs on them all the time and they don't even bother to stop it ]

Who do you call the weird one?

[nyas]

So you feel obligated to help them?

[ tbf she would continue to try even if they did bother... ]

The long named one. Pest-something.

[mygod]

At home, they were my responsibility. To give them a fair chance at survival. Here it is the same.

[ they can't ignore their crows even though sometimes they try. you all are so needy ]

But that's true. Pesto's the friendliest. You should make a rumor about them too that'll make people want to talk to them.

[nyas]

Your responsibility? Like some Lord? Governor?

[ so so needy ]

..Oh! I could do that - I just got the perfect thing to spread.

[mygod]

Something like that.

[ ewwww public representative with responsibility ]

Do you? Alright. I'll wait to see if it'll reach my ears.

[nyas]

Too much responsibility. Being someone's retainer was annoying enough.

[ ewww ]

Spreading it to the right people should make it spread fast.

[mygod]

I could never be someone's retainer. I hate taking orders.

[ sounds like both of them just hate work ]

If you say so.

[nyas]

I do too! And I didn't even get paid for it!

[ so it was extra bad. and YEAH SHE SURE DOES why do work when you can have other people do the work for you... ]

[mygod]

What? You don't get paid? Isn't that just indentured servitude?

[nyas]

Considering they bought me from someone else.

[ haha.... yeah ]

[mygod]

Can't escape? Revolt?

[nyas]

Oh yeah, I escaped that family for a while now with my smart thinking. [ sooo smart ] Was with a different group before all of this to try and find a way to get rid of my curse.

[mygod]

Huh.

[ a little dubious but it's fine ]

And what is your curse?

[nyas]

It's the curse that makes me this way. Not like I was born like this, I'm a Tall-man -- Which I guess some of the people here call that human?

[ human is such a weird word to her. just idly picks at their robe from where she is still loafing, scowling. ]

Some mage used forbidden dark arts to merge my soul with a beast's soul.

[mygod]

Oh.

[ huh ]

I thought you were just like this.

[ obviously,, ]

[nyas]

You and everyone else.

[ OBVIOUSLY,, ]

Been this way since I was little but. [ y'know ]

[mygod]

You do not wish to be that way anymore.

[ just making an assumption here, ]

[nyas]

Of course not. [ grumbling. ]

It's why I want to find a way to break it. [ ... ] But if I can't, then I guess breaking the mage that did it is the next best thing.

[mygod]

[ brings a hand up to their chin in thought ]

And you do not seek to find your partner and get your wish granted?