[For what it’s worth, Gavial’s fine with making herself a target. Girl doesn’t know the meaning of ‘keeping a low profile,’ but she’ll try her best not to make too much trouble for the boys.
She hadn’t realized Byleth had run into trouble down there, as their recent conversation had been brief and down to business. Yuri taking the extra time to check in on her makes a lot of sense in that case.]
Yeah, I’m fine. Got out of that nonsense well enough. Ha, had a worse time back in Yima’s basement just before that whole mess went down, really.
[If she sounds a little mad about that last part, it’s because she is!]
[ Byleth certainly did. All the time he needed to recover had led to them talking about his little investigation to begin with, even. Thank the goddess (even if Byleth doesn't understand why Yuru would think such things) he's mended with time. ]
Yima's basement, huh? Sounds like there's a story behind that.
[ Perhaps to his credit, Yuri doesn't directly ask. However his curiosity is obvious. It sounds like Gavial had gone on some sort of aventure and the fact that she isn't too happy about how it went suggests all manner of things.
At least he knows that Gavial got through it, whatever it was. ]
[There’s the mental impression of a sigh. She won’t exactly turn down the chance to bitch about it a little bit, especially with his curiosity this evident.]
An embarrassing one, I guess. Me and a couple others got roped into some monster-hunting duty down there. Place was a real pain in the ass to get through.
[She’d gone in there expecting a fight! Physical obstacles! But not only did the place itself deny the latter, the damn monster didn’t even give her a chance for a fight either. Well, technically it did give her one—just… not the one she wanted.]
Monster-hunting...in her basement? That's one hell of a task to be issued.
[ Who would have thought that Yima housed monsters in her basement to begin with? Not that Yuri had really contemplated basements in general, but it strikes him as odd all the same. ]
What made it so difficult?
[ Tough as Gavial is, this part is difficult to imagine. ]
[Maybe it makes more sense when the basement is really catacombs… but then, who has spooky catacombs beneath their house? Someone with a big-ass fancy manor, that’s who.]
I’m convinced the place was haunted. Played mind games with us, so it took longer than it should have for us to find the dang monster.
[Should she be talking about the spooky secrets beneath Yima’s house with someone from Meridian? Well, it doesn’t matter to her—and Yuri is her bud.]
And to top it off, when we finally found the thing, it got in my head and made me fight the others! I didn’t even get to fight it!!
[She might be more upset about that than any other aspect of this, judging by her tone. #Priorities]
So the thing was manipulative and a tease? That'd be pretty damned frustrating.
[ Getting the run-around, being pitted against friends, and not being allowed to get even is one hell of a combination. Gavial has his sincere sympathy there. He'd be put out too, especially the being used against allies bit.
Small wonder it's a vexing memory for her. ]
Hell of a thing to have under her estate... Did it escape or something?
[See, he gets it. At least it turned into a successful mission, even if it wasn’t the best outcome for her.]
Nah, not sure how it got down there in the first place. Place is like a maze. [Not unlike a certain Oracle arena, hmm,] But the others managed to take it out, after they took me out. We passed the Shard over to Yima once I was back on my feet.
[Such a casual way to mention she’d died… but as she sits there having this mental chat, she does reach up to trace her fingers along the new scar across her neck without thinking.]
Yuri isn't able to suppress the moment of concern that flits through their Communion, even though good sense tells him it's in the past. He doubts he'll ever quite adjust to others dying, temporary though it may be.
Though the feeling can't be helped, he does avoid making a useless comment. ]
[It’s hard to miss that concern, and Gavial can’t help the knee-jerk reaction to brush it off. She’s here, she’s back up and running, it’s all fine in the end. But knowing that death would be coming for her—in a more permanent way—much sooner than most others thanks to her Oripathy means that even before experiencing the ephemeral form it comes in for Shard-bearers here, she’d learned to accept death for the inevitable fact that it is.
Not everyone is so resigned to it, though. So she backtracks a little with a very brief sense of gratefulness for the concern, as necessary or unnecessary as either of them might see it. Better to leave it all unspoken, and focus on the rest.]
…Yeah. Yima mentioned they reminded her of someone she once knew. Wouldn’t be surprised at this point if it really had been.
Considering we got a good, long look at what too much Discord can do to us, I'd have to agree.
[ Who knows what else can happen to them? For that matter, they can't be sure that being experimented on is an unusual or unique event. It could well be that the leadership had even sanctioned such things in past generations — since somehow there are generations at the end.
How that is, he couldn't rightly say. Probably some nonsense about time. ]
Can't say they seem terribly concerned with our wellbeing in general.
Think they’re concerned in their own kinda way, at the very least.
[Whether that be the self-serving sort of concern in the interest of their own goals or… well, maybe something genuine. Gavial recalls the way Yima had laid her hand on her cheek when she and the others had met with her after their mission. How it had left her with a distinct feeling of assuredness…
She dismisses the thought.]
Either way, the more we know about things, the better we’ll be able to puzzle things out. Hopefully this little trip of ours will get us at least a few answers.
That's the hope. We've had too few answers when it comes to this place.
[ And regardless of what those in power think about how much they need to know, they shouldn't be kept in the dark like this. What they're expected to sacrifice warrants more than that.
Ultimately, they'll have to get that information on their own. ]
Once my contact gets back to me, we can get underway. Hopefully, we'll get something we can use out of the endeavor.
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She hadn’t realized Byleth had run into trouble down there, as their recent conversation had been brief and down to business. Yuri taking the extra time to check in on her makes a lot of sense in that case.]
Yeah, I’m fine. Got out of that nonsense well enough. Ha, had a worse time back in Yima’s basement just before that whole mess went down, really.
[If she sounds a little mad about that last part, it’s because she is!]
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Yima's basement, huh? Sounds like there's a story behind that.
[ Perhaps to his credit, Yuri doesn't directly ask. However his curiosity is obvious. It sounds like Gavial had gone on some sort of aventure and the fact that she isn't too happy about how it went suggests all manner of things.
At least he knows that Gavial got through it, whatever it was. ]
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An embarrassing one, I guess. Me and a couple others got roped into some monster-hunting duty down there. Place was a real pain in the ass to get through.
[She’d gone in there expecting a fight! Physical obstacles! But not only did the place itself deny the latter, the damn monster didn’t even give her a chance for a fight either. Well, technically it did give her one—just… not the one she wanted.]
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[ Who would have thought that Yima housed monsters in her basement to begin with? Not that Yuri had really contemplated basements in general, but it strikes him as odd all the same. ]
What made it so difficult?
[ Tough as Gavial is, this part is difficult to imagine. ]
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I’m convinced the place was haunted. Played mind games with us, so it took longer than it should have for us to find the dang monster.
[Should she be talking about the spooky secrets beneath Yima’s house with someone from Meridian? Well, it doesn’t matter to her—and Yuri is her bud.]
And to top it off, when we finally found the thing, it got in my head and made me fight the others! I didn’t even get to fight it!!
[She might be more upset about that than any other aspect of this, judging by her tone. #Priorities]
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[ Getting the run-around, being pitted against friends, and not being allowed to get even is one hell of a combination. Gavial has his sincere sympathy there. He'd be put out too, especially the being used against allies bit.
Small wonder it's a vexing memory for her. ]
Hell of a thing to have under her estate... Did it escape or something?
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[See, he gets it. At least it turned into a successful mission, even if it wasn’t the best outcome for her.]
Nah, not sure how it got down there in the first place. Place is like a maze. [Not unlike a certain Oracle arena, hmm,] But the others managed to take it out, after they took me out. We passed the Shard over to Yima once I was back on my feet.
[Such a casual way to mention she’d died… but as she sits there having this mental chat, she does reach up to trace her fingers along the new scar across her neck without thinking.]
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Yuri isn't able to suppress the moment of concern that flits through their Communion, even though good sense tells him it's in the past. He doubts he'll ever quite adjust to others dying, temporary though it may be.
Though the feeling can't be helped, he does avoid making a useless comment. ]
...So this monster had its own shard?
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Not everyone is so resigned to it, though. So she backtracks a little with a very brief sense of gratefulness for the concern, as necessary or unnecessary as either of them might see it. Better to leave it all unspoken, and focus on the rest.]
…Yeah. Yima mentioned they reminded her of someone she once knew. Wouldn’t be surprised at this point if it really had been.
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[ Who knows what else can happen to them? For that matter, they can't be sure that being experimented on is an unusual or unique event. It could well be that the leadership had even sanctioned such things in past generations — since somehow there are generations at the end.
How that is, he couldn't rightly say. Probably some nonsense about time. ]
Can't say they seem terribly concerned with our wellbeing in general.
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[Whether that be the self-serving sort of concern in the interest of their own goals or… well, maybe something genuine. Gavial recalls the way Yima had laid her hand on her cheek when she and the others had met with her after their mission. How it had left her with a distinct feeling of assuredness…
She dismisses the thought.]
Either way, the more we know about things, the better we’ll be able to puzzle things out. Hopefully this little trip of ours will get us at least a few answers.
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[ And regardless of what those in power think about how much they need to know, they shouldn't be kept in the dark like this. What they're expected to sacrifice warrants more than that.
Ultimately, they'll have to get that information on their own. ]
Once my contact gets back to me, we can get underway. Hopefully, we'll get something we can use out of the endeavor.
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Sounds good. I’ll make sure I’m ready for a little field trip, then.
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[ Surely, they can wring some intel out of this. ]
Thanks in advance for coming with us, Gavial.
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[Says Gavial, the trouble-magnet.]
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[ He does't know yet how much trouble Gavial finds. ]
Remind me sometime to tell you about our run-in with a spider, back when we were all tiny.