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Who: Alastair Stara and YOU
What: Sitting on the roof and being introspective! HOW EXCITING.
When: Day 189
Where: On a roof somewhere in the Sigyn district.
Rating: Oh, G probably. I'll make a note if it gets scandalous somehow.

[Alastair is not terribly accustomed to heights. He's climbed trees before, but the idea of running across rooftops as a way to travel quickly and easily completely escapes him. But he was told that this is what he must learn, so he might as well get used to it.

Alastair has made his way up to the roof of a building in the Sigyn district. He didn't climb up there, he's not that good yet. No, instead he found a building with roof access and did the sensible thing and climbed the stairs.

So now here he is, sitting on the edge of the roof and looking around the city.

This really doesn't seem like a safe thing to do.

Who came up with this idea anyway?

He sighs.]

What am I even doing?

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A giant...

[what]

...really?

Mhmm! My homeland consists of mushroom forests. Instead of building homes we just hollow out giant mushrooms.

[That... is a little mind-blowing.]

Huh.

[He's trying to imagine it. Not really succeeding.]

[That's a reaction she's gotten used to in her time here.]

Let me guess - you don't have that kind of thing in your world.

No, we don't.

Are they common here? Is that how you were able to find one?

They aren't. We had to grow it with the magic the gods provided.

"We?" Does someone else live with you?

[It's not an interrogation, really it isn't. Alastair is just curious.]

There's - there was four of us. It was Rapunzel's idea, and she used her drawing power to make the mushroom real. Kaz and Vanitas moved in later.

[And given all that's happened this is a bit of a sensitive subject, so she shifts awkwardly, not looking at him.]

Vanitas... went home. And Rapunzel disappeared. Kaz isn't really... staying there right now. [Because he's in jail.]

[Oh.

He watches Euri carefully, feeling bad for asking the question. He reaches a hand out, hesitates, then rests it gently on Euri's shoulder.]

I'm sorry.

.... [She glances over, smiling faintly at him.]

It's fine. I'm not completely alone - I have Dog and Goat.

[Still, though. He's never really been completely alone. He's always had Danaya close by. They've slept in the same wagon for years. He had trouble sleeping the first couple of weeks because he was just so used to sleeping with someone else close by.

So he knows how it feels to be suddenly deprived of people like that.

But he nods.]

That's good.

[... She's scooting a little closer to him.]

Hey, what's your world like?

[He blinks. He wasn't really expecting that question.]

Um. Well. I don't know, what would you like to know?

Hmmm.... Let's start with your home. I told you a little bit about Fuggum's mushrooms, what's your home look like?

It's a wagon, actually.

[He thinks for a brief moment of the city of his birth, and the palace that he remembers in flames.

But he doesn't talk about that.]

My sister and I are part of a Traders' Caravan. We travel from village to village.

- Really?? [Ooh, that's got her attention. She's such a fan of traveling that she's leaning in now, looking intrigued.]

So you got to travel all over, huh?

A little, yes. Not everywhere.

[And it wasn't nearly as exciting as she seems to think it was.]

Then where did you get to travel? [His answer certainly isn't deterring her.]

Mostly just around one land.

[He doesn't know if she knows his last name, he can't remember, but he's not going to mention that he shares his last name with the country itself. It doesn't matter anymore. He's not a prince. Not anymore.]

The villages were pretty small.

[And generally desolated by the Imbalance. It wasn't fun.]

[She's completely clueless as she bumps her shoulder against his.]

Human villages, right? What were those like?

[He scratches his head.]

I don't know how they're different from... your villages. They're just houses and shops and people living together and helping each other, usually.

[Or at least that's how it should be, but things have gone a little crazy since the Imbalance.]

Do you have guilds? What about bars? Lots of those? What about hunting? - Ooh, and mountains! Did you visit any villages in the mountains??

A few of them have bars. It depends on the size of the town. [And how much it has been affected by the Imbalance.] Not many guilds. [Not anymore, anyway.] Hunting isn't terribly common in the larger villages, there's a lot of domesticated animals instead.

There aren't a lot of mountains, those are more in the north, close to the border. We don't generally go that far north.

Why not? Is it dangerous? [Are there monsters oh man that would be so exciting!!]

[No monsters aside from wild animals, unless you count Karonis troops as monsters.]

A little. We're not really welcome across the border.

[Not anymore, anyway.]