[ Backdated to the 14th, Action, Video ] .001
[After waking up in an unfamiliar place and receiving an unorthodox welcome and exhilarating ride over the mountains and to the edge of the forest, Gracia Hughes is a woman on a mission. Prerogative One: Make sure Elicia's not here. Prerogative Two: Find out where exactly here is. From there... get home. But first, one step at a time
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-and what kind of messed-up guy goes straight to that, every time? What kind of messed-up world do they come from, where it's perfectly reasonable to be suspicious?
And damn if he isn't almost equally terrified that it could really be his wife. So many ways to lose.
Really only one way to get things going, Maes, you great coward. He does his best not to sound- well, not to sound like he's not sure this is actually happening. ]
... Gracia?
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She'd know that voice anywhere. It still haunts her dreams.
Maes.
That's not - possible.
Her instinctive response is to slam the book shut.]
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This puts the wings she's received in a whole different light.
Does that mean... Elicia...
No.
Several heartbeats later, Gracia takes a few shuddering breaths and - opens the book.]
...hello?
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Hello. [ All things considered, he should have expected a reaction like that. He manages to scrape up a short-lived weak smile for it before speaking again.
It feels like it's been forever since he got to hear that voice. But this isn't the time for getting emotional- he has to be sure before anybody rushes out to meet anybody. So he's switching to a filtered conversation, because when it comes to things only certain people know about, sometimes it's safer to keep it that way. ]
Mind if I ask you about something? [ Not that an answer to the negative would likely deter him, to be perfectly honest. He wants to get this over with, so that if it is her- if it is her... ]
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They said she'd come back-people'll've said she'd get to see her again soon...! And here she was! She really was here, right? It can't be a silly mistake like when the fog rolled in; she knows is just has to be true-]
Mama!!
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Well, you're safe. You're not hurting. And if they're all dead, then at least they're all together.
...you look bigger. She leans forward, trying to catch a better look.]
Elicia?
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[Guh, fine, she's getting the waterworks going, because she's just so happy.]
Are you out in the forest? We can come get you! Where are you?
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I'm fine, honey - I met a nice [man? thing?] person who brought me close to the town. Are you okay? Who's with you?
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Miss Gracia...!
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So she is going to put her brave face on, because things are still very weird and dizziness-inducing.
And it is a bit of a relief to know that he's here - wherever here is.]
Hello, Ed.
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[Yep, can't decide whether it's good or bad, but it's not really his place to comment on it anyway. But the family is back together again, and there's nothing better than that.
It's good that she's already gotten an explanation of this place, too, so that means he can avoid all that awkward explaining-business. And Hughes and Elicia will want to see her first.
...Now doesn't he feel useful 8|; Hmm, hmm.]
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Mm, I think so. Elicia and - and -
[Okay, no. She's not okay. And she sways a little on her feet.
Pull yourself together.]
- they're coming to get me.
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Told you, you were gonna need it. [The journal he means.]
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Yes, you did. You were right.
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