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[oldest7yearold]

[Well, suffice to say that Luke has been bored. He'd been stuck in the house, explored the city, and... well yeah he'd helped the search for that kid, Sora, the one who'd been kidnapped, but... he still couldn't shake restless feelings of purposelessness he was experiencing. He had nothing to really do here, he had stuff to do back home... And he

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[demonicbookworm]

...A sword practice?

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[oldest7yearold]

Well... yeah. Just practice though. For fun.

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[demonicbookworm]

For fun...? [...] You really like to fight...?

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[oldest7yearold]

Well...

It's not like I like killing or hurting people or anything. [because he doesn't] But... back when I was stuck at the manor, sword training was the only fun thing they really let me do, so...

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[demonicbookworm]

I don't really see what's so fun in sword training... or any kind of training actually... But I guess, it's just because I'm more of... a bookworm.

Will... you mind if I ask why were you stuck at the manor?

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[oldest7yearold]

[Touchy subject ahoy. It doesn't even occur to Luke that he could just decline to answer Ruca's question. Rgh. He needed to be a little more careful with what he said, otherwise people would ask questions like this...

After a while, he sighs, looking away] When I was ten, they told me I was kidnapped by the Malkuth Empire. I was found at my family's abandoned vacation home, with all my memories gone. I... didn't know how to do anything. Ever since then, I had to stay in the manor at Baticul for my own protection.

[Not quite lying, not quite the truth either. Ugh.. this is uncomfortable. It's not like he's quite as ashamed of being a replica anymore, but it's still not the kind of thing he feels like shouting about either - he remembers full well how the people in Baticul reacted to all those replicas. Not to mention there were likely a lot of other reasons besides "his protection" that he was locked up in the manor... but none of those reasons were things he really wanted to contemplate...]

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[demonicbookworm]

[Ruca is silent for a moment, then looks apologetically.]

I'm sorry... I shouldn't have asked.

[It's obvious, that Luke didn't want to talk about it... but then why didn't he refused to answer?

In any case, Ruca feels like this is all his fault. And that's why he apologises one more time after a while:] I'm sorry.

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[oldest7yearold]

[Luke shakes his head looking up and smiling sheepishly] Don't worry about it. [No really, don't.

And also, so Jade or Guy or Peony or anybody else don't get in trouble should they ever get stuck here-]

It... wasn't all that simple, but... it's a long story...

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[demonicbookworm]

I understand. [And he's not going to ask any more questions.

...Especially that he just realized something...]

I'm really sorry! I haven't introduced myself yet! [Where are his manners!] My name is Ruca Milda.

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[oldest7yearold]

[Aside from not knowing your name, Luke didn't notice. |D No worries] Oh, I'm Luke fon Fabre. [beat] And... thanks for helping me out. When I first got here.

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[demonicbookworm]

[He smiles a bit sheepishly.]

Ah, n-no, don't mention it. I didn't do anything to be thanked for...

[video] Sorry for the late ^^;

[oldest7yearold]

[Luke isn't the greatest at accepting thanks himself, so he's not going to push it.]

So, uh... what kinds of books do you like to read anyway?

[It's not so much that Luke hates books, as the fact that there weren't many entertaining books suitable for one learning to read at the apparent age of 13 or so in the Fabre household. He'd never really had the best of chance to get that interested.]

[video] Don't worry about that :)

[demonicbookworm]

Well... anything that's interesting enough to read. [And since it's Ruca, a lot of books fall into that category.] But, lately I've been reading a lot of medical books.