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Who: Perrin Aybara and anyone~
Where: Plaza
When: Evening
Style: Whichever!
Status: Open

Perrin woke with a sense of pain and loss. Some of that pain was physical, with the wounds he'd sustained in the wolf dream, but that was nearly drowned out by the deep sadness he felt. Hopper... He wanted to howl, but at the same time he felt too drained. He just wanted to lie there in his tent and...

He was not in his tent. The realization cut through his sorrow, and he struggled to gather his wits. He was lying on some city street paved in cobblestones. None of its sounds or smells were familiar, and in fact Perrin himself smelled of seawater. It did not feel like a dream, but he tried again to wake himself just the same. Nothing happened.

He nearly lay back and shut his eyes, wanting nothing more than to rest and to mourn, but in an unknown place, neither of those options were safe. There had been some trap waiting to spring on him, and if one of the Forsaken was responsible for this... Well, he did not know why nothing had come to finish him off, but he had no intention of waiting for it. With a groan, Perrin struggled to pick himself up and find some answers.

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[Perrin's face shows no comprehension. Of course he knows the word 'communicator,' but he doesn't know how one can be on him or shaped like a starfish, whatever that is. List, he understands.]

How could she be added so quickly?

Well, you're probably on the list already. I think it's updated as soon as someone shows up.

[She sticks her hand into her pocket to feel for the SFC, before remembering it's...not actually a SFC right now. She pulls out the dreamberry to show him.]

Normally it looks like a starfish, but there's a curse going on and it changed what they look like.

[Perrin has, quite obviously, never seen anything like it before. Knowing its general size and shape now, though, he searches himself for one and pulls it out to inspect it. He's never seen the Power make anything like this, but all its components are so minute and seamless that he doesn't know how else it could be made. But more importantly...]

How do I access this list?

You press some buttons, like this.

[And she proceeds to press the right buttons on her own. The buttons definitely changed, but it's not all that different. She shows him the screen of hers.]

And then the list shows up! It'll be a bit different once they change back into being starfish communicators, but it's still basically the same. If you check it every month, you'll know if anyone else has shown up from your world.

[Perrin cautiously mimics her, half-expecting the object in his hands to do something he wouldn't want. But, the list appears just the same. He studies it for several long moments.]

I don't see her.

[He feels both relieved and disappointed. Faile is where she belongs, and if this girl is right then she will never know he's been gone. But the selfish part of him wants her at his side-- the comforting scent and the sound of her voice that he'd expected to wake to.]

[So he's probably alone here...]

I'm sorry, but that means she's still in your world! You never know who's going to show up really, so she might eventually.

I was the first of my friends to show up here, but now only a couple of my friends are still at home. This might not be the best place to be, but at least your friends can show up sometime.

[And people who aren't your friends but...]

[Perrin shakes his head.]

None of them has any reason to come here. Our duties are to our own world.

[Giving the list one last look over, he tucks the device back where he found it.]

[She sighs.]

No one has any reason to come here. Almost everyone was pulled away from doing something in their world. Only those who are dead weren't, really.

[Is there anything else...? Oh right!]

Curses happen for a week at a time but don't have a pattern to when they are anymore.

The dead...?

[Perrin doesn't know how she can say that so easily. He even hopes that he somehow managed to mishear her.]

[She nods.]

A lot of people have mistaken this place for their afterlife. Death isn't permanent here anyway so it makes sense that dead people can show up. I'm not sure how many people here will go back to being dead when they go home.

[Certainly dead wolves roam the wolf dream, but they're only there in spirit. Perrin is sure he is here in body. He frowns and shakes his head.]

Doesn't that unnerve you?

[She blinks.]

Should it unnerve me? Worse things happened in my world than people showing up here after they died.

[People talking to them from inside a crystal for example.]

There may be worse things. That doesn't make it any less unnatural.

[She shrugs.]

If they're still how they were before they died, I don't find anything really wrong with it. I've talked to people who had only been still alive because of a stone and we had to destroy that stone before they changed because their body was gone. I prefer people showing up from after they died the same as they were before they died to seeing that again.

[She herself is unnatural too so it really doesn't matter much to her.]

[Perrin only shakes his head. She has no issue with it, and he does, and that's really the end of it. There's no reason to argue it when she isn't the cause.]

If you find a house or a room in an apartment that no one's living in, you can just move in. You should probably start looking; it's kind of late.

[She looks up at the roof of the bubble. It certainly is interesting to look at. Should she be bothered by the fact people can show up from after they've died? She doesn't know.]

[She's suggesting he squat somewhere? Well, he is starting to feel he could use a rest. Maybe the coral's healing took something out of him after all.

He bows his head slightly. She may have said some unnerving things, but she's been helpful.]

Thank you for the help.

I'm happy I could help!

[She smiles.]

I hope you'll make some friends while you're here.

[And with that she heads off to her own apartment.]