AUDIENCE: TAAKO

[retellers]

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[retellers]

[ they rub at their forehead :T ]

Hey! [ :T :T ] Why are you asking?

[uhhhmagic]

I don’t know. Maybe because I want to be the one that calls their friends into a surprise meeting and has important information to drop for once?

[so its a Hurt Feeling thing,]

[retellers]

[ they... pout ]

I'm sorry. I don't know a lot, either. Do you know how embarrassing it is to hear about the "nova splintering" thing from other people? I can't even tell if it's true or not.

[uhhhmagic]

Hell if I know. I first heard it at trial, and then people are now like, that’s a thing! Is it? Is it a thing?

[Also pouting. Pout party.]

Does—- does something really happen to you, if we spread our team?

[retellers]

I don't know! If it's a thing, why don't I know that!

[ the poutiest of all parties... but they stop pouting when taako asks ]

Oh. Outside of your own team, yeah. It counts as breaking the rules, and the more you guys do it, the more unstable the Realm gets. Right now, I'm helping with trying to stabilize it, but my team isn't terrible so I'm better off than some of the others.

[ is someone smug about not facing horrible consequences? yes ]

[uhhhmagic]

I guess I told two people, but one was accidentally the right team, so, that worked out for me.

[Bad.]

[retellers]

Just one or two outside your own team is usually fine. Well, not this week, obviously, but it's people who have been really pushing it that were the problem.

[uhhhmagic]

Is there like, some shit I can do? So you learn shit?

[retellers]

Well, we got so much nova last week I got a memory back about myself? So I think it might have to do with nova collecting.

[uhhhmagic]

Oh, yeah. I got one too, but it’s just about some dickhead I have to kill when I get home.

Um, what’d you get?

[retellers]

Oh, well. Nothing big. [ they brush off their shoulders before grinning slyly at taako ] It just turns out I'm a queen? No biggie.

[uhhhmagic]

Of what? I think that determines how impressed I am.

[SO WITHHOLDING.]

[retellers]

[ they deflate a little? be impressed? of their singular memory??? :( ]

Of... a kingdom. Obviously. [ they seem to be trying to figure out how to impress taako before they add: ] I was leading a rebellion, too.

[uhhhmagic]

[lmao

cute.]

Oh, a rebellion? How can you lead a rebellion and be royalty?

[retellers]

By fighting against a bigger, more oppressive regime?

[ they don't quite have that memory but also now they just think taako doesn't care so they are just :c ]

Okay, so I guess it's a lot more interesting to know when it's your only memory.

[uhhhmagic]

I’m only teasing, you don’t have to look that sad.

[SWAN.]

It’s cool, I mean.

[retellers]

[ sometimes you're insecure don't @ them ]

You think so?

[uhhhmagic]

Yeah? I mean, who the fuck wouldn’t want to be a Queen leading a Rebellion? Pretty sure everyone has that childhood dream.

You remember anything else? Like, what the country is like?

[retellers]

[ beams, relieved ]

It's pretty. There were these crystals everywhere, and the palace, and... Okay, so at one point there was a giant monster, but I don't think those are common.

[uhhhmagic]

I dunno, you ask my experience with giant monsters, they’re more common than you’d think.

[narf]

So that’s two things you remember. Being a queen, and, uh, the Blink spell.

[retellers]

Oh, I can do other spells, too, but I haven't needed to use that as much. Teleporting is a lot more useful.

[uhhhmagic]

Generally true. At least with a good teleport you can escape a hug at a moment’s notice, or hop the line at Fantasy Starbucks. Though I’m always a fan of a good Magic Missile for general problem solving.

[retellers]

What, you don't like hugs?

[ HOW IS THAT THE IMPORTANT PART but no they sound a little teasing. they may have noticed. ]

[uhhhmagic]

Everyone here is so . . . touchy-feely.

[Shuddering. Like it’s a horror movie.]

[retellers]

[ they nod, solemn, like they are not also touchy-feely ]

Right. So was shock week better for you? [ swan is right back to teasing ]