2 Crystals [Video]

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[Private Video to Ellie//Moderate Encryption]

[Garnet is clearly trying to maintain her calm, but she has the excitement vibe that is clear of any person who really wants to talk about a new geeky thing.]

I finished Hamlet.

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[As for the rest, will get a video of a young woman in what appears to be her room....a room that has a fair amount of books in it now]

Hello. My name is Dagger and I was wondering if anyone could give me any recommendations of books or plays to read. Even with my duties of training and the cafe, I keep finding myself with a lot of time on my hands. So I'd really like to know new stories to read.

My favorite genre is plays and dramas, such as Lord Avon's work- or William Shakespeare, who seems to be an Earth playwright with a similar style. Though I'd be open to other genres as well.

Thanks!

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[reconnaissance]

( It's taking her a little while to digest this. )

Why do you call yourself Dagger?

( Hang on, she's rubbing her forehead, trying to fathom this. ) What, um. What as the war over?

( Christ. What. )

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[She'll lower her hands, trying to figure out how to address it. The first question first]

I'm not sure, gaining more power is the only reason I can see- but for what purpose I don't know. There's a weapons dealer influencing and corrupting her, but that doesn't explain all of her actions or excuse any of it.

As for my name...before the war started I noticed how suspicious my mother was acting and I feared she was planning to do something terrible. No one in the castle would listen to me, so I left the castle to try to stop it myself. Dagger is the name I use when I'm traveling, it'd be too risky to have people know who I really am.

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( That's almost worse than if Dagger - Garnet? - had known, because it was just a void, a lack of knowledge, and any kind of terrible theories or ideas could get sucked in. Ellie just nods, tries to wrap her head around it, and quite how she's talking to the child of a warmonger is beyond her.

They'd been discussing theatre, for Christ's sake. She's speechless, can't quite address it, and so stumbles painfully on. Some of this is more familiar, something she can identify with: Dagger is one of them.

It's a relief to hit that realisation. ) People have a hard time listening to kids. They reckon we don't know what we're talking about.

( And she nods, before letting a long silence fall between them. She has no idea what to say, for quite some time, until: ) Hey. It takes guts to stand up to someone you care about, especially if they're someone who you're used to being right.

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[It really did escalate quickly. Dagger feels bad she couldn't keep shut about her emotions. Yet at the same time...it was a relief to tell someone. To have someone not reject her for it either. Ellie was someone she had grown to care about]

[So much that she'll bite back the argument that she's not a kid. It looks like a swallow on the screen, since man that's such a sore point, but she knows Ellie means well]

...Thanks. But I wasn't successful in convincing her otherwise in the end. Right now, my friends and I are traveling to find the weapons dealer. By stopping him...well, at least my mother won't be able to get anymore power.

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Parents are stubborn as hell. At least, mine are.

( Because they are Ellie's parents, of course. )

Even when we're all grown up, in our thirties and bossing around kids of our own, or something, they'll still think we're kids. Even if we know better than that.

( Anyway. She nods, listening, mulling it over. ) Smart move. Even if you can't persuade her, you can change what's happening.

( But, she sighs, rubbing her hands through her hair. ) God. Being here right now instead of back home must be driving you up the wall.

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[It's strange, hearing her problems being compared to something so normal to parent and child disagreements. In a way its...comforting. Maybe it means there is some way her mother and her could move past this...even if things are much more extreme]

Perhaps they are too used to being the authority. Being the one who has to know what to do.

[She nods at Ellie's assessment of the situation. She doesn't know if it'll change mother. But no more weapons means no more people will die. No more Black Mages will be used for murder. That's what is important. ]

[Though okay, still learning slang so]

Driving me up the wall...?