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#EA0000; a day after the forest expedition

[theshowsover]

Hey. This is Akira.
You still alive?

[Does he need a new trainer after all that, or... (Also, he's worried.)]

Re: #EA0000; a day after the forest expedition

[lonered]

Hey.
Yeah. I mean, as alive as I've been since I got here anyway.

[That part is still up for debate.]

Just had a weird walk in the woods. How about you? Doing okay?

[theshowsover]

Fine.

[He isn't, but Keith doesn't need to know that.]

So you ran into some weird things, too? The forest is pretty dangerous.

[Said like he didn't already know that.]

[lonered]

Definitely weird. I've never been attacked by vegetables before, so that was definitely new.

What about you?

And yeah, no doubt about that. It's definitely dangerous, but I think that's all the more reason we explore it. Just, no one should go alone.

[theshowsover]

Vegetables?

We were attacked by mirrors. Apparently we all got back a day later because of it. I didn't really notice the time pass, though.

[Just one more thing to watch out for in the forest.]

[lonered]

Plants anyway. Kind of vicious, but not exactly difficult to subdue/

We found some seeds for our trouble, so at least there's that.

Mirrors? Attacked how?

[theshowsover]

Seeds are good. Will they grow into anything with color?

Attacked is a bad word. They sucked us in. Ate us.

[lonered]

I think so. They're colorful themselves, so. Here's hoping.

...ate you? That. Quiznak. That sounds horrific. Are you actually all right? What happened after that?

[theshowsover]

Fingers crossed.

I woke up the next day back in town. I'm mostly okay.

[lonered]

No idea how you got back?

And what do you mean "mostly"?

[theshowsover]

None.

I lost an emotion, but that's all.

[lonered]

Wait. What.

You lost an emotion? What does that even mean? Isn't that a pretty casual way to say something like that?

[theshowsover]

I can't feel sad anymore. I think. At least, I don't remember what it's like to feel sad.

I'm dealing with it, though.

[lonered]

That...

That isn't okay. They can mess with your emotions to the point where you can't even feel one...

That's terrifying. Are you sure you're okay?