IC Inbox: Daybreak

[shockingblue]

GUSTAV "GV" GUNVOLT
UN: AZURESTRIKER

STATUS: Student, Grade 9

ACCOLADES: 4 Year Member of the Rune Guild QUILL, active field agent and runic inscriptionist. Designed and implemented runic equipment for field use. Destroyed a small army of invading undead.

BIO: New to Daybreak Academy. I speak Japanese, German, French, and English. Japanese is a little rusty though. Interests include runic inscription, athletics, physics, and history. I like video games and computers too.

© TESSISAMESS

You've reached GV. If you need me for something, leave me a message, and I'll return it as soon as possible.

Comments

[unlogic]

[If he guessed that Desi was keeping it because it had been earned while helping him—while helping to rescue Monarch a second time—well, he'd be right. And if he didn't guess as much, she certainly would.]

You're right, you don't need to say it now, but still, grazie. [The rest of the world might still have some things to say about it, eventually, but here, it doesn't matter what she is, just that she's still Desidera.] I could say the same for both of you: no matter what, I'll be there. [And for both of them, in the past weeks, she already has been there.

Monarch might still have been a relatively-new addition to either of their lives, but it already felt difficult—even impossible—to say she didn't feel like family in a way.]

[shockingblue]

...Thank you, Desi. Really.

[When his entire life had been flipped, and everything he knew turned into chaos around him, even unsure if what passed for his family back at QUILL would even want anything to do with him? Hearing that was a balm to a still stinging burn he had been nursing. Sure. He knew that already, but hearing the words alone made a huge difference.

Monarch, though, while she had been quiet through much of this, finally took an opportunity to speak up.]

Hey, Desi? I know you had the tattoo removed, but... not that scar? That couldn't be that hard to heal with magic, so... why didn't you?

[After all, it seemed strange to get all that healed up and still let that linger...]

[unlogic]

[She paused for a moment, while glancing across the room.]

Monarch? Come here.

[The hologram visibly got up as if to do so, only to be stopped.] No. Come here for real.

[It then flickered off, and the core hovered up and off of its pillow, floating over as instructed. Once it was close enough that Desi could reach it, she took it in her hands and pulled it to her chest.]

I know we haven't known each other too long, but it's already hard to imagine things without you here. [The week that Monarch was gone and GV was still recovering had basically been hell for her.] So if it's for him, or for you, I'll do anything I need to, even if that means getting hurt.

Think of it as proof of that.

[shockingblue]

[Well, being hugged, the core itself, at any rate, was definitely a new experience. And something very strange, considering its casing had no nerve endings to speak of, but it definitely had the mind, the intelligence, to understand that sort of feedback. The hologram, or what of it could be displayed, almost flailed a little in surprise, but practically melted into her hug after a moment.

...She even looked ready to tear up.]

...Ah.... thank you, Desi. ...But please. Don't try to get hurt because of me. ...And that goes for you too, GV, before you try to say anything...

[unlogic]

After this past week, I don't think either of us will be going out of our way to be reckless, but if anyone takes you again, we are going to try to get you back. [They saved her twice, they can do it again if they ever need to.

And with the two of them having been the ones to take her in and effectively provide a new home when they first brought her here, her happiness and her safety are basically their responsibility, aren't they? If anything else happened, they should try to do something.]