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COME & GET ME!!!!

[Featuring characters and writing from @cyten0 Symphony in Crimson AU] [Sometime after A:4 C:68]

(Bayard)

(Where? Not camp. Where are friends? Where is the Star? And little pup?)

(Voice says find the flowery one. Good idea! She knows things.)

(Your sense of scent is already strong, a thing you love of being this. But there is a town nearby. Lot’s of smells. You think you smell them somewhere in there. But just scent would take long. And you don’t want friends worried! Especially the pup!)

(Hearing would work. You know their voices. And maybe the star’s eyes too. You do as the star taught you. And change yourself a bit.)

(Bigger ears, the better to hear them. Star-like eyes, the better to see them with. You feel the star’s blessing shift and move beneath your skin, moving as you ask.)

(There. Now, off we go!)

(You bound into town, searching. Many voices, none match. Scent is this way. You think you forgot something, people seem scared. But you can ask when you find your friends!)

(There! A nice house, you see the flowery one ◉! You bound up, Hello friend!)

◉ “Wah!! What the-” (The flowery one seems surprised to see you. Hm. Flowery one doesn’t smell as flowery. And seems smaller?)

(A person of mint ▽ walks over from the garden. They are also taken aback.)

[▽]“Oh uh. That’s… That’s a giant wolf monster. Okay. Uh. Any ideas Mirabelle?”

◉ “I am just as confused as you!”

(Giant? Oh! You forgot! You were big to help move the cart! No wonder people were scared!)

(You focus on the Star’s blessing. And feel it shift and move again, making you smaller and smaller. Until you are the right size! There! Not scary!)

[▽]“Oh, shapeshifting? Interesting! Wonder what this ‘Star’s blessing’ is?”

(Oh, mint one can hear your thoughts? Neat!)

(Flowery one seems confused? Maybe she’s not flowery one. But looks just like her?)

◉ “You can hear their thoughts?”

[▽] “Yeah, they seem nice. And know you somehow?”

(Hm. Well, you smell others like friends inside the house! You head in, though the flowery and mint ones seem confused. Oh well!)

(Inside, you see several familiar faces, looking at you, seemingly not as familiar. The strong one, the little pup, and someone who looks like the star? You tilt your head at that one. They don’t smell or feel like the Star. But you feel something like them? How very strange.)

(Oh well. Little pup ✿ looks like they need comfort. You walk over to them, and pick them up by their collar, taking them from the chair and plopping them on the floor. You then lay down next to them. You are much more comfy than a chair.)

✿ “...What the crab?”

(The strong one ▲ seems confused.)

▲ “Hey, Bonbon. You uh. Know that wolf?”

✿ “Course I don’t, Za… But they are very soft so it doesn’t matter.”

(The Not-Star 𝄞 seems similarly confused.)

|𝄞| “Oh… as long as they are friendly.”

▲ “Jealous, Asterion?”

(Oh, the Flowery one has followed you in!)

◉ “Um, is the- Oh, okay! That… that works?”

|𝄞| “Ah, hello. Do you know what is going on?”

◉ “No???”

(You hear someone come down the stairs. A woman resembling the little pup appears. How nice! Oh. But she seems upset?)

(The big pup ❁ grabs the little pup away from you!)

❁ “WHAT the crab?! Why was Bonnie in the clutches a freaky weird-eye’d black wolf?!?”

✿ “Hey, I was getting comfy!”

❁ “Bonnie, there is NO way that is safe!!”

(Oh, Big pup seems to need comfort too! You make yourself extra big and curl around them both. Big pup seems confused, so you put a paw on her head and push her down to sit. There! Now they are both comfy!)

|𝄞| “Did... it just turn giant?”

▲ “And forced Nille into the cuddle pile… I think you both have been adopted.”

◉ “Am I hallucinating? What is happening here?”

✿ “Fluffy… Crab yeah.”

(You relax on the ground, the two pups laying against you. You suppose you can wait here until whatever is going on gets handled.) >>>

(As you rest, a few minutes pass while the others discuss you. The mint one studies you more as well, but you don’t mind. It reminds you of the Smart one. Also, something about the Not-star changed too. They seem more dramatic now!)

(And then you feel something! You look towards a spot on the wall. Dark, fanged tendrils seem to emerge from the air itself, prying forth. Bubbles star to form in the space around the point until-)

✦ “There’s Bayard!”

⍚ “Indeed. Kindly, help me open the rift a bit wider?”

(You see a little gap start to form. And on the other side... Oh! There is the Star! And a different flowery one, but this one smells right! As well as the camp!)

[𝄞] “Oh stars, what chaos is happening now?”

(As they slowly wrestle the whole wider, much to the confusion of the others, you notice another person heading down the stairs. The Smart one ◆ looks upon the room, very confused.)

◆ “… Gem’s alive, I take a break for ten minutes-”

✦ “Oh um… Sorry for the trouble! We’ll be gone in just a bit!”

◉ “Thank you uh. Other Siffrin? And… Other Me?”

⍚ “Ah, apologies for the trouble. Expression of Travel here, taking over for Mirabelle. We just needed to retrieve our friend. Unsure how they hopped realities in the first place, but oh well.”

✦ “Wait, Siffrin? They didn’t die in this reality?”

(Hm. All the people got very quiet all of a sudden?)

[𝄞] “… Would you elaborate?”

✦ “A-actually. I don’t think I will…”

[𝄞] “Blinding!-”

[▽] “W-who- w-what, are you-”

✦ “Hey, Bayard! Rift is open enough, hop through!”

(Oh! Okay, time to go back now. You give a gentle bump with your nose to both big pup and little pup, and then get up and hop through!)

(What a fun day!)

>>> <<<

(Ramos) [Alex] |Jasmine| <Altiare> {Nihil}

[Your head was pounding. You had been working hard to hone your mind reading to not ambiently look into the thoughts of others, but you were in no way prepared for THIS!!! You shut your eyes tightly, trying to sort your own thoughts, your parties, and the duplicate Mirabelle and Siffrin.]

[You breathe in, and out.]

[You were tuned out of the conversation, focusing only on those thoughts. With your thirst for knowledge as the fuel, you opened an eye to look at the two, and started to charge through their thoughts. Sorting them one by-)

⍫ (Curious, the execution is similar, yet the result in this reality is much more potent. Tell me, mind craft has come quite far in this reality, has it not?)

[You sharply inhale. The voice boomed in your ears louder than any thunderclap. It was one that felt powerful, knowledgeable, godlike in comparison. It felt of home, and it felt- STARS, answer the question. I, ha, well you’re asking the wrong person, whoever you are. You’d want that asshole, Perci.]

⍫ (Ah, the Historians? Oh of course he would be causing issues here as well.)

[Who are you anyway! Your thoughts are coming from the other Mirabelle, I hear others, too, so-]

⍫ (Ah but of course, my theology never came to light in this reality, no? If I were to hazard a guess, it would be the Shining One who would be in my place.)

[In your place- Stars above! You mentally stagger. You’re-]

⍫ (Yes yes now let’s move on-)

⍚ (We do not have time for this, let us retrieve Bayard and return.) 

[The second voice was just as intimidating as the first! You-]

“Wait, Siffrin? They didn’t die in this reality?”

[The caucus of thoughts were rendered silent by that one statement. Every person in that room had the same thought, except for two. The second Mirabelles, and the second Siffrins. The latter, however, drew your mind in like a moth to a flame. It, was-]

✦ (A pair of glowing red eyes look back at you, surrounded by tendrils and teeth in a vaguely human shape, a red and white star in it's chest. It's not human. Why. You can't stand looking at it. It's wrong. It's wrong it's wrong it's wrong it's wrong-)

✦ (You begin clawing at your body. Carving it into shape, even as it hurts. You feel it growing back, but you keep molding it. You grow skin, morph bone matter to cling to, and prune it into the right form. Still wrong, you can feel it underneath, those memories don't have that, you don't want the monster ones! 

✦ (You want the human ones!!)

✦ (You want Siffrin's!!!)

You stare stunned at the duo. Your mouth moves before your brain. “W-who- w-what, are you-

“Hey, Bayard! Rift is open enough, hop through!”

Before you can process it, the hound bounds through the rift in space, and it shuts tightly. Your head is spi{nning. Mind. Struggling to compartmentalize strong memory. You take it. Hold it close. You remember. Remember strange thing. Remember Mirabelle. Remember Expression. Remember Dragon. Remember Siffrin. Remember Fantasia. Remember.}