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Jul 18, 2021 19:56:29 GMT -5
Post by Vitsheep on Jul 18, 2021 19:56:29 GMT -5
Karl
It tastes absolutely disgusting. Just like a normal unfrosted poptart. In fact, you can barely taste the orange juice.
Nora
Alice is quiet for a minute, then seems to snap back into focus. "What... What exactly is required for someone to use a Soul, anyway?"
"Oh, I'm ever-so-glad you asked instead of lying awake all night tossing and turning and trying to divine some deeper meaning to what I said." Mareena smiles. "Anyone capable of wielding a Soul Key is capable of wielding a Soul, even an otherwise totally normal human."
Alice lets out a sigh of relief and visibly relaxes.
"Although, not everyone can bring out the full potential of a Soul the way someone like you can." Mareena's smile devolves into a smirk.
Alice immediately tenses up again. Then she pauses. "What... do you mean by that?"
"I mean I- THE GREAT MAREENA found something ever so interesting in Hinoh's library the other day... I think you'd like to see it as well." She takes out her phone and taps away, taking her time and bouncing her leg calmly. "There you go."
Alice stares at her phone impatiently until it finally dings. She rapidly taps away, then stares at the screen. Blinking slowly. "Is this... This is... Is this my mother?"
"Carrying a Soul key? It certainly appears that way, no?" Mareena leans down again, glancing at Alice's phone from the other side. "But making assumptions can be so, so dangerous." She puts a hand under Alice's chin and gently raises her head before tapping her nose. "And acting on them ever more so. Understand?"
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Jul 19, 2021 11:30:02 GMT -5
Post by Neo 5.0 on Jul 19, 2021 11:30:02 GMT -5
Nora gives a deep sigh. "Mareena, my dear. Did you have to show her that now, of all times? This forces me into a very awkward and undesirable situation, you know..."
Nora places her hand on Alice's leg. "Well, no one ever called me a coward. We should have a private chat after this, love. How would you like to come back to my place for a change, hm?"
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Jul 19, 2021 14:26:01 GMT -5
Post by pielover19 on Jul 19, 2021 14:26:01 GMT -5
Man....
Even orange juice can't overpower the pastry sensation of the pop-tart.
Truly amazing.
Ponder this.
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VitPoyoroth
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Jul 21, 2021 5:07:41 GMT -5
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Post by VitPoyoroth on Jul 21, 2021 5:07:41 GMT -5
Sam
Sam seems very distracted by everything going on with her life.
"Oh umm hello Great Merenna,". "Sorry just so many things going on lately,". "Sigh why does being a teenager have to be hard?". "Oh right sorry,". "Just need someone whom I really trust to talk to," Sam says.
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Jul 21, 2021 16:53:54 GMT -5
Post by Vitsheep on Jul 21, 2021 16:53:54 GMT -5
Karl
You sit in the cafe and do nothing but stare into space and wonder why orange juice and poptarts do not mix. People come. People go. They have conversations, meals, lives around you. You ponder the percentage cocoa content of the poptart.
Sam, Dewey
"Aw, you really trust me?" Mareena asks. "Come on in, then. Is Dewey with you, or just here to glare at me more?"
Nora
Mareena sighs wearily and rotates robotically to poke your nose, too. "And poor Mareena's advice is immediately ignored."
"That... might be good. I haven't been... entirely honest with y- well, I haven't... I mean, it's just I haven't had a reason to... tell you certain things yet." Alice starts to lower her head again, but Mareena stops her with her other hand and slightly tilts her head to actually look your way. Alice glares sideways at her for a moment before she continues. "Things only a few people know. Tom, Mattea... it's time you knew, too."
"You should show her that picture, too! I bet Nora will be very interested. Very interested." Mareena says. She hops up and walks off to the back room. "Mareena will be back in a minute. Don't mind her."
Alice looks a bit confused for a moment, then holds her phone for you to see. For a moment, you think it's a picture of Alice wearing her soul key as a necklace, smiling and laughing about something. Then you notice a few small differences and realize it's a picture of her mother when she was Alice's age. You notice there seem to be other people in the picture, but it's been cropped so you can barely see someone's arm around her shoulder and another person behind her.
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Jul 21, 2021 17:01:19 GMT -5
Post by pielover19 on Jul 21, 2021 17:01:19 GMT -5
What is life? These life forms around me, can they even be considered life? Do they know about the questions that rack my mind every waking moment?
Order a grape juice and repeat the experiment.
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Jul 22, 2021 11:19:47 GMT -5
Post by Neo 5.0 on Jul 22, 2021 11:19:47 GMT -5
Nora looks at the picture, then reaches over and takes Alice's hand. She smiles. "It's fine, Alice... There's something I haven't told you yet as well. I wanted to make sure I had a bit more evidence to back up my theory first, and, well... I wanted to make sure you were well enough to hear it. That said, it's still not going to be easy for you to hear... So let's thank Mareena for her time and head home, hm?"
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Jul 23, 2021 21:34:54 GMT -5
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Post by mrfuzz111 on Jul 23, 2021 21:34:54 GMT -5
Dewey just sighs and mutters something about how he must still be more out of it than he realized to forget she works here, turning to leave.
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Jul 25, 2021 22:25:48 GMT -5
Post by Vitsheep on Jul 25, 2021 22:25:48 GMT -5
Aron
The mall seems to be more lively than usual tonight. Avalon, Kiran, the blonde transfer student, Grant, Jimmy, Avel, and Zack are wandering around. That guy in bandages is upstairs talking to one of the twins near the fortune teller's shop. And Nora and Alice are just leaving it. Mattea is hard at work in the cafe, serving various juices to Karl who is dipping poptarts in them.
Karl
Mattea sighs as she hands you a grape juice. "Tell me you're not going to... whatever."
You manage to find perhaps the only way to make unfrosted poptarts worse.
Nora
Mareena comes back out. "Hm, First Dewey, now Poor Mareena gets ignored, and next... Oh, well."
You say your thanks and head out. Alice looks down, then sighs. "Um... Really, thanks. I don't..."
"You don't need to say it." Mareena hops back up onto her table. "Buh-bye!"
Move to Home
Dewey
"Leaving already, Dewey? You know my services are available to everyone, right? I don't charge extra if people don't like me." She smiles. "Guaranteed to help you grow stronger faster, or find useful things."
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Jul 26, 2021 16:34:27 GMT -5
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Post by pielover19 on Jul 26, 2021 16:34:27 GMT -5
Do they have prune juice?
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Jul 29, 2021 3:58:03 GMT -5
Post by Vitsheep on Jul 29, 2021 3:58:03 GMT -5
Karl
Good question. After browsing some local cafe menus, I don't think they'd have prune juice. That's more a health item. Grapefruit, maybe.
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Jul 30, 2021 19:55:24 GMT -5
Post by pielover19 on Jul 30, 2021 19:55:24 GMT -5
Grapefruit juice it is. Experiment #3!
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Jul 30, 2021 22:51:52 GMT -5
Post by cheeseybear on Jul 30, 2021 22:51:52 GMT -5
Fortune Teller. It seems that Nora and Alice are just leaving it, and now it's still occupied. Weird town, but still weird that it's such a hot spot. Maybe the fortune teller is just cute. Aron decides to go ask Avel.
"Hey, what's up, dude!" He greets.
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Jul 31, 2021 22:29:31 GMT -5
Post by Vitsheep on Jul 31, 2021 22:29:31 GMT -5
Karl
You try the grapejuice. Mattea is silent as she delivers it, not even trying to mask her disgust. And she might be on to something. This is even worse than the others. By far.
Aron
"Hey, my man. What's good?" Avel asks. "You hiding from the rain like everyone else?"
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Aug 2, 2021 15:26:41 GMT -5
Post by pielover19 on Aug 2, 2021 15:26:41 GMT -5
It's all downhill. No juices can match up to it. The four horesmen, you know? Try.... uh...... they've probably got something tropical. Mango? Pineapple? Coconut? Something like that.
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