pc; what is left when silence falls

[veraltwin]

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[veraltwin]

[Oh, thank the Twelve.]

A giant tree? But it's not the Garden again, is it?

[...and then, because she's curious.]

What was Shamsiel's item?

[bloodread]

A pin, I think. Diluc has it.

[ ... ]

They had all the other places we've been to on monitors. The place with the tree kept showing up with them, and there were notes about a "new world" or something. The garden wasn't anything like a forest, yeah?

[aono]

Uh...

[Rolls a 12 on Rin's religion check.]

There should have been at least two trees in the Garden, and then like...literally every plant grew there and there's a lot of different kinds of trees so maybe it was like a forest? But I always pictured it as more like an apple orchard...

[veraltwin]

[laughs in Alisaie not having actually seen the Garden... but van Zieks took a photo of it, and we still have it! So between remembering that and conferring with Taf mentally--]

There was a forest. Did you see any walls or columns surrounding it? I can't think it would be the same...

[bloodread]

No walls or anything like that. Just an entire fucking forest, but it's not like I had a lot of time to stare at it. There were workers everywhere.

[aono]

Were they like the workers last week's group found? The, er, the scientists?

[veraltwin]

[Alisaie nods at Rin's question. But maybe instead of them peppering Akira with questions...]

Will you tell us what happened to the three of you?

[bloodread]

Scientific assholes with cloaks, yeah.

[ But then Akira hesitates. ]

...later, I have things I need to do. I just wanted to tell you about the pin and the tree now.

[aono]

So it's like, team meeting stuff?

[He can respect that, and he'll nod.]

Just don't die before you can explain, yeah?

[veraltwin]

[She takes a quick second to see if there are any other pressing questions she ought to ask, but then nods as well.]

Thank you for telling us about Shamsiel and the tree, Akira. Whenever you've the time, I'd like to know what happened.