Second Song ♫ Video (Daemon: Apollod)

[hasitsthorns]

[ An authoritative bark, steely eyes to match the armor worn- ] Feldspar will stay in the rear with the rest of the mages, Reyson on the frontlines with the wolves, and Misto with me to...

[ She falters suddenly. Wolf ears standing tall on her head flatten back in uncertainty. Where are the Morgans, the group she'd been informing as she stepped into a portal towards the oncoming battle? This wasn't- In a blink, memories come careening into her head and cause a startling emotional mish-mash. Names, faces, a year and some change spent in Eudio and Xistentia suddenly competing with the four years from back home. It's a different type of war inside her mind. ] Apollod, [ she suddenly says, looking to the canine that's already recording her return.

Despite herself, she suddenly smiles into the feed. ]

Hey, guys, [ comes a softer tone than before. She crouches down to pet the daemon that's recording, not physically looking a day older than when she left but certainly feeling like it. ] Hopefully I haven't been gone too long.

What'd I miss?

Comments

[hasitsthorns]

Considering I thought I was returning to the end of my life, it's- Well. It's not good but it's better than what I had anticipated, if nothing else.

[ She likes that idea though. That maybe she could go back and... change Ryuo's mind. Make him see what she did in people, that there was enough good in them that they could still be salvaged. ]

That's a nice thought. I'm definitely more determined than ever to work for it if it's possible.

[mordacita]

[ Rafa nods, considering her. ]

You are much changed, Rosie. I think it sits well on you.

Though I am sorry it has come to war. That is not the future I would wish on anyone.

[hasitsthorns]

[ Has she really become so different, in four short years? ]

I'm a leader of a war faction now and everything. Who would have thought, right? But thanks, dude. I'm glad it's been a change for the better, shitty circumstances aside.

It is what it is. I just gotta' worry now about how I can help from here.

[mordacita]

If you could return once, you have hope of returning again. I hope we all have that chance one day.

[ One day soon. Though Shane, Hunter and Wyatt are here, Rafa doesn't know what's happened to the rest of his people. Rosie may not have found good circumstances at home, but she's had an update on the ones who matter. That's not nothing. ]

I expect you need to find your loved ones here now. No doubt you will have much to discuss.

[hasitsthorns]

So do I. But I'm worried about having to go back now and what that will mean for the relationships I've made here.

[ She knows he shares a similar worry, in some regards. Rose hopes that if Eudio is restored that means the beads will be too so they can traverse the multiverse, but... ]

The sea already brought one to me, [ she says and Apollod turns the camera to show Farraige riding up on the waves that meet the shore. ] But yeah, we got. A lot of catching up to do, definitely.

[mordacita]

You will find a way, Rose. I believe it. You should, too.

[ She came back here, after all.

Rafa looks up, following the line of her camera to see Farraige's approach. Smiling, he nods. ]

Then you should go to him. I have no doubt that Vanyel will not be far behind.