eachdraidh | {2nd Angel Feather; Voice}

[It's late again when Colette checks the locket, turns it on to talk to everyone. She's having trouble sleeping again, not just from her being an angel but in general with everything that has been going on lately. The fighting and worry from all that, the aftermath of it with the injured and deaths and the rot left in the Jabberwelp's wake. Let alone things back home and Lloyd having gone back, leaving her his shard. She's not sure she wants to worry everyone on that, but if Lloyd had any plans with people, they deserve to know. If they don't already. Plus, she probably should consider help for getting her some sleep, now she actually can.]

Um, evening everyone! I was wondering if anyone knew of something that might help me sleep? I've been having more trouble than usual getting rest lately, but I didn't want to worry everyone right away.

[Because of course she figured it was simply a lasting effect from being an angel and all. That it would right itself in time if she could still talk and taste and feel again.]

But, more than that I had something else I wanted to ask about too. About the shards, how they work. I'm not sure how similar they are to our Exspheres back home. They can be equipped and used to enhance one's fighting ability. But I'm less sure about how these shards work. I have one -- besides my own. [Lloyd's. And yet she can't seem to bring herself to admit that just now even after intending to.] But I'm not sure how or if I should use it. I thought perhaps others that have been here longer might know more. Or at least tell me where I might find more information on it. I'd appreciate it.

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... Besides your own?

Did you, uh... fight for it? [That's how you get them, right? You take them from other shardbearers?]

Yes. It's not mine. Or, it is now but it's not the one I have in me? However that works. I didn't fight for it. It was...it belonged to a friend that went home.

[So, no. Colette hasn't yet actually gotten that involved or needed to resort to killing to defend herself. Which is a peaceful change from back home at least but no less comforting at such a price. To lose Lloyd, her main familiar thing from home in all of this. In the weight of it, for once she isn't so cheerful. She can't even muster up that usual false smile or giggle to try reassure him. Not with this.]

I see... I didn't realize the shards stayed behind in that case.

[Going home... it's possible somehow, he supposes. If he could only figure out how to do it on purpose...

He wants to know more about her friend going home, but perhaps the interrogation can wait for at least a few moments. It wouldn't kill him to be sensitive, for once.]

Um... I'm sorry your friend left. Are you all right?

I guess they do. I just hadn't realized it myself until now either, with Lloyd.

[And Emil getting Zelos' one. Though she herself has only heard of the other Chosen thus far and doesn't yet recall their meeting and subsequent adventures together. It's still sad, still bittersweet that any power or gain from obtaining their shards might give them to come at such a cost of not having her friend here at her side any longer.]

I'm...I'll be okay. It's not like there's a lot I can do but try figure this out. Get back home to him, now.

[Because she's not sure she really wants Lloyd back here again in such circumstances. In a war. He already has a lot going back home anyway, she can't be selfish enough to interrupt that. Even if some tiny part of her rebelling against her selfless nature might wish for it anyway. By now she's not as devastated as she was on initially finding him gone, at least.]

Right. [Sigh. Maybe it's hard to tell for sure over the tiny locket, but it's hard to miss the impression she's pretty down about it. Understandably.]

... Do you have anyone else here you know from your homeworld? [Or are you alone, like me? he thinks. Though plenty of people he knows wouldn't do well in this place, so he wouldn't really wish it on them... Belatedly, it occurs to him that maybe Colette feels the same way about her friends.]

Anyone else? Oh! Yes. Emil is here. I mean, I don't remember meeting him from back home, but still.

[But of course she tries to sound much more chipper about it. It's at least something in the way of a familiar face. Even if not yet one she really recognizes as well as the friends from Iselia, Sheena or Kratos. She's not sure if she'd want him or any of them to show up considering the circumstances, a war and all anyway.]

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