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[ Being a mother... isn't as easy as it sounds, Rin's painfully discovering. While the boy she adopted is a sweet little thing, he is also a boy and Rin is lacking in experience when it comes to boys that age. In Japan they were proper and didn't mingle much with girls so there's minimal experience from her childhood to go by. Growing up, there was a baby sister for a few years, but she doesn't like to think about those times either so it's no good. She's been a mother for a week and she's already crawling to her locket after asking around. Turns out most of her close companions either suck at parenting (thanks Saber for everything Mordred) or just planned to never have children at all (because that's helpful, Waver), leaving her in the dark. If only there were self help books available, but of course there's not.

Plus this gives her a reason to actually pester people. See what's been going on now that Caer Scima is rubble and everyone is scattered throughout the world. Let people know she's alive. Give them a chance to speak with her before she shut her locket for good. So here's one Rin, dressed tomboyish for her poking around for all to see. ]

Boys are really a handful, aren't they? No--before you ask--I'm not having relationship problems. I mean little boys. I'm not sulking, but it's really kind of hard to think of activities for someone his age-! [ She's brooding pretty fiercely by now. ] When I was seven years old, all I ever wanted to do was study, so why won't he?

[ Just in case anyone in Allaidh Darach needed further proof that Rin Tohsaka was a nerd. ]

I don't even know what to feed him since Emiya left. [ Yes, that's a public jab at his departure today. She's still a bit sour over it. ] He's a stupid boy, so he knows what boys need! What if I don't have enough of the right vegetables and his growth is stunted as a result. That can happen, can't it?!

[ There's a sound in the background that causes her to nearly drop her locket, the magus fumbling with it for a few seconds before it lands solidly in her palm. ]

Crap, crap, crap! What if he heard-?! Oh no, he's going to think he's an inconvenience and—[ Snapping the locket shut. It'll be a couple minutes to confirm it's clear before she replies to anyone. ]

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If he's never had a real home before, it's a lot more than he'll be used to having. Just having that does so much for someone who's never had that kind of stability and feeling of safety.

[Wan smiled encouragingly.]

It'll go a long way. And it's good you're willing to let it happen. I've been where he is before. It's a hard thing to learn to trust.

I'm Wan. If you need advice or want someone to talk to him who understands, you can um... call? I think? Or write. Writing is fine. These lockets are still strange.

[ He has? She wants to poke his brain a bit more and with the offer there, it's all too tempting to take. On the other hand, it seems a bit rude without first getting to know him. ]

A pleasure, Wan.

I'm Rin Tohsaka. [ She doesn't introduce herself with titles due to the conversation being casual though she's certain her best friend will reprimand her for it. ]

Admittedly I'm not too keen on using the locket. [ Clearly she embarrasses herself publicly on them all too easily. ] Do you prefer to write?

It's easier to understand.

[He gave a small shrug and turned his head away in embarrassment.]

Well, I can understand this. Not how it works, but what it does. It's still strange to use. Writing would be more... normal, I guess?

[Not that Wan minded trying new things. This was just so very different for him that he felt awkward when he wasn't writing across it.]

[ Talk like this made it easier to determine what kind of world the other Shardbearers were from. If writing was what he was used to, then it was likely things like phones didn't exist in his world. ]

Strange or not, it's what people use to communicate. It isn't so easy to speak across courts without it.

Not that many have that problem, especially now.

It would be if people chose to make it easy. All it would take is some time and a little effort, but once places were set up for meetings and ways to send letters to far off places, it would be easy.

[not being easy to start didn't mean it couldn't be easy to continue.]

If you do want to write, you can send letters for me to Azure. It's a small village in La Llorona, near the old city of Quendi. I'll be checking in there at least once a month. Maybe more if I get letters regularly.

[He did not expect to get letters regularly.]

[ Now that he's said that, she'll have to make an effort. It'll be good practice for one and it'd be nice to have a physical copy of her in the world that could be found by ancestors later on. ]

I'm familiar with La Llorona, though not by much. I'll see how much time I have that I can set aside.

[ More importantly: ] Do you think it's that easy? Time and effort, then the inhabitants of the courts would see that way? We have a sensible bunch with us now, but I should warn you that it's not wise to speak of fraternization with the objects given to us by the sovereign.

I don't care.

[He shrugged and threw such caution to the wind.]

The only way to change things, to have a chance of bringing peace to this world is to show the people who have been fighting all this time that a compromise can be made. That peace can be had. War is easy because it's easy to hate and fear and attack what you don't understand and what has no immediate ties to a person. It's easy to be selfish and to lash out. So most people don't make an effort to change.

I know changing it won't be something that can happen over night, but it's still worth doing. Peace is worth it.

If it hasn't been changed all this time, what makes you think that you have what it takes to be the exception? [ Rin asks quietly, knowing that he can't provide an answer.

No one ever can. ]

There must be others who think that way and share those goals. Seek out enough of them and there's no telling what might happen.

I'm bonded to the spirit of Light and Peace. It is my duty to bring balance back to the world and guide it toward peace. The only way I can do that for my world now, is to first do it here.

[He answered the question confidently. Even if he couldn't feel Raava's light inside him anymore, she was still a part of him. And he had made a promise to use her Light Spirit to guide the world. He would not brake that promise.]

I know it will take time, but it's worth doing. And I have already found some who share my goals. The more we share them with others, teach new people how to live in peace, the easier it will be for all.

[ A shame she can't publicly declare herself to be one of them, but it will become known soon enough. It isn't like a Shardbearer to leave the safety of their court's country to live elsewhere without ulterior motives behind it. ]

That's noble of you and I do wish you the best of luck in it.

Just... you saw how those last battles ended, right? It must be disheartening to pick up the pieces after that mess.

It always is. And it always will be so long as there is war. The only way to stop that kind of pain is to stop the fighting.

[He tilted his head to the side, his smile softening a bit.]

This isn't the first war I've seen. I know the pain that's been suffered and how hard it is to forgive and move on. To let go of the anger and hurt. I know it is hard. So if you're trying to point that out to me, I already know.

That's the thing with this world. War isn't very common in some and then to others, they're used to seeing it.

[ Another sigh. It makes it difficult for her to sound like a know it all when she's corrected often on it. ]

Geez, I'm going to have to find another way to approach the topic in the future. Just as you'll no doubt find a way to alleviate the pain of those wounds inflicted by battle.

[Wan grinned a little more at that.]

I'll certainly try. It's nice to have your concern, all the same. If it's alright, I'd like to put this away now. Talking over it is... like I said. I prefer to write.

[He felt awkward.]

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