eachdraidh | VIDEO | june 2nd ( unlocked )

( the video shows a petite girl, standing in a bedroom in caer glaem and facing the locket, back straight; she's a bit off-centre, leaving a notable gap to her right that's either unoccupied or filled with a wolf pup, depending on your magical/supernatural abilities (as in: whether or not they exist; he can only be seen by those with power).

either way, yuzuriha doesn't hesitate, smiling broadly and giving a little salute: )

Hello everyone! I'm Yuzuriha Nekoi, fourteen years old, and right now I live in Tokyo, Japan! I've just arrived here, and I'm glad to meet everyone!

( don't falter! but she bites her lip. ) Um, I just had one question! I heard we're supposed to be 'helping in a battle,' but I don't know exactly how we're supposed to start? ( she also doesn't realise these questions can be filtered. or really that there's another group she's meant to be filtering from. yuzuriha frowns slightly, clasping her hands before her. after all, if she abandoned everyone for this place, she has to do her duty, right? ) Um… or… really, what to do in general… ( she trades a look with the wolf pup/empty space beside her, and then remembers that she's supposed to be making a good impression, not worrying. hurriedly: )

But it really is very nice to be here! I'm ready to do my best, so I hope we all get along!

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What do you mean? ( she tilts her head slightly to the side. her brows come closer together — not quite in a frown, but as though she's considering it; taking the question seriously. of course she is, but he probably doesn't mean anything by it. it isn't like there are rules, but it's something no one ever talks about anyway. the end of days. )

Ah -- I mean... [That intent that he thinks he might've had - time to get it worded...] It seems interesting. To - to think that fate would...

Bring someone twice into - something great. ["Great", of course, as in "big". "Important". Possibly earth-shattering - possibly to the tune of "great and terrible".]

Do you believe in fate? ( she asks, still fretting but openly curious. )

I believe in God. For all intents and purposes, to him, that makes a yes.] And I doubt that I would be chosen for two purposes, by fate. I'm -- not that grand/

But I cannot speak for -- anyone else.

Er - [Sidles in to take the next step, so to speak - mildly:] - do you believe in -- fate...?

I don't know. ( slowly, sounding out the words. she was born to her task. her friends were, too. but is it all set in stone? is the day she'll die planned out, just like the way she was born? ) But… I think that I do. And if it does… then that's why we're here, isn't it?

If -- it does... yes. [Faint. He supposes so, and yet the statement itself has enough qualification on it that someone has to accept it. If it exists, they're supposed to be here. And his voice binds a little tighter, and a little lower]

I wonder what that means for -- the side that falls - though. If they - or we - were... brought in to fight, then... they were brought in to fail.

[His mind may be wandering at this point, but it's not absent or devoid of thought. It is rather... perhaps not unsettling, but certainly not heartening.]

( she clenches her fists. it's like a shard, through her chest and straight into her stomach, cold and sharp. they can't fail, not the dragons of heaven; if they do, then…

no, this isn't that, but this is the same idea, right? is it? but it sounds like killing people, people dying, just because of destiny, and it's like her whole body wants to force that very idea away. people might die, but… but! )

That doesn't have to be true! Maybe their side is destined to lose, but the people don't have to be hurt. They can stop fighting, or maybe they can change sides, and we don't have to hurt them if we don't need to… there are lots of ways to keep everyone safe!

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