JUNE OPEN LOG

[sailmods]

[but, hey: you shouldn't be left out of the camping fun just because you didn't think to sign up, or you only got here yesterday, or actually you only got here today and you have no idea what's going on! because the camp can come to YOU!

meaning, shortly after seeing the others off, Friday returns to the atrium and begins setting up a few items she's brought from... somewhere, one assumes? a pup tent. two sleeping bags. a tent stove. s'mores accoutrements. there's a fake potted plant that she decided looked enough like a tree. all pushed together in the middle of the atrium.

at her spot behind the desk, she looks visibly pleased with herself. she's doing her best.]

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[ktizo]

"I would not expect you to regret it." He tries to recall what the Warrior of Light told him in Elpis- that the Ascians had been causing calamities to try to rejoin the shards of worlds. Emet-Selch had built a replica of Amaurot- complete with Hythlodaeus shade- in the meantime... and then he'd died at the hand of the Warrior and his friends. He doesn't know much else beyond that. He doesn't know anything about the Garlean Empire, or Emet-Selch's role as Emperor. He doesn't know the extent of Emet-Selch's loneliness, how Elidibus began to forget himself and Lahabrea went mad.

"Do you recall our time in Elpis? We were told, in brief, what would happen by the very same opponent who bested you in the end. I did not run from you then, I will not do so now... no matter what you choose to tell me."

[lachtara]

And he had felt all the same then as he does now regarding what others felt about him. Though it seemed less tangible back then as he lacked the experiences that went with it.

Emet-Selch folds his arms and sighs. "I will tell you the sum of it. All I ask for is time. It is not easily said nor is there a small amount to say." Some too much to account for in one sitting.

He looks up, "Notably, I am not the only one who has had time pass betwixt now and then."

[ktizo]

Hythlodaeus shrugs a little as if it's not a big deal. "I cannot say that my time between the sundering and our reunion was too exciting, alas."

Really, he thinks he got it easy compared to Emet-Selch. Sure, he was trapped for 12000 years, unable to move on... but he spent most of that lonely time in a daze, and the years flew by like minutes. Emet-Selch had to endure every agonising year with the burden of his people upon his back.

"I can speak of it if you would like me to, however."

[lachtara]

"We have the time for it." It seemed fair to try and understand Hythlodaeus's thoughts and experiences as much as he tried to relay his own. He can imagine they are quite different, still... And after so long apart, they finally have time enough at last to do so.

"This is a sorry place for such a conversation." Painfully uncomfortable stools, as it were. "Let us speak of it later."

For now, they could simply enjoy each other's company away from the rest of the world.