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sticksandbones2024-10-23 04:58 pm
ephemeralflow) wrote in sticksandbones2024-10-23 04:58 pm
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There is no escaping the birthday post
Who: Timekeeper and whoever is enough of a snoop!
What: What's in the box, TK?
When: October 23rd, so after the mansion (but before her clock tower is built)
Where: At or around the inn
Warnings: Will update if needed but this is probably just going to be silly/cute
[Well it started as a normal day, or normal enough of one when everyone is still in the midst of weeding out any remaining doppelgangers. Timekeeper has also been slightly more on edge than usual, bothering the few people she cares about more frequently and keeping as sharp an eye as she can out. Still, she's yet to do any of that this morning, and it's when she's on her way back from getting breakfast at the cafe that she's all but ambushed by Ydalir.
Who cheerfully hands her a little boxed cake and wishes her happy birthday.
Timekeeper won't admit later that she had to stand there and blink for a moment, but she did. Oh, it is today, isn't it. Well. Hmm. That's something she hasn't thought about in probably the equivalent of centuries!
So, after that entirely too awkward an encounter for her tastes, she attempts to slip quietly back to her inn room with the box. It's not like she's had reason to tell anyone else her bakeday, after all, and surely it's not something anyone would care to celebrate anyway.
Unfortunately, she's not very good at stealth checks and someone could have totally seen Ydalir stop her.]
What: What's in the box, TK?
When: October 23rd, so after the mansion (but before her clock tower is built)
Where: At or around the inn
Warnings: Will update if needed but this is probably just going to be silly/cute
[Well it started as a normal day, or normal enough of one when everyone is still in the midst of weeding out any remaining doppelgangers. Timekeeper has also been slightly more on edge than usual, bothering the few people she cares about more frequently and keeping as sharp an eye as she can out. Still, she's yet to do any of that this morning, and it's when she's on her way back from getting breakfast at the cafe that she's all but ambushed by Ydalir.
Who cheerfully hands her a little boxed cake and wishes her happy birthday.
Timekeeper won't admit later that she had to stand there and blink for a moment, but she did. Oh, it is today, isn't it. Well. Hmm. That's something she hasn't thought about in probably the equivalent of centuries!
So, after that entirely too awkward an encounter for her tastes, she attempts to slip quietly back to her inn room with the box. It's not like she's had reason to tell anyone else her bakeday, after all, and surely it's not something anyone would care to celebrate anyway.
Unfortunately, she's not very good at stealth checks and someone could have totally seen Ydalir stop her.]
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[She kind of freaked him out, in other words. Understandably. And they haven't exactly spoken much since. Loop is more interesting anyway!
Timekeeper does seem to consider for a moment, tapping her chin.]
Although Loop tells me he is not fond of croissants, so perhaps that is only natural! [That was a joke. You can tell because her smile widens! Like every other expression she ever has.] Are you saying that you think I should?
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[ She did try though.
The croissant bit is getting filed away with all the other cookie things she doesn't want to think about too hard. Maybe she'll ask Loop about it one day; they seem to be on... dying-together terms? ]
No, I think you should avoid it. It's not very practical information, and it likely falls under the "antagonizing" category.
[ Which as we all know means that Odile would gladly go to war over it. ]
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[Timekeeper seems genuinely surprised by this assessment, taking a moment to consider, tapping her fingers against the cake box.]
I would not consider it impractical myself, but of course I would normally be editing time nonstop. If you think it so, I will not bring it up - [She won't because she doesn't want to make an enemy of Odile right now, in other words] - but I did not expect "antagonizing."
[It follows, though. She's upset Siffrin before when only trying to explain something she thought would be interesting and useful to know. Are time loops really so rough on normal people? She's seen agents get stuck before and not come out that worse for wear, but... of course, she cannot simply go and see the extent of this particular loop for herself.
And maybe she shouldn't even care. Normally, she might not, only wanting to pick at their story like a scab on a wound to satisfy her own curiosity. But she's gotten herself wedged into an awkward place, here, actually having started to build a... whatever it is they have going on with Loop. And Loop cares about Siffrin, and Odile cares about them all, and...
Sigh.]
Well, you certainly know them well, do you not? I do wish to see your timelines someday, but if there is anything particularly interesting to discover, perhaps it is you I should tell first.
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Of all of us, I'm probably the most interested in the mechanics of time loops anyway. But no, it isn't practical knowledge. None of us have the ability to make 'edits', nor do we want to. We humans are stuck with the timeline we have, mostly.