17th Star

[sparkling_eyes]

[Action; 747 Partridge; Saturday morning]

[Well, it's been a few days since the end of the event, when Lyon stormed up to her room and locked herself in out of sheer embarrassment.  She was droned for seemingly no reason about ten minutes after that, and Mayfield's been treated to the cheerful drone named Mismar bouncing around town in her place ever since - doing her hair up in curls, going on dates with the Prince's drone, and just generally having a nice relaxing time in the wonderful town of Mayfield.

...All of that comes to an abrupt end on Saturday morning, however, as a red beam of light tears through the roof of 747 Partridge Drive, bright enough and wide enough to be seen from anywhere in town.]

[Phone; filtered from drones]

...Hello, everyone.  It's Lyon.  I'm back.  How long has it been here?  And can anyone help repair a hole in a roof?

Comments

[weiss_tank]

Oh, I see. [A thought strikes him and he wonders why he hadn't thought of it before.]

So...it's sentient?

[sparkling_eyes]

Sort of, yes. It doesn't really talk to me so much as I get a general feeling of how the Rune is responding to things going on around me. Not all of them are like this, though - only the more powerful ones. The good news about the Twilight Rune is that it works together with the Dawn Rune to control and limit the Sun Rune's power.

[weiss_tank]

But the prince ain't here anymore...so no Dawn Rune. Is yours gonna be ok by itself versus that thing?

[sparkling_eyes]

I think I can manage on my own if things get bad. It'll be harder, but it was actually pretty late in the war by the time I was chosen by the Twilight Rune. Until then the Prince's Rune was doing most of the work.

[weiss_tank]

Alright, if you say so. Damn it, what are we gonna do about that roof...I don't know if the town will fix it now.

[sparkling_eyes]

I'm sorry! I'll fix it myself if you show me where the tools are. It's only fair since I'm the one who put the hole there in the first place.

[weiss_tank]

What? No! You'll kill yourself up there!

[sparkling_eyes]

I'd feel much better taking responsibility for it myself. At least let me pay for the repair if we're able to find someone else to do it.

[weiss_tank]

...alright, that you can do. You blew a pretty good hole up there and who knows weakened what else.

[sparkling_eyes]

I know. I really should have been more careful.

[weiss_tank]

Well, we'll worry about that after breakfast. It's almost ready.

[sparkling_eyes]

Oh! What did you make?

[weiss_tank]

French toast. Miakis seemed to like it the last time I made it so... I figured it might be nice after all the shit this town just pulled in rapid succession.

[sparkling_eyes]

That all seems like so long ago now. Has it really only been a few days here?

[weiss_tank]

[Ken nodded] Yeah, you only went freaky for a little bit.

[sparkling_eyes]

[Lyon blushes and then quickly frowns.]

...Please don't remind me of that.

[weiss_tank]

Sorry Lyon. Now come down and eat.

[sparkling_eyes]

All right, I'll be down in a minute.

[She gets changed into her usual attire upstairs and shows up a few minutes later at the breakfast table.]

[weiss_tank]

[It's fairly standard french toast fare. Powered sugar and enough syrup to drown a small island.]

[sparkling_eyes]

It's really good! We don't have this kind of food back in Falena.

[weiss_tank]

Miakis said! Maybe when you go home you can take the recipe with you.

[sparkling_eyes]

I bet Retso could do amazing things with it.

[weiss_tank]

Retso? Who's that? [It's not often he gets to hear about some more of the people from Falena.]

[sparkling_eyes]

He was the Prince's cook.

[weiss_tank]

Ah I see, it makes sense that someone like the prince would have a personal cook.