2019-11-25: C.U.C.C.O.
- Log: C.U.C.C.O.
- Cast: Riesenlied, Fei Fong Wong, Noeline
- Where: Windfall Island
- Date: 25th November 2019
- Summary: Fei and Hammer meet Riesenlied and Noeline in the midst of a cuccollective consciousness. buk buk buk buk buk
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Noeline and Riesenlied have been travelling, adventuring and keeping active; in the wake of the Fereshte being gone, staying active has been a means by which she can keep her mood and emotions buoyed and not sink too hard in silence and desperation.
Windfall Island, however, is not just a mere matter of 'travel' and 'adventure'.
It is destiny.
"aaa"
She spots a farm.
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
A farm whose free-range pen is full of white, and cockles of red.
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
Several townsfolk hurry over to the mildly perplexed but pleased owner of Cuccorico Coop, who's watching the entirety of her flock gather in a spherical cuccoon around a certain Hyadean who as they might say has actually reached a state of supreme enlightenment.
"The cucco queen... has arrived..."
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
"So you're serious about this, bro?" Hammer asks Fei. "Solaris hasn't been flexing too hard yet but if there's a rebellion on the surface..."
"Yeah," Fei says. "But Doc's right, we need allies. And first..." He spreads out a map of Aquvy dotted with various cucco stickers, small ones indicating a smaller cucco population while bright red mob cucco stickers indicating a high population. "I have to find her and see what she thinks."
A NOTABLE NUMBER OF CUCCO RELATED SIDEQUESTS RELATED
Fei arrives on Windfall Island, flicking off some cucco feathers off his shoulder. "I hope she's here..."
"I-It'll be nice to see Miss Riesenlied again." Hammer says.
The two make their way towards the farm.
"Hammer..." Fei says.
"O..oh? Yeah b-bro?"
Fei looks over to him and smiles, "Thanks for being a good friend to Elly. I know it's hard to trust me right now, but knowing you're sticking around for her sake. It's a relief."
Hammer flinches. "Y...you noticed?"
Fei nods once. "Yeah. And don't worry about it. I get it."
Fei notices passerbys running for a 'mysterious cucco queen' and Fei jogs after them with a 'come on Hammer! She must be nearby!'.
And he only slows upon seeing the cuccoon.
"Oh no... are we too late??" Fei asks, sinking to his knees.
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
For Noeline, there's another side to their travelling around - not only is it a means to look for the Fereshte and keep Riesenlied's spirits up, but it's also a chance to rekindle her memories, watch for changes and shifts in places she last visited decades ago, and show her partner a little of the path she took when heading for the west so long ago.
Windfall Island is a lot more picturesque than she remembers, though part of her does have to wonder if it's just that she can appreciate that kind of thing a lot more now. It might have been a little sleepy for her when she first passed through, perhaps, but there's something very pleasant about the town's modern style without it descending into something like Guild Galad. Besides, the breeze is /very/ nice.
"I remember a little inn on the upper walls," she muses aloud - to herself, because she hasn't realized that there's a dotted outline where her partner was just sitting in her wheelchair. "It's probably not there anymore, but hopefully we can find one in a similar spot. It gives you a very pleasant view out to the-- sea..." she trails off, blinking absently at the empty chair.
And then squints, as a burst of enthusiasm and joy louder than any she's experienced passes over their link. It really doesn't take much to follow it to its origin point, not when she spots the round fluffy ball of white.
"I think we'll be fine," she snorts a little as she leans on the fence next to where Fei has dramatically slumped, a quiet grin playing on her face as she watches the cuccos flock. "Or maybe I should say: I think she deserves this for a while, after everything that's happened." A pause, because she remembers the last time this happened. "... in moderation."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
ADLEHYDE
Peg-Leg Bill uneasily rocks on his rocking chair outside the Starfall Saloon, half-asleep; he's got a cane to go with where once stood his leg, now nothing more than a crude wooden prosthetic. He's about to lull to unconsciousness when---
caw
Peg-Leg Bill sweats and panics. He looks around. "... just a darn rooster," he concludes as a black-feathered chicken bobbles on down.
"Been two years since the Skies Darkened... ain't gonna ever forget that..."
HERE
The wheelchair is empty, but that is because Riesenlied is being slowly guided on a thoroughly fluffy bed of white feathered friends towards the fence when she detects Noeline, who of course has followed her, and...
"Oh! Feei, Hammer!" Riesenlied waves, looking extraordinarily happy. She's waving with both of her arms. "Do you want to play with the cuccos too?"
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
"Heck yeah d00ds." Hammer says, in a good enough mood to accidentally slip into the secret beastman tongue of l337. He aims to crouch down and pet one (1) cucco that is not also one (1) Riesenlied since that would be a bit awkward. Besides she's not just a cucco she's a queen.
Fei meanwhile manages a smile despite his goofing around and says, "Sure," He approaches and ducks down and fans out his arms in preparation to be destroyed by coo.
...ngh...
"My body is ready." Fei says. "But to be honest I had something I wanted to tell you... and maybe ask you about too if you are up for it."
He looks to Noeline. "You've been here before? This is my first time in Aquvy... I guess you're the real vet now huh?" He grins briefly.
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
Noeline's definitely feeling lighter, because when she spots Riesenlied's wave she even goes so far as to openly wave back, chuckling gently to herself at the same time. "I'm sorry about this," she notes to the owner of the coop, her eyes dancing with amusement. "But if it's any consolation, your birds are probably going to be very happy for some time to come."
She keeps pace with the cucco float, hopping over the fence and careful not to jostle any of the cuccos. There's a tiny amount of awkwardness to her - she's not as good with them as Fei or Hammer, let alone Riesenlied - but then she huffs out a breath as she scoops up a small handful of seeds from a nearby bag, then kneels carefully down to present them in the palm of her hand.
"That's right," she hums to Fei, watching as Riesenlied is made the centrepiece of the pen. "But it's been long enough that most of it is..." she furrows her brow for a moment, then decides on: "New again. Familiar, but still with interesting things to find in it." The look on her face is clear about what she thinks of that - she's always been pretty clear that sort of thing is why she travels in the first place.
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
"My! It's fine, it's fine. I haven't seen my flock be this content, you are right," answers the owner of Cuccorico Coop, who wanders off and probably is pleased she doesn't have to recruit green-tuniced elf boys to gather her cuccos for one (1) bottle.
The cuccos seem...
They seem really docile. puk puk
Fei gets a scoopful of cute cuccos while Hammer pets one, and Noeline has a few feeding out of her hand.
"I have only heard of this island from my pen pals," Riesenlied answers, indicating towards the owner. ... another one?! "Or rather, her mother was my pen pal. That was where I heard of the noble cucco for the first time. I earnestly wished to meet them...! I did not get a chance until Adlehyde..."
She bobbles her head and smiles wider at Fei. "Is Elly not around? What have you all been up to?"
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
puk puk.
Fei drifts amongst a sea of cuccos. Fei used to be kind of leery of Riesenlied's...stranger aspects of her empathic abilities but as Fei is kind of getting more understanding of his own, well, he seems to 'get it' better.
Hammer seems to gradually calm a little through cucco therapy but honestly more than one would probably freak him out. Sometimes the dosage makes the poison or the cure.
"It's great that you get to see all the things you wanted to see," Hammer is saying. "Personally I'm real glad to be out of D Block but I never really thought about what to do afterwards. I'm doing the same sort of stuff I did in D-Block outside of it, heh."
Fei glances to Hammer briefly before shaking his head. "Elly is staying with Emeralda." He smiles bashfully. "You know I was worried at first they wouldn't get along but I think Emeralda might even prefer her company to mine these days, eheh... well, I just hope I don't... dissapoint her too much. Either of them. I still haven't told her about Id but...she's a kid, you know? I don't know if it's 'fair' or not but..."
He strokes a cucco wing gently. "I wonder if when we make it back to Adlehyde...if it'll look completely different. It's been working on repairs for a while now. I wouldn't be surprised if they're done by the time we get back, especially if Asgard's helpin'."
He blinks a few times. "Oh uh--yeah... Speaking of Emeralda... She's really worried about being taken back by... I wanted to ask...um. The Black Wolves and I were talking... and I think we've figured out our next move. At least, our next move as it pertains to Solaris. We decided to, um, 'stop' them. Right now it's kind of a far off goal but if we don't start making steps now we'll never get anywhere." He shakes his head. "We intend to find a way to Shevat...and ask for their help in stopping Solaris. And--I know that fighting isn't really your 'thing' but--When the time comes, I was wondering if you'd be up for lending your strength."
He raises his head. "I understand that um--it might be difficult so it's totally okay if you're not up for something like that. And--I mean--you might change your mind but... I have to do something so I thought I'd ask you."
Hammer gets pretty quiet and somber at this.
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
Noeline has to pause at that particular revelation, only now realizing that Windfall Island is the start of it all: the Cucco Origin Zero. "... I see... I'm glad we could come," she chuckles towards where her partner rules the cucco court. "It's the sort of place that I thought would suit you-- well, perhaps a bit more built up than that now," she amends as she looks towards the city proper. "But still in touch with nature."
She's... obviously not sure what to do once the cuccos are fussing around her and angling for more of that seed, looking kind of cutely bewildered as she realizes she doesn't dare move for fear of squashing one of them.
When she pauses, it's in Hammer's direction. Maybe Noeline can draw some comparisons, as someone who was chained to the Photosphere for a long time before managing to escape it and expand her world. "It's fine to keep doing what you're doing," she eventually notes. "Take your time - there's no downside to seeing new things. If one of them is something you want to try, you can always switch to that, but it's hardly a race."
She draws quiet after that, because Fei is making his request; she waits for it to finish, then puts her hand slowly to her forehead to let out a theatrical sigh. "... honestly... you certainly know when to pick your moments," she grouses, though not harshly. "Here I was looking to just let Riese sink into a bit of bliss for a while."
She looks up towards the sky for a moment, and then glances at her partner, her expression turned down into a frown. "... we need to find the Fereshte first, I feel. I-- am certainly not eager to throw ourselves into another conflict when we're still recovering from so many of them back-to-back, and this will bring Wayside along for the ride. It doesn't feel like something we can decide on our own."
"Still... we have Lydie to help. And if we wish to keep flying, Solaris will be our enemies regardless. And I did make a promise to tear them down to the ground, I suppose," she adds, a little awkward about that last part.
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
"I can feel... much the same way," Riesenlied speaks gently to Hammer inbetween having a cucco nestled beside her cheek. "Traveling away from the Gutter... to Ignas." She reminisces how fortunate it is in the end that the fateful meeting she had with Id was what sparked all of that, after Garlyle's destruction. "And in many ways, I am doing much the same things I did in the Gutter too, so I do not think it is something to worry about...?"
Fei says Elly's with Emeralda. "Hmm... I think she will come to understand it in her own way, at her own time," she advises Fei. "But... I know you've been a good dad to her." She smiles a bit. "Trust me as one parent to another."
He muses on when they'll make it back to Adlehyde...
"... Wayside has been contributing too. I know some of the regulars have made fast friends there, yet ..." Riesenlied closes her eyes. "I have accepted in my heart there may still be some people who will not forgive me."
But Fei makes his request known... of stopping Solaris. Her lips purse quietly.
"Did you know, Fei...?" Riesenlied holds the cucco on her shoulder to her hands. "There was... there was actually a moment where I was like an enraged cucco at Solaris, seeing red."
She lowers the cucco, who puk puks in her hand as she gestures it towards Noeline to feed. None of them seem like they'd mind a little squashing, at least.
"After father died. After I heard what Krelian did to Lydia. After I heard OS suggest that what happened to /me/ was in part orchestrated by /them/--"
She's silent for a moment as the cuccos look to her.
"... then I got really, really scared by that anger. That flash of hatred. ..."
She cuddles that cucco, but then reaches her good hand towards Noeline.
"But I've been thinking so much of those words. A love that won't fight when others are suffering..."
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"That's why... I'm going to fight for love."
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
Cuccocourt...
Fei grimaces. "Sorry," He says to Noeline. This isn't to say he kind of wasn't tempted to just pet birds the whole day but it would feel a bit fowl all told. The cuccorruption of Solaris can't be ignored any longer.
And yet he can't help but worry. Is he just walking down a familiar road? It's tough to avoid them when so many feel like deja vu.
"Well we're not marching up tommorow. We don't even know how to get there." Elly might know more but what are the odds that the security protocols haven't been changed since she left. "And...that's partly why I feel like we have to go on our own terms. There's always going to be...some conflict or another and Solaris is going to take advantage of them. But hopefully we'll find the Fereshte before too long."
Hammer laughs, "Eheh... Don't get me wrong. It's good work. You can always count on this supplier," He tries to sound confident but does not succeed at this.
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Hammer looks away when Riesenlied starts talking about Krelian, and about what happened to Lydia. "She..uh..have you seen her since then..?"
Fei feels like he should walk carefully around the topic of Lydia, as if there were a bunch of eels on the ground and he'd be in real trouble if he stepped on one, even as his cheeks redden at being called a good dad. He hopes so. He doubts he can ever really be sure. And maybe that's for the best. A lot of those bad dads always seemed so certain...
"Oh uh. I didn't know." He admits. And then honestly kind of grins a bit. "Heh, it actually feels good to know even you've got your limits." He stammers, "I uh. I uh--I mean, I'm just saying because--I get mad. A lot. So it's a relief knowing it's not just me all the time?"
He didn't hear that this Krelian had a hand in what happened to Riesenlied. He frowns a little and rubs at his forehead. Something about Krelian... Something--
He is distracted before he can finish that thought. "Oh uh-..." Now his entire face is red. "You..heard that, huh?"
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
Noeline's caution isn't just for her own sake, of course. Part of it is her attempt to be more of a measured leader for Wayside, recognizing she can't just keep doing things like getting up in Sin's face without thinking of what it might mean for the rest of their group. Part of it is obviously caution for Riesenlied's sake instead; she really would like nothing more than to take a long vacation poking around Aquvy's islands, and even if that's not realistic she can at least hope for one day more, one day at a time.
And part of her is still that girl who wishes to just slip herself and Riese away from all their worries and enjoy themselves, and she comes out for just a tiny instant as she lets out a sigh. Then it's gone, and she makes peace with that fact as she feels her hand nestle around Riesenlied's to squeeze it in support.
"They may not forgive us yet - but that doesn't mean they never will," she offers gently in reminder, along with a warm smile. "We've earned the trust of people we never thought we would - of the Guardians, of Lombardia. We can still hope. ... I'll be at your side, no matter what," she promises quietly as her answer.
Unwilling to let go of her partner's hand, it takes a little maneuvering - but Noeline eventually manages to seat herself on the ground without catching a cucco under her, and part of her hair splits and she looks even more bewildered when a cucco decides to try roosting in her lap.
"We have," she simply says back to Fei with a quick nod. "Or perhaps it would be appropriate to say we've seen both Lydie and OS. They are doing-- better than I hoped? They seem to have a lot more autonomy than I expected, that's for sure. It's let us clear the air a little, and take OS to a fair," she adds with a quiet smile of both pride and quiet humour at the Wayside Way Of Things.
"... I don't know if I'm the sort to fight for love, at least in Solaris' case. But I can certainly try, and if not then I'll fight to show them that the only thing that separates Solaris from surface-dwellers is altitude sickness," she puffs quietly.
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied isn't about to get wrapped too much in it; a flash from their rings indicate that she still wants to enjoy her time here in Aquvy, for however long they can, together, just the two of them.
"... it's okay," she reassures as Fei apologises. "We're going to play with the cuccos and spend more time in Windfall after this."
As for how to even get to Shevat... hmm...
Riesenlied closes her eyes and says, "I could turn into a dragon! I could fly and fly until my might is no more, and... well, we would fall down and turn into pancakes, I am afraid."
That's not gonna work. As Noeline says, they might have to find the Fereshte first, but the Fereshte has an even more spectacular way of blowing up.
"Shevat is high in the sky, is it not? Maybe if we found a high place to climb up first..."
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Hammer asks if she's seen Lydia again, and... there's a quiet nod as she remarks, "We have. She is being allowed to roam under watch, on a... 'work release program'." She closes her eyes tighter and says, "No doubt they are watching, but we have very little to hide."
Noeline reminds her of the kinds of people they've earned the trust of... and it has her smiling wider for a moment.
Then Fei gets more bashful as he says she heard--
"I did. When I was channeling the ley in the Fallen Sanctuary. Those words have stayed with me since then. Thank you."
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
Fei lowers his head. "...Heh, well, maybe I should thank K.K if we ever see them again." Fei has no intention of thanking someone who taught him a life lesson by threatening Love Itself with malevolence but he can be wry about it since it's been ages since the Trial Knight wreaked havoc on a village or Krosse. They've fight the giant death whale like twice since then!
"Well I don't think Doc would've made the suggestion if there was no way to get there." How Doc would know about such a method is a mystery but Doc hasn't steered Fei wrong before. He may have delivered Weltall to him once or twice when he really wished he hadn't but--Fei has learned to accept Weltall.
...Accept, Fei thinks, but he can't help but wonder how Cecilia can look at a golem and find friendship and love, how Dean can be so eager to befriend these weapons of war. Asgard is not like Weltall, of course, but--
--he'll worry about where that train of thought leads later.
"Don't let me stop you from playing with cuccos though. I know I can be kind of a downer but... I'm really grateful I could be your friend. I spent a long time being distrustful of you two, but now it's hard to imagine how I ever thought like that. You have my upmost faith."
He smiles. "But I'm glad your 'kid' is doing better. Emeralda was in that position before and like I said, she seems worried about being taken back..."
Hammer is looking kind of uncomfortable and quietly hugs his cucco and looks down at it.
A high place to climb up... there've been a few places like that, but... "...I guess if we're going to get to Shevat, we should first figure out where to go. Maybe there are folks around here who know a bit about it."
They say an enemy of an enemy is a friend, Fei reflects, but is that true? He may not have a choice.
"You...all are really good at looking at the bright side of things," Hammer says.
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
Noeline doesn't dwell on it for long either; it's just a facet of her personality she's come to accept, rather than let herself be ruled by, and she hums quietly as she nods. "Windfall's a pleasant place to stay. You should both consider it yourself, along with the others," she nudges. Still, she might be a bit biased, given the way she's sat next to her partner in cucco heaven.
"High enough we're likely going to need help," the Hyadean points out to her partner, a frown flickering across her face. "Lombardia... would probably be much too easy an answer, and besides, she is not with us right now. Perhaps if we were able to reinforce the Fereshte, but that still seems rather touch and go, or at least has a great many unknowns."
She frowns after a moment, then raises her eyebrows. "I suppose the real question is 'how do they get down to the surface?' They must have a way of returning - I refuse to believe any soldier of Solaris would volunteer to go somewhere they despise without having a way back."
But beyond the light huff, the tone of her voice is peaceful; she leans a little to one side as she rests against Riesenlied's arm, the height difference making it a little fiddly but still comfortable. (Noeline is not the Queen of the Cuccos, after all, so doesn't get hoisted up in quite the same way.) "Don't worry about it," she chuckles, a little bashful as Fei compliments them. "I spent a lot of time being very distrustable, after all."
"It takes time. But you get there," she adds to Hammer with a definite light laugh. "If it were half a year ago or more, I'm sure I'd be beside myself about Lydie, but-- well, all I can do is trust that she's trying her best, and trust that we'll be able to catch up to her and help her."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
"They have powerful ships. The 'Tzadkiel' that plagued us back in Wayside, followed us to Lunar and... eventually met its end at father's hands..." Riesenlied muses of Noeline's ponderances. "And ontop of that? I assume they also have appropriated some means of teleportation. Perhaps an Elw teleporter of their own. Perhaps the Sorcery Globe, much like Odessa, if its power is far reaching..."
The cuccos, curiously, seem all that comfortable with Noeline. Perhaps, as Chevalier of the Cucco Queen, she assumes a rank that is... equal?!!?!
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Riesenlied does lower her head quietly on the news of K.K., but nods gently as she whispers, "They protected and rescued me, along with the rest of you. And yet I know for certain from what I have glimpsed in Krosse that our paths must cross. It is also because of them... that I will fight for love."
She smiles just a bit wider at Fei as she scratches her cheek and says--
"Um, actually... I have begun to hear her voice again. Nasrin's," she admits. "I think... we are in a slightly better place. Maybe she is reticient still, but..."
Nasrin stirs quietly within that frosty room of hers with a grunt.
"I am glad... to have your faith." Then she reaches over and squeezes Noeline's hands together, smiling wider.
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
"Heh," Fei chuckles briefly as if to suggest that Siegfried is SUCH A STINKER but it's perhaps understandable that in a battle between Solaris and a guy he has fond memories of even if they aren't exactly his memories--well...it's easier to think fondly of the dead than it is the people actively trying to kidnap your children and friends! Also murder Elly!
The Sorcery Globe is certainly one solution but that's assuming that Doc can figure out the Sorcery Globe and how it works and Fei has a sneaking suspicion that med school doesn't cover Sorcery Globes. Just mechanics, psychology, machine operation, martial arts...
"Heh. Id's still around too. But he hasn't uh tried to hurt anybody, as far as I know, since the Photosphere."
He grimaces a bit. "But uh. That might change.
Id seethes, mad at Fei for...some reason.
"Hey you earned me. I know I haven't made it easy. And I'm not talking about the other guy at all there." He frowns. "Um, I don't feel like... I have much right to ask Lombardia for help. Especially not over a conflict that injured her in the first place. I'm grateful for her but like she said, she deserves the chance to rest and not get dragged into fighting. I mean I still don't know why she bothered to help fight Sin but...I haven't even repaid her for that yet."
Hammer nods slowly to Noeline, looking miserable even with cucco presence but he still doesn't bring up what /he/ talked to Lydia about. Discretion is part of a supplier's job.
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Hammer knew the cuccos would understand.
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
Noeline feels herself be nudged upwards as a couple of the cuccos start to add her to the flock, and the pip she makes is sufficiently rare for her that her mouth clamps shut immediately afterwards, her lips pressed thin into a line as she tries to huff from between them to little success.
Like a cat, it takes her a few moments to preen herself back to respectability, then Riesenlied squeezes her hands and she naturally responds with a quiet smile and a gesture in kind. "... I'm truly glad. Not just for what it means on a spiritual level, but for how much it speaks to you being more comfortable with yourself and your past. Of course... I hope I might be able to say that much to her as well, at some point."
She pauses again when she considers their available methods of flight, and slowly nods her head. "That's a fair point. To be honest, I wouldn't want to drag her back into a fight like this either. As you say, I'm terribly grateful for her help with Sin, and sad that we didn't get the chance to talk properly - but asking her to fight would certainly be rather unfair."
Her thoughts on the Trial Knight are much less formed than Riesenlied; she never really had the same attachment to them that Riesenlied did. Still, she knows first-hand how much support K.K. offered to her partner, seeing her through some of the hardest times in the wake of Adlehyde, in the role they played in freeing Riesenlied in Elru. That counts for a great deal, and she frowns quietly as she thinks of it.
And then another cucco decides to jump onto her head, all wings and noise before it settles down and leaves Noeline red-faced. :I
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.
"It's a good look for you," Fei says, noting the cucco on Noeline's head with a deadpan expression on his face.
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Fei mentions that Id is still around. On some level, Riesenlied thinks she knows. She wonders, of that promise. To share in all the pain and burden he experienced... can she still fulfill that promise?
Perhaps it's one that she and Nasrin both need to work together on...
"I could say the same, given the circumstances," Riesenlied answers, of their friendship. But of Lombardia...
She frowns quietly.
"I hope she is all right. That was a nasty fall she took to the ocean..." She lowers her head. "I still have... things to tell her. News to relate. She... she needs to know....."
The cucco sitting on Noeline's head elicits a little squeal from Riesenlied as she says, "Cuccos do not sit on people's heads unless they explicitly and wholly trust them. Well done, Noeline!"
A pause, and she goes, "Mmhm, mmhmm..."
She pauses, and then looks to Noeline. "This cucco shares your passion for resisting Solaris and protecting others."
!?
Well, Riesenlied's powerset basically could be described as 'Disney Princess'...
"... we should try again, sometime," she suggests to Noeline. "We have become stronger, spiritually, since then."
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