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4 Monster Friends [Action/Voice]

[ When Arietta first comes back to the village, she doesn't think much of it. Sure, there are a few new faces around, but she was kidnapped right before another New Feather cycle.

But as she makes her way back to House 47, things seem a bit strange. Dated, even. And they only get stranger when she finds out just who else is in House 47.

Finally she decides enough is enough, and goes for the journals.

Anyone who's met Arietta might notice that at the moment, she seems a bit... well. Older. ]

Hello. Um, I was wondering. Is Yushen listening to this? Or Wiz? [ Who else has been in Luceti for a long time...? ] Cloche?

If any of you hear this, I want to talk to you...

[ Where have all her Luceti friends gone 8'( ]

(( Arietta has been aged-up nine years in an alternate Luceti as detailed here! ))

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Yes, that's me. Who is...

[ But she trails off as the voice clicks in her memory. It's one she hasn't heard in a while, and probably one she'd been hoping not to hear ever again. Luceti had become her safe haven from all the bad things of her own world. And though there were certainly people from back home who she'd missed... ]

Jade.

[ none of them were murderers. 8( ]

[Sheesh, you kill one monster mom...]

Correct.

[The contrast between his previous Luceti encounter with Arietta speaks volumes. Could this one be capable of conversation? He wonders what could have changed.]

What's happened to you?

Can't you tell? I've been here for a long time.

[ It was the important monster mom, okay. Harumph. ]

Hasn't anyone told you about how time is strange here? [ Because she doesn't want to ok. ]

I'm well aware of that aspect of this place, Arietta. But that's only a detail rather than a full theory explaining our foray into adulthood.

[But the potential explanations are narrowed down themselves; he knows she can't have been switched for an older version of herself from home because, well... there is no later point for her. ~~And that one's not COMPLETELY his fault, he totally spared her that one time Ion asked him to!~~]

How long have you been like this?

Like what?

[ Petulant and unhelpful? Oh, years. ]

Like a young adult. [Sigh.]

Ever since I grew up. What kind of question is that?

[ Watch, Jade, she is going to be the most helpful.

... Which admittedly is still a lot more helpful than she was when she was younger... ]

Who was it who said something about time being strange here?

I've only ever known you to be a young teenage girl, Arietta.

I know. I grew up more here.

No you didn't. You only think you did.

No, I really did! You just think I didn't!

Oh, so it's my memory that's the problem? The troubles of an aging memory aside, I'm afraid that if you ask around the village, you should find that the most likely possibility is that it is only you who has been altered by the Malnosso.

[ She doesn't want to believe it, even though she's had enough experience to know that it could certainly happen. ]

Well, you're wrong! I know that I grew up! Just because you never saw it doesn't mean it didn't happen!

[The more things change, the more Arietta is still difficult to talk sense into.]

Well, I can't argue with a testimony like that. Not when you're simply bursting with maturity. [Sarcasm.]

[ Shut up, she totally has more maturity now! Really! ]

I don't have to talk to you!

[ ... Really we swear. ]

Of course you don't. Especially if you prefer less intellectual conversation.

[ Were you trying to insult her, Jade? Because she's not insulted.

It's just coincidental timing that she closes her journal on him and makes her stance on this conversation very clear. ]

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