shawarma time

[finalmix]

[ some time after Atem's palace when everyone has had the time to get back from braphine's temple, and more importantly get that sand out of your everything (and enjoy NOT 40 degree Celsius weather)

everyone who was in Atem's palace will find themselves suddenly added to a group chat by joshua and he just sends a singular address

it's the address to a shawarma place that somehow magically has a big enough table to fit 14 people. amazing. we love fluid locations like this.

post palace dinner, y'all know the drill ]

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[beathollow]

Mint's good for things like that, I think... and lemonade is supposed to be sweet.

( she's trying to find something that could boost her mood a little, but when it comes to food and drink she is the literal worst. )

[moodwrecker]

For lemonade, it depends.

...I think I'll just hold off for now.

[beathollow]

Okay.

--Hey, let me see your phone? Please.

[moodwrecker]

...?

Sure.

[Handing it over.]

[beathollow]

( just fiddling for a moment. when she hands it back, aubrey will have...



t. the entire nightcord discography? and some stuff by a band named leo/need and another group called vivid bad squad downloaded onto her phone.

more importantly, there's a pre-made playlist called "bed time". if she checks, it's some of nightcord's gentler songs, and a lot of music box instrumentals of them, too.

one specific song is starred. whenever aubrey does hit play, she'll find it's the song that the music box celeste used in the palace. )

...



I thought it might help later. And, the other groups... are my underclassmen's band and group, respectively.

[moodwrecker]

[When she takes the phone back, the surprise is clear on her face at how much music there suddenly is on her phone. Whoa.]

I- um, thank you.

[She's never been much of a music person, at least in the sense of listening to it on devices - Mari and Sunny always performed for them, and she loved that plenty, but she never had the money for a portable cassette or CD player.]

...Do the other two have a certain genre?

[beathollow]

Leo/need is a standard band...? I'm not sure how to classify it, but they're very talented. My friend's little sister is in it as the bassist. Vivid Bad Squad focuses on street music though. I also have a friend's idol group, and another's theater group, but I wasn't entirely sure if those would be your thing...?

[moodwrecker]

...Probably not. But - thanks. I'll give them a listen.

[beathollow]

I'm not really good at this sort of thing. But music is what's helped me, so... I hope it can do the same for you.

[moodwrecker]

...I don't know if it's even possible to be "good" at something like this.

[beathollow]

Someone's got to be able to do it, if we have therapists.

[moodwrecker]

I've never seen one myself.

[Shocking to learn, I'm sure.]

[beathollow]

Neither have I.


I think maybe I should fix that? Japan's take on mental health is.... immensely flawed. But...

...

I'm not sure I want to go back.

[moodwrecker]

...

I mean, I get it, but... where would you go?

[beathollow]

That is the question, yes. But... Dad- Celeste, I think, is willing. To bring me in, I mean... and Arven has asked if I was interested in going to his world as well. So I don't think I'm out of options.

It's- something I want to think more on about, before I talk to anyone about actually going with them.

[moodwrecker]

[...

Dad????]

I don't know anything about Celeste, but Arven's world seems like it would be interesting.

[Purely because he gets a magical dog so like. Who wouldn't want to live in magical pet world, really.]

[beathollow]

Mm. It would be nice to visit wherever. ... And, I would like for my friends back home to be able to visit, too, if I don't go back.

...

( maybe she should talk to braphine...? )

[moodwrecker]

...Yeah. It would really suck to lose touch them after everything you've been through together.