SUMMER 7 - ACTION (morning: housemates / afternoon: ota)

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SUMMER 7 MORNING: DEER CABIN

[April woke a bit late in the morning, feeling unusually well-rested for the first time in years; barring a single exception when she was in the Lunacen Tower, it'd been a considerable amount of time since she'd last had a decent bed, and thanks to that, she almost didn't want to get up at all. She didn't want to laze the whole day away, though, so she eventually forced herself from the bed, and turned her attention to the bag she had brought with her. She'd only set it down and hadn't bothered to unpack its contents yesterday, so she might as well take care of that now.

Not that there was much to unpack, just some extra clothing and a few other necessities.

When she made her way down to the cabin's communal room, she realized that her housemates were either still in their respective rooms, or were already outside of the cabin already doing their own things. She wasn't about to check their individual rooms—especially with not yet having even met the second of those housemates yet—but it made enough sense to assume that Chloe might have gone out on that walk she had mentioned.

Though the day was a cloudy one, going for a walk of her own didn't seem like a terrible idea after all. Before that, though, she needed to see what her options were as far as breakfast went.]

SUMMER 7 AFTERNOON: GENERAL STORE / THE LAKE

[She began her walk in the middle of the afternoon, having taken some time after her breakfast to clean up a bit and try some of the extra clothing that Elia had given her when she left Lunascen; most of what she'd been given looked like it had been chosen based on her apparent preferences, so she simply grabbed one of those outfits and called it a day. There was one piece of clothing there that didn't really fit in with the rest—a blue dress with some silver trimmings—and though it struck her as familiar somehow, she wondered if it had been put in with the rest by mistake.

After she finally went outside, the first place she went was the general store, mostly for a quick visit to see what was offered because she had come straight to the cabin almost immediately after stepping off the ferry. After some browsing (but not picking anything up; she was just looking), she continued on her way, and before she knew it, she'd wandered out toward the lake. Her last few experiences involving forested areas hadn't exactly been pleasant, and though things here looked much calmer in comparison to the forests back home (especially in recent times, with everything that was going on over the past weeks), there still was that nagging feeling that she was being watched. It made her a little uncomfortable, really, and if anyone else happened upon her while she was out here, that discomfort would be pretty clear to them as well.]

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[That is a possibility, she thinks, but way Zelgadis delivers the remark makes April think he may be saying it as a joke. Or an attempt at one, anyway.]

Well, I guess we'll be finding out.

[She sees what he's doing with that lily pad, but makes no move to question it, figuring that he might have decided to try to find out why they were told to be wary of the things.]

Kinda guessed from your saying how to take them down that you were speaking from experience. You some kind of hunter or something? [One of the people in the group she had been with—Koria's brother, she'd recently learned—called himself a hunter. In her world, the term was largely used in reference to those who hunted demons and other dangerous creatures.]

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It's a useful skill. [ He shrugs; no big deal to smash through monsters, right? ] Sometimes it pays well, but usually it's simply unavoidable in my travels. It's not like I go looking for trouble.

[ As if he wasn't tempting fate by pulling one of the lily pads out of the water to take back to the cabin with him. ]