mikanphones | 002nd Oversoul ♨ Voice

[The house had feels odd when he wakes up in the morning. It's something easy to notice for him, even if it still surprises him at times, like when he was able to felt that Manta was in danger. It's a subtle feeling, general and vague, that something isn't right, that something is lacking. His first thought goes for the samurai spirit that has been his companion for the longest time. It's natural after all, since the first moment he arrived here the samurai's presence had been vague and hard to see, even if he was clearly there, it was also as if he wasn't entirely there. To think that something terrible has happened, like Amidamaru using up all his furyoku to be able to just be in that state of presence or that Yoh's powers have finally vanished for some reason, isn't that strange or a wild conclusion.

But that's not it. Vague and subtle, just a fine outline of what would be Amidamaru's body, but he can still sense him there with him. Still there and also having a bad feeling, or does he actually know what's wrong? It's hard to tell when all he can pick up is a general idea of the samurai's feelings. Anyway, if Amidamaru's there then that only leaves Sonic to be the problem. It had been great to find his second spirit companion at the village as well when he arrived, specially since he was able to talk with him normally, though it made him worry more about why Amidamaru wasn't the same. What was the difference between both spirits?

Yoh makes his way to Sonic's room, it was a bit strange yet to get used to the idea that the spirit had a room of his own, but it didn't really matter much to him. Sonic not being there doesn't worry him either, the hedgehog had always been just like the wind, free and unstoppable when he wanted to be so. He probably had just gone out for some reason or another. Except because his room is completely empty.]

... Sonic?

[Amidamaru is by his side, he knows it and he can feel the samurai trying to comfort him. No, it's not that, he's... Reassuring him, that's the term. Though he's not sure what the spirit is trying to reassure him of. That Sonic will be fine back home? That he's still here at least? No, Yoh doesn't need that sort of reassuring either way. Even if it's sad to see his friend leave after so little time. He can feel Amidamaru try to guide him to the journals, Yoh obbeys easily, he trusts his friend after all even if he can't understand what he's trying to do exactly. Just like his friends trust him even if they don't get him the whole time.

A couple of entries later, Yoh's smiling as calmly as always. The brief moment of worry gone. Apparently his friend hadn't been sent home, most probably he had just been moved like other people seemed to have been moved. Definitively better.]

Hey, Sonic. If you hear this before you return home, can you go and get some groceries on your way here? Since you're already out and all that.

[Yoh laughs, nothing wrong in taking advantage of the situation, right?]

I hope that at least all your things are with you, because there's nothing left here. It will be a pain if we have to go around hunting for them.

How many people have been moved overnight, by the way? Is this a common happening? I can hear that the bit about missing a whole day seems to be common enough to be something to worry about. I really hope this doesn't have secondary effects like making us more forgetful when we grow old, or to start having memory problems before we're too old. That would be quite troublesome.

[And yet, judging by his laugh it doesn't seem he's particularly worried about it. Mostly because he's not, it's hard to worry about something that's beyond his control after all or something about which he can't do anything yet.]

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I noticed that when I arrived myself. It's good that there's so many people ready to help, specially in the first moments, those can be quite hard.

I guess it's easy because everyone feels like they can relate. We've all been in that position before.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Still I've to admit I'm a bit impressed by it, with new people arriving so often I would have thought some of the people who have been here for longer would be [Jaded. Angry. Frustrated.] tired of repeating the explanations of this place again and again.

I'm sure some are. But for the few that are, there are a number of people who aren't, and they tend to help keep things going.

That's a good way to keep it balanced.

[Yoh laughs a bit.]

By the way, does anyone know how many people are in the village normally? More or less at least.

A couple hundred people. It's definitely on the smaller side, despite how large the village looks. Those buildings are tall, but there aren't actually a whole lot of people staying in them.

[Yoh hums at that.]

Yeah, that's not very big for a village. Even more so with those buildings, were those in place already or have villagers built them? Ah, maybe the question should be if the villagers asked for them to be built, thinking about it I doubt we can find the amount of materials needed to build that ourselves.

They weren't always here, and I don't think anyone asked for them, either. I remember that the Malnosso added two of them when there was an influx of New Feathers. The buildings just appeared overnight!

Really? ... Maybe I should be more amazed, but knowing about the experiments and the wings, I feel as if I really should have expected that much at least. However now I wonder why they keep them if there's not that many people anymore, if it's because people live there today they have demonstrated that moving people and their things isn't a hard feat for them after all.

That's right. Who knows? Maybe it's just easier to keep them. That way, they won't have to make the effort to bring them back when they actually do need them again.

I'm not sure I would like them to need all that space again, though. That means even more people would be trapped here.

Yeah. It's strange for all of those buildings to be so empty, but it's probably better that way.

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