(open-ish) the damage is already done

[1300yen]

CHARACTERS: Everyone who stayed behind on Nalawi
DATE: 06/12... technically..... but covering the three months the recruits stayed behind
WARNINGS: None, probably. Will edit if something comes up!
SUMMARY: A catch-all log for the characters who stayed behind on Nalawi!

Just what it says! For the characters who stayed behind, feel free to make top levels or prompts of what they're doing to further help out the locals.

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[grunehexe]

And add even more time to this whole thing waiting to find out what they might be like after a bit of maturing?

[She certainly didn't see the wisdom in doing that when you could just take your pick of those who'd already done their growing up.]

[ex_adept136]

You'd have that time regardless, wouldn't you?

[Sieglinde had granted that she had the time to pick and choose.

Surely it naturally followed that she also had time to choose other prospects that might arise]

[grunehexe]

But I can minimize the time it takes if I have prospects picked out by the time I flower.

[Considering the fact that she'd have to factor in the time it took to actually conceive, account for potential miscarriages, the nine months of pregnancy...

It added up.]

[ex_adept136]

It might be worth your while though. What if you passed up something better than you can imagine?

[That was of course an abstract appeal...

But it was better than trying to explain how he was not making passes at his associate. His associate ten years his junior, who happened to be thirteen]

[grunehexe]

[For a moment, Sieglinde didn't actually say anything, just staring up at Haise with an arched brow, blinking somewhat slowly...

Before she sort of realized they weren't going to see eye to eye on this one. Perhaps that was fine- people without the burdens of heir production probably never had to consider it...

Maybe that was for the best.]

... Perhaps it is best you concentrate on locating your own lover, for now.

[Who was there who would match up with this fellow... Olivia?]

There are many lovely ladies in ALASTAIR's employ near your age, if that is what you value.

[ex_adept136]

[And deflected. He could only hope that she might consider what he'd said, with time and age. For now, perhaps it was for the best that he not belabor the point. He'd told her his thoughts and all he could do was quietly encourage her to seek her own happiness.

Hopefully, someday...she'd do that. Heirs and genetics might be important to her, but surely there was more than simply that.

Of course, the change of subject was enough to make him sit up a little straighter, clearing his throat with a given awkwardness]

That's ah... I think I'm better off focusing on other pursuits.

[It wouldn't be appropriate with an associate, not to mention...]

Besides, one day we'll have to return home. It seems selfish, the idea of doing that to someone.

[Forming a relationship that could never last, for more reason than the one he felt able to voice]

[grunehexe]

... If we ever return home, you mean.

[Corrected, with a slightly reluctant tone, gaze settled somewhere vaguely in the tidepool water. It wasn't something she ever put into words, but there was another reason Sieglinde was so concerned with the matter of her heir.

If she never managed to make it back to her world... perhaps at least a child of hers might one day be able to, to take back the cure she hoped to find.]

It is not a guarantee.

[ex_adept136]

Maybe not, but...I've been given reason to think it's quite possible.

[Haise didn't doubt that Sorey had been honest in his account. And were that the case, it could be as though they have never left to begin with. He hoped they remembered, at least. That they kept the things that mattered.

But as someone whose hold on so many things was tenuous at best, he wasn't certain of that]

Gambling with someone else's feelings wouldn't be fair. Besides, I- [He cut himself off abruptly, biting his lip] ...there are some things others need not deal with.

[grunehexe]

[There was a moment when Sieglinde almost asked. Anyone would be curious- "some things others need not deal with" was a rather vague and mysterious sounding statement, after all.

Implying something not good.

... But it wasn't her intent to make him feel bad, or dredge up things he would rather not talk about. Instead, she turned to her list in the sand and erased it with an easy flick of her wrist.

They could talk about something else. They had three months, after all.]