[CHAPTER 03 - OPEN] Chesedonia, Week 3

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Who: Chester Barklight, Arche Klein, Philia Felice, Colette Brunel, Fon Master Ion, Arietta the Wild, Kyle Dunamis, Natalia Luzu Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, Raven Ecks, Estellise Sidos Heurassein, and I think that's everyone? Anyone else in the area is free to tag in. /fails forever.
Where: Chesedonia
When: After the mega-exciting adventures in Daath, several of our pubescent heroes find themselves in Chesedonia! Where the sands are hot, and the interactions are even hotter!
Warnings: I AM SO SORRY FOR BEING SO SLOW IN GETTING THIS UP. Anywhere, here's how this works; instead of everyone just tracking the post and make a new comment thread altogether, everyone posts their own "thread" and you guys can respond to each other. TIME AND PLACE DOES NOT MATTER. Time skips are allowed. Both third person and first person formats are allowed (though both follow the activity requirement merits). Threadjacking encouraged. We'll see how this goes, and later on I'll try to get one up for Sheridan and also... some island where Raven and Estelle can meet up with the CFY group. Any questions, concerns, comments, and cock-punches may be directed to me by posting on abyssianooc.

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Chester shook his head. "It's not a bother." He simply stated, taking a glass and filling it with water, coming back and handing it to Arietta. "Say, what's your name? It's not too often you can see somebody just waltz around with a liger; is it tame, or are you just a special exception?" He asked, hoping he wasn't coming off as rude. The liger was scary; he's seen them before, and if he recalled correctly Engeve had a liger issue before he set off for Baticul and met Natalia there. Back then they didn't interfere with the hunts very much, but he still avoided them since they were known to be very fierce creatures.

"The name's Chester."

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"Thank you," Arietta said, managing to give him a tiny smile as she took the glass. It was a little... odd to meet someone who didn't know her. Even if most people she encountered didn't know her personally, they at least recognized her by her uniform, or by the ever-present liger that accompanied her. But what was even odder, was when Chester gave his own name. It didn't mean anything to the God-General, she didn't think, but there was... something that made her pause and stare at him from over the top of the glass.

After a few seconds, she shook away the strange feeling and straightened her back as she gave her own introduction. "Commander of Third Division and God-General of the Oracle Knights, Arietta the Wild."

That said, she fell once more into a more relaxed stance, taking another drink before continuing. "My friend isn't tame, but he won't attack anyone unless I tell him to. He listens to me; most of my friends -- ligers and other animals -- do." That wasn't a secret, so Arietta didn't see any problems with telling Chester that.

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Chester wouldn't say it out loud, but he'd never heard of a person being able to more or less communicate and request monsters' aid. It was pretty amazing, really; Arche typically got animals pissed at her and him, too. It was fascinating, almost, despite him not exactly being the sort of person interested in the sociological implications of the matter.

A God General, though? That work brought up unpleasant memories of when he and the others encountered the Tartarus and had to help Luke and the others escape. So, this little girl was associated with that motley crew? Chester made a mental note to be wary of his words from that point on, though Arietta didn't seem adverse to Chester's company. If anything, she didn't seem to know Chester, so this becoming an encounter of that sort hopefully wasn't the case.

"I see. They must trust you a lot, then." He commented, after a moment of thought.

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"They're my family," she replied with a nod, turning to smile at the liger again. Unlike most of the other God-Generals, Arietta had no problems discussing her past or the way she had been brought up (unless one were to bring up her being a former Fon Master Guardian, of course -- that always became a difficult topic). Plus, the fact that she had been raised by ligers wasn't a secret; she was proud of that fact, even, so she had no reason to hide it, either.

Hopping up onto a stool, the girl cradled the half-empty glass between her hands. It felt good to take a little breather, and she wanted to make sure her friend was ready before they went back outside again.

"So, um... Why are you in Chesedonia?" Arietta asked, unsure of what else to say. She wasn't entirely used to speaking with others; often being in the company of a liger usually warded people off. It was a little... nice being able to talk to someone outside of the Oracle Knights, though.

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Family, huh? That must've been nice. Being exiled from Engeve, he basically had no family left. But the mention of family did make him think back to Feres... if his sister were alive- no, he shouldn't think about that. The thought only made his angry. However, talking with Arietta seemed to almost naturally stir up those memories, though Chester couldn't say why.

"Oh, uh..." Gee, this was kind of awkward. They were escaping from Daath, right? Because of the Fon Master and Natalia... the fact that Chesedonia was a neutral territory worked toward their advantage, but he wasn't about to tell a God General the entire truth. "I'm just traveling around." He attempted to keep a straight face. "I'm originally from Feres Isle, and lived in Engeve for a while afterward."

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As she waited for his response, Arietta took another drink -- although that turned out to be a bit of a mistake. As soon as Chester mentioned Feres, she choked, barely managing to keep from dropping the glass as she coughed and sputtered in surprise.

The little coughing fit was enough to make the liger snap its head up to look at the two, and it growled out a low warning. However, when Arietta shook her head and made a quick gesture with her hand, the growling ceased, although it continued to watch closely.

"Y-you," the God-General stuttered, once her coughing had subsided, "You said... Feres? But that can't be true, everyone was... I-I thought..." She shook her head, her shoulders hunching as she looked down. "No one else... made it..."

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Arietta's reaction took Chester by surprise as well; nobody reacted in such a way unless what was being spoken of meant anything to them. 'No one else... made it...'? It took a few seconds to register in Chester's head (as slow as it was concerning this type of thing), and he set down his glass as he bent down to meet Arietta's eye level. Could it be? No... she couldn't be Ami. Getting his hopes up wasn't an option, otherwise the heartbreak would simply shatter him. But... it was nice having a tie with someone, really. Chester also thought nobody else survive the tragedy that happened in Feres.

He waited for a few more seconds to give Arietta time to collect her own thoughts, and offered her a small smile. "Arietta? Are you also from Feres Isle?" It might have been an obvious question, but... "It must have been difficult. It was soon right after you were born, wasn't it?" He tried taking her age into account.