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[Here Luceti, have another New Feather. A young man with silver wings, wearing a strange mask and with only the thin pants of the newcomers to protect him from the world is currently just waking up in the forest not too far from the village. If you could see his face you'd see just how groggy and confused he is right now. He flinches a little as he realises there's a couple of new additions to his body upon coming to... wherever he is right now, and he reaches behind him to feel... feathers? Wings?

Thankfully it isn't long before he realises his clothes are piled up beside him, along with a book. Gin knows it's dangerous to be so exposed and doesn't hesitate to put on those clothes, strangely altered to accommodate those small wings on his back. Who did this to him? Where was he? He was certain by now this wasn't the forest of the Mountain God, unless he was trying to play some kind of trick on him.

Now for that book... Gin picks it up, taking a seat on the forest floor where he appeared and taking a moment to flick through the pages. The book was full of messages and pictures, presumably the ones who were trying to communicate. Some of the images moved as well and there were voices... the book was speaking to him.]

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[After taking some time to try to get to know this odd journal and how it might work, Gin ends up trying to speak to the book himself.]

Hello? Can anyone hear me?

(OOC: Just a reminder and for those who might have missed it - if your character intends to touch Gin at all like taking his hand or something, please give me a chance to react before they make contact! Thanks~)

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...I haven't met many people to tell me. [His tone might be slightly somber at this point. But he lets it go after a moment's pause.]

Are all the people here this unwelcoming?

...? [If nothing else, she certainly found his words strange. Maybe he had lived out in the boonies and didn't get out much? That outcome at least made sense to her.]

Unwelcoming? Wait, you're not talking about me, are you?

[She objects to that statement!]

[Something like that, Jane~ Living alone in a forest with only spirits for company will do that to you.]

Maybe. You did just suggest I was prying. What if I just wanted to talk?

[He's still messing with you~]

[Noooo! The tables had turned on her!]

"Maybe"...!? [Jane, he can't see that you're pouting. Give it a rest.] Let me guess, you want to talk about where you are and so on, right?

Isn't that a natural response to waking up in an unfamiliar place? I bet you asked the same thing when you came here. Unless you're a native.

[...in other words yes, yes he would.]

Well, yeah. But just because it's a natural question doesn't mean that absolutely everyone is going to ask it! I can't read minds, so I had to ask.

I'm not sure this is the world I was living in moments ago... maybe the people here can read minds. I wouldn't know.

[All right, he'll be a bit more serious now!]

Anyway, if you could offer any advice I'd appreciate it. Do you have a name?

Of course I have a name! It's Jane. [With that said, as long as he appreciated it then maybe she could tell him a few things.]

Anyway, some advice... For one thing, people appear and disappear all the time around here, so you might not want to get too attached to anyone. [That...said a lot more about her that she realized.] Oh, and money isn't an issue here, so you don't need to worry about paying for clothes or food.

[People disappeared from here too? Of course Gin had to wonder where they went... did that mean they went back home or to yet another strange world?

As for getting attached...]

Gin. [He says first, offering a name of his own before continuing in a slightly more somber tone.] And... I don't have to worry too much about getting attached to people. It rarely happens. [He would say never but... he knew there was an exception now, waiting for him back home.] We can just help ourselves? At least that's a relief.

[It rarely happened? That gave her a few things to wonder about. Someone who was just antisocial wouldn't sound like that, right?

She would have to ask him about that later.]

I don't know if I'd go that far, but it does make things easier. If you ask me, it's the very least they could do after taking all of us here and putting these wings on us!

Are the wings really that bad? They'll take some getting used to, but they could be fun.

Unless... you can't fly with them.

[He hasn't actually tried yet of course. If that was the case then they weren't really anything more than useless ornaments.]

[P-pfffft.] Bingo, you got it in one guess. Not bad.

[She was clapping for him, too! And it wasn't even sarcastic!

...Well, maybe a tiny bit sarcastic.]

[All right, all right, no need to rub it in.

He sighs at that.]

Whoever's doing this must have a strange sense of humour to give us wings that we can't fly with.

Well, I might as well settle in if I'm not going anywhere.

[But asking her to stop teasing people was like asking her to stop breathing!]

That's probably a good idea unless you want to sleep outside. There's still lots of space, as far as I know.

[He could do with a little light-heartedness honestly~]

It's all right. It's safer if I sleep out here on my own. I... can't be around crowds.

It's not safer at all! [Then how about some ~~kinda naive~~ scolding as well for good measure?]

It's not warm enough to sleep outside. You'll definitely get sick if you pull a stunt like that!

[Aww she was worried about him~?]

I'll be fine with warm clothes. I'm used to being outside during the winter.

[And the scarf Hotaru gave him, that would help too, right?]

Trust me when I say I can't be around other people.

[That depends on whether a general feeling of "GOSH why are you being so dumb!!!" counts as worrying, really.]

Fine... [Yeah, she wasn't convinced at all.] But don't blame me if you freeze!

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