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Is that really strange...? I guess most of Orsterra is active wolf territory.

[ living in octopath 1 world is so dangerous actually.... ]

And - yes! Yes, it reminds me a little of home. We had the sort of stars, last week, and there are the odd orange ones in the village, but... this is different. It's nice.

[haematocritical]

This feels more like something recreational, no? Most of the people who can do recreation are well off, and unlikely to be picking a cabin in the woods surrounded by wolves as their destination of choice.

[ ... ] Or so I would assume. Wolves can be rather nasty.

It's quite intense, isn't it? [ Nice to look at though. ]

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[ thinks about it..... ]

That's true. I guess... my family would've probably...tried...not to vacation with wolves...? But that doesn't mean there wouldn't still be wolves. Or.... other monsters. They're really everywhere.

[ Is that not normal...? Maybe that's not normal... ]

Mm. [ for the intensity bit! ] I really, really like it. It reminds me of home - in the Cliftlands, you can see so, so many stars. It feels like you can reach out and touch them with your bare hands.

[haematocritical]

There's certainly all number of beasties out there. But normally you... I don't know. Hire someone? Put up some defenses?

[ looks around at all these cabins like and just look and all the walls and barricades I don't see! ]

It is a remote sort of place then?

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I guess so.

[ rondo comes from a line of fight nuts and has a battle butler.

but besides that... ] Mm. It's all cliffs and bluffs, and there's not a lot of tree coverage, either. Our family manor was at the very top of one of the tallest bluffs in Bolderfall, so sometimes my sister and I would sneak out of the window and lay on the roof to look up at the stars.

[haematocritical]

That is the usual way of things. In case that needed saying.

[ hmm. ]

They do say the further you are from larger cities, the clearer the sky is. Baldur's Gate has always been a busy place, so I hadn't really thought about whether I was seeing the sky clearly or not.

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Bolderfall's pretty little, too. Especially compared to the capitol.

[ ah, but, that's a familiar name. ]

Baldur's Gate... is that where you met Karlach, Mr. Astarion?

[haematocritical]

I imagine in your capital you wouldn’t see them anywhere near as quickly.

[ hmmm. ]

No. Although I believe we’re both from there? It doesn’t surprise me our paths didn’t cross though. [ what with him skulking around at night most of the time and her only being born about 201 years after him. ]

Our meeting circumstances were different. Quite a way from Baldur’s Gate as well.

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[ curiously: ]

How did you two meet, then?

[haematocritical]

Well, first of all we all got kidnapped... and then I happened across a nice, young Blade of Frontiers, hellbent on taking down a vicious demon who was terrorising the Sword Coast (Karlach).

He recruited our aid, especially after discovering a certain shared issue we had. But of course, meeting Karlach was a very different matter. The two of them seemed to work things out rather well, despite everything though.