It’s only every so often that she reminisces on the carefree days with her cousins, Diamant leading the game of tag most often.Though they are no longer children, that doesn’t mean the game is over. Citrinne would give her cousin a game, but just a little different from the one in the times of their youth.
She has been lying low around campus and keeping an ear out for any information someone might leak. And today, she catches a couple of young girls with a cake and sticks with pictures of people around the campus attached, discussing said people and if they are found attractive.
“The professor? Isn’t he like… old?”
“And the successor to Brodia. He’s fine shyt, you just have to see him by the fishing pond or training grounds,” the other argues.
Citrinne doesn’t know what some of those words they are using mean truly, but she has collected all the information she needs.
In Diamant’s office, there lay a scroll rolled up and loopy cursive that reads:
Hello Diamant. Let’s play a game, shall we? You’ll find the next clue where dragonflies skim and frogs wear a crown. - C
It would be too easy to be waiting where her clue suggests, so she leaves another tucked between the planks of the dock that then reads:
Though the water stems from the sea, it’s not where I’ll be… Where do you go to escape? - C
And the final destination, she waits patiently, hiding behind one of the training posts, prepping her surprise.
The scroll on his desk is the first thing to catch Diamant's eye when he returns to his office. It hadn't been there when he first left, and he knew he locked the door when he did... part of him wondered if Yunaka was up to some shenanigan again, or if something more sinister had been going on.
But upon unfurling the scroll, he recognizes the handwriting before reading even a single word, with the message itself confirming his suspicions: Citrinne was here, after all this time.
And in the mood to play tag, it seemed.
(Maybe it was Yunaka who helped her get into his locked office, or it was just as likely Citrinne had her own ways—her connections ran deep, and her charisma? Unmatched.)
Following her letter, he heads for what is obviously meant to be the fishing pond, finding another scroll tucked in between the planks of the pier. Written on that is another clue that reads vague, but was obvious to him. She knew him well enough to know his favorite haunts and hiding places; that should be no different in a new land.
It doesn't take Diamant long to reach the training hall, though once he does, there seemingly isn't anyone inside. Still...
"I can sense your presence," He calls out, "Come out, why don't you? Your cousin can hardly give you a hug from here."
