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Chiikawa stops running in a circle, but they are also breathing quickly. Trying to catch their breath, they sweat quite a bit, but they are also smiling.
"...Wah..."
"S-safe...!"
Richeh patiently waits for her answer. The young blue-haired apprentice nods when the small creature speaks.
"Richeh is glad you are safe now," she says, softly. "Do you need any help?'
It might be wise to stay with the tiny creature, but she doesn't want to impose.
★ --;; "It does," Vash nods. "It also means that you can talk to them, using this." He taps on the screen again, and this time the ocntact number appears, as well as a little icons of a phone and a video camera ( though he had no idea if she even knew what those were ), as well as a speech bubble.
"This one lets you talk with them, this one lets you see their face, and this one let you send them a message, see?"
There are more uses than just those-- paying for things in a city that must be so foreign being chief among them-- but for now, this remains the most important. "Would you like me to?"
Richeh stares in quiet awe as Vash shows her the other functions. When he asks her if she wants Vash to send a message, the child thinks for a minute.
Then shakes her head. "No," Richeh says, "Richeh still wants to find them first."
Richeh starts to scoot off the shared bench. "Also that is not Richeh's contraption," she points out. "Professor Qifrey wouldn't know you."
Richeh has no idea if Vash has met her teacher before. "thank you for teaching Richeh, though, mister Vash." She does reach into her cloak and pulls out the gifted pen and journal. Quietly, the blue haired girl connects a circle and grabs the crystalline ribbon that pops out.
She places it in Vash's hands and turns to trot off without saying goodbye.
“Hah!” That surprises a laugh out of Till. He doesn’t know much, but he does know all about the history of human music—the only history class he’d actually paid attention to in school.
“Guess you could say that. Wanna see?” Till pats the guitar case slung over his shoulder.
“I don’t juggle or dance, though, so don’t even ask.”
Richeh nods when Till pats his guitar case. She takes off the headphones and passes them back to the nice adult. Quickly, though, her pointed cap is placed on her head the second the contraption she handed back is off.
"Richeh won't ask," the young witch says. "Richeh is excited to see you play your instrument."
✧ Coco, being 12, naturally had an itch to seem reliable and cool. It was shining more these days, but she couldn't have been more opposite back when she'd just joined the atelier. She hoped the others at least saw her as a little more dependable! But she'd also totally gone overboard there!
She had to laugh her own silliness off when Richeh hung onto her. "I bet Master Qifrey would be telling me to calm down right now, but... Oh! Have you bumped into him? What about Agott!? And you! Are you okay? Do you need anything? I've been here a while, so... I know a thing or two! ...Kind of!"
Richeh nodded at Coco's questions. "Richeh has found Master Qifrey and Agott." She said as she still hung onto her friend a while longer. It's like she's scared Coco will vanish on her the second she lets go.
"Richeh also met Dam-bi, a friend." The fellow student stated. "Dam-bi showed me a little about our contraptions."
The phone, she meant, but Richeh knew Coco might pick up on what she said.
★ --;; Vash can't blame the girl for any hesitance-- he's an adult she doesn't know in a place that's probably completely foreign to her. If anything, it's probably one of the smartest things she could do. He's glad to have been the one to find her.
"Well, Richeh," he says, pulling his phone out of his pocket. The screen brightens, and he taps it a few times to pull up the contact menu. "You can find anyone who's been brought here by using this. You were given one, right?"
He scrolls just a little-- it doesn't take long to find the first name in the list. "See? Agott. But-- probably finding your teacher would be a little more important, right?" He scrolls again, this time further down. Nothing in 'K', so he keeps going until; "Ah, here. Qifrey."
He can only hope that her adults were better at using new technology than he had been when he'd first shown up on the island. Just judging from the girl's clothes, it doesn't seem like something she'd be accustomed to.
Richeh nods an affirmative nod when Vash asks if she was given a contraption like his when she arrived.
Her eyes follow the screen as Vash finds Agott, then Professor Qifrey. She stares in awe.
"So if Richeh sees their name, that means they are here somewhere?" The girl softly asks the adult.
"I was worried, too." Agott takes one of the ribbons, holding it gently in her hands. She hated how powerless they were, and it was only reflecting on that, that she noticed her finger conspicuously empty.
"Ah-" Embarrassment welled up on her features, and she snatched her hand back toward her chest, holding it, clenching the ribbing a little too tightly between her fingers.
"They took our rings, the ones you made for all of us." She felt shame well up on her face, for losing such a rare gift, and someone someone who she cared about.
"I'm sorry, Richeh. They took even more from us than I thought. But I'll work on getting everything back - we can set it right."
Richeh watched Agott take the ribbon. It warmed her heart that her friend liked her magic - even if her face didn't show it.
Richeh shook her head when Agott apologized. "Not your fault," she said softly, "but it is okay. Richeh believes we can get them back."
She knew once Agott put her mind to a goal, she'd do everything within reason to accomplish it. Richeh took out the gifted contraption.
"A friend of Coco and a kind adult showed Richeh how to work this contraption." She said. "We can stay in touch with this until our rings come back."
Tapping the playlist Richeh points to, Till plays the first song that comes up. As the music starts, his expression turns to something more complicated — something close to nostalgia.
“This is the closest genre of music I could find to the stuff that’s popular in my world. My friends an’ I grew up learning how t’ make this kind of music… These lyrics even sound like somethin’ me or my friend would put in one of our songs.”
Writing ‘Cure’ with Ivan had been a surprisingly easy process, though one Till had intentionally dissociated himself from most of the time.
Richeh closes her eyes when the music starts. She still hears Till, but she's trying to focus. This music... it is absolutely nothing like her home's.
She opens her eyes to look at Till. "Are you a minstrel?" she asks. If he wrote songs, that made him one, right? She'll have to ask Master Qifrey later... when she finds him.
"You would have done just fine." Coco would have found Richeh if the other didn't find her first. Regardless, the thanks were given and wouldn't be denied again.
"Do you know which part you will be staying in, Richeh? I will help you get there."
Richeh doesn't feel like she would have done fine. This place is huge and loud.
"I am staying in..." she trails off. She can't say the Atelier. "I was told I ma living in this place called Archimedes."
Richeh looks at Dam-bi and Soft Elk, expectantly. "Would you like to walk with me there?"
Immediately running into her room goodbye--
Soft Elk likes the way Richeh smells. As tempting as it is to stick his thin tongue out to get a lick in, he doesn't. He doesn't think Richeh is immune to his poison like Dam-bi is, and it's best not to test it out.
"Yes." Dam-bi shows Richeh the call button for Coco's number. "When you hit this, you will be able to call her."
Thank you, she says.
"There is no need. The quicker you meet with Coco, the better it'll be for the both of you."
Richeh observes Soft Elk for a moment before her attention is brought back to Dam-bi. Richeh looks closer at the contraption, and makes a note of what this "call button" looks like.
When Dam-bi says there is no need for thanks, Richeh shakes her head. "Richeh still wants to say thank you." She responds. "It would have been harder to find Coco without your help."
"Richeh, I heard you were here now." She looks up from the pyreball she had conjured, sighing, and then moving away from it. Observing Richeh, she tilts her head. "What are you able to do, then?"
"..." She pauses, and then adds: "I know you don't like being told what to do, so I imagine these limitations are as difficult for you as they are for me, even if it's different."
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Richeh nods. Agott understood how frustrating it is being here for her already. Richeh looks down at the journal she was given when she got here.
"Richeh can only make Riche's ribbons." The fellow student says. She demonstrates by drawing the cricle, and holding the crystal ribbon that pops out. She offers it to Agott.
"I was worried I may not find you here."
✧ "Hi Richeh!" She ended up squeaking out the tail end of her greeting because Richeh had moved so quickly that she was tightly within her embrace within seconds. She could really move when she wanted to! But Coco didn't shy away at all and hugged her back until Richeh wanted to let go. Coco probably would have been okay if it had lingered a little longer since it had been a while since she'd seen her friend.
What should she say in a situation like this? Something reassuring, right?
"Don't worry Richeh! We're best friends! I'll always find you, so don't worry about things like this!" A long silence filled the air before Coco started blushing. "That... sounded better in my head I think... It's kind of corny out loud..."
Richeh laughed a little. Of course Coco would say something so corny. The tiny smile is not hard to miss on the small blue-haired child's face.
"You're right." Richeh said as she reached over to hold onto Coco's arms. "Richeh missed you."
It hadn't been that long, but still. Richeh was still overwhelmed with everything about this island.
★ --;; "What they do," Vash starts, "The Stars; it--. it isn't always the kindest, that's true." While he's been given gifts he couldn't have grasped in anything other than dreams, there's no denying the equal yet opposite cruelty of those who watched over the lot of them. This girl next to him-- Richeh, apparently-- only serves as further proof.
"I'm sorry they took your magic," he goes on gently. "That must be really upsetting for you." He won't pretend to even begin to understand anything close to approaching finer details; he's learned, with time, that they'll present themselves if they're willing. They're not what's important right now, anyway.
"What are their names? Your friends, your teachers." The phone in his pocket is pulled out, tapping on the list of contacts.
"They... they might be here, too." He doesn't want to get the girl's hopes up too high-- there's not guarantee, after all. He'd spent enough time here with not a singly familiar face to know better than that.
"I could try to help you find them, if they are. My name's Vash."
Richeh stares up at the adult that speaks to her. She clenches her robes in her hands as he talks. He says he's sorry, but is he? Most other adults, apart from Professor Qifrey and their Watchful Eye Olruggio, often said that as a way to condescend to her.
This adult seems different, though. He even offers to help find them. "Professor Qifrey, Olruggio, Coco, Agott, and Tetia." Richeh says, rattling off their names to Vash. "My name is Richeh."
She doesn't ask about Euini. Not yet. Richeh knows he's in hiding. Why would he possibly be brought here?
★ The mature witch nodded once Richeh signalled him she had enough, letting her go but still remaining down on the ground. She must’ve been scared and alone, especially if her arrival was similar to his own. That was a thought he quickly pushed away, both for her well being and his own; he didn’t even want to imagine what the girls had to go through.
“Good job, Richeh. It’s prolly less scary with Coco and Qifrey around.” And the fact that Qifrey had shown and most likely taken her into the atelier made him genuinely smile. No matter where, he knew that he could count on his best friend.The news about Agott, however, was a little concerning.
“Don’t worry about it,” Olruggio’s smile did not waver even with his own uncertainty, reaching out his hand to the small witch, “we can look for her together, I’m sure with our joint effort we can find her easily.”
That was something he would have to look into himself, though, this was nothing he should burden the girls with unnecessarily. They all were close and all very important to each other, he would even go as far as calling them a small family in a way. A small family that was missing two of their members still.
“Richeh, is your room at the atelier just as you have left it? I bet Qifrey took a lot of effort to make everything comfortable for you and Coco.”
Richeh nodded. "She is here. Professor Qifrey says so." The tiny child said before she pulled out her Isola issued contraption. She pulled up the contacts like how Dam-bi and Vash showed her to. She took a few minutes to poke out Agott's name in the device.
She turend the screen to Olruggio. "Agott is here in this list. So she still is on this island." Richeh said, a little proud she figured it out without more help.
"It will be harder to find her without our rings, though."
It's hard to tell if Dam-bi acknowledged Richeh's thanks or not as the child reaches out for her own phone. Soft Elk is close enough when Dam-bi moves toward Richeh to get a sniff-sniff.
"Here," Dam-bi points at a map on her phone. "Coco lives here. In Cotes ward." She looks to Richeh and then says, "You can call her using this. Her name will already be in it."
Richeh just, wordlessly, holds out a hand for Soft Elk to continue sniffing. After all, Soft Elk is a very polite companion. They remind Richeh of the brushbug Coco had brought back. She hopes Brushbuddy made it here, too.
Richeh pays attention as Dam-bi operates her contraption. She blinks. "I can... contact Coco? Without her being right here?"
Cotes Ward. Richeh will have to remember that. "Thank you, Dam-bi."
He nods, still rather enthusiastic despite minding his volume. Rengoku crosses his arms over his chest in thought, slightly tilting his head with a hum.
"To think that even children would be summoned here, how strange. I suppose there is no rhyme or reason to the force that draws people in. You mentioned your name, Richeh, correct?"
A hand is offered to shake despite her looking away from him, "Rengoku Kyojuro, a pleasure to meet you."
Richeh stiffens a little when the strange adult puts his hand out to her. Still, he was being nice, and her parents told her that it would be rude to not return a greeting.
Richeh nods. "Yes, I am Richeh." She says, before she puts her tiny hand in his for the handshake. Once it's done, Richeh immediately takes her hand away.
"it is good to meet you, too, Mr. Kyojuro."
★ As soon as Richeh ran into his arms, Olruggio embraced her tightly, holding the tiny witch as close as possible. Her small, sad sob made his heart ache, a cold tightness gripping his chest. It only dawned on him now that, to him, only a few days have passed since last time he had seen the girls, missing and worrying about them every waking moment. He couldn’t even begin to imagine how much time had passed for them in here, and knowing of Richeh’s difficulties, he couldn’t feel sorrier.
For the time being he allowed her so just be, comforting her with a gentle pat on the back before whispering, “I missed you too. But I’m here now. I’m here with you, Richeh.”
Olruggio would only let go once Richeh felt like she had enough, comforting her on her own terms and leaving her as much space as she needed.
“And I’m not leavin’ you again any time soon.”
Richeh held onto Olruggio tight for a few more minutes. Now she wouldn't feel as alone or scared - Olruggio and Qifrey found her. Shee pulled away a little - a silent sign to Olruggio that she was done with the hug.
"Richeh hasn't found Agott yet." She said after a minute. "I did find Coco." She reported.
"Professor Qifrey showed Richeh the Atelier here, too."
