#𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒. | twelve more hours . . .

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hi grandma

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" . . . . grandma . . . ? "

" . . . "

" hm. what's your name ? "

( she totally isn't going to hold a grudge about that . )

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❛ wait. i’ve heard that sound before. ❜ (conan and frieren are solving a mystery)

random dialogue prompts * / accepting .

" . . as have i. " it's almost toneless . whatever it is; the elf seems rather unaffected . their interests so happened to align , though frieren had to admit a child being so involved in a situation that had been tasked to her by the village elder was . . curious, and a bit concerning; to say the least .

she moves a few paces behind him , gesturing with her hand for conan to make distance with her . if this was familiar mana , then it was familiar mana frieren could detect and likely add some credence to his and her own deductions of what had been causing the problem in this town . the reward and coin wouldn't exactly wait for them to be idle ; nor were the disappearances . . . or familiar mana presence.

she had to guess it might be a monster of a certain type. either way, by the signatures spotted around the area where many absentees were no longer present , frieren looked at him calmly , unaffected seemingly in the slightest.

" it's not exactly safe here . i could handle it myself, quite frankly. unless you yourself have a sort of safety precaution ? " he's certainly motivated . . doesn't he wear himself out ?

a sigh; sharp eyes landing on his smaller face.

" alright. can you show me where you saw some 'clues' as you'd call this request ? " to an adventurer like herself, that is. . " we may as well start from there. i'll be more than enough cover , if my suspicions are true, should it come to that.

..... maybe. " said so casually!

" .... hm. why are you so driven to do this ? " frieren hadn't disclosed that immediately the village entrusted insured coin and meals, much less a grimoire for her action in solving the dilemma that plagued them. but she hadn't been told she'd been working with a literal child. what did he hope to gain ?

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❛ can i ask… what happened? ❜ // from snej teehee

random dialogue prompts / accepting . ( x )

" you can't remember ? hm. " she seems nonplussed granted the situation . her companion and their resident chef , albeit the times frieren herself hasn't the courtesy to wake from ( long ) naps to do so, was out cold for at least an hour. both separated in the great northern storms.

" you passed out from cold . is what i'd like to say , though i suppose that hardly sounds favorable either , sanji . " the ancient mage remarks ; gesturing to the enclave of stone as a temporary measure against the brutal, merciless cold . " here. " it seemed the eccentric woman's tastes in grimoires of 'uselessness' to many came in handy as the cup she handled him was at a perpetual, warm state even in the ghastly frigidity of their current situation.

" this spell is from a villager's reward for us . it's one to 'warm anything at perpetual heat regardless of outside temperatures ' . pretty useful , huh ? " she doesn't seem to sound much emotional despite the slight slant to her green eyes, the concern laden there ever so faintly, tone otherwise calm ; as if she had prepared .

" i imagine you'll be getting warm soon. keep drinking and i'll explain the rest along the way. we need to get back to fern and stark. that will only last so long until you're in the same sorry state as before . " she sips her own magically enhanced drink ; fingers already tickled pink with frostbite.

" . . . you can still move right ? " it would be dry humor if not for the faint traces at the edges of one's fingers at concern . she sets her warmer hands atop his very, very much larger ones, out of necessity and her bizarre form of care . . .

" okay. that's good. i'll let that warm you up a bit more and we need to hurry . i'll explain on the way . " a long, rather ominous pause unintended.

" well, if i don't go down next, i guess. " / @bonescribes

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did you find the steakhouse yet?

" i did. but why are they so small ? you call these hamburgers ? well , i used some of our savings and ordered fifteen. in that way, math does itself. fifteen at the least can make a small hamburger steak . "

a long pause .

" . . . i don't think it was worth it , honestly . eisen's are better. then again, so are mine. "

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tag dump.

𝐕𝐈𝐒. | mage frieren. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄. | hero himmel. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆. | warrior eisen. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 | priest heiter. 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐄𝐒. | a mere ten year journey. 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄. | fern. 𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐑. | stark. 𝐈'𝐌 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓 | sein. 𝐎𝐎𝐂. | all the time in the world. 𝐇𝐘𝐌𝐍𝐀𝐋. | whispering our lullaby. 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒. | 'do you like magic?' 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄: 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍. | before it all fades away. 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐄. | 'she always liked winding people up.' 𝐏𝐒𝐀. | now is all there is. 𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐍. | in my heart; fern is still a child. 𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓. | 'we are a party after all.' 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐁𝐄. | denken. 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃. | macht. 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄. | 'i've gotten on her bad side. she's basically a child.'

𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘. | the one-one hundredth. 𝐈𝐂. | beyond journey's end. 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒. | twelve more hours . . .

𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒. | 'what goes through her mind is most curious.' 𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑. | 'he just outsmarted me; that's all.'

𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐄𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐍. | 'conscientious despite the way you look.' 𝐀𝐄𝐒. | 'i never would have been able to see this on my own.' 𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐇𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐋. |  your words; wishes and courage are alive within me. 

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❛ why did you bring me here? ❜

random dialogue prompts | accepting .

" ah, yes, that . " frieren muses; glancing at her apprentice calmly, then tilts her head to one side. it's true that these acts of showing her affection , as it were , were as awkward as ever, and she isn't sure whether it would dampen fern's mood to admit she had asked for shared insight with stark on a place fern might like to go .

she had passed the mage exams , as expected from frieren. not only that, serie, a mage with her mana but a large gap in terms of age and experience, maturity aside, had acknowledged her apprentice, even wanted her for herself. it was fern's choice to make , but the traveling mage could only feel her stoic, often unsmiling mouth twitch at the strange sense of warmth she felt.

was this what people so often called pride? it was only yesterday that this often moody, but steadfast girl had been quite a few inches shorter than her, her previous mentor ( and a very dear friend ) now gone from their midst save in memories . heiter would surely be proud, if not gently stroking her hair the same way frieren had learned, and committed to doing, no matter fern's age. it was . . generally, aside from gifts and little moments like this, that were her best form of expression as she continued to learn in a world now dominated by humans.

" i remembered there was another place in auberst that also had nice food. namely sweets, as you're always wanting, fern. " blunt, and to only someone who truly spent time with her, frieren may have very well sounded unfeeling. but there was affection in her voice as she idly pointed to the sign of said restaurant.

" that this one is also here after eighty years or more . . . fortunate for us, hm ? you did exactly as i expected you would, fern . this calls for a celebration of some sort, wouldn't you say ? " the elf idly , almost without even thinking about it, fern still in her mind the image of that little child, and perhaps always would be, earned her gently patting her head; albeit she was much taller now.

" i don't have all the savings to burn , but i suppose it wouldn't hurt if we picked something out, would it ? " she had gone against her clone and survived in the king's tomb ; surpassing once again, the mentor's expectations. her hand lingers in her violet hair briefly before slipping back to her side.

" stark's already inside. i wanted to surprise you, i suppose. i like to think i'm getting better at doing so. and i doubt you'd skip on sweets, right ? let's go see the menu . if the quality of where we ate before the second mage exam is any indicator, the food here will be just as good. " was her budget going to be weeping from this? probably.

but this moment wouldn't come again, would it ?

adjusting her suitcase in her hand, frieren walks ahead; waving her hand as she nears the old, timeworn door.

" let's go inside , fern . " it may not have been the most eloquent way to say i'm proud of you, but the ancient elf's actions spoke for herself.

( it wouldn't hurt to eat some sweets herself ! )

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" Frifri. Fyuga wants steak. " She wants the big one. The big, oversized meat one. Big ole eyes sparkling with desire only serve to amplify her pleas.

" hm i think we have enough of a budget - " not much. " to get a few more . i mean one hamburger steak isn't enough , frankly . go ahead , fyu-fyu. eat. i have enough savings for this meal and the requests we've been doing. " a sincere, if not awkward headpat from the world's 'last great mage', now patting of all things, all people, a monster, one that under normal circumstances, could be in no more deadlier company than frieren the slayer herself!

" do you prefer hamburger steaks over what you hunt , fyu-fyu ? " unperturbed bluntness; her borderline monotone carrying hints of curiosity delivered with words as silly as fyu-fyu . . well, to others anyway. idly she shoves a piece of her own steak into a fine forkful while the other pats the girl-creature's head .

" eat up. "