PCs with Caleb

[silentscout]

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weekend 0, Sunday

[silentscout]

[Since Caleb is a fellow fall dormie, he will be able to find Lalli sitting in the common room. Or, well. Laying. He's laying on a couch and looks absolutely miserable.]

Urf...

[And a bit green. Probably not about to get sick everywhere, but someone is definitely regretting the food choices he made this weekend. And when he sees Caleb, he's going to give him a look that seems to say 'help'. Because he sure isn't talking right now.]

[katzepaw]

Ah - are you alright?

[He sees this and will come over with a little concern.]

[silentscout]

Too much ice cream.

[He rolls over on the couch so he can look at Caleb.]

You're a mage, right?

[katzepaw]

Indeed, but no magic that I know of can fix a case of too much ice cream.

[. . .]

Well, yes it can, but not mine.

week 1; friday

[katzepaw]

[He will come back into the dorms a little later, having already been up long enough to talk to friends. Maybe he'll run into Lalli as he's waking up?]

[silentscout]

[It's very likely that he just caught Lalli as he woke up, because Lalli is yawning and his hair is all messed up. He's still in his day clothes though, someone doesn't sleep in jammies.]

Mmm. You're up early.

[katzepaw]

There's been another killing.

[So just. Straight to the point.]

. . . Can you truly sleep through that alarm?

week 3; thursday

[katzepaw]

[Thursday morning, Caleb is around the dorm with Lalli. At this point, he's probably trying to avoid eye contact, but he can't help it - he glances at Lalli at one point, and then a memory plays.]

[silentscout]

[Boy, that sure is a memory. Lalli doesn't have the context to understand all the political stuff going on there, but he can get the gist of everything. They snuck into a place being protected by a mage, and that mage was now tracking them. And there were some morally-questionable murders too, but being tracked is a big deal.

Lalli decides not to just ask all the difficult questions first. People keep shutting down when he does that. So instead, he goes for a lighter question, to get the conversation started.]

Your friends?

[He recognizes Beau at least, but the others are new.]

[katzepaw]

[He takes a deep breath, scrubs at his face to rub away the residual anxiety and tension of that memory.]

Ja. My friends. The Mighty Nein.

Week 3, post-trial

[silentscout]

You were right.

I'm sorry.

[katzepaw]

[He actually wasn't expecting this at all, but he doesn't respond for a moment.]

Don't be sorry.

I know he is a good man, the version we met. He deserved to have people defend him.

[silentscout]

But you were so angry. And you were right.

How can you say that now? What changed your mind?

Week 5, Friday

[silentscout]

I know today isn't good for you guys over there. Do you need anything?

[Lalli, offering to play courier, because he knows Winter dorm got hit hard twice.]

[katzepaw]

Thank you, Lalli.

I think we are all just sad. Not so much to do about that.

[silentscout]

Sadness is one thing I don't have a cure for.

Cookies help but they don't fix it.

week 5; sunday

[katzepaw]

I'm sorry. I understand what you felt.

[silentscout]

It's okay. We had to be careful.

[katzepaw]

I feel for the people who wanted to save Leo and I feel for Tsuyukusa.

And I don't know enough to start throwing around accusations, anyway. But I really would not have stopped us from trying to solve his case.

week 6, post-reunion

[silentscout]

[Caleb will suddenly be getting a text!]

I'm pretty sure you helped everyone, so thanks. For keeping the secrets.

[katzepaw]

I don't know, Lalli. I knew it was Luxanna and at a certain point so did most of us.

[silentscout]

You didn't know the others?

[To be fair they were a surprise for Lalli too, but.]

week 7; saturday

[katzepaw]

[After trial, he is in the void. Easy for Lalli to run into, if he wants to talk. He looks tired, but he nods at him.]

. . . Hello.

[silentscout]

...hi.

[He has Kissa in his arms, since cats have always been their method of communication.]

Kissa wanted to say hi too, before we all leave.

[katzepaw]

[Oh. Grabbing Frumpkin from his shoulder and setting him down.]

. . . Hello, Kissa.