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I know it had been a couple weeks since the egg thing, but I ended up rather busy during that time, that I honestly didn't notice.

[Which was a little white lie that people who knew him well enough would easily figure out. But he wanted to pretend that he wasn't around, or that he didn't notice to those who didn't know him at all. It was best that way anyway.]

But that isn't what this whole thing is about. No, it seems as if I am having a bit of a situation with work. [He turned around to show off the kitchen of the Cat's Eye. There were ingredients everywhere, some open, some left in packaging. But never the less the workplace was as messy as anything really.]

I find myself having some creative block of a sort and I've not been happy with what I've been making as of late. I must admit I am not sure when this will end, but until then I am leaving all creative projects and ideas to whoever works for me. You'll be free to create something new for the menu.

[That was pretty much it, really. At least he thought for a moment before he remembered something.]

Ah! That's right... The date. In two weeks time, I'll have been here for four years. Time really does fly here, doesn't it? [He can't help but chuckle slightly.] I'm not doing anything on the day, but whenever it comes around I always spend some time to myself and think about everything I've been through and how it has changed me and if you knew me at the beginning will probably have noticed such changes. But those numbers are limited. [He paused for a moment.]

It makes me want to ask this question. For those who have been here for a time, have you noticed any changes in yourself? If so if it's for the better or not?

[With a small smile he switches off the feed. At least publicly. There is one person he kind of wanted to talk to about the child thing at least.]

Private to Weiss

I want to talk to you about something.

It's about the person you spoke to as a kid while you were a kid also. I feel like I can at least trust you with this information

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Not gonna lie, that's hard to imagine.

If you had been here years ago you would be able to imagine it. In all honesty, the only reason I first opened a cafe in the game was actually that I asked for the laziest job in a sense, or one where I didn't have to do much.

And that was the answer.

Haha, i'm afraid your plan didn't work as you wanted.

[Poor Fai. Sorry Dray can't help but find it amusing.]

At the time it actually did work. Expanding was a bad plan, but I believe at the time I needed the money

Now I don't really mind that much.

And look at you know, a famous businessman with the cutest cafes.

I can tell, I can tell.

I would say famous. Just there. The crazy animal person.

But the crazy animals person that makes money!

And sweets. The sweets are good.

Yes, but not really that much.

[Lies.]

Just enough to get by, it's nothing really.

I see.

We don't even use money in my world, we get by using different means. So money has never been too important to me.

I've had to keep getting new currency with each world we got to. Trading was a very good thing to do when you travel and that was something I was taught.

Here though, it's a different matter. It's how everyone mostly survives. I mean if everyone hunted and lived like you, there would probably be no animals left.

That sounds exhausting. Trading is a much better option, that way you make sure other people don't try to take advantage of you.

Eidions can live out of fish, vegetables, and fruit. Just like humans. We had farms as well. So it's not like we devour everything in our path.

But the question is how would one determine what would be considered fair in the first place. Trading you still seem to need to figure out what one thing equals to another thing. It's like paying but without currency.

Yes but an apple doesn't stop being an apple no matter what country you are in. When money is paper, the value is more arbitrary.

True, but if you wanted something that wasn't an apple how many apples would you trade it for if apples was all you had?

That's when you negotiate or find a different solution. Bartering with sex is also easier but no one here seems to want to do that.

But sex is so personal for some people so I can see why. That's how I see it anyway.

Humans so delicate. [Dray is smiling, only meaning that as a joke.] But I understand.

[Well Fai knew it could be true. Fai's reason for it being personal was probably the reason why it's not something he ever really talks about.]

Buuuut. For someone like you, I am sure people might be more open. Maybe.

[ It's similar, yet the opposite with Dray. The reason why he thinks this way it's something that's better left unsaid. ]

Maybe. I feel a little lonely sometimes.

What do you mean by lonely, exactly?

I'm the only Eidion in this world. There's no one else from my species which means my connection with our hivemind is rendered null.

I guess that's a thing being the only one left in a new world can do for people. I could be the same with being the only one from anyone's world.

But some people ignore it or some use it to try and find a way to get rid.

It's not something really easy to ignore. I just don't know how to explain it...

[ He doesn't think humans share ve hive minds. He's been alone for a long time but now Dray feels even more detached, cut off from something important and isolated in his own mind. It's not a pleasant feeling. ]

You don't have to. I mean it might be something we as humans might never understand on some level. But I believe it's something of great importance to you.

Yes..it is. [ At least he understand, even if Dray can't put his feelings into words. ] Thanks, Fai.

I should go back to work now, I'm afraid.

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