genessia | 25: Initial Training Ends (Open Video, Action)

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[ Some time after Ace's post goes up, a very tired Adela puts up a video feed. She's sweating, breathing hard and sitting next to her dog. Both look shaggy and a little worse for wear, but Adela herself also looks like she's been somehow building muscle and might at least be in better physical shape than before.

She's giving the camera a harsh look then. Although it could be mistaken as flush from the exercise she's just had to do, she's also still pretty embarrassed over Ace's escapades during their survival stint. ]

I will be returning home for a while soon.

... For those who have needed mechanical work done in my absence, I apologize. I will be returning to work within the next few days.

[ The feed cuts from there. ]

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Action, between the forests in Fayren to Sycamore Cycles in Genessia

[ Nehra, what an exhausting ordeal. There were times she thought she was going to die during, but this was just part one. Part two... Apparently that was going to take a while, she'd at least be allowed some recovery. It's not hard to imagine there will be fighting in the dungeons after this, but at least this time she can prepare and carry her own weapon.

She knows she looks a mess, earning ill looks from quite a few around her. She's still mussed, her clothes torn and burnt, her body weary from fighting Ace and hunting just earlier that day, and her dog Ash seems tired as well -- if larger than before. Still, there is a softer journey to take, and before she knows it she's back home again.

It's then that Adela discards the pipe that had once been her sword at the door to the garage, looking around for familiar faces when she finally announces to the people there. ]

I have come home.

[ The store's open for business, so surely someone is there...? ]

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[Ted did wonder what all the activity was about the last few days. 'Training', apparently. It looked fun, if a little secluded.]

Ah, well, welcome back Adela. Glad to see you survived those boars, haha.

[ Only days? Oh Ted, she's been gone for at least a month. Not that it's that important.

She rubs the back of her neck at the video response, seeming a little uncomfortable. ]

It is good to return, and yes... They were difficult, though not the most dangerous thing I have faced during this.

[ She definitely still has bruised ribs from that, though... ]

[Thankfully they didn't get a month's worth of videos, lest more scandalous things be brought to light of network junkies like him.]

"Goodness, what could be more perilous? Rhinos? Giants? Witches? I hope it wasn't ghosts; I know how troublesome they can be.

Congratulations for enduring whatever it was, just the same. What was that all for?"

Bears, alligators, wolves, and all manner of large beast that one could find in Fayren's forests.

As for what it was all for... The best way to put it would be learning how to survive, I suppose.

Oh, thank goodness you didn't run into any basilisks or dragons. A petrified Adela would be hard to explain to Smoker. It's a wonder you got his permission, especially going with Ace of all people.

[He kinda wishes Smoker would beat up Ace more. Is that so much to ask?]

Huh...strange motive. You've always seemed pretty survivable to me. Ah well, I've heard of stranger regimens. Take care, all right?

If I had, I am certain I would have found a way to handle it. And it was I who asked Ace to help me with this in the first place, I will not hear you speaking ill of him.

[ Only she's allowed to do that after the crap he's been pulling, but semantics. ]

... I shall try to take care regardless.

I'm glad to see your okay. I won't ask what you've been doing the whole time though.

[Considering he is once again living alone, it was always nice to see someone people might be friends with coming back after time.]

... I suppose the simplest way to put it would be learning how to survive.

[ She smiles a little weakly for Yuugi, as it has been ages since she's seen him last... Nehra, she wonders what he would think of her if he learns just what she's gone through. ]

It will be nice to come back for a while, though I am not intending to stop here.

Learning how to survive? Survive what exactly?

[Maybe it was like surviving the wilderness or something. Like camping and the like?]

Going to carry on after a small break or something?

Just in general. For the past few weeks, I have been learning how to handle the forests in Fayren with a rather, ah... Difficult teacher.

I do intend to return for a while however. It should be good for me, and I cannot help worrying for Smoker being left alone or so long.

Is your friend someone who cannot take care of themselves?

[Or was it another reason they had been worried. He couldn't really say for sure.]

Well, he knows how to do his work, and he handles money just fine, but I worry for other things. He is not exactly good at admitting to things like being lonely, after all.

I don't think a lot of people are good at admitting when they are lonely.

[He was a good example of that really since everyone he knew had left at one point or another and being in a house by ones self can be lonely. Well if he didn't have pokemon it would be.]

... Yes. Not a lot of people are.

[ She nods to Yugi, seeming a little more sad then. Even with Ace out there with her, it's been lonely for her pretty recently as well. ]

Well, it will be good to come back home. Nevermind about me though, have you been well Yugi?

I'm sure it will be for you, even if it sounds like it will be a short while.

[He paused for a moment.]

Yeah, I've been fine. Same old, same old.

I am glad to hear that. Perhaps we can meet up again at some point?

[ After a beat she sighs, slumping a little before leaning back to pet Ash. ]

I think I would like to do something a bit more... quiet. Perhaps you could teach me more of that card game you and Atem liked to play?

Yeah. I would like that... Depending on when we both have free time.

[It was really hard to tell if he had to be honest. The mention of Atem's name was enough for him to hide the flicker on his lips. He was planning on staying happy.]

I would be more than happy to teach you more if you want. I cannot remember if you managed to make a deck of your own or not, though.

I did not -- I never had the time. Everything else had kept me so busy. I remember liking warrior monsters quite a bit, if that helps?

That helps it giving you your own style when it comes to creating a deck since then you can based traps and spells around it, or if you think they are a good idea in whatever strategy you have.

I remember something about that, though I will have to be taught more of it and shown what cards have which effects.

... Nehra, it is quite the complicated game, thinking about it again.

It can be, but if my best friend can come from the bottom and end up being in the finals twice, then I'm sure you can do just as well.

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