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[WORLD TWO | SIGNET MELTDOWN MINGLE]

Who: Anyone!
Where: Everywhere
When: Day 197-200
Open/Closed: OTA

[ If you've never experienced that ear-splitting, spine-tingling, bone-crushing headache that comes with Qri doing...something...then you're in for a treat. It lasts for about an hour on the first day, though usually it fades after a while and things go back to normal.

This time, you aren't so lucky. As soon as the headache passes, you notice there's a certain something missing within you. You may not notice it immediately, but the next time you hear someone talk their words might be equivalent to gibberish. When you go to ask someone what's going on with your telepathy, you find that your words just circle your own brain, no one answering because the message simply can't be received.

This...may be a problem. Hopefully you know how to play charades. ]

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[ this pain was entirely new to Ritsuka. the disorientation was different from the after-effects of Rayshifting, too, and this made for a deadly combination. she couldn't make out what people were shouting about as she passed them by, shouldering her way roughly off of the crowded streets to try and find somewhere where she could calm herself down and reorient her thoughts.

she didn't understand why this was happening, and for a brief moment she didn't care, just just needed to move.

—or run directly into someone else who was fleeing for the same reasons. that works, too. at least pained groans are universally understood? ]

[ Shouldering through crowds? Amanda would've hurt everyone between her and a nice place to sit down if she'd been further away. Just let her give up. On life. On functioning. Practically clinging to a bench, she mostly kinda actually ignored Ritsuka. ]

[ Ritsuka didn't look ahead to where she was going, just that the park was less busy right now. there were regulars there that did recognize her, though — of the feline variety.

one started poking and prodding at the prone girl's head, to try and get her to stop hogging the whole thing to herself. ]

[ Cats? Cats are cool except when they're being a pain in the ass like half the time. Amanda looked at a cat and hissed at it very convincingly - she even had a face like a pissed off cat herself. ]

That's not going to work. [ close now, one hand clutching her head and one eye shut, Ritsuka was watching the scene unfold as the girl and the cat vied for dominance over the bench.

the cat turned to her, then, and made a curious sound. Ritsuka addresses it directly, telling it to back off, which renders her speech untranslatable to Amanda.

—and when she continues speaking in the cat's tongue to the girl, not realizing it, that doesn't help either.

you know. like "nya"? ]

[ It also kinda hurt her head more. Amanda was super ready to fight an entire

army? tribe? gang?

of cats. Amanda tilts her head, looking up at the strange girl speaking cat language. ]

Um. ...me...ow?

[ of course that doesn't sound like anything to Ritsuka except a human trying to make cat noises. what kind of poor dialect...?

the cat definitely laughed. or as much as a cat can laugh. Ritsuka sighed and shooed it away. now was not the time to deal with having to play peacemaker; she would rather the conflict be avoided altogether, even if it meant relocating a stray. she'll just come back and feed them later.

meanwhile, she still has to deal with the girl. at least the ringing in her ears has stopped. opening her mouth once more, nothing clear comes out. she's pointing at her collarbone now, beneath the line of the colorful scarf she's wearing (and has been wearing almost non-stop for weeks).

"signet"? ]

[ In more magically dense places Amanda... might be able to muddle through cat? She was pretty sure talking to animals was possible without her wand, at least.

...here she was just a little lost. At least her headache had downgraded.

Amanda tilted her head, and pointed at her own collarbone too for a moment - oh right. Amanda nodded quickly. ]

Yours is working? [ with the cat gone, Ritsuka finally reverted to speaking Japanese. she misinterpreted the answer to her unobvious question. ]

Uh. Um.

[ Amanda blinked. That was wrong. Oh god. What is going on she should be able to magically understand - those fuckers fucked with their magic translators? ]

Cone. Knee. Chee. Wuh?

[ ....h e l p ]

[ that was unexpected, indeed. Ritsuka is momentarily stunned but, well, she shouldn't be rude with someone's accent. an attempt was made... even if it didn't answer her question. ] Konnichiwa.

Are you able to reach anyone else? My head hurts and I don't know what happened. [ she talks so fast, I'm sorry. ]

...nope.

[ Well she tried but the only Japanese person she's really met before coming here was... actually pretty good at English! And Amanda never had time to learn more than like five words. ]

Uh, sorry? Hello? Do you... know any English?

[ no, wait, she understood that. now it was Ritsuka's turn to be nervous because while she's studied English it's definitely not something she's very fluent in. ]

I — hello — yes, I do. A little?

Sorry, I don't really... actually speak any Japanese. But we should be able to understand each other.

[ It sounds like Ritsuka can at least communicate a little in English, so that's nice? ]

[ she nodded, hesitantly. ] Yes. All right.

[ this is going to involve a lot of pausing and correcting herself, Ritsuka can already tell. ] I am sorry for the cat. It was helping. [ she gestured to herself, then the bench. ] Can I sit?

[ Amanda's not in any rush - she'll slow down a little from fast-talking city girl, just a bit. ]

It was helping?

You did not hear? He said to move. [ as if it's perfectly normal to understand cats. ]

I don't speak cat without magic.

[ blink.

blink blink. ]

The animals speak to everyone. Every time. [ don't they??? ]

...you can talk to all kinds of animals? All the time?

[ Damn don't let any really curious witches near this girl. ]

Yes. [ Ritsuka sits down and stares at the ground like she's just come to some kind of horrible conclusion about herself. ] Yes, I think... so.

That sounds really useful.

[ Although Amanda's wondering how this is a revelation for her. ]

Is it not okay. [ no wait, that's the wrong phrasing. ] Is it not ... Can you talk to them?

Not here. I would need magic that I can't use here.

[ That should be intelligible yeah. ]

[ did she hear that right?

surprised, Ritsuka pointed at Amanda, and reverted back to Japanse, using the term for various kinds of magic users; sorcerers, magi, or witches. ]

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