[homophonic] catchall for kyoko

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KYOKO

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[ Kyoko waves at her. ]

What do you think of this one? I preferred the sky.

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I think I preferred the sky too...

[hmm]

But maybe it will just take a little getting used to.

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[Her digivolution line includes a winged dragon she doesn't want to be down here.]

Being adaptable is a good trait, but I can't imagine spending too much time down here personally.

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Should we go somewhere else?

[factoring]

Yes.

[Immediately starts heading out.]

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[follows her! where are we heading...]

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[We're going to the music store, since that's new and interesting too!]

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[valid. nahida lights up when they get there.]

Oh, Kazuki's going to love this!

[factoring]

Right? He's been waiting for something like this for weeks.

[dendroculi]

Hehe. He really has.

[at least someone will get one nice thing this week...]

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Do you play any instruments yourself?

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Umm, not well... I know a couple of old songs on the lyre, though.

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Do you want to try playing one? I think I saw that in the back.

[There are so many instruments here.]

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Sure, I can give it a try...

[she'll go to find one, then... and will practice some of the songs from the aranara quest lmao]

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[She seems quite content to just listen to her pluck at the strings.]

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[she smiles]

...hehe. I'm glad I still remember how to play them.

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They sound very nice. Are they popular at home?

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They're pretty old... songs from hundreds of years ago. Maybe even thousands...

They're songs of the Aranara.

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Who are the Aranara?

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They're forest spirits. A lot of people in Sumeru think they're just myths, but... they're real. It's just that most adults can't see them, is all.

[factoring]

[ I'm thinking about the digignomes in Tamers but they don't exist in cyber sleuth... ]

Is that so? Is there some kind of disconnect between adults and the whimsical? That's not an uncommon bit of lore...

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...when people grow up, they tend to stop believing in the impossible. And, for a while... adults in Sumeru didn't experience dreams.

Although, that was partly because of the Akasha...

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Your version of the internet? I feel like humans only dream more when they know of things beyond their understanding... Though I do mostly work with teenagers.

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Its original function was to "compile everyone's wisdom in the name of the Archon". Dreams are full of human wisdom - sometimes, moreso than when people are awake.

But when I was in the Sanctuary of Surasthana, the Sages misused it... they began harvesting the people's dreams for the Jnana energy to power their own experiments. But they also put out the propaganda that discarding the irrational was a sign that people had truly grown up and were ready to take their places within the Nation of Wisdom... so, anyone who did dream didn't want to admit it, and people didn't question it when they ceased to dream.

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[Huuh. This so interesting to her, but it's also so wild people are like this? It doesn't seem impossible to her that humans exist in this way... But also wild that their worlds' internet is that way.]

What a difficult position to be in. What kind of experiments were they trying to run with that kind of energy?