[audio, right before new arrivals]

[loopsiedaisy]

Did anyone [else] make a wish, right before ending up here?

[There's a muted, deadened quality to this transmission - someone is trying very hard not to think about. Well. Just about anything!]

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audio/voice;

[outbounds]

Make a wish?

[ it doesn't come through, but now he's thinking about the circumstances of their arrival again... by which he means, the first group of them. the one that arrived not that long before Starfall, or what seemed to be some variation of what Ingo recognized as Tanabata. wishes, the unknown, the future . . .

how active does the want have to be? ]

audio/video (dunmeshi spoilers ahoy)

[dunchies]

[ Wishes. Desires. He may know a thing or two about a thing or two. ]

Not... right before.

[ There's a strain to his voice. A desperate attempt to hold back anything that might unintentionally slip into the feed, perhaps. ]

salutes,, (ISAT spoilers probably too, indirectly)

[loopsiedaisy]

[Siffrin can hear that strain. They recognize it; they're doing much the same thing. They have a lot of practice not thinking about things even while they're talking, though, haha!]

[It sounds like they might not be the only one who utterly fucked things up, though! Isn't that nice? Even though they can't imagine anyone doing it worse than them!]

...but not long before?

[loopsiedaisy]

[There's specific ways you're supposed to wish.]

[But something they don't totally remember is telling them: there might be exceptions? If they try to examine it too hard, it'll probably go away, so they don't.]

...or wanted something really hard, maybe.

[dunchies]

[ The electric type solidarity remains strong with these two, even when they don't know it! Laios unfortunately can't pick up the same cues as easily as Siffrin, though. ]

N-no. No. Just a few weeks, maybe?

[loopsiedaisy]

[They're not necessarily expecting an answer - stars know they absolutely wouldn't, if they were asked. It'd be ridiculous of them to get mad about Laios refusing. But they might as well try.]

What did you wish for?

[outbounds]

[ not letting anything slip is so much easier when it's just his voice alone. he knows he's not the most emotive there. but this is telepathic, and more than just that public, which means—

that Emmet has had a lot of practice operating as he normally would while in public over the last while. but he also can't just dodge out of the question now, so... ]

One thing, maybe. For several years.

[loopsiedaisy]

For several years...?

[That doesn't sound like any type of wishing Siffrin knows. But it's not like they have any way of being able to tell if they're missing something.]

Maybe it built up...? [Is that how it works?]

[...]

[. . .]

Was it something that could've been granted by you ending up here?

Even if it's not the way you wanted it granted?

[dunchies]

Mm. It's— [ He pauses, suddenly second guessing himself. Is it really that complicated, without all the context? But to say it outright, knowing how it looked back home, knowing how many here didn't ask to wind up in Bottlecap Bay as something else? Better to dance around it, even if vagueness just begs for more questions. ] —it was to save everyone.

[ Suddenly, he's thinking back on those few weeks before coming here. A giant feast. The hustle and bustle of a newly emerged kingdom. Anxiety mixed with longing. But it all fades just as quick. ]

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[moondregs]

Do you mean like in a fairytale ... or just a general desire?

[loopsiedaisy]

[Right. Of course it was. As vague as it is, as much as Siffrin feels like there was probably more to it... that's so much of a better wish. Ha! Haha!]

[...]

Was it... could something about it have made you end up here?

[loopsiedaisy]

[...]

More like the first one, but both, I guess?

[moondregs]

Well, I definitely never did the first one. But ... I did want my life to change. Or, more like ... I wanted my world to change.

[loopsiedaisy]

[. . .]

Yeah, that would fit, wouldn't it...

Maybe it did count as a wish. If you wanted it enough.

[moondregs]

When I wanted a change, I wasn't thinking a change of species.

But, actually ... I'm happier here than home. I've been so busy helping out I didn't notice, but even with the setbacks I've experienced the mood is different.

Did you make a wish?

[loopsiedaisy]

The Universe doesn't always grant a wish in the way you'd like it to.

[Is that... a yes? Maybe?]

...I'm glad it. Worked out for you, though. [It sounds a little forced.]

[Because they're actually super jealous. But they feel like they don't deserve to be.]

[moondregs]

Are you having a hard time here?

[loopsiedaisy]

...no, I'm doing fine.

[They really aren't, but it doesn't have anything to do with this place specifically. So! It doesn't matter!!]

[...]

[Right, they should probably:] Thanks for answering.

[They feel like all this is confirming a theory they have.]

[outbounds]

[ Built up? They seem to be thinking about something specific, so his case probably doesn't count, but. ]

It came and went. Never disappeared. But sometimes it was stronger than at other times.

[ That's just how it goes? ]

And maybe. I wouldn't have thought so before it happened. But yes.

[loopsiedaisy]

[...]

I guess it's a maybe, then.

[Their theory needs more evidence! But if everyone else sounds like they have something similar, they're going to assume Emmet's thing counts.]

[outbounds]

[ details successfully avoided,,, (?) ]

Maybe.

[ ... ]

To my knowledge. The first of us here. We arrived not long before a festival here called Starfall.

[loopsiedaisy]

[It's not like Siffrin can complain about someone being reticent!! They got the part they were really asking about, anyway.]

Starfall...?

[They should probably hear about this. They're not sure they want to hear about this.]

[outbounds]

It is a celebration. It revolves around a meteor shower. Falling stars. And it focuses on wishes and the future.

[ so... you know. this both is and is probably not what Sif wants to hear, but. ]

[1/2]

[loopsiedaisy]

[HAHAHAHA OF COURSE IT DOES]

[2/2]

[loopsiedaisy]

[Okay they're normal again. Please don't mind the split second of. Whatever that was, that slipped through.]

Right when the first ones showed up?

...that's really suspicious, isn't it??

[Super duper suspicious! They're absolutely not reading too much into an assumption they made and rotating all the evidence they get until it fits!]