blastiafreak | [voice]

[ He almost forgot about how late it was getting in the year in terms of how the city itself will change. After Eagle and Euphie went insane and the two of them regressed back into their mind-controlled states before, though, maybe he should have realised it sooner.

Rita has to be as worried as he is, he thinks. He sends a private message to her just in case, just to prevent eavesdropping. ]

Are you okay?

[She feels a bit relieved to hear him, both because of what happened on the weekend and because he's one of the few people she feels comfortable talking with about this.

Tyr...Yeah. [She could tell him that everything's fully healed, but that's not what she thinks he's worried about.]

...I just can't believe it's already coming up again.

[ He isn't concerned about her injury anymore; he knows it was treated quickly enough that it wouldn't be life-threatening. Just seeing her injured like that still makes him sick to recall, though. Those are one aspect of his memories that wasn't cloudy at all after the curse...

But October being close means it's more likely for the same thing to happen again. That's what he's worried about now. ]

Me either... But... It's like the City is preparing already...

[It was lucky Tyr had the water rune, after all. Now that it's over, she's not thinking too much about how much worse it could've been if she hadn't given that one back to him, but...

October coming is the biggest worry now--especially with Estelle back. Not to mention what happened to Tyr the year before.]

You think that weekend was... You weren't cursed, were you? [Not that she noticed, at least, but it might make something more likely next month...]

[ If he didn't have the water rune, he doesn't know what would have happened to her - if Riou would have been able to save her or if Estelle would have made it in time.

The fact she didn't realise he was cursed make him realise how little he must have changed in what's meant to be decades. ]

...No, I was, but...I actually remembered you, so maybe you didn't notice because of that... I do think that weekend is the City's way of giving us a warning, though.

[Gels certainly wouldn't have done the trick...

She's surprised to hear that, trying to think if anything was different about him--he'd been serious, but she thought that was just normal under the circumstances. It's hard to remember, though, when she was so caught up in thinking about Euphie and Eagle.

So, ignoring the part about the warning for now-]

You--wait, what kind of curse was it?

[ Tyr would have had a little trouble truly forgiving Eagle if there was no way Rita could have been saved.

He doesn't have an issue answering her question. In the end, it was more of a revealing curse than a bad one... ]

It was like the one where Yuri and I thought we were from the future within the City... But instead of staying here, Riou and I thought we went home and returned here after...I guess about fifty years or so...

[A bad situation...They're lucky that wasn't the case.

There's a slight feeling of relief when she hears that. The last curse Tyr mentions reminds her that a lot can change in a few years--let alone fifty--but Rita still thinks that's a mild curse in comparison.

At the same time, though, she feels like she should have noticed a change if it was that long.] Fifty years?

...I...didn't notice. There was a lot going on, but...Sorry.

It's fine... Maybe I didn't really change that much in the end... [ Even though he knows that he did. It just didn't affect the way he fought and worked with her. In that way, it was easily overlooked next to Eagle and Euphie's situation. ]

[It seemed normal enough to her at the time that she didn't notice, so maybe he's right, but...As long as nothing bad happened to Tyr, that's okay, right?]

So everything was okay with you?

[ It's not like he was a hermit with Riou and they could never settle down for more than a month, right? Even with Riou, it was a pretty lonely life to Tyr. ]

More or less... I had Riou, so... It wasn't as bad as I thought the future would be...

[One person is better than none, but...Rita wouldn't want him to have a lonely life.]

What do you mean, not as bad? [He mentioned having Riou with him, so-] You didn't think that...you wouldn't have anyone, did you?

[ There's a quiet sigh on his end. After leaving Gregminster, after losing Gremio again... He doesn't want to think about it. The best answer he can give her is: ]

It's the way life is...