Ink and Embers

A duck bites your nose. The duck's accomplice, a heron, grabs the Sandwich from you and flies off, not before shoving you off the same cliff as strmblsd.

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Ink gestures vaguely with their elbow, trying to keep hir hands in vir ears to block out Mandrake's screaming. "That may not be the most suitable metaphor, as we've frightened away all the sensible people by now. Still, understood."

Cayansa, The Sphere, Ruthar Street "Oh," Cayansa said. "I'm sorry. We can figure something out." They felt a little guilty at the way Kai seemed to deflate at that. Maybe think next time, Reyx sighed, Everyone's stories differ. Even from the stories you tell yourself. It sounds like we got away lightly with the Alleys, Cayansa mused, decisively ignoring Reyx as they took another bite of chouta. The ones we stuck to were mostly safe. "A police officer?" they asked Kai. "How do they work here? Is it closer to Azir or Alethkar in terms of paperwork?" An ear-splitting crack, like the earth being sundered, rebounded around the street. A faint light flashed in the sky, presumably brighter nearer the source, and the entire street felt as though it was shaking - or perhaps that was just Cayansa. "What was that?" they coughed, squinting at the afterimage of a sky that had seemed, for a moment, the opposite of light.

Hat!!!!!!

Baby Shark (If we're doing CPR songs)

"Oops. Sorry!" Ink passes Ryn the bandage box back, producing another box from a hole in the ceiling. "Do you need another one?" "See you soon!" Ink calls, being completely oblivious to the coffee spilled on them. "Have a nice day!" Just in case, Ink gives Kansas a bandage.

Ink waves enthusiastically. "You're back! And you don't seem to have blown up! I ... seem to have accidentally produced a bandage cornucopia. Would you like a bandage?"

"Thank you very much!" Cayansa took a bite of the chouta. "This is nicer than I expected, actually." Avoid the Mistwarrens, Reyx said, settled back in Cayansa's hair again. Noted. So maybe don't head there unless you're a full Shardbearer. Until? Cayansa thought back hopefully. That depends on you at this point, Reyx replied, but not without a hint of humour. "What's wrong with shady places?" Cayansa asked Kai, eating some more chouta, "Is that how you get to the Alleys? We didn't see much of them on the way here, which sounds like it was a good thing. There was someone telling horror stories about the Alleys in the Corridor, though that may not have been the most reliable source of information. Did you come with anyone?"

Thank you! I have another one!

"Sorry!" Ink takes the lemonade away again. "Good luck! There's a pool of apple juice that way! And a pool of orange juice! And a maple syrup pool! And probably quite a lot of other ones if you ask Coder!" Ink jumps up and down so much, the lemonade is largely spilled on the floor.

Thank you! Good luck!!! Shoot for the Moon; even if you miss it, you will land among the stars! (I can't remember who originally said that)

"Don't worry, lots of people back home got confused about. Well. Both. Radiance and gender. Realy I'm not a girl or guy, more of ... another option entirely." Cayansa shook Skye's hand as best as they could. "Nice to meet you, Skye! I like your hair as well!" Reyx gave a startled glimmer at being addressed. You did fly up and start talking to them, Cayansa thought to them, And they seem friendly enough. I know, but that still doesn't mean I'm expecting a conversation! they replied. "Uh," Reyx said, "I'm Reyx. They them. As well. Nice to meet you?" Cayansa gave them an encouraging grin, then turned back to Kai and Skye. "We arrived yesterday morning, in the middle of a park. Reyx immediately dragged us both off to an area with lots of painted walls - the Corridor, I think? - and we headed here this morning. Have you seen any other Radiants? That might help us work out where the equivalent Urithiru is."

Those are cool! Good for you!! You can do it!!!! My one resolution is the same as last year, which is to write a bit every day. And also to not die. Ideally.

Playing brown noise Idk what it is, other than a random phrase I heard once

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Anyone got any resolutions?

Ink smiles. "Thank you." "I do, in fact! Here you go!" "Welcome! Coder's in charge here. Last time I checked he was an apple. No, confetti! Wait, hasn't that changed again? Have some lemonade! And an emergency bandage! You'll probably need it!"

Cayansa, The Sphere, also wandering down a main road Hey! There's a Radiant! Reyx called down, flickering out of Cayansa's hair and onto their shoulder. And an Honorspren, so ... Windrunner? Cayansa was startled from their analysis of the buildings and looked around them, spinning in a circle. "What? Where?" "Hi," someone said, and Cayansa span around, satchel nearly slamming into a short Alethi man with long red-black hair and a deep blue uniform. "I'm Kai, and I'm trying to find my way in this part of the city." Beside him, an honorspren with purple-tipped hair and a large grin appeared, about as tall as Kai. "Care to help a fellow Radiant out? I can buy you chouta?" "Ah! A person! I'm Cayansa Caprir! Nice to meet you!" Cayansa beamed back at them. Reyx lifted themself up out of their hair and hovered to the side, glinting rapidly. "We're not Radiant," Reyx added, voice sounding like shattering glass, "Yet, at least." "No," Cayansa quickly agreed, "Anyways! We're also ... very, very new to the area, so we may not be the most helpful, but is there anything we can do?" They freeze mid-sentence, "Uh, what's chouta again?" they whispered to Reyx. "It's a Herdazian street food," Reyx replied, amused, "You knocked over at least three stands selling it in Urithiru." "Oh." Cayansa turned back up Kai. "Yes please, I'd love to try it! And enthusiastic purpleish honorspren, what's your name?"

Ink shrugs. "I lack healthy coping mechanisms." "Do you need a bandage?"

"No problem! Have fun teaching more people to blow stuff up, given you seem to be enjoying it. No, genuinely! Have fun!!!!" Ve then passes Kansas a mug of lemonade. "DRINK. IT'S GOOD FOR YOU."

Enlighten me, king of Ithaca

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