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[It's disgustingly hot and humid and even with most of her hair pulled up and twisted back away from her face, she's got curly tendrils hanging down and a light sheen on her forehead. Ugh. But at least she's back to finding things to keep herself busy.]

My chair is open at Ursula's again, if anyone is looking for regular tattoos or some runework. Want anything more intricate let's talk and we'll see what I need and what deal works for you.

[Best way to act like nothing is wrong is to go right back to what she was doing before, right? Right.]

Catching up on the insane shit y'all love to get up to, but what little changes, a lot stays the same, doesn't it? Like how I still don't know who most of you asses are. Keeping track of the coming and goings ain't easy. Anyone keeping a list?

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SAERI!!!

YOU'RE BACK!

[Ow, Luz, that is kind of loud. Right in the ear huh.]

Guess you could say that. Squid life wasn't doing it for me.

[Sorry, sorry! She was just so excited]!

I'm so glad you're back! I thought you'd gone for good!

Can I come by and see you? I want to catch you up on things!

[There's a pang in her chest. Luz is just too good for her own good. She chuckles at her.]

Sure, Luzi. Still hanging around Willful Machine.

Right! I'll be there in a few!

[Luz clicked off her Omni and took thirteen minutes, but by then there was a knock of her door, and there was an eager sixteen year old grinning from ear to ear].

Hey! Good to see you again!

[She opens the door to her carriage house, hair still pulled back, wearing a dusty tank top and her left arm absent.]

Damn, you were fast. Come on in, haha.

[She steps inside to let her in and Luz should be able to smell the scent of citrus as Saeri had been using an orange-based concoction she'd mixed to clean.]

Ignore the dust, you wouldn't think a place would have this much after only a few months.

I just needed a reason to get out of the house!

[She spent the last month there Saeri, she was definitely keen on getting out now]!

Ooh, smells really orangey here! I'd believe it though. You'd be surprised how decrepit a place can get in a short amount of time. It's pretty bad.

True. But doesn't make it any less of a bitch to clean. Trying to get it finished up before I head back to work.

[She moves around, a spray bottle in one hand and a cleaning sock on her other arm that was already covered in dirt and residue.]

So what have you been up to?

Right, the tattoo glyphs, right? You need any help with cleaning?

[Luz is already rolling up her sleeves to lend a hand].

Oh, you know. Devastating news here, a little corruption. Got killed for the first time, that was...ugh. Oh, and the month after, I got a new job.

With a girlfriend.

[Saeri stops and turns to stare. Her left arm would be propped on her hip if she hand a hand to put there.]

I don't know what you just tried to slip by, the dying part or the girlfriend part. Details.

Well the dying part was just unpleasant and I'm still kind of mad at myself about how it happened. The truth of that is I shouldn't have been there. Even if I did think there were enough people, I should have let that one go. That was my own fault.

So I sorta decided to "ground" myself, really give myself a chance to stay home and concentrate on small house things, maybe do some magic. One day this girl messages me on the network, around when Varian and Fern left. I was feeling down and...we just talked and kept talking and making jokes and nerding out! I couldn't believe how easy it felt to talk to her, and how funny she was and how pretty she was. She's running the used book store "Satellite of Love." Now me, I love books, so I wonder if I could help her unpack and stuff. Turns out Lysithea is. Gone. Which stinks, but also freed up my schedule, so. I work at the bookstore now.

And then we talked more and more after and...we admitted we liked each other. A LOT. So that's where I am now. Happy and curious and scared out of my MIND.

[That is a lot of rambling, but Saeri expected no less from Luz. At least she gets a good amount of detail--except for how she died, and she definitely notices that--about how she was doing. She sets the bottle down and ruffles Luz's hair.]

You've had a busy three months. But I guess it turns out well for you, huh.

[There's a pang of...guilt? Yeah, she's pretty familiar with guilt now. Of knowing shit happened and she wasn't there for her. That Luz maybe had to go through all of that alone.]

She better be good to you. But I think you're a good judge of character.

[Except maybe when it came to seeing more good in people than there really was.]

[The dying part was not something Luz thought of fondly, and she'd already had a few people give her lectures on doing something that would put her in that much danger. Dying was NOT something Luz wanted to think about again, nor was being a squid and then not one again. Just...ick].

Somehow, yeah! Who knew? It felt really rough the last few months too, but I'm finally getting back on my feet. I'm just glad I'm ready to go back out in Trench again.

[She couldn't help but smile].

Lexi is great to me. She's...she's perfect, even. She's very pretty, smart as heck, nerds out all the time, is compassionate, sweet and determined. She's hard not to like!

No one's perfect, Luz. I'm sure she's great, but let's not build any shrines.

[Because she would hate for Luz to build this girl up to being something she's not and get hurt when it all falls apart. Not that Saeri has much experience in getting to the dating part so much as the falling apart part.]

For all you know she could eat anchovies and pineapple on her pizza.

That's an expression! I know she'd not perfect: no one is, and it sounds like her life with other people was actually pretty hard at times. But in my eyes, she's perfect to ME.

[Luz knew no one could be perfect and was also just as aware she was in the glow period of her relationship. And she didn't care! She was pretty happy]!

Pineapple is great on pizza, and anchovies...are a very salty fish and I don't care for them.

Pineapple is amazing on pizza. Pineapple and anchovies is an abomination I wish I didn't know about.

[She grabs a dusting rag off the coffee table and tosses it toward Luz. Then she picks the bottle up and pours a little more of the citrus oil onto the dusting sock before heading back to finish where she had been oiling and polishing the ladder to the second floor. If Luz is offering to help, Saeri won't stop her.]

Anything else crazy happen I should know about? I have been going through some of the posts and shit available, but it's a lot. Social media at its finest.

Ugh, what?! Super salty and sweet?! No! Just...what?

[Luz takes the rag and is already noting where Saeri hadn't started yet and gets to work. This was actually strangely relaxing, working at a task while talking. It gave Luz some focus].

I'm probably not the best to ask. Took a month to stay in, like I said. Something new happens every month, so I might be a little behind! We did lose some people though. Varian and Fern, if you knew them. I was living with them in the house, and they went back to the sea.

[Luz was still trying to cope with that, because it was still a lot and not having the boys around was an ache that didn't go away].

Right? Ugh.

[Saeri gives an exaggerated shudder.]

I've heard of those two. Varian and I talked a bit when I first got to Deerington. Short, quirky alchemist. Sorry that you lost your housemates. Are you living alone, then?

Salty can only work if you balance it properly.

[Luz understood salt with savory, even with sweet, like caramel, but overabundance of salty with sweet was just horrible in her mind]!

That's him all right! We had the tattoo together, actually!

Thank you, and no! We sort of adopted two kids close to my age into our fold, Luca and Ahiru, and we also have a new housemate, Zib. Know any of them?

Yeah. I remember.

[And her memories from when she was here before feel so recent and yet so far away. It's almost worst than last time and she gained even more memories in a shorter amount of time. Maybe it's because of squid-time.

Once she finished with the ladder, she moved on to the hanging bowls, having to remove them and dust them and everything inside of them before putting them back. Time consuming with one hand, but she's found trying to not scratch up or dent what she's dusting with her metal hand isn't that easy.]

I don't know any of those people though. At least you've got friends to hang with. Just don't get up to too much trouble with them. [A little smirk.]

[Luz sighed]. It feels weird that he's not here though. Now I feel like my tattoo is half finished even though it's not, and the Bond that we shared feels severed, you know? Like I'm missing something in me.

[It was a bad feeling, one that Luz had honestly been trying to work on that whole month she stayed home. It was important to try and regroup with herself and feel like she was recovering from some of that pain].

Do you need me to do those bowls? It'll probably be faster that way and you can concentrate on something else!

And who knows, maybe you'll meet them around sometime soon! Or, you might meet someone completely new!

[Saeri knew exactly how Luz felt. The same way she feels right now with a broken bond split three ways. She hates that she feels disconnected unable to sense the Soulcarver as she had been able to for weeks. She hates even more than she can't feel Romero. For very different reasons.]

It will fade, give it time. The benefit of those types of bonds is absence does make the reverb less noticeable.

[She doesn't comment about "meeting someone new" because she's seen how that goes. Either they leave or she does. Instead she keeps the conversation on something else.]

You okay with getting all of them down? There's a stool over there for you to reach, but be careful with the ones full of crystals. Those were a bitch to find.

[It was Varian that hurt the most, since it was a tattoo AND a Bond that they had shared, and Luz missed her big brother very badly. But she knew that he and Fern were together, wherever they were, so she wouldn't be too angry, just wistful].

Maybe. I think I'm still dealing with mine.

I can fly up, remember? But I think I'll use the stool, probably easier that way,

Ooh, really? Got to see those! And clean them, of course.

[Saeri decides to let that go. To let Luz not have to keep stewing in it. Better to focus on the fun, things. Better to not think about who is lost and if they will ever come back.]

No flying inside the carriage house. There's too much for you to bang into.

[She laughs.]

And yeah the crystals are great for shaping into charms and rune-jewelry.

[Luz was still sad about it, but she knew that getting past it was something the both of them would have wanted. The last thing they'd hate is knowing their little sister was suffering because of them.

They'd want her to live, so Luz would, despite how hard it felt].

I guess that includes no bird form either, huh?

Yeah. Actually, I think I might want one soon. For, well, my girlfriend.

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