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[entreats]

[ Even as the image can be seen, it seems like there's still a moment of set up, tiny hands fiddling with the Omni like they're trying to get the perfect shot.. But then there are two faces visible. Two faces that are looking decidedly younger than usually - it's Ange and Ruby, looking like they definitely can't be much older than six years old.

And looking very excited. ]

Um, so, so..! We heard that there's some sort of reaaally scary snake monster out there! So.. we thought we'd help out everyone and get rid of it! Because Ruby.. She's a really, reaaally cool huntress! [ Ange may be Will-Smith-esque posing at Ruby for emphasis right as she says that. ]

[Ruby just stares at the camera briefly until she notices Ange's hands pointing her way. She blinks and quickly starts to flex her twiggy arms to the camera.]

Yeah! We're super strong and awesome and we've got tons of weapons! [Ruby gestures to a sack of potato's and a large collection of sticks that they've gathered up.]

That snack is going to be- a- -uh- a, a piece of snack!

[ While Ruby is saying that last part, it seems that Ange has already moved over to grab one of the sticks for a demonstration. As she's running back towards where Ruby and the Omni are, she's waving the stick wildly. ]

We'll get it just like thi--

[ Ange manages to smack the stick right against the device, turning the view sideways before it just cuts out entirely.

Oops. ]

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[expiera]

[sis...

but yes good. Today isn't a day for angst, it's a day for snek hunting shopping and preparations. So no need to complicate it beyond that, right?]

Shopping it is~! We can get you a helmet, and more. Do you know how to use the lamp to get around The Trench, by the way?

[Gonna go visit the armor shop in Prufrock with a 6yo, you're clearly never too young to gear up!]

[happymeal]

Uh-huh, of course!

[ Even though this young Ange has technically never been in Trench, she does have the memories of the older Ange squished into her head.. As much as they fit in there, or even within a six year old's frame of mind at all, really.

But it seems like basic knowledge like that is at least still up there. ]

I'll tell everyone I'm heading out and then come see you, miss..!

[ Because 'hey, I'm going shopping with someone I either don't or barely know' is totally not a weird thing for a little girl to tell to the people living with her, right... Nothing shady about this... ]

[expiera]

[Hum, she seems to have retained some of the technical workings of The Trench? That's... convenient, let's go with that, though this also points more firmly towards there being good odds that Ange'll remember all this once it blows over. ...It will blow over, right, that's not a completely crazy assumption to make, but in the meanwhile, her initial warning sure had come in relevant hard and fast: "lose yourself", "change your form", she said. Seeing is believing, as it goes...]

Great, then we'll just be headed to Prufrock and meet at The Gate. Keep your Omni on you so everyone can still get in touch with you if something comes up, okay?

[alright but "I'm going shopping in one of the safer districts as long as you don't factor in all the sharp objects the whole area is chock full of in town" sounds OBJECTIVELY less objectionable than "I'm going out to hunt a fire breathing ROCK SNAKE monster with a stick", yeah? Look she'll have her home before sundown and everything sir ma'am, just taking a 6yo armor shopping and maybe prooobably slipping her some dainty looking trinket that's actually enchanted to possess minor unholy creature repelling properties, nbd really. Completely wholesome and normal!!

...Or any Actual Adult(s) smol Ange currently lives with can stop her from going out, h-haha 🥲 Then Ciel'd have to ask her for her address and make a ninja delivery or something... Hm... Could work? 🤔]