Chuu-Chuu Chamber | Frieren & Rei Rigel

[loveauthority]

Welcome to the Chuu-Chuu Chamber!

The crew lets you into a... rather interesting bedroom, just enough room for two and literally no one else. Outside of the decor, there's also a large timer on the wall.

The timer starts at 5 minutes, and the crew will helpfully inform both of you that unless you start kissing, getting handsy, so and so forth before your time is up... you'll be kicked out of the room!

If you do, you'll find, the timer then starts over -- at 4 minutes!

Then 3.

Then 2...

And so on and so forth, until there isn't any time at all between activities. Better get busy!

Comments

[astrivise]

So this room is named for a locomotive after all? [ this is the only take away rei has upon seeing this Unique Bedroom, because ???

also thanks for the late instructions crew. but five minutes, rei's sure that they can keep to that limit, so he doesn't address it immediately. ]

I'd like to offer you a seat, but— [ that bed is so tiny and also the train rails block off a good amount of it. ]

[elfemeral]

[ ... the bed has a face? frieren has no idea what a locomotive is, and she thinks to ask, but even with her skewed sense of time she knows that their scant five minutes shouldn't be used on that.

putting aside the other stuff. that's what privacy meant? makes sense, actually. not that knowing that changes anything on her mind right now. ]

We'll be escorted out soon anyway.

[ so no need to get comfy, because it's both of them.

she's giving rei a glance. ]

Start whenever you'd like.

[astrivise]

[ you'd think he'd be insulted over that, but he just nods firmly. ]

I'll be as concise as I can, but please feel free to ask follow up questions if you like.

[ he said he wanted to be honest, and that's true. so after a short breath in... ]

In my world, everyone is born with some degree of magic within them. Not everyone is capable of using it, as it comes down to training and the amount. But I was born with...too much.

It was hard to control and magic is, my magic is at least, highly dependent on my emotions at base. When I was sad, it poured enough to cause a flood. When I was frustrated, lightning would streak through the sky.

[ oz? oz!!!! ]

...it was too much for my parents to handle. I don't really remember their faces, nor do I fault them for it. I was a child and as a child does, my emotions bobbed up and down like the sea. Destroying anything in it's wake and then receding. I do remember spending time on the streets, with no one daring to come near me.

[elfemeral]

[ it's impressive that he could be that destructive at a young age. it isn't a thought she's meant to have about that, frieren knows, but it's one a mage would understand.

the rest of it... she wouldn't have expected from someone who seemed as bright he did, but she's never been the best at gauging those sorts of things. like rei, it's not as if she can fault those parents as well, though she has no stake in it.

she simply... knows. she know that it can be difficult, as she thinks of fern. ]

A life even adults would struggle with.

[astrivise]

Yes, indubiously. There's a certain stigma for those like me, those who can cause harm merely by existing and living. We affect those around us even if we don't mean to, even if we want nothing more than to live with everyone else.

[ he does frown here because...he can't help how he was born and neither can anyone else who's like him. ]

The me you see before you today is only possible because of my master. He was patient with me and taught me the shape of the world and everything in it.

[ his smile here is brighter than anything she's seen, brighter than anything anyone has seen, because his master is his heart. if there was ever a doubt as to why he's on this round, this is it. ]

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[elfemeral]

[ how blinding..... ]

[elfemeral]

[ ... but she had thought rei could have benefited from finding someone like heiter, the way fern had. it takes only a look at that expression — yet another familiar thing — that confirms that perhaps he had.

that fact takes her no closer to the little piece of darkness in his mana, but it's a fortunate thing regardless. ]

I wondered how someone so bright could come from such a tumultuous beginning.

[ is that tactless to say? frieren has no notion of it. it's only an honest thought. ]

He must have taught you well.

[astrivise]

He most certainly did.

[ is he grinning like a fan boy? he sure is. ]

My Master is also the reason I became a Doctor, so that I could help others like he helped me. Everyone has a smile that's uniquely their's and it's my sincere wish that everyone find their patch of happiness.

[elfemeral]

[ a life of detours and small favors fulfilled, then? she'd like to ask more about it — that vision that he's used as a guiding light.

... but a life can't be told in five minutes, no matter how similar all those stretches of time feel to her. not when she has something she'd like to know.

the rest can come later. ]

So, he taught you to control your magic. Was there anything else he mentioned about it?

[astrivise]

Hmm? Nothing else specific to just me, aside that my element has both light and dark properties.

[ please see icon because that's literally his face rn. ]