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🧙 WHO: Chris Yukine and you!
⚔️️ WHAT: Catch-all for March, quests and such
🕒 WHEN: All through March
🗺️ WHERE: Around Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: N/A

[The Great Hunny Hunt (Or Live Free and Die Bun)]

First of all, Chris had no idea there could be this many bunny cafes in a given location. In all actuality, she would have probably only figured there were one or two. But no, this was her fifth one today and it wasn't even the last.

Of course, she hadn't found Sir Fuzzlerton. Not yet, anyway. And what's more, this particular cafe wasn't so keen on letting her wait around just in case he appeared. So? She was forced to work for her time, wearing one of the (admittedly cute) cafe worker uniforms (complete with rabbit ears) and helping wait tables and seat new customers.

She felt absolutely mortified.

If you came in, you'd be greeted by her smiling awkwardly as you came in. "Hello! How can I help make your day a bit more bunny?" she said, doing her absolute best not to sound mortified.

She was failing.

Drastically.

[Manhunt]

The hunt for the so-called Snagglefoot Miffen was much more Chris's speed. You didn't think a short girl with pigtails could be intimidating, but she was able to get enough information on his whereabouts before he even made it to the Red Spring Inn.

Unfortunately, when Chris tried to confront the thief, he took off running. And what's more, he was fast, where Chris most certainly wasn't.

"Stop that man!" Chris called, as she tore off after him, between huffing and puffing. She had called it out several times, but as of yet, no one had tried to help her. Maybe you could be the first? Or perhaps you're her partner in taking Snagglefoot down.

[Music in the Streets]

Chris hadn't planned to end up in the middle of a street performance. But she truly loved music, even if she didn't always show it outwardly. So, when she came across a group of bards doing a street performance, she couldn't help but stop and listen. And as she stopped and listened, she ended up singing along, and well...

The bards took notice. They didn't care what she sang, but they took her out of the crowd, and compelled her to sing with them. Chris was highly embarassed, but she couldn't say no, especially with all those people around her, so expectant.

And so, she she sang. She was surprised the bards knew it, but... happy nonetheless. It wasn't one of Chris's own songs from within, but it was a song she appreciated... and it made her think of her friends.

Are you in the crowd? Just passing by to listen? Or are you coming in at the end, as Chris finishes, and finally steps down from the performance?

[Training]

Chris was always up for honing her magical skills, so she could often be found on the training grounds. The order of the day was what it usually was—target practice. She'd gotten skilled in forming magical arrows, and that was what she was practicing with: arrows made of flame, ice, and electricity, and working how to aim and fire them properly in conjunction with her bow.

You could approach her then, or you could wait for Chris herself to approach you; she figures enough practice is enough, and seeks out someone directly. "Hey," she said, with an awkward wave. "I don't suppose you'd be interested in sparring?"

The old man and Hibiki had truly taken too much influence over her.

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Honestly, Chris' music was just enchanting. The young girl had a superb talent for song, and the crowd was quick to reward her with not only boistorous cheers, but a few donations as well. It was mostly money, but in one case, Chris was being handed a smoothie...

And following up the hand that offered it to the beaming face of the person holding it, revealed one Princess Ovelia, smiling brightly.

"Lady Chris leads angels to envy, with such an amazing voice!"

Chris is... utterly thrown as donations are thrown her way, to the point she was still stunned as she took the smoothie. It was only when Ovelia spoke that she was snapped out of it.

"A-ah! Ovelia!" she exclaimed. "Come on now, I'm not that good!"

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"Tis little need to be so humble, Lady Chris," Ovelia giggled, covering her lips with her now free hand.

"Truly, you would make a skilled bard, as well as a knight. Consider that royal decree," the princess winked.

Chris looked helpless for a moment, before deciding she'd better just live with it. Besides, Ovelia wasn't doing it to tease her—her compliment seemed genuine.

"Alright, alright," she said. "I guess I'll take it. Th... Th..."

She swallowed hard, before finally saying: "Thank you."

"I accept your thanks graciously, and with honor," Ovelia spoke, giving a small bow. She could tell this was a bit of a struggle for Chris, so she eased up on her praise, as much as she felt compelled to keep heaping it on, thanks in part to her new smoothie addiction.

"Come, Lady Chris. Walk with me, if you would be so kind."

"Eh? Walk with you?" Chris said, looking momentarily surprised. "Well, okay. Uhm, thanks again you guys," she says to the bards. Before long, she's at Ovelia's side.

"So, uhm. What's up...?"

"Tell me, Lady Chris... what do you make of this place, so far? Truly, I mean. I know we both had our apprehensions when we spoke about matters initially."

To say the fucking least.

Chris has to think about that, so it takes a moment before she replies.

"... It's not exactly home," she admits. "So I'm not exactly comfortable here, yet. But... I guess there are worse places to be stuck."

She sighed, and looked out at the path before them.

"I... I feel a bit lonely, I guess."

"The one you spoke of before...," she was sorry to say she couldn't recall a name, if it had been mentioned. Her own state had been... rough going, after all.

"They are not within this world, I take it, then?"

"..."

She looked away, while biting her lower lip. "I do have a friend from my world here, now, but. No, not her. And none of the others."

Chris sighed, hanging her head.

"I must sound selfish. Saying I feel lonely when I do have someone. But... it's weird..."

Her voice trailed off, as if that explained all of it. ~~It didn't.~~

It wasn't much of an explanation, certainly, but it resonated with Ovelia all the same, who gave a solemn nod, sipping her smoothie as she did so, which sort of undercut the gravity of her empathy, but hey. It was there.

"I would not turn away Ramza or Alma if they were to appear here. Lavian, Alicia, trusted companions all. But... I would still find myself longing were my knight not here with me."

Chris nodded, blushing slightly at the implication of Ovelia's words. For some reason, she felt she could trust the young woman with things, so she decided to be honest.

"I think in my case, I just... I'm used to having everyone to support me," she said. "I... I don't know if I could ever admit this to all of them, but they're kind of like... my family."

"Family..." the word sits a little... strangely on Ovelia's tongue. It doesn't even quite sound natural when she says it, though she ostensibly knew what it meant, in its most basic and literal senses.

But for someone like her... it held a meaning that felt so deeply... hollow, in comparison to how it sounded in Chris' voice.

"To have such a thing... you are blessed, indeed, milady..."

Her tone isn't lost on Chris, who shifts a bit uncomfortably. She doesn't know what Ovelia's past is, but she feels she brought up memories that weren't exactly pleasant.

"... They were there for me when I had nobody," she said, after a long moment. "Maybe... maybe someone can be there for you, like they were for me. Someday, I mean."

She only hoped she wasn't presuming too much.

Despite the coldness that was in her voice before, she still managed a soft smile, shaking her head. And when she spoke next, there was... fondness in her words, one that ran deep, rich, well rooted in her soul.

"So long as I have Ser Agrias, I need not want for anything else..."

Chris blinked, and after a moment... smiled and nodded.

"Then it sounds like you have someone after all."

A pause, and she continued, her voice slightly less sure of itself. "I'd, uh. I'd like to be one of your friends too, if that's alright."

Chris' earnestness was impossible to not feel warmed by, Ovelia's smile becoming that much more obvious, a slight giggle in her tone.

"Then consider it done. Royal decree, even."

Chris nodded, smiling warmly. She realized something in that moment; that she'd been too shy here, and that she'd lost some of her confidence. But she'd been able to make friends like Ovelia, and sung in public without much issue... maybe it was okay for her to loosen up, be more like she'd been at home.

"Thanks," she said. Then, with a slightly teasing tone, "Your majesty."

A light giggle, another sip of her smoothie, and a small bow, to accompany the mood.

"I'd say you remind me of my days among the rest of the girls I came up along with at Orbonne, but I fear you'd have likely found the place a bit stuffy to your liking..."