Kunai Introduced Pandora to Hayami, the Kiren of the group and Nihon representative, Irish Mash, a middle-aged Griffin who is StormFronts Current Prime Minister, and Kitty Hawk, An older sheep and StormFronts reining Tyrant. Needless to say, most of the introduction went in one ear and out the other as she nodded in acknowledgement. Pandora’s interpretation of the local energies, despite the constant distraction of the hurricane surrounding the island continents made the situation quite transparent in regard to the intentions of the Griffin, and the creature that looked like a Sheep, and while the more beings... people, between her and the Kiren the better, she knew they couldn't make much actual difference. Speciesist, she knew, but her dad had already told her that breaking herself of those ingrained biases she was raised with wouldn't be easy, at least she was trying to be open-minded. That said she couldn't read the Kiren beyond a vague sense of concern, Anarchy, for all intents and purposes wasn't trying to hide anything, making her instantly more comfortable around him, and… ‘the Tyrant lizard is sapient! Biases, mental biases’, luckily the Kiren… Hayami was there to make her nervous, otherwise, she would have been more outspoken and greeted it… Her, as a pet, pissing off Anarchy no doubt. Kunai already proved his agents were more family than servants or slaves.

Sailing on to some other destination Pandora's nerves were slowly getting the better of her. Most of the crew had disembarked. Meanwhile, everyone they met at the dock had made their way to a minimalist sitting room that was recently inhabited by Alicorns evident by the lingering magic. The Griffin and ‘sheep’ were conversing to one side while the Kiren had made its-her way to the seat across from them. She spoke up, and her speech was heavily accented and missing some of the nonverbal aspects of the language. Pandora’s understanding of the sentence was along the lines of- [“It is a delight to meet matchless Anarchy has made such a bicker around”.] But a quick application of the ever-elusive common sense suggested that she meant to say [“It is a pleasure to meet the one Anarchy has been making such a fuss about”.] Panicking internally and subconsciously gripping the arm of the couch she could only stare impassively (and hopefully non-offensively) at Hayami’s antlers in an attempt not to lower her head. She opened her mouth emotionless and emitted a strangled croke, that had several ears briefly flicker in her direction before closing her mouth in embarrassment, anxiety and fear.

Concern and indignation rising Hayami turned her slitted eyes to where Kunai sat beside the young Draconequus, then next to Kunai Where Anarchy occupied the end of the couch with his tail around Kunai’s waste and Thalassemia in his lap. He locked eyes with Hayami then glanced at Pandora in concern before apologetically looking back to Hayami. [Sorry about her reaction she grew up outside the Curve, And from her reaction I'm guessing her interaction with other Kiren haven't been positive”. ‘And it's a safe guess you're going to blame me for her behaviour’]. Surprised, Hayami addressed Pandora, her mental walls faltering for an instant. [I... I… My justify! Had I identified… I”.] mental walls flickering, Pandora could get a brief read on Hayami’s intent. She didn't relax from her benign nature but intellectually she was significantly less concerned, too bad her emotions did not agree with it. [Would you deficiency me to leave? I interpret if my beingness makes you miserable.”]

Screaming at herself pandora managed to Shake her head in the negative, reasoning that she needed to adjust, and this was a good start. Hesitantly Hayami settled into her seat and anarchy took up the conversation. [“Pandora what exactly brought you here? And do your parents know where you are?]

Stuttering constantly she managed to explain that she had wanted to leave and explore on her own, for some time, but her mother refused to let her. Her mother is a Dynamic Draconquess, so she doesn't really understand what she's going through, and her dad who is a Blitz Draconquess was busy with a big case, so she didn't see him much. When she got the chance to explain what was happening to her dad, he told her about the curve and recommended she stop by at some point, she isn't sure if her mother knew she was leaving but she jumped at the opportunity at the time. That was a few decades ago, and things haven't been easy. Things seem to have been one mistake after the other since then, but she was getting by until a few decades ago. She’s not sure how she got poisoned but she just started feeling sick and nothing she's done has stopped it from getting worse. She's confident she'll get better eventually but she's getting weaker, so she decided it would be safer to be somewhere safe in case she got too sick to defend herself.

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Mindspace POV

“Personally I think it's strange and dangerous that she's so willing to talk about her current weakness a round Hayami considering her obvious fear of her, maybe the poison is affecting her mentally.”

“Anarchy Nothing I've seen suggests it’s affecting her mental faculties, though I suppose our presence and seeming familiarity would be enough to make her think Hayami and us are closer than we actually are. Why, are you concerned about what she might do?”

“Kunai I didn't mean to insinuate that Hayami is a danger to anyone, she's practically harmless, and we all know she’s a genuinely wonderful person.”

“Maybe this is just the safest she's been for a long while. She did insinuate that she was scraping buy, with that constant stress probably everything is just coming out. If that's the case then having her think Hayami is a danger to her could do her more harm than good, and knowing Hayami she’ll help her however she can.”

“Ok that makes sense. Let's have her settle in and see what she needs help with and what she wants help with. She came here herself so I hope this means she isn't prone to get in over her head like Rhapsody was. And Thalassemia, she apparently thought you were a pet at first glance”.

“At least she didn't start treating me like one, that's all that really matters I guess”.

“Not that I'm complaining but you are usually more irritated by that”.

“If it keeps happening as much as the two of you say it will I’m going to have to start dealing with it in some way that doesn't involve leaching away people's life”.

“Perfectly true”.

Author's Note

Merry Christmas Everybody!!!
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What? I'm late!? oh, um... Iiiiiiii mean Happy Newyears.