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[jemerite]

[Hello, mirror. It seems that... Zinc may just be waking up after a few rather unpleasant days, a wave of gleaming green snakes slithering away from her, disappearing into the grass with a faint rustling. She opens her dark eyes slowly, staring off at nothing blankly for a long time.

Eventually, she makes an attempt to lift her head, but she lays back down tiredly, blinking without speaking.

It is a while still before she curls an arm under her head, getting more comfortable, although she's frowning and her eyes don't lift to the mirror. The reason for that will be quite apparent in a moment because she murmurs,]

I can't see anything.



[[ooc; I am still tagging that log. Very slowly, I'm so sorry. Sob. I just didn't want to have to backdate this any further. If anybody wants to take credit for her second death, they can have it. Otherwise it's a suicide, and... I'll just be ambiguous about it until that gets settled.]]

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[golden_gaytime]

And now? Where are —

Oh. [ That's right. She can't see, so she might not be able to tell? Mugi examines the mirror closely, looking to see if her surroundings look familiar. ]

[jemerite]

The grass is cool.

[That's all she can offer, really.]

[golden_gaytime]

Hmm... maybe I can...

Excuse me? Vine? [ She's learned a bit about controlling the helpful plant on her end, but isn't sure if that control extends out farther. ] Can you help me see more of where she is, please? Or...

[ Now she's mumbling to herself as she looks around. ] Didn't someone say I can ask the animals...?

[jemerite]

[The mirror does expand a bit, btu the Garden is the Garden, rarely stationary and often in a mind to lead you astray. Hearing her mention the animals however, Zinc does suggest,]

One of the cats...

[golden_gaytime]

Ah, yes! Please wait for me, then. [ And Mugi rises from her seat and scampers off to find one of the cats and, thus, get directions. ]



[ Someone is a little out of breath when she finally does arrive. It was a bit of a run... ] Haa, haa... hello? Zinc? Are you there? [ She can't have gotten far like that... right? ]

[jemerite]

[She hasn't moved, at all, really. Lying still in the grass is a corpse's natural pose, isn't it? The stirs when she hears Mugi's voice, however, rolling onto her back to stare up at the sky sightlessly.]

Hello.

[golden_gaytime]

Oh! [ She walks over and drops to her knees on the ground, looking down at the woman. ] I'm sorry that it took me so long. Do you want to get moving right away? [ Mugi reaches out without thinking, hands resting on her arm. She'll need to be guided, right, but she can... still get up on her own? ]

[jemerite]

It wasn't long.

[Or... Zinc wasn't going to complain about it, anyway. The hands on her seem to startle her though, and she reaches uncertainly to take Mugi's hand in her own. The dead woman has hands like ice... she wonders if the girl will mind it.]

[golden_gaytime]

[ Mugi's hands have always been commented on as being warmer than usual, so there is a stark contrast which does surprise her. There is the tiniest yelp to that effect. ] Oh! You're so cold... [ Even though it's so warm out here, in the sun. Mugi furrows her brow, though it can't be seen. ]

Let me help you up, and then you can tell me more about how to get to your house. [ Reaching for the other hand, to help guide her up and to her feet! ]

[jemerite]

I am always cold.

[It's not quite an apology, though it would be on any other day. She gets to her feet slowly, uncertain about taking support from a girl who must be half her size. It was strange being one of the few adult women in the Garden.]

The house is... away, from the orchard. To be alone.

[golden_gaytime]

I don't mind! [ The last she wants to do is make Zinc think that was a bad thing. She just seems to hold on tighter. Purposefully. ] Away from the orchard... okay! You said there was a gate, yes? Is that... with a fence? I'm sure I'll be able to spot it.

I'll start walking, now. [ Announcing what she's going to do is best, right? She sure hopes so, as she'll start walking, taking cautious, halting steps until it becomes clear if the woman can follow the lead easy or not. ]

[jemerite]

An iron fence... Maybe Coleo is waiting.

[She tended to stay in her little house because she wasn't able to move very quickly. She has been dead for several years now, and while on the outside she looks pretty - Barbet and Kuja's work, it's why she needs a master - inside she continues to deteriorate. The joints are the worst of it.]

[golden_gaytime]

"Coleo"... [ She tests the weight of the word, still moving, and steadily gaining confidence as she thinks less and less about Zinc's blindness. ] A friend? [ She'll stop if she was right on the first mark, but otherwise: ] A... pet?

[jemerite]

A pet.

[She answers softly.]

Reeve made her.

[golden_gaytime]

She did? [ Assuming that it was another such lady who resided her and not back home. ] What kind of pet, if I may ask?

[jemerite]

A robot. Coléo is short for coléoptère. Beetle, in French.

[golden_gaytime]

Oh! Is it a tiny and cute round robot? [ Beetles are not inherently cute, but if it's only named or modeled after one... ]

[jemerite]

I... think she is cute.

[golden_gaytime]

That's good! That's the important part. I can't wait to see her. [ Which is pretty much universal, for Mugi. How much farther do they have to go, she wonders, as as she looks around. Are they even going the right way? ]