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[distressedude]

[The past few days have been rather strange for Ion. Between all the problems stemming off of what happened on Christmas eve and the incident with Kohan, something new has started happening. Something he can't quite explain.]

[It started out of nowhere. Just like that day when he was returned from the malnosso, he awoke with a sharp pain running down his arms and legs. But this time it felt different -- stronger. And it took more than a few minutes before he finally felt stable enough to move out of bed. For awhile, he thought perhaps it was nothing. Maybe he was just feeling a little sore from all the stress? It wouldn't be the first time stress had affected his health, after all.]

[But then it happened again at the library. And that was only a few hours after a rather nasty fall while walking around the village, scraping the palms of his hands and his knees. He's lucky it was snowing earlier that day, or it might have been even worse! But in the library, all he had been doing was sitting and reading. And then, once he tried to move again to find another book, his legs prickled with pain, pulling him back down where he'd been sitting.]

[Something was wrong. But what should he do? Would it be right to bring this up, knowing it might be nothing? Especially if it does turn out to be nothing, in which case he'd just be causing undue stress for the others. And he can't help but think back to that last conversation with Nephry...]

[Which is why he'll be popping over to go visit a certain friend, without notice -- rather unlike him, but he didn't exactly want to make the trek back home to fetch his journal. He'll just have to hope he's home...]

[After that, he'll be making his way home. But given the snow still falling and covering the ground, he won't be having a very easy time of it. At least the snow will provide a soft landing for when he trips over his own feet.]

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((ooc: Hey guys! So this post is basically the starting point for a little plot I've got going for Ion. Feel free to catch him anywhere around the village, including: the plaza, Seventh Heaven, the library, walking towards C4, or making his way back to House 1.))

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[action, later]

[distressedude]

[Hearing this now, he can't help but feel very privileged to be -- what he can only imagine, he may be -- the only person in Luceti to have heard this story. Perhaps the only person Nephry has ever told... and though there's a small part of him that feels she brought this up to make a point, he's also just as certain that perhaps this is something she just needed to tell someone. How long has she dealt this? Through all those experiments and the times when Peony had been here, living with them in this very house...]

[There's a question hanging in every word she says, hinted at with that affectionate tone she still used for something that happened so long ago. But... what good would it do to ask, he wonders. Peony wasn't here. And back home, Nephry was already with someone else. To ask would probably only remind her of the hopelessness of the situation. And that look on her face was already so sad.]

Do you think you'll ever tell him the truth?

[action, later]

[silversnowfall]

I want to, someday. ...It doesn't feel like the sort of thing that can really be said in a letter.

[But with him in the capital and her in Keterburg, neither of them with much chance of going to the other place...well. He could arrange a trip to his borrowed hometown.]

What would he think of me, I wonder?

[action, later]

[distressedude]

Would you want anything to become of it? By telling him...

[As soon as he asks, he realizes that might be a bit too much and looks down.] You don't need to answer that. But... have you ever considered telling him here in Luceti? It's... always possible that he might come back.

[action, later]

[silversnowfall]

He never seems to stay for a long enough time to become...comfortable, with the way things are here. And it would depend on his when. ...But yes. I think I would tell him, now, given the chance.

[action, later]

[distressedude]

...then I hope you'll have that chance someday. [If not here, then back home -- though that's not exactly a situation Ion would like to think about.]

[He's at a bit of a loss for what else to say -- after all, there's a part of him that can see Nephry's reasoning for telling him this story right now. And unlike Nephry, Ion is in a position where he can say something, and perhaps give himself a shot at happiness.]

[And yet despite knowing that, he's still hesitant.]

[action, later]

[silversnowfall]

Thank you. [She looks...upset. Upset and relieved all at once, and she lifts a hand to her eyes as she shakes her head at herself.] I don't know why it's been bothering me so much lately.