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[oracledriven]

[Alright. This isn't something he normally does, but everyone else has been so quiet about it that it's starting to drive him a little nuts. So in the true form of someone who can't keep their mouth shut— here's Noel.]

Okay, so. Who else stayed in town when people went out to the desert? I can't be the only one who noticed the people in town acting strange, right?

[He frowns a little, thoughtfully crossing his arms over his chest.] It was like they couldn't figure out what to do with themselves, but even when I ask them what happened, they look at me like I'm crazy. [Which he's not. Right??] Like they don't even remember it happening.

Anyone else notice anything strange happening back then? And for everyone who went out to the desert— anything strange happen with people out there? Anything see anything like that happen since you got back?

[He's about to cut it there, no introduction, no nothing, but he pauses to add:] Thanks.

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[entreats]

[ The girl is quiet for a moment, even after Noel is done explaining. It's like she's trying to process it all - thinking about the information he's giving here. It's rather extensive, yet doesn't contain unnecessary information, so she can appreciate that much.

It's why she's seriously thinking about it in the first place, rather than dismissing him outright. ]

I see. Did you notice any of those markings at all on the townspeople while we were gone? Or were they just acting strangely without looking different at all?

[oracledriven]

[She's asking good questions. He thinks about that one for a second before he answers.]

No. No markings on any of them. They didn't notice they'd done it either.

[What's more--]

It happened a few times to parts of the town, too. A few letters on a sign would disappear, or a piece of fence...little things. They came back, but it was weird.

[entreats]

Odd behaviour, little things disappearing or changing..

[ Ange mumbles as she repeats those words, like she's trying to line it all up for herself. It is kind of nice to get thorough information like this on what happened here, since it's not like she had any idea about it while she was gone. ]

I guess it would be a pretty big coincidence if things would get weird both here in town and outside of it at the same time without them being connected. Maybe the effects of what was going wrong out there in the desert were so big that they managed to affect everything else in this world as well? [ Granted, it's not like they have concrete proof, so she could guess at anything.. ] Especially when it sounds like it were mostly minor things that were happening here.

I guess we'd need to know more about how this world works in the first place.