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Who: Everyone!
What: Thanksgiving + New Feather party.
When: Evening of the 20th.
Where: School cafeteria, nicely done up.
Summary: There's food. And there's also board games, are you game for some Snakes and Ladders?
Rating: Let's put this all over the board. Strange stuff can happen, man.
[Thanksgiving may not be a familiar holiday to most in Luceti, but everyone understands potluck, at least! Hopefully. Preferably.

It's all done buffet-style as usual. Thanksgiving stuff greets you first when you grab a plate and get in line at the buffet lines (food and drink provided by everyone, Thanksgiving stuff courtesy of the Welcome Centre and Ginia). Though of course, don't think that you have to stand in a line while eating! There's tables and chairs for sitting and talking and— eating, obviously. Reach out and grab a drink! If you get one that's been prepared by the Welcome Centre, it's non-alcoholic. Can't really say the same for anything else brought by others, so you may want to be careful. Y'know, just in case.

'course, there's also board games if you're interested in 'em. Just check out that corner over there!]

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Quite a while, to his mind.

"Giles. Nice to meet you, Ginji. Sorry if I seem, um, a bit on edge. Only just got back this morning."

"You too."

Ginji's eyebrows raise in a mixture of confusion and mild concern. What's normal edginess for some might not be normal for others (and Ginji knows his share who're always on guard), but people don't normally apologize for nothing. "It's all right, but. Just got back from where?"

Not unless you're Giles, they don't.

"An...experiment, I suppose. My friends and I just spent a while in the care of the Malnosso.

I got back just in time for the party."

"Do you mean you were kidnapped? I've read that it happens sometimes..."

But he's yet to experience it, and he's not sure he wants to. And he's not sure he wants anyone else to either.

"Are you all right?"

I'm all right. Granted...[And here Giles looks again for the tiny form of Ginia in the crowd.] My two friends aren't. Not quite, not just yet.

But. Considering our past experiences with the Malnosso, we still came out quite fortunate over all.

[Ginji follows his gaze, though he's not sure who Giles is looking for or which person they'd even be. It's bad enough to be kidnapped, but to have to watch your friends still struggling with the effects must be awful. What would he do if the Malnosso kidnapped Noelle...?]

That's... I'm still sorry to hear it. Is there anything we can do?

If you see a small girl who can't speak, or a blonde boy that seems to be terrified of absolutely everyone, I'd be obliged if you could keep an eye on them.

Thank you.

[Ginji wasn't expecting anything quite so... terrible. Who could do that? For a long moment, he's not even sure how to respond, but in the meantime his face takes on an uncharacteristically serious expression.]

...Okay. If I see them, I definitely will.

Thank you.

I, um, I d-don't mean to ask so much of someone I've only just met, but...thank you. I need all the help I can get, with these two.

Oh no, don't worry about it. I'm sure I'd be in a similar state of mind if someone I cared about had just been taken by the Malnosso.

[It's not a bad thing. It just shows how much they must mean to him.]

E-Even so, I, um, I hope you don't have to. For a good long while, at least. Everyone deserves at least some time to get settled in.

[Giles looks grateful for the assurances, however. Ginia and Helios are both good kids, but they're willful in their own ways and he can't expect them to trust him completely.]

It'd be nice... but we can't all be lucky. In the end you've just got to be ready to face whatever life throws at you.

In the meantime, though, we can still help one another out. [Ginji gestures in the direction of the tables.] And I think there's probably another plate up there with your name on it.