Happy Happy [Open, backdated to Day 1]

[greennotgold]

Characters: Fletcher and you!
Format: Starting in prose, will switch if you want
This log is: open
Location: Around the courtyard
Summary: Fletcher got back his brother's name. He is filled with glee.

There's a bounce in Fletcher's step that wasn't there the day before. He's in the courtyard, for once not heading anywhere in particular but just looking around. He's happier than he has been up until now, so he's finally noticing just how nice this campus is. The buildings are actually kind of pretty, and the plant life is all so well-kept.

He still isn't pleased with having been kidnapped and dragged here, but right now things are looking up.

As he's making his way around the courtyard, he might just catch sight of someone else. If it's someone he knows, he'll probably wave to them and call out; if not, well, he'll still peer at them curiously. Say hi?

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[greennotgold]

"I'm fine too," Fletcher replied. "My name is Fletcher, it's nice to meet you! Are you new here?"

[myblueskies]

"Hello Fletcher, it's nice to meet you." Romeo grinned even more, "I came last week on the train!" His eyes shone, being on a train was exciting! "How about you?"

[greennotgold]

"I got here two weeks ago." It wasn't particularly something Fletcher was glad about... "I was one of the Players last round, too."

[myblueskies]

"Really?" So children could be players too? Romeo hadn't known that, he had thought it was just the adults. "It must have been scary having to fight all those adults!"

[greennotgold]

"K... kind of," he replied, nervousness creeping onto his face. "I only had to do one fight, though, and it was with someone else our age."

[myblueskies]

Romeo nodded, so there had been someone else their age as a player as well. He sensed Fletcher's nervousness though and changed the subject slightly. "I've never been to a school before, nobody told me that you had to fight at school!" Doctor Casella had definitely never mentioned it.

[greennotgold]

"I haven't in a long time," Fletcher answered. "Um, I don't think it's normal. Not where I'm from, anyway."

[myblueskies]

"Not normal?" He tilted his head slightly and then shrugged, it was obviously normal in this school and Romeo hadn't really been involved in any of the fighting. "Where do you come from Fletcher?" Not that Romeo knew many places but he had seen a map before and knew most of the place names around Milano.

[greennotgold]

"Uh-uh. I've never heard of any schools doing this before I came here."

"Oh-- I'm from Xenotime, in Amestris," he replied. Would Romeo recognize the name? So many people hadn't...

[myblueskies]

Xenotime, was that a town. In Amestris? Romeo had never heard of Amerstris but he had only just began learning geography. He closed his eyes for a moment trying to visualise the globe that doctor Casella had shown him.

Hadn't there been somewhere near Switzerland called Amestris. Maybe... the more Romeo thought about it the more he was sure. "I think I know where that is! That's a long way though!"

And didn't they speak a different language in Amestris? Fletcher spoke Italian so well!

[greennotgold]

"Wow, really? Hurray!" Yet another person! Fletcher's wide grin returned. "Where are you from that's so far away?" Romeo's Amestrian was really good for someone from another country...

[myblueskies]

Romeo grinned, "I am from Sonogno, it's a village in the Alps, but I was a chimney sweep in Milano, that's a huge city, in Italy!" Of course they were still in Italy but not being from Italy himself Fletcher might not know that Milano was in Italy as well.

[greennotgold]

Fletcher tilted his head. "...oh, I haven't heard of those," he said a little regretfully. Maybe it was another lost memory... "Sorry, Romeo."

[myblueskies]

"Oh..." That was strange, but Fletcher had said he hadn't been to school for a while so maybe he just hadn't been taught geography.

So Romeo explained with a big smile. "We are in Italy that's what this country's called. Milano is in the north, the Alps are further up." He didn't mind that Fletcher didn't know, Romeo hadn't known any geography until doctor Casella had taught him.

[greennotgold]

"...we're in Italy?" Fletcher's eyes went wide. Sure, he wondered how Romeo knew for sure where they were, but it was such a relief to finally have an answer! Even if it was a place he'd never heard of. "Oh! Um, how far away is Italy from Amestris, though?"

[myblueskies]

Romeo nodded, he wondered how Fletcher didn't even know which country they were in. Maybe whoever had brought him here hadn't told him where they were going. That wasn't very nice of them!

"Well over the Alps is France and Switzerland, hmm," Romeo looked around and found a red stone the colour of the building. Bending down he tested it drawing a line on the pavement.

It left a faint red line. "Here," he drew a very rough [and inaccurate] map of Italy with an even more inaccurate figuring of the bordering countries. "The alps are here, and here is France," he pointed at the scribble to the top left of Italy.

"Switzerland is here," the middle scribble, "And here is Amestris!" The scribble to the right, "So it's not too far at all!"

"Did the person who sent you here not explain where you were going?"

[greennotgold]

Fletcher crouched down to observe Romeo's drawing. He frowned.

"...no, no one explained it. The conductor of the train wouldn't say anything..." He continued frowning. "But... but I don't think that's right. If Amestris is to the east of this country," he pointed to Switzerland, "then that would have to be Creta, not Switzerland. And down to the south here would be Aerugo..."

[myblueskies]

Romeo frowned again, that was strange... Doctor Casella had definatly said that to the north was Switzerland, and they were definatly in Italy...

The Romeo understood! "Oh Doctor Casella said that countries are called different things in different languages! So Creta must be what you call Switzerland in Amestris!" He grinned glad that he had worked it out so quickly.

[greennotgold]

"...oh, I see." That was odd... "Do you usually speak a different language? I didn't think about that."

[myblueskies]

Romeo tilted his head, "Well... I'm speaking Italian at the moment... because that's the only language I know. You must be speaking it too because I can understand you!"

[greennotgold]

What.

"But Amestrian is the only language I know," Fletcher replied in confusion. "There's no way I could be speaking something else!"

[myblueskies]

"Really?" Romeo tilted his head in confusion. "But..."

Well that was strange but there were lots of things Romeo didn't understand. "Maybe it's magic... like the magic walls with people on them."

[greennotgold]

"...magic? But there's no such thing," Fletcher said. The closest thing to magic that really existed was alchemy, and that definitely couldn't make people speak different languages or understand them. "What magic walls?"

[myblueskies]

No magic? Well Doctor Casella had said exactly the same thing. But that did not explain the magical walls or the fact that people had magical weapons in their bodies or the fact you could get in a box and it flew upwards to get to the tops of buildings.

That last one was incredibly scary and Romeo had gone nowhere near them but there was no other explanation past magic.

"The magic walls, that lady comes on them and talks to us but she's not really there and she's on lots of walls at once! They show other people as well, when they are fighting."

[greennotgold]

"I don't think those are magic... I've heard people say they're technology," Fletcher said. "I mean, we don't have them in Amestris, but apparently they're just... like radios but with pictures? I guess..."