Echo somewhat looked a bit surprised when the girl stepped closer, her wings closing a bit tighter around her own body. She stared at the ground when she spoke, nodding a bit.

"I think I could, yea. I-I'll, uhm, I'll try my best to do so."

"I'm going home, so it's less of a going-with-you than going-back-myself," Rai says, stepping back from the younger one anyways. "Do you know what your forumer looks like?"

"Ngl, the maroon coat thing sounds pretty iconic to me," Rai says, glancing at Echo.

"That's fine. At least now we know that the forumer we're meeting is real."
Eustice pulled out a messenger bag from beneath the rubble and put it on.

"Eustice..." the girl half-whispered, running to the woman's side again. "I think 'they' are nearing again."

She glanced at Echo and Rai. "We're starting off right now. If you're coming, then hurry up."

Eustice turned completely and began to walk quickly down the street.
The orange-haired girl ran up to her and grabbed her hand. She seemed nervous.

Hmm, good question.

The pair kept on going.

However, something just began to feel different about the place. Like there was something or some things watching. Watching from the shadows inside the buildings at the sides of the row.

Everything was silence for a moment. Eustice's footsteps echoed in the street, her pace quickening along with the girl's.


Then a tiny chunk of rock fell as something... someone else crawled from a cavelike feature formed by pieces of building.
A woman, a blond woman with nothing but a white tunic wrapping around her body.
On the other side of the street, a man seemed to have "appeared". He was dark haired but sported the same kind of clothing as the other woman.

Two more similar people began to come out of spaces formed by the rubble as well.
Then another. And another.

Soon, ten or more white-clad beings were standing silently along the sides of the ruined street.