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[First aid.

Pilouette has never really had much of an interest in medicine, nor has she ever thought medical work of any kind was within her capabilities. However, Precis did have a point. Since Pilouette wanted a way to contribute and be useful, first aid would be a pretty good skill to learn, especially if her luck finally ran out and she suddenly found herself being drafted.

So, a little apprehensively, she turns to the journals.]

U-Um! I was wondering if, um, if anyone could maybe...teach me first aid? I mean, I'm not asking anyone to do it for nothing! Really! I can clean really well and um, I can cook a little! I-I'd just really like to learn how to do it!

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[ She hoped that she would have left within months of arriving, but with everything she had experienced the time had passed quickly and before she knew it, Pilouette had been in Luceti for a whole year. She had been through experiments, seen things she though were impossible, met people who couldn't have possibly existed back home, faced the reality of death, made new friends...and lost a few, convincing herself each time that it was better for them to go because they got to go home. However, part of her always wished they would have stayed just a little longer, as the possibility of her never seeing them again was high. Of course, she didn't want to admit to feeling that way. She thought to do so would be childish and selfish and she was practically an adult by now. As such, she was clearly past such things.

Right?

Even a year later, she remembers that first day clearly. She awoke in the snow and, thinking herself dead, began to panic, screaming and flailing, only realizing how cold she was after being calmed down by various other captives of the enclosure. She remembers sulking alone, just trying to adjust and wrap her mind around it. When she was younger, moving overseas or even just moving across town was enough to make her upset enough to cry and withdraw. It amazes her at times that she's held up as well as she has, though she's sure it's due to the people she's met. Plus, having been in Luceti for a year, she's gotten a little better at adjusting to sudden changes.

Just a little, she's sure. ]

[It occurs to her only now how long she might have been sitting in the snow in the middle of the forest on that first day in Luceti, sniveling and crying, if not for someone happening upon her and helping her find her way. And so later that day, dressed for the weather (along with her fake glasses, as they did always make her feel a just little less nervous) and with a small bag containing her journal, a little bit of food and a blanket, she walks off into the forest, just in case The Malnosso have seen fit to dump any New Feathers in the forest.

However, that's only part of the reason she sets off on her little adventure. Though she realizes that being stuck in this place for a year isn't something to celebrate or treat as a special occasion, she feels she should do something. She's decided to try and find the spot where she first arrived. Pilouette knows full well it won't really help anything and she's not even sure if she can even recall quite what it looked like as the area was covered with snow (her state of panic didn't help either) but Pils thinks that maybe she'll remember if she sees it.

~~Spoiler Alert: She probably won't.~~]

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Like, for real? ...Well, I guess if you're working you probably have to really watch what you say, so I guess it makes sense. I mean, you can't really just say whatever you want at work, so the customers probably don't know how super rude you are.

[She's doing her best to make sense of all this. It's kind of mind boggling.]

In any case, if you can do it, how hard can it be?

When I'm there, I get to say whatever I want.

I don't think it's something you could do, Pilouette. You're not cute enough.

[She sputters for a second. HOW DARE YOU PANDA]

I-I'm totally cute! I'm like, so cute you don't even know! I, um, I could totally be even cuter if I wanted to, but I like, don't want to stand out too much!

Ehh...really? I'd like to see that someday.

[She's just assuming he's teasing her now.]

And one day you will! You'll see! I'll look way cuter than you ever did!

What if I become even cuter than I was in the past?

[Pils pauses for a second because she realizes that this is entirely possible. She hates to admit it, but...he is pretty cute. And if there's anything she knows it's that cute animals can always be cuter.]

W-Well, no matter how cute you get, I'll make myself even cuter! Like, infinite cuteness or something!

Ahhhhh! Infinite cuteness...! Please don't go that far!

Hah! That's right! I'll just keep getting cuter and cuter! Unlike pandas, girls like me have an unlimited potential for cuteness! You don't stand a chance!

[A chance at what? Even Pils doesn't know. She is clearly just making things up here, but for this brief moment, she feels like she has the upperhand in...whatever this is. Is it a fight? Probably not.]

Hmm...maybe it would be easier if I just waited for you to grow old. Older pandas are cuter than older women.

But...animals age faster than people do, don't they? You'll be old way before I am!

Ehhh...that's no good...but doesn't that mean you're already really old, too? I'm just a young panda already.

No way! I'm still pretty young! Like I said, animals age different, right? Like, a human year is like, seven years in dog years or something.

[Nevermind that he's a panda.]

So no matter how old I get, you'll always be older!

Ehhh...but once you're twenty-five, you won't be cute anymore. By that time, I'll be a cute adult panda.

Wh-What do you mean I won't be cute!? There are lots of people who are still cute at twenty-five! If anything, I'll be even cuter! I-I'll be old enough to like, wear make up and get really flashy hair cuts and everything!

Besides, even if you're cute, I doubt you'll be anymore useful than you are now. Unless you change a lot you probably can't handle like, all the responsibilities that come with being an adult, you know?

I already have a job, remember? When you're twenty-five, you won't be married and you'll work late in the office. You won't have time to be cute.

Wh-

Hey, don't go deciding my future on your own like that! Like, I've already had that stuff all planned out for a long time! After highschool, I'm going to go to college in France, then I'll go to culinary school and become a professional baker! Then I'll get married...whenever!

Once I get home, I'll be right back on my plan and it'll be fine! Just fine!

Edited 2012-11-30 05:49 (UTC)

If you eat cake all day, no one is going to want to marry you. Is that really alright?

Wh...WHAT?! Like, I'm not going to eat cakes all day, stupid!

[More like she's not going to eat cakes all day.]

I'll be baking them! A-And I bet lots of guys would want to marry me! "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach!" That's what people say, right?! And I'm like, totally good at cooking! Plus, I'm like, totally cute and stuff!

Ehh...if you want to get to a man's stomach, shouldn't you be a doctor?

It's a figure of speech! It means that it's easier to get someone to like you if you can cook well! And since I can cook pretty well, I bet I could get lots of guys to like me if I really wanted to!

Edited 2012-12-03 05:42 (UTC)

You won't be able to get anyone at all if you can't cook with bamboo, Pilouette.

[This time, he has a condescending tone, like a mother telling someone to do better.]

You little...! I could learn it if I felt like it! Besides, you know most humans don't eat bamboo as a regular thing, right?

[She doesn't think they do anyway. She's not sure, but she's not going to tell him that.]

And who do you think you are talking to me like that?! You probably don't know anything about dating or getting married anyway!

Ehhh...I think that's just you. That's what makes you so strange, isn't it?

I know a lot about dating! I know that Handa-san doesn't have a girlfriend.

Y-You're the strange one, not me!

Wait, who? Who's that? And anyway, all that proves is that you're like, a total gossip! I bet you're like, totally nosy and stuff, getting into people's business like that.

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