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[Well. Now Rapunzel has a bit of time to figure out these bracelets, she thinks she has the hang of it, and turns it on, brushing some hair behind her ear and seated on her bed in the Freyr house. The girl is likely a very familiar sight to some, considering she was here previously, and all that hair is certainly hard to forget. Which is currently down and trailing around the room, though at the moment mostly piled on the bed behind her. She seems rather pleased with herself for having figured out the bracelet. It's apparent she has already started drawing and writing about some of the things she has seen and learnt here, the people she has met, on some papers she has stuck to the walls of her bedroom.]

Okay. I think that's it.... So. I'm Rapunzel. I kind of only recently arrived here at Asgard. There is still a lot to take in, really. I've loved the festival though. Though I am not sure how often that happens. It was a lot of fun, there was so much to do!

I've heard I've apparently been here before, but I don't remember that myself. Does that...happen a lot, here?

[She seems a little upset at that, mostly guilty about others being so glad to see her and yet she doesn't remember them. She wishes she could. It's one of two main things making her conflicted about this place, really. A hand brushes through her hair, biting her lip, before she asks another question.]

Our powers, the ones we had from home, they're really gone? I was hoping....but I guess I can find other ways to help. If we help bring colour back here to this world, we go back home, right? What happens back home while we're here?

[Because, the thought of Eugene alone in the tower with Gothel is not a particuarly nice one, really. And she has not seen or heard of either of them being here at Asgard yet, if they are around at all. She still feels like she has a million burning questions, but decides that is probably enough for now, so she mumbles an early thanks and turns the bracelet off.]

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Oh. Well, I am sure she's okay back home then.

You think so? I never really went to any festivals back home to really know if the reasons might be silly or absurd, but I don't think that lanterns were. But yeah, I guess it would help if it is similar to back home.

If she is, yeah.

I don't ever think there was a festival that revolves around lanterns, but there some that did include floating lights. [A beat.] What was the lantern festival like at home?

I wasn't sure what they were when I saw them from the window, so I'd just call them the floating lights, Eugene was the one that told me they were lanterns and took me to see them. But it was amazing, there were thousands of them! And we had a perfect view from the boat in the lake of all of them as they rose in the sky. It was...so pretty, the way they reflected in the water and everything. Eugene even had a couple of lanterns for us to release as well. They did it each year on my birthday, hoping it would help their lost princess find her way back home to Corona.

[It sounds almost like something from Kairi's romcom movies.

But he has to admit, that does sound beautiful. Lights reflected in the water... it reminds him of the sunsets on the island.]

A festival to celebrate their lost princess... to bring her home? [It doesn't take much for him to put two and two together.] Good to know that it actually worked, and she found her way.

To help her find her way back to Corona, yes.

[Though. It's now a matter of escaping the tower now, back home to get back to Corona to claim her title. Which is what she is worrying about now here in Asgard but. She supposes it had worked, given she had found her way there that one day at least. Now it was just a matter of getting back.]

[He's definitely getting a sense of that. Which is why his smile is pretty gentle and positive.]

Don't worry. You'll find your way back again. You did once before.

You--how do you know?

[Yes, Rapunzel had told him the basics, but she hadn't specified the princess in question was her. She hadn't specifically told anyone about that detail.]

That festival sounded pretty important to you. Sure, you've been wanting to go see it yourself, but... it felt like it meant something more.

It was. I mean, I'd been watching the flo--the lanterns for years from my window and dreaming about seeing them in person one day. I couldn't help but feel like maybe they were meant for me, on my birthday.

Sometimes feelings like that are right, strangely. Or maybe we wish for them so hard they come true

[His Disney is showing.]

[She can't help but smile almost knowingly at that.]

Yeah. I guess, if I didn't feel as strongly about going to see them in person...I'd have missed out on so much. Even in spite of everything, I'm still glad I went.

As you should be.

[This is nice. This is good. It almost reminds him of how comfortable he was with her when she was here before.]

I'm Riku, by the way. I don't think I mentioned that.

I'm Rapunzel. Oh, though...I did say that already first thing. But, it's nice to meet you, Riku.

[He lets out a little chuckle.] Nice to meet you too, Rapunzel. Hope you get settled into the city well.

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