un: ecraig | text

[fiddlestick]

WHO: Elliot Craig
WHERE: Network
WHEN: During the November Event
WHAT: Check-in
WARNINGS: MINT

Hey, this is Elliot Craig. If any students from Kaisou High can see this, can you please check in? I want to make sure you're safe.

Also... has anyone else encountered a man in red planting something in your yard? He planted some mint in my yard and said he was helping, but then he ran off before I could get anymore answers.

Does anyone know anything about that? Is he okay? I know things are really stressful right now, but...well, I'm a little worried.

Please be careful everyone! If you need healing, let me know? I can try to heal if you need it.

Comments

[fiddlestick]

I see... well, a bit of a weird time to take up gardening, but as long as he's not acting out of character.

How are you Eve? Are you safe?

[playtag]

Oh, he's been gardening a long time. Just more... contained.

I'm fine. The cottage is basically the same as ever.

[fiddlestick]

Oh, so you're saying he's...branching out?

[ELLIOT NO.]

The cottage huh? Someone mentioned there hasn't been any demons there.

[playtag]

...

I'm not saying that.

[Elliot, why. She trusted you.]

There hasn't. I haven't seen a single demon when close to the house. Vash has brought some of his friends here because of that.

...And planting the mint.

[fiddlestick]

[Don't trust anyone Eve. Puns can get you wherever you go]

That's good to hear. Be sure to stay there if you can, okay? The streets out here are really dangerous.

Is Kni there too?

[playtag]

[But you're a teacher!]

I will. I'm not going anywhere for the time being.

[As much as she'd like to help, Eve is still spooked by demons. So she's limited to helping around the cottage for now. Frustrating, but it is what it is.]

Yes. Kni seems happy to stay here.

[Maybe enjoying his surprise vacation a bit too much, given the cost.]

[fiddlestick]

Thank goodness.

[So that's two kids safe and accounted for and not building mechs. What a relief]

Well I'm glad he's happy. I'm going to email you guys some music practice stuff to work on if you need something to occupy yourselves with. You can treat it as extra credit, okay?

[playtag]

[Eve would be a bit more grumpy about being coddled and left to the sidelines... had she not been kidnapped by demons a year prior. Puts a bit of a damper on the urge to prove herself.]

[Luckily mechs are off the table. As far as she knows. Kni is a mystery sometimes, but she trusts that he'd show off if he regained something that big.]

Okay. I'll tell Kni. I think he'll like that.

[The music nerd of the family]

Are you also safe?

[fiddlestick]

[Poor Eve, you can prove yourself one day. Elliot meanwhile is just deeply thankful that at least two of his students are being good and staying put without much fuss. Congrats Eve and Kni for being the favorites right now]

Ehe, I thought he might!

[Elliot knows how music nerds tick, being one himself]

Yeah, I am. I've been helping out where I can with my magic, but I'm being careful about it.

[playtag]

[One day soon, she hopes (though that might not be so realistic). But for now, Eve is being good and relishing being one of the favorites.]

He does enjoy the piano.

Oh. [She's not sulking, she's not] I see. Stay safe out there.

[fiddlestick]

[Totally not sulking. Except he remembers Altina, who was a lot like her. And how she'd get when she wasn't allowed to help out]

I will. And hey, you'll get to help out in this stuff one day, okay?

[playtag]

[If he were Vash or Wolfwood, she might have vented about her frustration... or asked if it was a promise. (Then again perhaps not. Even Sven and Train don't hear about her troubles unless they ask.) But while Elliot was a trustworthy teacher who seems nice, they haven't quite reached that level yet.]

[So simple answer it is]

Okay.