[ The last month or so hasn't exactly been the best time of Claire's life, spent mired in a state of burning internal conflict, confused about the very basis of her beliefs, stuck laying low by lying to most she meets in a foreign land...
... Not sure where to even start in addressing the problem of what to do with herself outside the guidelines of Garden's assigned missions...
That said, it could have been a lot worse, too; despite what her abrupt departure and barren explanations may have implied, she hasn't really been living in the wilderness, ostracized from society entirely or whatever else. People here might find her odd, perhaps even a bit suspicious, but at least that means she can keep her interactions with them simple. She leaves them alone, they leave her alone, and she does the job she's been hired for smoothly.
Right now she's certainly not expecting to run into others she knows out here, and especially Shadow, of all people. Not since like so many others, he too had disappeared months ago; she assumed he'd gone home for good and didn't really expect to ever see him again.
But one way or another, she hears that an offworlder someone is looking for her, and decides to show herself before he spends too much more time doing so. She still can't help but stare though, when she catches sight of him, her back pressed to a tree as she waits for him to get closer.
Of course, the fact that her hair's been dyed to brown to blend in likely hasn't helped in his search for a woman whose defining trait is pink hair, but... ]
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... Not sure where to even start in addressing the problem of what to do with herself outside the guidelines of Garden's assigned missions...
That said, it could have been a lot worse, too; despite what her abrupt departure and barren explanations may have implied, she hasn't really been living in the wilderness, ostracized from society entirely or whatever else. People here might find her odd, perhaps even a bit suspicious, but at least that means she can keep her interactions with them simple. She leaves them alone, they leave her alone, and she does the job she's been hired for smoothly.
Right now she's certainly not expecting to run into others she knows out here, and especially Shadow, of all people. Not since like so many others, he too had disappeared months ago; she assumed he'd gone home for good and didn't really expect to ever see him again.
But one way or another, she hears that an offworlder someone is looking for her, and decides to show herself before he spends too much more time doing so. She still can't help but stare though, when she catches sight of him, her back pressed to a tree as she waits for him to get closer.
Of course, the fact that her hair's been dyed to brown to blend in likely hasn't helped in his search for a woman whose defining trait is pink hair, but... ]