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if you want any of those things to be available, pls do make them so lol might be easier for her to get the info that way
"I guess," she said skeptically. "Is there anything that's like - in Mercurian? Can you even read Mercurian like that?"
This, with a bit more interest, half-turning to Ekstrom as she asked it.
"Or maybe it can read something aloud?" she suggested again, poking the text with a finger like she could provoke it into performing.
She kept scrolling, though, after saying it, as if to continue hunting for exactly that. But she paused, slowing down as the text gave way to images, and then fell completely silent as she looked them over.
The Garde was already, in its way, a beautiful place. But there was something entirely different about seeing it in its full grandeur - all the painted walls restored, all the tiled floors pristine, the walls and windows thick with banners and tapestries. And more than that, to see it in a way that looked alive: racks of weaponry in the bailey arranged as if for immediate use, doors half-ajar as if to indicate the person that had just gone into them and dogs running to and fro, smoke trailing up from busy outbuildings and a deer being dressed in a bright red splash of a vibrant life recently ended, to fuel more lives being lived just out of frame.
"Oh," she said after a long moment, her voice sounding numb and strange. "It's pretty."
