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"Awesome," Cameron said with a grin.

"I've got to get to class, I'll see you later okay? And next time you go out on a dangerous quest to help somebody, make sure that somebody is actually there first," Cameron teased, "and say hi to Val for me!"

Cameron ran off down the hallway, nearly tripping over himself in excitement as he did so. This was probably the second best thing to ever happen to him, he decided. Maybe even the first.

Cameron is sitting on the stairs of the archives when Kepler arrives. He doesn't see Kepler at first, but when he does, his eyes go wide and he quickly gets up and runs over to him

"Kepler! Where have you been? Why do you smell like blood? Did you kill somebody? George knows how to get blood out of fabric-" Cameron asked quickly in concern, his eyes searching over Kepler's body for any injuries.

✦ Kepler looks fine, just a little tired. (Like that's anything unusual, anymore.) He's holding a bundle of white fabric in his arms with the journal pinned under an elbow. There's a slight, fresh burn on his left hand, around the thumb, but nothing serious. "I'm alright, Cameron," He sounds a bit nervous, doing this best to console the other. "I was over by the Dragon Isles, helping Valorie...You got the message, right? That I was gone?"

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Cameron grins at Kepler's poor attempt at lying. He takes a step closer to Kepler.

Cameron had always considered himself bold. Most of his older friends called it stupidity, but he called it bravery. And right now, Cameron was feeling very brave.

"I think you're lying," he said with a smile, "and I think I know why."

Cameron leaned forward and pressed his lips to the top of Kepler's head. It was short, but when Cameron pulled away with a proud smile, the world seemed to stop spinning.

Cameron is sitting on the stairs of the archives when Kepler arrives. He doesn't see Kepler at first, but when he does, his eyes go wide and he quickly gets up and runs over to him

"Kepler! Where have you been? Why do you smell like blood? Did you kill somebody? George knows how to get blood out of fabric-" Cameron asked quickly in concern, his eyes searching over Kepler's body for any injuries.

✦ Kepler looks fine, just a little tired. (Like that's anything unusual, anymore.) He's holding a bundle of white fabric in his arms with the journal pinned under an elbow. There's a slight, fresh burn on his left hand, around the thumb, but nothing serious. "I'm alright, Cameron," He sounds a bit nervous, doing this best to console the other. "I was over by the Dragon Isles, helping Valorie...You got the message, right? That I was gone?"

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Cam looked at Kepler inquisitively, before looking down at his own hands and back up at Kepler.

"Whatcha staring at? You're kind of red," Cameron half giggled.

Cameron fidgeted with his hands a little as he spoke. They were somewhat chubby, and they appeared to have been scraped recently. As Cameron remembered his last duel where he had fallen and had to catch himself with his hands, and he was overcome with the desire to say something very stupid.

Cameron is sitting on the stairs of the archives when Kepler arrives. He doesn't see Kepler at first, but when he does, his eyes go wide and he quickly gets up and runs over to him

"Kepler! Where have you been? Why do you smell like blood? Did you kill somebody? George knows how to get blood out of fabric-" Cameron asked quickly in concern, his eyes searching over Kepler's body for any injuries.

✦ Kepler looks fine, just a little tired. (Like that's anything unusual, anymore.) He's holding a bundle of white fabric in his arms with the journal pinned under an elbow. There's a slight, fresh burn on his left hand, around the thumb, but nothing serious. "I'm alright, Cameron," He sounds a bit nervous, doing this best to console the other. "I was over by the Dragon Isles, helping Valorie...You got the message, right? That I was gone?"

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Cameron looked pleasantly surprised at the compliment, his smile as radiant as ever.

"Well thanks! But I didn't haha- I just wore hand me downs as a kid, stuff Harvey never got to sell... my favorite coat was a titan hunter robe, of all things!"

"And hey, don't be dissing Crios, he's a busy guy with big quests to go on, of course he wouldn't give me a second thought," he said with a certain pride and admiration. "But hey, I've practically got his permanent signature after our fight, so it's no biggie if he doesn't notice me, we're tied together by the fatessssss," Cameron said, wiggling his fingers in a purposefully silly manner.

Cameron is sitting on the stairs of the archives when Kepler arrives. He doesn't see Kepler at first, but when he does, his eyes go wide and he quickly gets up and runs over to him

"Kepler! Where have you been? Why do you smell like blood? Did you kill somebody? George knows how to get blood out of fabric-" Cameron asked quickly in concern, his eyes searching over Kepler's body for any injuries.

✦ Kepler looks fine, just a little tired. (Like that's anything unusual, anymore.) He's holding a bundle of white fabric in his arms with the journal pinned under an elbow. There's a slight, fresh burn on his left hand, around the thumb, but nothing serious. "I'm alright, Cameron," He sounds a bit nervous, doing this best to console the other. "I was over by the Dragon Isles, helping Valorie...You got the message, right? That I was gone?"

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Cameron's grin widened at seeing Kepler's smile. Kepler really did make him come undone in a way he couldn't explain. It was nice.

"Sounds like neither of us had a very exciting time," Cameron chuckled "me and Val were on a totally empty part of the mountain, just miners and stuff out there!"

He looked down at the coat curiously. "Wow, thats a nice color! I wish my old coats fit me, but I guess it's better that they don't since it means Crios let's me borrow his," Cameron said cheerily. "He and I were actually on shiverchill together before I met up with Val- he totally left me behind on accident, can you believe that?"

Cameron is sitting on the stairs of the archives when Kepler arrives. He doesn't see Kepler at first, but when he does, his eyes go wide and he quickly gets up and runs over to him

"Kepler! Where have you been? Why do you smell like blood? Did you kill somebody? George knows how to get blood out of fabric-" Cameron asked quickly in concern, his eyes searching over Kepler's body for any injuries.

✦ Kepler looks fine, just a little tired. (Like that's anything unusual, anymore.) He's holding a bundle of white fabric in his arms with the journal pinned under an elbow. There's a slight, fresh burn on his left hand, around the thumb, but nothing serious. "I'm alright, Cameron," He sounds a bit nervous, doing this best to console the other. "I was over by the Dragon Isles, helping Valorie...You got the message, right? That I was gone?"

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Cameron sighed. "It's okay. I'm sorry for freaking out on you just- I'm glad you're okay."

Cameron pauses for a moment, and then smiles. A sweet sight.

"So... did you see anything cool up there?" he asked curiously, "I've just been here uh... studying and stuff." He hadn't really been studying at all, but it would've been pathetic to admit he had spent almost the whole time waiting for Kepler, right?

Cameron is sitting on the stairs of the archives when Kepler arrives. He doesn't see Kepler at first, but when he does, his eyes go wide and he quickly gets up and runs over to him

"Kepler! Where have you been? Why do you smell like blood? Did you kill somebody? George knows how to get blood out of fabric-" Cameron asked quickly in concern, his eyes searching over Kepler's body for any injuries.

✦ Kepler looks fine, just a little tired. (Like that's anything unusual, anymore.) He's holding a bundle of white fabric in his arms with the journal pinned under an elbow. There's a slight, fresh burn on his left hand, around the thumb, but nothing serious. "I'm alright, Cameron," He sounds a bit nervous, doing this best to console the other. "I was over by the Dragon Isles, helping Valorie...You got the message, right? That I was gone?"

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"Uh, yeah, I did" he said, a slight annoyance in his voice "and I happen to know you weren't helping Val, because I was helping Val make a delivery- it wasn't her day on dragon isles."

He stared at the ground for a moment, his face slightly red, before he looked back up at Kepler. He spoke quietly, the anger gone and replaced with... well, it wasn't quite clear.

"You know it's not fair, that people like you can make me feel so undone and then turn around and lie to my face. I mean- you've put me in all this unnecessary worry, and you won't even explain why you're doing it," he said, his voice cracking at the end of his sentence.

Cameron is sitting on the stairs of the archives when Kepler arrives. He doesn't see Kepler at first, but when he does, his eyes go wide and he quickly gets up and runs over to him

"Kepler! Where have you been? Why do you smell like blood? Did you kill somebody? George knows how to get blood out of fabric-" Cameron asked quickly in concern, his eyes searching over Kepler's body for any injuries.

✦ Kepler looks fine, just a little tired. (Like that's anything unusual, anymore.) He's holding a bundle of white fabric in his arms with the journal pinned under an elbow. There's a slight, fresh burn on his left hand, around the thumb, but nothing serious. "I'm alright, Cameron," He sounds a bit nervous, doing this best to console the other. "I was over by the Dragon Isles, helping Valorie...You got the message, right? That I was gone?"

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A grin spread across his face.

"Awesome! It's good that we have someone else to help, I'm not exactly the most sneaky guy haha!"

Cameron smiled at Makalu, then glanced towards the way they came.

"I think I'm going to go follow that path outside the caverns, see if I can find my way down the mountain. Thanks so much for the help! Keep me updated!"

A small figure approached from the distance, not nearly as bulky with clothes or fur as most things on shiverchill. As it got closer, she could see that it was a familiar red haired boy.

"Oh, hey valorie!" Cameron said with a slightly forced smile, clearly very cold, "didn't expect to see you out here haha, I guess it makes sense though, since you're the ice master and everything! How are you doing? Any news?"

Val was wearing a thick coat and what appears to be… a crown like headpiece? Not a beanie or an earmuff, literally just a crown of crystals on her head.

“Oh hey Cameron.” She greeted him, holding onto the straps of her bag. “Nothing much. I heard Kepler is in dragon isles, worried about him to be honest. Winston’s the one doing rift runs today but I feel like something else seems… off.”

“…like someone knows something they shouldn’t…”

You can see a glimpse of various crystals in Val’s bag….

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Cameron nodded solemnly, though the seriousness of his expression was tainted by the general roundness of his face.

"I've seen what shadow magic can do too.... when I was a kid, the floatling trees became infected by shadow magic, and... well, it didn't end well for my old best friend, Roy," he said with a genuine sadness in his voice. He looked up at Makalu gently.

"We have to do something about this."

Cameron turned his eyes away from Makalu and looked at Val seriously.

"Wish and George have a lot of theories. I know this is going to sound stupid, and risky, but- if a blast of shadow magic scatters the keystones, what do you think a blast of astral magic would do?"

"If we cast a healing spell using the keystones, it would bring them together and combine their powers. We've spent years clearing the shadow control over wild pets, but if we could cast an island wide healing spell, we wouldn't need to fight them anymore. The puppet master would still be out there, but we could at the very least undo the damage he's done."

A small figure approached from the distance, not nearly as bulky with clothes or fur as most things on shiverchill. As it got closer, she could see that it was a familiar red haired boy.

"Oh, hey valorie!" Cameron said with a slightly forced smile, clearly very cold, "didn't expect to see you out here haha, I guess it makes sense though, since you're the ice master and everything! How are you doing? Any news?"

Val was wearing a thick coat and what appears to be… a crown like headpiece? Not a beanie or an earmuff, literally just a crown of crystals on her head.

“Oh hey Cameron.” She greeted him, holding onto the straps of her bag. “Nothing much. I heard Kepler is in dragon isles, worried about him to be honest. Winston’s the one doing rift runs today but I feel like something else seems… off.”

“…like someone knows something they shouldn’t…”

You can see a glimpse of various crystals in Val’s bag….

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Cameron stared up wide eyed at Makalu, then at Val, then back at Makalu, then back at Val.

"YOU HAVE AN ICEWYRM AS A PET??" Cameron asked rather loudly, before lowering his voice

"You have- I can't believe this, this is amazing! I've never even seen an icewyrm in person, this is- I mean it's awesome! How did you find this thing?!"

A small figure approached from the distance, not nearly as bulky with clothes or fur as most things on shiverchill. As it got closer, she could see that it was a familiar red haired boy.

"Oh, hey valorie!" Cameron said with a slightly forced smile, clearly very cold, "didn't expect to see you out here haha, I guess it makes sense though, since you're the ice master and everything! How are you doing? Any news?"

Val was wearing a thick coat and what appears to be… a crown like headpiece? Not a beanie or an earmuff, literally just a crown of crystals on her head.

“Oh hey Cameron.” She greeted him, holding onto the straps of her bag. “Nothing much. I heard Kepler is in dragon isles, worried about him to be honest. Winston’s the one doing rift runs today but I feel like something else seems… off.”

“…like someone knows something they shouldn’t…”

You can see a glimpse of various crystals in Val’s bag….

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Cameron waved back at the miners as they passed, and once they arrived, looked around in confusion.

"So are they... invisible? Or late?" He asked curiously, looking at Val.

A small figure approached from the distance, not nearly as bulky with clothes or fur as most things on shiverchill. As it got closer, she could see that it was a familiar red haired boy.

"Oh, hey valorie!" Cameron said with a slightly forced smile, clearly very cold, "didn't expect to see you out here haha, I guess it makes sense though, since you're the ice master and everything! How are you doing? Any news?"

Val was wearing a thick coat and what appears to be… a crown like headpiece? Not a beanie or an earmuff, literally just a crown of crystals on her head.

“Oh hey Cameron.” She greeted him, holding onto the straps of her bag. “Nothing much. I heard Kepler is in dragon isles, worried about him to be honest. Winston’s the one doing rift runs today but I feel like something else seems… off.”

“…like someone knows something they shouldn’t…”

You can see a glimpse of various crystals in Val’s bag….

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Cameron looked from side to side as they walked, taking in the new sights.

"I've never been to this mountain! It seems pretty empty haha, whoever we're delivering too must like their privacy" he said with a smile, following Val through the entrance.

A small figure approached from the distance, not nearly as bulky with clothes or fur as most things on shiverchill. As it got closer, she could see that it was a familiar red haired boy.

"Oh, hey valorie!" Cameron said with a slightly forced smile, clearly very cold, "didn't expect to see you out here haha, I guess it makes sense though, since you're the ice master and everything! How are you doing? Any news?"

Val was wearing a thick coat and what appears to be… a crown like headpiece? Not a beanie or an earmuff, literally just a crown of crystals on her head.

“Oh hey Cameron.” She greeted him, holding onto the straps of her bag. “Nothing much. I heard Kepler is in dragon isles, worried about him to be honest. Winston’s the one doing rift runs today but I feel like something else seems… off.”

“…like someone knows something they shouldn’t…”

You can see a glimpse of various crystals in Val’s bag….

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Cameron smiled, genuine this time.

"Awesome! Lead the way!"

A small figure approached from the distance, not nearly as bulky with clothes or fur as most things on shiverchill. As it got closer, she could see that it was a familiar red haired boy.

"Oh, hey valorie!" Cameron said with a slightly forced smile, clearly very cold, "didn't expect to see you out here haha, I guess it makes sense though, since you're the ice master and everything! How are you doing? Any news?"

Val was wearing a thick coat and what appears to be… a crown like headpiece? Not a beanie or an earmuff, literally just a crown of crystals on her head.

“Oh hey Cameron.” She greeted him, holding onto the straps of her bag. “Nothing much. I heard Kepler is in dragon isles, worried about him to be honest. Winston’s the one doing rift runs today but I feel like something else seems… off.”

“…like someone knows something they shouldn’t…”

You can see a glimpse of various crystals in Val’s bag….

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"Oh! Sorry about that," Cameron said, returning the crystal to its place in the bag.

"Say, do you think I could come with you on your delivery? I was hanging out with Crios and his friends but they uh, they kind of left me behind by accident. I tried looking for them but now I'm totally lost!" He said, trying to smile but shifting around while he spoke in discomfort.

"I can even carry your bag for you if you want, I just could really use a friend to hang out with after everything that's been happening."

A small figure approached from the distance, not nearly as bulky with clothes or fur as most things on shiverchill. As it got closer, she could see that it was a familiar red haired boy.

"Oh, hey valorie!" Cameron said with a slightly forced smile, clearly very cold, "didn't expect to see you out here haha, I guess it makes sense though, since you're the ice master and everything! How are you doing? Any news?"

Val was wearing a thick coat and what appears to be… a crown like headpiece? Not a beanie or an earmuff, literally just a crown of crystals on her head.

“Oh hey Cameron.” She greeted him, holding onto the straps of her bag. “Nothing much. I heard Kepler is in dragon isles, worried about him to be honest. Winston’s the one doing rift runs today but I feel like something else seems… off.”

“…like someone knows something they shouldn’t…”

You can see a glimpse of various crystals in Val’s bag….

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"Really? Can I see them?" Cameron asked, reaching his hand towards the bag to grab one before Valorie had the chance to answer.

A small figure approached from the distance, not nearly as bulky with clothes or fur as most things on shiverchill. As it got closer, she could see that it was a familiar red haired boy.

"Oh, hey valorie!" Cameron said with a slightly forced smile, clearly very cold, "didn't expect to see you out here haha, I guess it makes sense though, since you're the ice master and everything! How are you doing? Any news?"

Val was wearing a thick coat and what appears to be… a crown like headpiece? Not a beanie or an earmuff, literally just a crown of crystals on her head.

“Oh hey Cameron.” She greeted him, holding onto the straps of her bag. “Nothing much. I heard Kepler is in dragon isles, worried about him to be honest. Winston’s the one doing rift runs today but I feel like something else seems… off.”

“…like someone knows something they shouldn’t…”

You can see a glimpse of various crystals in Val’s bag….

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"I know what you mean, things haven't felt normal at all lately, and it's like there are no secrets anymore... well, except the one's people are keeping from us two apparently."

Cameron leaned back slightly, not hiding that he was looking at Val's bag.

"Whatcha got there?" He asked, pointing at the crystals.

A small figure approached from the distance, not nearly as bulky with clothes or fur as most things on shiverchill. As it got closer, she could see that it was a familiar red haired boy.

"Oh, hey valorie!" Cameron said with a slightly forced smile, clearly very cold, "didn't expect to see you out here haha, I guess it makes sense though, since you're the ice master and everything! How are you doing? Any news?"

Val was wearing a thick coat and what appears to be… a crown like headpiece? Not a beanie or an earmuff, literally just a crown of crystals on her head.

“Oh hey Cameron.” She greeted him, holding onto the straps of her bag. “Nothing much. I heard Kepler is in dragon isles, worried about him to be honest. Winston’s the one doing rift runs today but I feel like something else seems… off.”

“…like someone knows something they shouldn’t…”

You can see a glimpse of various crystals in Val’s bag….

[cam-the-copycat]

Got a letter from Kepler. Starting to get the feeling that my friends don't actually give a shit about me considering they're all just fucking leaving and not even giving me a chance to help. It's whatever. I know Crios will let me help him, and he's all I need.