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Another New Life

You wake up to the sound of surf, much, much closer than you've ever heard it unless you moseyed down to Puffin Pier back in the old days. What old days...? Why, the days when you had a body, of course. The memories are probably coming back by now, jumbled along with everything else you lost. What a wake-up call.

But at least the ocean is real, unlike your dubiously fragmented remembrances. This little island out in the middle of nowhere sports a crude sign reading ~~DUCK~~ DAMNED ISLAND that seems like it's really railing against whatever fate you've been left to. There are little seashells and sparkling fragments amongst the sand to the left of your face. If you look further, to the left and right, it seems you're not the only one who's woken up here; it's considerably less cushy than your last wakeup, but maybe that's not a bad thing.

Here, you're free, albeit... kind of incorporeal, as you'll soon find out. The island is covered in pretty little trees that don't quite form a forest, bowed over the really beautiful sandy beach that is way prettier than the one on the mainland. One, slightly rickety treehouse -- bare of anything, because incorporeal ghosts don't need furniture, of course -- peeks out from between the leaves. This is, apparently, your home away from home now.

Finally, there's a small bay-like area on the island that leads you to a strange-looking storm drain, marked with a symbol that's not-quite-an-apple. Stepping in will wash you alllllll the way back up to Puffin Pier, right where the sewers normally let out.

Oh, and once you step onto the mainland? You're now a duck. What kind of quacking afterlife is this.

((OOC: the tldr; about death is here!))

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No... strawberries in a basket?

Wait, no eggs. Oh, something like don't put all your eggs in one basket?

[ Keito meant for it to be easy, but part of him wishes it took a little longer for Sora to figure it out. Oh well, there's always next time. ]

Pinpon! You got it right—don't put all your eggs in one basket. And now it's your turn.

[ He claps before handing Sora some paper and the writing utensils he's been using. ]

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[ He takes the pencil, and fights the urge to put it to his mouth to think. ]

Hmm... since we're going idioms...

[ Maybe he'll go easy with him too, since Keito-kun did for him. He presents him with this. ]

Hmm, something related to lips? Or mouth... [ He's not sure what to make of the background, but here goes. ]

Maybe a slip of the tongue (口が滑る)? Or cravings (口寂しい)?

Pinpon~ It's the latter.

[ literally: lonely mouth ]

Yay! [ But there's something else he wants to say too! ]

Ehh, wait, does that mean that background object is a bunch of mouths together? I thought it was a bush for a while.

Hmm I was thinking more... Like different organs? But that's also kind of... So... [ He's trying to spare you a little, Keito. ]

Ah, got it. [ Right, this is Sora. Feeling a little silly for asking, he picks up a pen and starts drawing again. ]

Hmm, a bunch of things together is... So maybe this. And this.

[ Time for another Japanese idiom! ]

And done! I think I veered off course from what I was thinking, but this should work!

[ Is he trying to get back at him by making this one hard? ]

Hmmmmm. Something about seeing a flower... Is it something to do with hanakotoba, I wonder... Something like, not seeing is a flower? Wait, no, it's kind of the opposite...

Oh, right, that could be seen like that... [ Oops, he didn't mean for it to be too ambiguous. ] It definitely involves flowers though!

[ He points upwards. ]

Something about it being high? [ thank you for the hint coin ] Then like, flower on a high peak?

Pinpon! You got the right answer! [ Celebratory claps! ]

I don't like this one much, but I thought it'd be easy to draw.

It's good though. It has a lot of elements to really make it dimensional.

[ Since they're talking about flowers... he steps it up a little. Well, it's still really easy, though. ]

Here.

Ehehe, thanks. [ Feels weird to hear that, but he's not going to complain. It was fun to draw even if the prompt wasn't actually up his alley. But anyway, onwards to the next drawing! ]

Whoa, how cute is that! [ His eyes sparkle at how adorable the whole drawing is. ] Dango over flowers!

See, I went easy~ Though, maybe too easy? [ It's hard to think of prompts though. ]

Maybe, but it is sure charming. [ If he still wrote his diaries, he'd love to place a sticker like that on the cover. ...Let's not get into that though! ]

Now that we've gone though a few, it does get pretty difficult figuring out what to draw without making it too incomprehensible. [ For him, it's easy to think of prompts at the drop of a hat. The problem is actually drawing them. ]

Maybe we could change it up like. We can draw something together?

Something like... we can start with something like this. [ He just puts a random stroke on the page. ]

Sounds good to me. [ He nods, picking up another pencil. ]

Okay, how about...this next? [ He's not sure how much Sora expected him to add, so hopefully it isn't too little. ]