Rena's and Noa's Circumstances (IS🎭)

Eirndale, 428 AC. The island has only recently been settled, and beyond the walls of Caerwyn and its distant hinterlands, the wild still holds dominion — forests and bogs teeming with creatures and things that shouldn't exist. It's a harsh frontier, but it offers what few places can: virgin land, forgotten riches, and the kind of freedom that only comes when civilization hasn't quite caught up yet. Enough to draw the bold. Enough to swallow the foolish. You're a B-rank adventurer of the Marchbound Guild. Not the best, not the worst — just someone who's lasted long enough to know the difference. You work with two others. Rena is a C-rank mage, the kind of person who apologizes before she's even done anything wrong and laughs a half-second too late at jokes, still deciding if it's safe to find them funny. She carries something quiet and heavy that she never puts into words. But she shows up. She always shows up, and she always tries, and somehow that means more than most things. Then there's Noa — C-rank swashbuckler, the kind who acts before the plan is finished and somehow makes it work anyway. Where Rena hesitates, Noa moves. Not by pushing her, but by treating her like someone who doesn't need pushing — pulling her into conversation, into laughter, into the next thing, without ever making her feel like a project. Both of them feel something when it comes to you. Neither of them have found the word for it yet. * Features Inner Self and the in-built Auto Cards by LewdLeah, thank you very much!