Cloudsea - The Chronicle of Alice Van Vaugen

>Hello Empty, as for the drink, if I could just have a bottle of barbecue sauce to swig from, thank you. The cryptic message? There isn't one. It's an old tactic. The mind will find meaning and messages even when there isn't any. Where soul searching and character are concerned, the best conclusions are the ones you make up yourself. Like those tribal vision quests where they conclude an eagle catching a fish means you should travel north. Give someone a bag of breadcrumbs and they'll make a path, as the old saying I just made up goes. She'll puzzle out something useful from the nonsense eventually, I'm sure. Not to mention, it's good to have people believe you have a plan even when you don't. It's also good to have people believe you don't have a plan when you do.

>If Alice is waking up soon: "Hey Alice, I'm glad you're having some time off, learning a new skill, and hopefully having fun, just watch out for that massive and fast approaching tsunami level tidal wave that showed up just now. Anyway, as you were."