thusia | The Plot Strikes Back

Who: Coren & Everyone.
When: Day 107, Early Evening.
Where: Shrine Room.
What: Plot & Mingle.

[ Despite the memory shenanigans that have been happening the last few days, today has been exceedingly quiet. Perhaps some were nearby to witness the events that took place and returned the memories to those who had yet to find them. Some items with memories in them still might remain behind to be dealt with on another day, but there are more important matters to attend to.

Tonight there's certainly a rustling in the hallways, a flapping of wings. You have never seen so many birds in Thusia before, and they seem completely benign. In every inhabited hallway of the headquarters, there are large and small birds flying to the nearest door, tapping on it with their beaks, and leaving notes to meet on the fourth floor at the shrine room. Where the birds won't or can't go, there are illusions of signs requesting your presence for an urgent matter regarding your home and your memories, trails of light that lead you like an illuminated map from where you are toward the shrine room. If you shut your door on them or tell them to go away, neither will invade further. Aside from the birds roaming the headquarters and the commotion in the shrine room, life goes on. ]

[ Waiting | The Meeting: 2, 3 + 3.1 + 4, Final Questions. ]

( ooc: For those who didn't get to participate in the memory event end, we had to cut things a bit short, but we promise a more open end next time. We didn't get to do nearly as much as we had planned. )

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ You know that utterly unphased staaaaaaaaaaaare of either someone who does not even see you or has stopped paying attention. ]

No, but I'm not going to let you drop her. Is she human or not?

I wouldn't drop her.

[He lowers his hand to the frame of the chair, tightening his grip until one of the wood pieces creaks, splinters, and finally snaps under his fingers, as if he had applied some unrealistic force to it. To illustrate.]

I know you're all terrible at this part, but try respecting our wishes for once and put her down.

[ You are such a child! stares, turning his head for a moment until several birds go zipping off on their own down the hall ]

..Then swear to me you will look after her, care for her, and get her safely back to her room.

[... Why do you care?]

She's my friend.

No one needs to ask me to do those things.

[ there's a whistling in his ears and Coren turns his head for a moment, tilting and then straightening before he lowers, crouching, and cradling her carefully. He's lower than Chrono now. ]

I think she is coming down with a strain of the jungle fever. Her apartment is on the third floor, Room D.

I don't trust you. An oath to me is serious. If you break it, and something happens to this girl, I will be livid. If you can carry her, I will hand her to you, but I'm asking you to make that promise first. Please.

If not, I will take her to Dellen if she is a human, and Luna if she is not to see if anything can be done.

[ A little something different about his features now, Chrono. Most of those illusions are gone, there is no mask, no strange appearance, just frosted white eyes turned toward yours, birds around the room quiet even as the others return from following her scent. ]

[He narrows his eyes, but doesn't move away. He certainly seems confident he can handle her.]

... I promise. For her, not you or anyone else.

[ As promised, he's careful to cradle her head with his arm and hold her out as far as he can without making the other come closer. ]

She was a nice person.

[He gently drapes her arm around his back and shoulders, hoisting her carefully. This would, in fact, be impossible without super strength.

... Was...?]

Is. She is a nice person.

[ Nitpicking! ]

I wasn't suggesting anything by that. She was nice to me.

[ He retracts his hands and stands, the birds take a few steps to see her clearly, and Coren turns around to walk back toward the wall, the chair pieces vanishing as he goes.]

[Hff! He relaxes a bit when Coren goes and turns away, slowly heading towards the apartment he said was hers. (It's amazing that he still never thought to ask her, in retrospect...)]

[ Not long after you start walking, a fox appears in your path. Her eyes are closed but you get the impression she's staring-- judging. ]

Well now.

[He pauses and looks up, having not noticed her approach before.

He just looks. Tired.]

... Kaori.

[ She sits, tails curling about her. ]

May as well hand her over now. I don't appreciate idiots touching my things.

[S. Shortly. :');;;]

Then I'm not sure why you weren't there to keep her from passing out on a god in the first place.

Omniscience is not my specialty, any longer, else she would not have gone at all.

[He glances down at Lenalee for a moment, then back up at Kaori]

Are you actually going to care for her properly, or are you just here to make a statement?

[ She bristles, from the ruff of fur around her neck to the base of her tail. ]

And who are you to imply I cannot, with one arm, and a debt still unrepayed?

[I am too exhausted and outta fucks to care about your bristling, lady]

I'm not asking whether you can, I'm asking whether you will. [I sure do have reasons to think your attention span for things like CARING FOR OTHER PEOPLE is absolute shit]

And I am curious as to why you have reason to believe otherwise.

The Plot Strikes Back

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )

Re: Meeting ( Part 3 )