Group Intros

[oi_theoi]

Who: Anyone
When: Day 142, morning
Where: Shrine Area
What: New Arrivals!

[Some new people have arrived! At least one of them has that strange "scent" on them that the gods might sense.]

[ TOP-LEVEL COMMENTS
Nagisa Kaworu | Hibari Kyouya (AU) | Ayanami Rei (PG) | Isaiah (Scorpion) (OC) ]

Comments

[soundsinsilence]

It was warm where you're from, wasn't it?

[followthewind]

Yeah. Where I stuck around wasn't as warm as northern Pyxis, but it was always nice weather.

[soundsinsilence]

I remember sandstorms . . .

I'm not sure where they were, though.

[followthewind]

. . . north. It was a little north.

[soundsinsilence]

It's a little strange to think of north as being warmer, but it makes sense, if that's where the desert was.

[followthewind]

[do you remember that . . . well of course you remember that, you have her memories, so it only makes sense . . .

'-']

—y-yeah. Sandstorms were more of a north thing. Happened all over Pyxis, really . . . but more frequently there.

[soundsinsilence]

[Looks at him, something . . . odd in her expression, fleetingly wistful . . .

And she turns and takes his hand in the same motion, tugging him to the ladders up to the dome.]

Ahh, but we won't see the panels at all, standing and talking like this . . . come on!

[followthewind]

[at least, there's no tensing when she takes his hand. He just follows, sighing out heavily . . . and also, just a little wistfully]

I'm comin', I'm comin'.

[soundsinsilence]

[She's quiet the rest of the way up, and even a bit after—until they're high enough that she can sit by the first of the solar panels, legs dangling, and look out toward the far-off lake.]

. . . I don't . . . think it's a bad thing, when something reminds you of someone.

It just means, that first person . . . they're still part of your heart. That's all.

[followthewind]

[sits down next to her, arms braced behind him as he leans back, eyes closed and head tilted up]

. . . never said it was a bad thing.

[soundsinsilence]

[Glances at him, relaxing a little moments after he does.]

I know.

I think, it's more . . . I'm saying it's not.

[followthewind]

. . .

[soundsinsilence]

[Shrugs a little.]

So that makes both of us.

[followthewind]

. . . that kid, right?

[soundsinsilence]

What kid?

[followthewind]

Ik . . . something.

[soundsinsilence]

Ikki?

What about him? Ahh, you always make the same face, too . . .

[followthewind]

It ain't the same . . . Is that who you're bein' nostalgic over.

[soundsinsilence]

. . . isn't it Raven who's being nostalgic?

[followthewind]

You mentioned it first.

[soundsinsilence]

Before . . . ?

That wasn't Ikki at all.

[followthewind]

. . . I'm confused now.

[soundsinsilence]

Ikki was never part of Hydra. And he was . . . I mean, we were . . .

I couldn't mistake you for him. No matter how close you might seem, or how close to you he was supposed to be . . . I knew him too well.

The person I'm nostalgic over is you.

[followthewind]

. . .





Oh.

[soundsinsilence]

Though I guess that's even more strange . . .