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Hikari Aurore (withyourheart) wrote in pokemonworld,
@ 2012-04-10 16:30:00

After school, Hikari found her way to Jubilife. She'd been scheduled for an interview with Jubilife TV for several weeks now, but now that she knew Cyrus was back, and living in the city, it was with some amount of trepidation that she strode towards the TV station building from the Pokemon Center. Probably, it wouldn't have been as bad to run into him again as she was thinking, but all the same, she didn't especially want to tempt fate. On the upside, her interview had gone swimmingly, with nary a worrisome moment to shake her completely fake but still somehow convincing smile. She left the TV station, heading for a cafe across from the Trainer's School she'd grown fond of when she was younger.

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_the_lonely_god
2012-04-11 06:49 am UTC (link)

Cyrus too looked entirely unconcerned, though, with considerably less effort, as his face was always blank.
He sat down opposite her, hardly gracefully as he struggled a little with seating his tall frame in the small chair, without banging his knees against the table. For that brief moment he could have looked almost human.

He placed his bags underneath the table, and reached out for the menu to flick through it.
"I have no idea what any of this is." He looked through the pages.

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	withyourheart 2012-04-11 06:56 am UTC (link)
	"...Food?" Hikari covered her mouth to hide a tiny, self-satisfied smirk at her sarcastic response. "Apologies. They're mostly sandwiches," she tried again. "Again, the Cuban is my personal favorite, but most of them are actually quite good." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_the_lonely_god 2012-04-11 07:03 am UTC (link)
	"Clearly." He responded flatly, not moving his eyes from the page. "Isn't there some kind of nutrition table for this?" He flips over the menu, looking on the back page for a list of ingredients. "They're not very 'readily available' with their information, are they?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withyourheart 2012-04-11 07:09 am UTC (link)
	"It's a small, family-owned cafe, not a corporate restaurant with a department to take care of things like that," she sighed. "Get a salad if you're so worried." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_the_lonely_god 2012-04-11 07:19 am UTC (link)
	"How am I supposed to plan a new diet if I can't even monitor what I am ingesting?" He sighed, flipping back to the inside pages. "Probably not responsibly sourced either." He narrowed his eyes, looking down the list again. "I think I'll just have a coffee." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withyourheart 2012-04-11 07:28 am UTC (link)
	Hikari rolled her eyes. "As you like." She waved down the waitress and ordered a sandwich for herself. When finished, she glanced back up at Cyrus. "You mentioned things you learned." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_the_lonely_god
2012-04-11 03:43 pm UTC (link)

He nodded at the waitress, adding his own order of a coffee before she left.

" I did." He turned his attention back to Hikari, taking a moment to push some hair out of his face. "Though to be honest, I'm not sure how much of it would even be applicable in a real world scenario."
He leaned back in his chair, attempting to get comfortable.
"The Distortion World holds so much potential that this world simply cannot unlock."

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	withyourheart 2012-04-11 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	"It seems to have treated you well, at least." Hikari's expression was unreadable. On the one hand, she wished true ill on no one; on the other, if being stuck in a warped purgatory for four years wasn't punishment for a man who tried to destroy the world, what was? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_the_lonely_god 2012-04-11 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	He stared down at his hands, clearly deep in thought, before eventually speaking again in a hushed voice. "You'd be surprised what you can live through." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withyourheart 2012-04-11 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	Hikari bit her lip. She hadn't meant to...Or had she? "I'm sorry," she said quietly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_the_lonely_god
2012-04-11 06:20 pm UTC (link)

"Think nothing of it." He shook his head, she wasn't to know. "At first, it was very interesting to see how things operated in a world of chaos and entropy, a universe of pure potential."

He ran his finger along the table, picking up grains of salt.
"I was a lone force of logic and order in that world. I imposed control on that which surrounded me, by force of will alone, I shaped what was essentially raw material. Like clay, on a universal scale." He pushed the salt grains together, forming a line.
"I sealed myself away. Hidden in a corner of the void, indistinguishable from any untouched land on this Earth. Even if you had come back for me, you would not have found me." He withdrew his finger, the salt now pushed into a ring shape.

"But, as a lone force of order, my logical, structured creation was something never meant to exist in that world... It stood out like a beacon in the darkness of his world." With a quick, sweeping motion, he brushed all the salt aside, scattering it.

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	withyourheart 2012-04-11 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	Hikari watched in silence. There was something still so enticing about listening to him talk, even though she still held to her belief that his ways were entirely wrong. "Then did being there sate your thirst for playing god?" she asked. It was an honest question; there was no sarcasm in her voice. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_the_lonely_god
2012-04-11 07:24 pm UTC (link)

"My motivation was not to simply 'play god', as you put it. My intent was only to save mankind, and that was simply a means to an end." He brushed his hands together, clearing off the salt.

"I want so much to help them. But more than that, to help them help themselves. Not just to treat the symptoms of this sick world, but the root cause." He leaned back again, staring up into the sky. "I hate it... And I hate the fact that I hate it. It's a piece of myself that I can never remove... A piece of everyone."

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withyourheart
2012-04-11 08:01 pm UTC (link)

"Sometimes it's difficult being human."

Hikari glanced up and smiled at the waitress who had just arrived with their order. "Thank you," she said softly. She took a sip of her tea and looked back at Cyrus. "My apologies for misunderstanding, then." She paused. "I was just a child, you know. Thrown into the middle of..." She trailed off. She could understand his resentment of his own hatred; that was how she felt about Cynthia. Underneath all of the respect she held for the Champion, now her partner, there was still a grudge she held, that as an adult, Cynthia had not stepped in to do more against Team Galactic, that the blonde had left it up to a child to to stop them and save the world. "I had little choice in the matter, I guess you could say."

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_the_lonely_god
2012-04-11 08:49 pm UTC (link)

"Very difficult." He agreed, looking up at the waitress as she approached them, giving a silent nod in way of thanks as he took his coffee.

"Sometimes children are pushed farther than they ever should be." He took a sip, considering it for a moment before reaching for the sugar. "Those moments are so fragile. Push too hard and it can shatter... Fractures that can never be repaired." He stirred in a spoonful, the spoon clinking softly as he fell into a momentary silence.

"You shouldn't have been put into that situation."

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	withyourheart 2012-04-11 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	Hikari smiled wanly. "Well...too late now, wouldn't you say? What's done is done, after all." She poked at her sandwich with a fork, but didn't touch it. She'd lost her appetite suddenly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_the_lonely_god 2012-04-12 07:46 am UTC (link)
	"Hmn... We cannot change the past." He took another sip of his coffee, a little more satisfied this time. "No matter how much we may want to. We can only use those experiences to build our future." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withyourheart 2012-04-12 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	"Yes, I suppose we can agree on that, as well." Hikari tipped her head back to look upwards. "It's getting late, isn't it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_the_lonely_god 2012-04-12 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	"It is?" He blinked, glancing again up towards the sky. "I hadn't noticed... How long have we been here?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withyourheart 2012-04-12 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	She shrugged. Her Poketch was rarely left on the time app. "A while, I guess." She looked at the sandwich, sitting dejected and forgotten on her plate. "Long enough." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_the_lonely_god 2012-04-12 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	He furrowed his brow, looking down at his coffee. There was no steam rising from it. Taking a sip, he found it to be cold. "Has it really been that long?" He glanced aside, realising that there were much less people around than before, the sky distinctly darker than before. "Well that is... Worrying." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withyourheart 2012-04-12 09:11 pm UTC (link)
	Hikari's head shot up. "You don't lose time, too, do you?" she questioned before she had a chance to stop herself. Immediately she regretted it. That was entirely too much to admit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_the_lonely_god
2012-04-12 10:07 pm UTC (link)

"Too?.. Hmn." It didn't come as too much of a surprise, he couldn't have been sure how long she had even been in the Distortion World before she got to leave. He'd learned enough to know that, while their encounter only seemed to last hours, it could have been days.

"Nothing is consistent anymore. I have been recovering from my return, now, for over six months. It has only felt like days. Days pass by in hours. But then, minutes can last for days. I have to stop myself before speaking because I don't know if I'm speaking to fast or slow... Or sometimes, even in the right order."
A strange, choked sound came in his throat, sounding almost like a cough. A forced, strained laugh, sounding entirely unnatural.
"When I first returned, I could only communicate through writing. It was the only way I could keep the words in the right order."

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	withyourheart 2012-04-12 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Hikari had to bite back a sigh of relief that it hadn't been quite so bad for her. "I'm sorry," she said again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_the_lonely_god 2012-04-12 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	"I know." He pushed aside the coffee, sighing. "I think I have recovered from the worst of it. Apart, perhaps, from the pacing of my words." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)