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Kadaj (mothersbestson) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-09-15 16:51:00

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ayla, complete, day 15, kadaj

Day 15
Who: Kadaj and Ayla
When: Day 15 evening
What: Seeing A Familiar Face
Where: A bench looking toward the vineyard
Rating: G
Status: In progress

He sat on the bench, his chin resting on his right gloved hand while the left loosely held the sword hilt that stuck out of the scabbard. Shifting his elbow off the belt buckle around his thigh without raising his head, Kadaj stared at the orderly lines of the vineyard fields. He didn't have any real answers regarding the planet but all he wondered about was the footprints to be seen here and there in the dirt.

Perhaps he needed to go eat something in the restaurant or maybe just sleeping would be good. Sighing, he put his face into both his hands. His white hair hung down over the black fingers. He thought about the fact that there were dreams during sleep now. His mind jumped from subject to subject in a random fashion because he didn't want to dream just then. What good was it when he had to wake up after seeming to be alive again on Gaia, or after being back in the Lifestream? Like all the stolen people he'd met to date, he didn't want to be here.

Someone approached, his senses warned. Had he been where he belonged, he would have looked up... No, he wouldn't have even been sitting amongst green, growing things so it didn't matter.

Kadaj just continued sitting there holding his head in his hands.

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mothersbestson
2008-10-25 05:23 am UTC (link)

He responded to her fond smile with one of his own; the more he talked with Ayla the more he liked her for being such a genuine person. As much as he didn't know why the planet chose that Anakin, nor even himself, Kadaj figured he'd pick Ayla if he was the planet.

As she spoke of dreams, he slowed down a little and shook his head like he wanted to lose some thoughts in an abrupt manner. "I don't dream," he said earnestly. "Or at least I didn't before I came here. I don't know..." He shrugged, feeling unsettled suddenly. "My room's like a dream of my planet made real--" Kadaj stopped and turned to her without warning.

"Maybe you should see my room?" He asked it in the way a child wanted to share something very important to them. Those six words opened a part of his soul.

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_ayla_
2008-10-27 11:30 am UTC (link)

Ayla was just as content speaking to Kadaj as he was, apparently, speaking with her. She found that she enjoyed his company quite a lot and hoped that he would be someone she could converse with when she was feeling lonely.

"Do you dream now that you are here?" She furrowed her brow, struggling to understand what he was saying about his room being a dream of his planet made real. She was almost taken aback at his abrupt stopping and turning to her. She lifted a brow, leaning back a little before relaxing and returning to her normal stooped posture.

Ayla had only seen two other people's rooms since arriving on the Planet. Yvaine's starry rendition of the night sky, and Rusty's plush penthouse-esque apartment. She was intensely curious about the way others chose to arrange their rooms and nodded. "If you would like to show me, I do not mind seeing it." She couldn't know, or understand why it was important to him, but she did feel that it was in some way.

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mothersbestson
2008-10-28 10:44 pm UTC (link)

He smiled at her agreement, the expression not one he commonly wore. Kadaj considered Ayla a friend, something he didn't have besides his brothers, until he was taken from the Lifestream. Yes, once long ago he remembered Sephiroth having friends but he was Kadaj now, differentiating himself.

"Great, let's go." He began walking toward the resort building, retracing the path through the vineyards they had been wandering through. "I wish I had my motorbike here," he commented. "Oh and I have started dreaming since I got here..." He didn't seem to like this revelation so he rushed on: "What's your room look like?"

He seemed animated, very alive. Had it not been for his continuing to carry his sword, and for the fact that he hadn't changed his battle-ready leathers at all since living here, he could have been a young man deeply enjoying the beautiful day.

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_ayla_
2008-11-03 10:43 am UTC (link)

Ayla followed him duitifully toward the lodging units. She watched his white hair sway as he walked and found herself wondering why his hair was such a color. He was young, and the only people she'd known with white hair had been very old. Perhaps his people just appeared different from her own. She thought that probably was the case, seeing as how he had the same kind of eyes as Baby, her pet cave lion, had.

"Motorbike?" She wondered if it was anything like the motorized car she'd ridden in the day before with John. She noticed the way he rushed on from the dream tangent he himself had taken them on, so she didn't press the issue and continue to ask questions about that.

"My room? It looks much like my cave back in the Valley of Horses. Although, there are certain differences. Such as the bathroom and the windows, and the door." She noticed that he seemed excited to be showing her his room and she was glad that she could afford him this at least.

She smiled and hurried to catch up with him, his quick stride had her falling behind.

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mothersbestson
2008-11-16 01:43 am UTC (link)

Kadaj noticed how fast he was moving and he decided to slow down, though she was certainly fit enough to keep pace with him. She looked in great shape and wasn't at all winded.

"Yes, motorbikes or motorcycles... one wheel behind the other and the seat's on top of them. I guess I could find a picture of one or maybe there's some here." He shrugged, smiling slightly as they approached his building.

"Hn, I never would have thought about people having to get used to doors and windows," he admitted. "I usually leave my room from the balcony," Kadaj added as he opened the door to the building, holding it for Ayla.

It wasn't long before they were on the second floor and Kadaj unlocked Room 200. He left the door wide open as he went in, apparently vanishing into darkness. A split second later he stepped back so she could see him, smiling almost shyly and actually offering his hand to his new friend.

Once past the dark barrier, the room appeared in silver and graduated shades of blue. The ceiling looked like the night sky with stars and a moon displayed overhead. Two of the walls curved like a huge seashell's interior, forming a cove with comfy cushioned chairs and a table in it. There were cups, a teapot and a carafe of coffee on the table, as if Mirage anticipated them sitting there. Trees glowed in the rest of the space. Their branches and trunks seemed to be negative images, part of then creating a headboard for a bed situated on a platform.

Kadaj stopped in the middle of the room, waiting for Ayla to look around.

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_ayla_
2008-11-18 12:46 pm UTC (link)

Ayla stepped into Kadaj's room, into the darkness. She expected her eyes to adjust, but they didn't. It was then that he reappeared and held a hand out to her. She smiled and took it, stepping past the darkness to a room filled with silver and blue. She turned around, taking all of it in. It was definitely an interesting place.

The walls curved like those of her cave, but they disappeared into what looked like the night sky. It was a little like Yvaine's room in that respect, but this was only one small portion of the room, not the entire room itself like the star woman's. Her cave seemed very plain compared with this, and any of the other rooms she'd seen since she'd been here.

She was pleasantly surprised to see trees. She didn't really see Kadaj as the type to surround himself with nature, but she ought to have expected it with the way he walked among the grape vines. She looked around for quite some time before she turned to Kadaj and smiled. "I like your room very much."

He had said it was like a dream of his planet made real. She could not fathom a world that looked like this. It was nothing like she was used to. But then, she wasn't used to a lot of things she found on Mirage. "My room is not so interesting as this."

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mothersbestson
2008-11-18 05:17 pm UTC (link)

Kadaj let her look around as long as she wanted to. Her reactions were interesting. He did realise this would be an unusual room in the eyes of some, considering the apparent variety of people the planet was kidnapping.

"Thank you." He shook his head, making his hair shift like a silver wave. "I'm sure your room is interesting to strangers just like you find this interesting." His hand indicated the surroundings, moving gracefully for one who always stood so military straight. "We liked living in the Sleeping Forest and Forgotten Capital. I'm glad I can have a memory of it here."

Kadaj paused, then looked at Ayla thoughtfully. "Do you want me to see your room? I've never known anyone like you. Well, that should be obvious, yes. None of us expected to be with such a variety of people, did we?"

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_ayla_
2008-11-21 11:46 am UTC (link)

Ayla shook her head. "None of us expected to be here at all, captured by a rogue planet who has a mind of its own." The Earth Mother was one thing, but a planet that could think and do things was another entirely. It was evening and the sun had long since set. Ayla was getting tired. She put a hand to her mouth to stifle a yawn, but it was no use.

"Thank you for spending some time with me today, Kadaj. I'm a little tired, but another day you would be welcome to see my room. Thank you for showing me yours. I think I'm going to go back to my room and sleep for the night. Good evening, Kadaj. Thanks again." She smiled at him before turning around and heading out the way she'd been led in.

She found the exit easily enough and stepped through his door into the hall, heading away to her own room.

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