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Nutcracker (Tifa Lockhart) (packsyourlunch) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2012-01-02 06:57:00

Entry tags:

!days 300-end, akin iyapo shing kaalnikanjlo, allen walker, chrono, claude c. kenni, danielle 'dani' phantom, edward elric, erik lehnsherr, ermillina 'snow white' curtana, excel, gokudera hayato, himura kenshin, howard link, kudo shinichi, lotus, minami ikki, nakamori aoko, rabi, raenef, rapunzel, rory pond, ryougi shiki, shinonome hangetsu, sumeragi kururu, tazendra, tifa lockhart, wanijima akito, yamamoto takeshi, yuffie kisaragi, {kokuto mikiya}, {kuchiha}, ~{queen}

Who: Delphinus, Pavo, others
Where: Delpavo
When: Day 303?? 30-- oh screw it
What:

[Hey, Delpavo, you have some visitors. And one of them is knocking]

It's Pyxis. Can I talk to you?

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	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 07:18 am UTC (link)
	[It is, and the echoes she can hear from him are even more telling.] You can't do that. I won't let you, because Tide's one of the people who wants to protect me most. . . . I can drown her out, if you want me to. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 07:26 am UTC (link)
	[He doesn't say anything, just maintains the endless mantra in his head and--nods, just once, stiffly.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 07:45 am UTC (link)
	[Her hands tighten on his, squeezing . . . And her voice raises in a Gloria, the flow of information through it not a request this time, but a command.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 07:50 am UTC (link)
	[No, that's wrong, all he wants to do is pull away... He lets the melody come over him and doesn't fight it, letting it sweep him away.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 08:00 am UTC (link)
	[Blue sky spreads out in the melody around them. Calming wind, a sense of peace . . . And for the first time, linked as they are, he can see the ghostly shape behind and around her. Robes and piano keys spill out in waves, and a sightless face turns up to the heavens, the song from its lips echoing and amplifying Kururu's own.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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overclocking
2012-01-02 08:13 am UTC (link)

[--It's an unfortunate coincidence.

Before he has time to rationalize it, he's trying to slam the connection closed, pull out of the melody, anything--a kind of struggle he's never put forth before.

And if she's paying attention through the link, she's getting flashes of some extremely unpleasant things that he's only alluded to very vaguely and in passing. Here, details aren't omitted.]

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roadtothesky
2012-01-02 08:31 am UTC (link)

[No. No they aren't. And right now, he is the only thing she's paying attention to, his mental struggles cutting into their shared chords like the screech of nails across a blackboard.

One name comes clear, clear enough that her lips shape it even as the song continues.

Pandemonium?

And with that, with the echo of all that name means, her aura cuts out, and she yanks him all the way forward into the infinite scale.]

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	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 08:38 am UTC (link)
	[Hearing the name echoed back at him causes him to flinch as she yanks him forward. His mind is tensed up and on the defensive like he expects it to be barraged at any second--] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 08:44 am UTC (link)
	[And instead, he finds himself in the strange familiar world of the Infinite Scale, the whole of the information network trembling in time with the tears in her eyes.] Tide— Tide, I'm so sorry . . . (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 08:57 am UTC (link)
	[Trying very hard to reassemble some composure, but with Queentouch and PTSD intermingling...] What— What was... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 09:09 am UTC (link)
	[Her head drops, bangs shadowing her face . . . giving him what privacy she can.] A King's aura. My . . . . . . the Pledge Queen's aura. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 09:15 am UTC (link)
	[Feathers...your aura is terrible. Or maybe I'm just terrible...upon review, that's more likely.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 09:22 am UTC (link)
	[Or there's some really, really bad parallels between your mother and Ring Road I really shouldn't think about to hard.] Normal people don't usually see them. Not even all storm riders . . . beginners wouldn't know at all, they'd just feel it. But you and I, we're linked right now . . . of course you could. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 09:30 am UTC (link)
	[His breathing is erratic and he still feels vaguely ill, but he bites it back.] Sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 09:37 am UTC (link)
	Tide . . . Chrono. This isn't something you have to apologize for. Not now, and not ever. Your memories . . . how could you ever think anything else? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 09:42 am UTC (link)
	. . . [Can I sit down? Is that allowed? I'm going to just...do that. It's probably more like puddling, but.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	[There's no gravity; he could hang upside down if he really wanted to. She floats closer to where he's drawn in on himself, coming just within arm's reach.] . . . you'd like Ikki's better. His is a giant bird, or sometimes a ship . . . Agito's looks like a big shark. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	[Bluh bluh not looking up...] What do they do...? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	[Drifting closer still, close enough she could rest her hands on his shoulders.] Nothing. . . . if storm riders are fighting, you'll see them fighting too, but it's still . . . just like a big reflection, with different shapes and faces. They aren't things that ever act on their own. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	[Relaxing, just slightly. Enough that he's not quite building a protective fortress around his mind anymore.] Good...that's good. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 08:18 pm UTC (link)
	[And close enough, finally . . . she wraps her arms around him, loose enough he could easily pull free.] I should have let you go when you wanted to. It's just, right then, I thought . . . if I let you run away now, you'd run so far I wouldn't ever catch up with you again. Everything I am is here for you to hear. There isn't any better place to know who I am. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	[Somehow...he doesn't. Maybe it's relief from Queen's sound slowly being drowned out, maybe it's exhaustion, maybe it's something else altogether...] And you'd bring me in here, even when I'm like... that? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	'Like that' . . . you were terrified of me. [Holds him a bit closer, petting his hair.] I wasn't the one ever in any danger. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER overclocking 2012-01-02 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	It's not you I'm terrified of, Feathers. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: MINUTES LATER roadtothesky 2012-01-02 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	I know. [The slide of her hand over his head doesn't change, and her body stays warm and relaxed next to his.] . . . you showed me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)