Who: Zidane Tribal What: Arrival in Lawrence! A certain monkeyboy finds himself very lost... Where: The streets in Lawrence When: Monday afternoon, December 17th, 2012 Warnings: n/a Status: Narrative, complete.
Jumping into the Black Mage’s transport bubbles had been impulsive and risky, Zidane knew. Even if all had gone according to plan, they would have had to hide somewhere on Brahne’s airship and hope they were not discovered. They had already been given a solid thrashing not once, but twice by Brahne’s general. Beatrix would be on the ship too. If they were caught stowing away...
But as it turned out, Zidane did not need to worry about that anyways. Instead, he had a new problem - trying to figure out where the hell he was and where the others had gone. The transport had gone wrong some how, dumping him in the middle of an alley in one of the strangest cities he’d ever been in. It was not even just the buildings or the strange metal cars whizzing past on the smooth black streets. The people were strange too. All of them were human. There were no demi-humans, no Burmecians or Cleyrans or Qu. Every time he passed a person on the street or a shop window, he could feel people staring at him… specifically, at his tail. He’d never been self-conscious about it before. Sure he had never met anyone who looked quite like him, but really, these people behaved as though they’d never seen anyone with a tail in their lives, and it was making him nervous.
When a man had stopped him in the street, grabbing his elbow, it had taken all his self-restraint to not pull a dagger on the stranger, he was that jumpy. It was a good thing he hadn’t either, because the man had been kind enough to direct him to a library, and had scribbled out some more directions on a scrap of paper. “You aren’t the first stranger to show up here,” the man had said, smiling sympathetically. Zidane hadn’t known what the man meant by that, but it gave him some hope. Maybe Freya and Vivi and Quina had been shown up in this strange city too. He could still catch up with them. So, he had thanked the guy and bounded off down the street, following the directions the man had given him.