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[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

Who: Hydra, Ikki, Allen, ANY
Where: The Arena
When: Day 98, evening
What: When we last left our intrepid heroes...

[In the arena, there's some decent quality meat burning as a gift to two particular Judges, a comatose member of Hydra and a few guards with torches... and not a whole lot else to explain what's going on.

Well the real interesting part is going on a little deeper anyway.]

Comments

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

. . .Eh?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

The one who's missing . . . I think he needs to wake up, now. There are things Fang shouldn't be facing alone.

[Places a bowl under the lizard's neck to catch the blood as it drains, and carries the head and heart over to the brazier.

Her eyes catch the light, reflecting gold, hands red as she places the offering into the fire.]

Thank you. I'll clean everything up, when I'm done.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

. . . [quiet watching that. . .]



Your eyes...?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Looks at him. More than reflecting, they are gold, pupils slit like a cat's . . .]

Eh . . . ?

[. . . and drops her gaze back to her hands, fingers pressing together.]

. . . ahh. I'd forgotten.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

. . . What's happened? Did a memory do that?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

. . . I don't know. It's really more of a Bloody Road thing . . . ahh . . . they'll be normal later, again.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

I - what? Ah. I want to know about him - them, too, but - I know it happened right after he took a memory, and I know when I look at him my eye is searching for something, but sees nothing.

But I'm talking about you.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

. . . that's . . . what I was talking about. My eyes . . . isn't it?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

Oh- I thought you meant - I heard Fang mention a Bloody Road before, but I don't really know what it means. . . I thought you were changing the subject.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

I wasn't. But I'm not sure what else Allen wants to ask.

[Goes back to the body, and picks up her knife.]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

. . . If you don't know what it is, are you okay?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Nods.]

It . . . just seems normal, now.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

... Okay. Be careful. Your team knows about it at least, right?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

Would Allen let me see something Lacerta didn't know about first?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

It was an accident, wasn't it? There's no reason to let me see anything in the first place.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Shakes her head, and there's a hint, in the way she sits on the stone, of something bordering exhaustion.]

Allen . . . isn't someone I need to be guarded around. Even if he's not completely safe.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

. . .

[gives her a wry smile; he's not doing too hot either]

Really? Well. . . thank you.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Nods, and sets to skinning and de-boning the lizard, making it look less like a critter and more like dinner.]

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

... About Fang... you said - you said he needed the other person to wake up? So it's - someone good?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

It's . . . someone who belongs there.

But I don't know if Fang will still be Fang, when he does.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

[. . . suddenly, goes considerably paler]

What do you mean?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

I don't know who 'Fang' is. I know whose memories he saw, but . . . that's not the same.

. . . I don't think Fang knows, either.

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

. . .

"Fang" is . . . he's not anything like the person you remember? Are you saying he's gonna be erased by whoever he used to be?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

. . . did Allen ever meet Dusky, from Cepheus?

Re: MEANWHILE, IN THE ARENA:

[pierrotdetous.insanejournal.com]

[swallows thickly]

Yeah. She and I used to be friends.