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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: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

[. . .]

What?

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[motions away from the group, taking a step or two and giving him an expectant look]

Mind if we have a talk?

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

. . .

[shrugs, and shoves his hands in his pockets, following after]

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[walks until they're a good twenty yards or so away. Lowering his voice anyway 8|]

What the hell's this bullshit about changing your name?

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

[gives him a weird look]

Changing my name . . . ?

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

From Ikki to Raven.

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

. . .

What are you talking about?

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

. . . Feathers has been calling you Raven.

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

And? My name was Raven before I learned what my real name was.

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

So why are you letting her use it? I thought you'd taken your real name by now.

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

I have. But I don't mind if she wants to keep using that. It fits sometimes.

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[. . . :|a actually relaxes a little]

So you're not avoiding who you were?

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

[eyes that curiously :|a . . . and tenses up a little]

That would depend on what you mean.

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

What do you think I mean?

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

There's "avoiding" and then there's "not being ready".

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[frowns again >/]

How many memories have you had?

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

Eight.

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

That's more than enough already.

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

. . .

[shrugs] It's not up to you.

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

No, but it is my business. If you're supposed to be someone important to Fang and Sparta, you fucking better be good enough. And that means getting fucking ready to be that person.

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

[just. sighs, looking even more exhausted than he already did]

. . . you wouldn't understand it at all.

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

[times Scowl has resisted punching Ikki: 1]

Don't tell me what I don't understand.

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

[lowering his voice some]

Would you understand? Do you know what it's like being unbalanced between the person you are here and the one you remember? Or what it's like to try to fix the balance when it keeps getting broken?

Re: Waking up~

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

. . .

I know you're all fucking idiots trying to balance it. Forget that. There's no use in thinking of yourself then and yourself now as different people. They're both you.

Re: Waking up~

[topofthesky.insanejournal.com]

I know that.