[Someone missing of their number, even someone she doesn't know, is worrying. This place is nothing like Amh Araeng, but she still can't help but be transported back by everything that's occurred today--and so later in the day, Alisaie heads to the beach, where she can draw her rapier, settle into the familiar stance, and start running through drills.
Come and join her, Suigetsu!]
me realizing I've been reading her username as vernaltwin this entire time
[Is he going to come join her like a good boy, like, without any shenanigans or fanfare??
Hell no, he's a shark and a ninja, which means that instead of giving a formal challenge he's going to just pop out of nowhere (probably from behind a few rocks or a higher bit of ground or a tree somewhere by the beach or something?? topography is hard), ridiculously large sword in hand, and execute a sneak attack.
It's in plain daylight, but despite the sheer heft of the sword he moves very fast and can even get airborne with it.
She going to parry?]
LMAO nah it's a pun on "feral" and the red mage "ver-" fixation (veraero, verholy, verflare...)
[Absolutely not; the first rule of fencing is leverage and that sword is so big her rapier wouldn't be able to control it! Instead, it might seem for a split second like she freezes--but it's Alisaie gathering herself for a Displacement, leaping backwards and executing a quick twisting flip as she goes. She can't get the same distance as she normally would given the sand beneath her feet and her inability to tap into her aether (and so there's no counterattack either), but it gets her out of the way fast enough!
She isn't upset by the interruption to her practice though; not one bit.]
Sneaking up on me? That's not very sportsmanlike.
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can't believe she's not a summer baby-- that's cute though
[This is what happens when you pit fencing against whatever-the-fuck his swordsmanship is supposed to be (jack-of-all-trades, probably, these ninja sword kids are bullshit, y'all); still, she's small and light enough to pull off such quick moves and it doesn't seem as though Suigetsu is all that intent on following up just yet.
Instead, he gives an amused whistle while she flips the hell away and slides back into his own stance, sword held out before him and legs braced. It definitely seems like the sword is kind of too big for him?? Especially on sand?? But eh.]
Ha! I'm a shinobi, you know? If I really wanted to sneak up on you, you wouldn't get to dodge.
[A pause and a wrinkle of his nose]
Well, that's how it'd go if I had my abilities, anyway. This is kind of a pain, but I bet I can still give you a run for your money?
A shinobi? [A mixture of a smirk and a grin comes to her face.] We'd have to see about that. It wouldn't be the first time I've sparred with shinobi, though they tend to favor knives to swords. It may be more difficult to sneak up on me than you anticipate.
[She lifts her free hand in a sort of shrug.]
I've been robbed of some abilities of my own, so it shall be a fair fight.
[is she insinuating with both their abilities she'd wipe him on the floor? absolutely.
And then she's going to streak right toward him--there's no such thing as waiting for someone to start the fight! She'll be anticipating his sword, but Alisaie's going to focus on simply avoiding it as much as possible, since her own is no match for its sheer heft.]
[This time when Alisaie notices the shard, she's a little bit more prepared for what to expect. Taking a deep breath, she reaches forward to pick it up... aaaaaaaand yep that sure is a hell of a memory to have just inside the foyer!
It's a shame she didn't look around first to make sure nobody else would get to see it.]
[I mean, A-Qing gets around pretty well! But it is kind of impressive Alisaie exists here when it has been like, an hour. Or maybe a couple hours, I don't know this chronology's strange life.]
Hmm. Feel like playing a guessing game?
[It's asked idly enough; it seems like he might just be bored at this point, lounging around in an abandoned(???) building or something. There's the almost silent swish of water that you can hear when his daemon moves. The knowledge of something large at the edge of your senses.]
You wouldn't have gone to investigate a murder scene you were responsible for.
And anyone should have been able to tell you didn't murder Roxis. As you said, you wouldn't kill him in a manner that could be traced back to you easily.
Hahaha, wrong on the first one. I'll do whatever needs to be done to get the job done.
[Matter-of-fact; that's just sort of the way things are in his neck of the woods, really.
(It's just his player wouldn't let him.)
He pauses a bit in thought and then shakes his head; a soft movement of air.]
Well, it was the easier answer? Maybe it was bound to happen sooner or later with all this water even if I didn't do anything, so I might as well have taken my shot. [there is no remorse here, basically, oops] Didn't really expect that many people on the scene, though. I didn't even see any of 'em.
I can't deny you likely would have been accused of a murder taking place on the water, even if you were innocent. But I don't think most of us would have voted for you on that cause alone.
Didn't really do much in the gardens, actually. He was pretty easy to lure out, but he's really into the memory stuff, anyway.
[So like?? Maybe this city was Revali's kryptonite, in a way?
Maybe he would have had more to say about the water murders but then he just busts out laughing for some reason? It goes on for a bit because, okay, he needs a minute.]
Oh, wow. That was my bad, actually. Uh. You know the pool table?
[Her face goes blank for a moment. And then, incredulously, she begins to laugh as well.]
It was from the pool cues? Twelve above, and everybody was so focused on it! Even I wondered if it might have been from another entity here beyond our Watchers.
[WHAT THE HELL
Alisaie's going to take a seat now, stretching her legs out and crossing them at the ankle--though she still doesn't come any closer.]
Did the Angel that approached you offer you anything in specific?
Nah, just forgot to clean all of it off, apparently. Blends in really well in the dark, you know?
[But seriously, it was a dumb mistake. He has made his share of them and he will acknowledge them, he just refuses to acknowledge things other people did.
Just a huff, though it's still half-laughing. He's watching her, though he doesn't bother to remark on her getting closer or no. He is perfectly happy to holler across half a house if need be, as their opera house adventure demonstrated.
He stretches a little and shrugs, a shuffle of clothing.]
Yeah. They know pretty much everything, I'm pretty sure. Exactly what's going on and who we are and what to offer. There's power there.
[Definitely a devil's deal, in so many ways. But sometimes you dance with the devil.]
[It's probably not especially difficult to guess some of these symptoms after three weeks and at least one treasure chest adventure directly with A-Qing.
His daemon rises up in a whisper of waves and noses a little closer in the no-man's-land in between, though Suigetsu himself merely continues to watch, taking things in.]
Hmph. If they could do what they said? Yeah, it would be worth it. There's somebody I want out of my way. [...] Out of our way. My team, the real one. If it was just me I'd take him out and that would be the end of it.
People are a pain, you know that?
[It's both thoughtful and kind of sardonic, but at the same time there's something solid wound through it; something like truth. He waves it away, reflexive even if it's dark and also she can't see.]
What about you? Was that worth it, what you did at the end there?
[Alisaie may not be able to see him, but he'll see her lose her casual bearing as Naito noses a little closer, shifting instead so that she can move if necessary. Taf comes forward in his little cat form, hissing a warning at Suigetsu's daemon--stay back.]
[It's kind of funny, actually. The shark does a little loop, circling closer and then farther away, not particularly threatening but probably much more messing around. Daemon and master are the same as always, it seems.
Suigetsu snickers briefly.]
Why would I do that. Not like I've gotta deal with it; you're just messing up on your own time.
[It's the same as always, but at the same time a side of Suigetsu she hasn't seen before, a marked difference from the cheerful, laughing person he'd shown the rest of him. She's grown used to him laughing at others and teasing, but this is the first it feels truly pointed. Having heard that Alphinaud was emotionally linked to him this week, she feels like maybe she understands why he seemed uneasy at times throughout the week.
Or she could be reading too much into it, who knows. At any rate, she won't be dropping her guard again--just in case.]
[Sometimes a fish changes its scales just because it pops up into the sun; not that a shark is particularly a scaly fish, but maybe that's why the deep sea daemon, too.
Still waters run deep; restless waters run a little too everything.
Alphinaud probably got So Much Mental Noise, poor thing. On top of everything else]
So you're sayin' everybody else was doing the wrong thing, then?
[You're pretty much a newly-formed team; you've barely had any time together, and yet it's just been one thing after another after another -- Taka isn't really a team so much as a gaggle of confused collector's items colliding with the worst family drama of all time, but you're all aware of that and maybe that's what makes it work.
At least, that's what everybody's probably going with right now.
You are pretty damn sure it doesn't actually make any sense nor is it actually going to last (seriously, you've had a whole team name change already and it's been, what, a week?), but that's the thing: there are few things in life that last, much like the morning mist, yada yada. Those are the things you don't bother to think about.
It's much better to focus on the present, even shrouded in mist as the Land of Thunder is -- you're all here gallivanting off into a foreign land, about to brew up one of the storms it's so damn famous for. Except this time, it's a storm from all the way around the world and here to turn the entire natural order of things upside down. Isn't that what you're all best at? None of you are anywhere close to the natural order of things.
That said, you're really not into this place for so many reasons. It is so not worth the trip.
"I'll take him down." Sasuke, ever-cocky and never listening to a thing anybody else says. He's got the raw strength to go through just about anything in his way, but the Thing in your way right now...
Well, it's some weird buff guy that you'd think was senile if not for his reputation -- maybe it's more like a raputation? he really, really likes to rap and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever -- but he's the Eight-Tails, one of the most powerful creatures in this world and probably the next and you all are about to go head-on with him. You've got the right; Juugo's got the left; and Karin as always at your backs, even if you really want to question the wisdom of that decision if you stop to think about it. You don't really have time to think about it.
Time to not die as hard as you all can, even if you're all about as elite a bunch of shinobi as you're going to get at your age.
(It goes about as well as and definitely not as well as you'd expect, because you're all following Sasuke in your own ways and Sasuke just tries to go through anything in his way like a shredder instead of taking a detour or two. But there are some things in this world that really, really don't want to be moved. You clash. You swing your greatsword like your life depends on it; it does.
Killer Bee is so much stronger than you, and possibly all of you put together. It's like you're the insects here, even if you've got the advantage in numbers -- it's nothing. None of you hesitate -- you were honed for battle like the weapons you all carry, and there is no turning back. Also, his rapping is still absolutely awful and you'd really like to shut him up.
You clash. You all cover for each other as though your lives depend on it; they do. You're not a perfect team, but maybe it's enough.)
It's not enough. By far, because the man ruining rap for the youth of every generation is a team too unto himself: he has the Tailed Beast at his beck and call, its bulk dwarfing all the mountains around you and making the seas look like rainpuddles.
Oh, boy.
A few bits of water aren't going to do anything, but you know water and you breathe water and move it as though it were yourself -- that's what it means to be you, after all. You can move the entire sea against him if you really want to. You've already taken a few too many hits here (Land of Thunder, why did it have to be Land of Thunder), because that's what you were built to do from your atoms all the way back through the history of things. That's what it means to be a Houzuki.
Still, you think, as you put yourself and the sea in between team and beast: this is honestly ridiculous. That you're doing this. That it's the only way to survive and also, seriously, is this survival? It's a die or die situation, never mind doing anything. You're still not even sure this is an actual team of any kind, just the first thing to come along since your last one dissolved like so much mist under sunlight.
Well, there's nothing for it now. You're here, and the beast is gathering power, and wow this is really going to smart in the morning--
[It's not difficult to find somewhere for a private conversation, in spite of how many people and ghosts there are. What may prove more difficult is the conversation they're about to have, a conversation between someone who is currently mute and someone who is currently blind.
But they'll probably make it work.
Once they're alone, Alisaie turns back to Suigetsu. Taf is perched on her shoulders as he's been over the past couple weeks, and he'll probably be able to notice bandages on her right shoulder, mostly hidden by the cowl she's wearing but still notable when it shifts.]
I expect by now you understand why I voted as I did.
[It's a large castle, after all, and everyone is distracted at the ball; Suigetsu doesn't exactly know his way around all that well, so it's literally the blind leading the blind here, but so long as they don't get lost down the hallways forever, it's all good.
It's probably easier than conducting the conversation itself, at any rate. Not that he seems especially worried about it -- he'll even find the nearest place to lounge, because why not get comfortable if this is going to be as long and arduous as it might be. That and he's been running around all night, really. Hey, at least this is way more comfortable than their last one.
There's an amused salute at her statement. Despite the succinctness of his note, it really did encapsulate so many of his feelings on the matter. That being not-said, he'll lean forward and raise a hand -- hold up a couple fingers and then put them down again in a counting motion. Gesture to her and to Taf with the unspoken question.]
[Alisaie's going to find a seat too; there's no reason not to, after all. As she does, Taf jumps from her shoulders to the arm of the chair she's chosen, stretching along it.
There are a couple things he could be asking with that, and she's not certain which question it is. But--]
Ere I answer, I've a question for you: Is it your intention to share aught I tell you with the living?
[At her caveat, he just leans back and throws back his head in a cackle without pause -- seems like he anticipated it, but then he's had a lot of free time lately; once that's done he'll readjust his mask and clothing, though he does take off his hat and place it next to him on whatever sofa or piece of furniture he's taking up space on.
It gets quite stuffy in the crowds wearing so many things and layers.
In clearer lighting, there's a hint of dark furred ears peeking out from slightly higher than normal on the sides of his head. It also makes it a little easier to read his expressions without all the shadow and bulk of the hat messing with them, perhaps. May Taf and Alisaie's embattled eyeballs do their very best.
Easy shake of the head once that's settled, then spreading his hands in a shrug. Why should he, really.]
[She lifts her hand, as though she's going to make the same motion he did a moment ago... but nothing happens.
Alisaie frowns, eyebrows coming down as she glares at her hand as though she can will her own body into submission... but while she can move it fine, there's something preventing her from making her point. After a moment, she scowls.]
Should I meet one of them face-to-face...
[She glances back up to Suigetsu, shaking her head. Regardless of which question he asked, it's not one she can answer, it seems.]
[Now that's an interesting thing -- sometimes the lack of information is as informative as the sharing of it. Of course, she could be pulling a leg or two, or misunderstanding the question entirely... but they're playing this by ear, anyway. He doesn't seem to be all that surprised or put off by the non-answer, at any rate.
Instead, he leans forward a little further and indicates her fingers, or perhaps her attempts. Tilts his head, the half-hidden ears flickering just a little, motion impossible to read in all the hair.
Thumbs-up and a thumbs-down motion, then an open palm at her. She's got the floor, it seems.]
[IT'S SO HARD TO DO THIS WITH TAF AS HER EYES is what i say as though i'm fully understanding all of these charades myself but anyway, Alisaie will give a thumbs-down, though it's entirely possible that the only reason it works is because she's not even entirely certain what question she's answering.]
My hands are tied, I'm afraid. Even now, we still don't know all the rules.
Are you under similar restrictions amongst yourselves?
[Charades are truly difficult because what is this disaster combination but they are all doing their best (maybe) (probably). Maybe this would have been easier if they both actually had daemons but. Alas. Goodnaito, sweet literal shark.
Suigetsu seems to let out what might be a sigh or a laugh or both, sitting back a little to think things over. They're both under restrictions, and their communication has been further restricted by even more things... It's almost hard to say whether this is easier than just writing letters. But still.
He raises a hand to gesture between the two of them, at their surroundings, and gives a thumbs-down. Then indicates just himself, points at the sky. Thumbs-up.]
So you may all speak freely. [That's... not entirely surprising, considering the message he'd sent her, but it's something.]
I do have a question for you. What you told me the night of the trial--about the power they hold and offered you. Do you still believe it? Would you work with them still?
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week 0; friday
Come and join her, Suigetsu!]
me realizing I've been reading her username as vernaltwin this entire time
Hell no, he's a shark and a ninja, which means that instead of giving a formal challenge he's going to just pop out of nowhere (probably from behind a few rocks or a higher bit of ground or a tree somewhere by the beach or something?? topography is hard), ridiculously large sword in hand, and execute a sneak attack.
It's in plain daylight, but despite the sheer heft of the sword he moves very fast and can even get airborne with it.
She going to parry?]
LMAO nah it's a pun on "feral" and the red mage "ver-" fixation (veraero, verholy, verflare...)
She isn't upset by the interruption to her practice though; not one bit.]
Sneaking up on me? That's not very sportsmanlike.
can't believe she's not a summer baby-- that's cute though
Instead, he gives an amused whistle while she flips the hell away and slides back into his own stance, sword held out before him and legs braced. It definitely seems like the sword is kind of too big for him?? Especially on sand?? But eh.]
Ha! I'm a shinobi, you know? If I really wanted to sneak up on you, you wouldn't get to dodge.
[A pause and a wrinkle of his nose]
Well, that's how it'd go if I had my abilities, anyway. This is kind of a pain, but I bet I can still give you a run for your money?
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[She lifts her free hand in a sort of shrug.]
I've been robbed of some abilities of my own, so it shall be a fair fight.
[is she insinuating with both their abilities she'd wipe him on the floor? absolutely.
And then she's going to streak right toward him--there's no such thing as waiting for someone to start the fight! She'll be anticipating his sword, but Alisaie's going to focus on simply avoiding it as much as possible, since her own is no match for its sheer heft.]
week 2; tuesday
It's a shame she didn't look around first to make sure nobody else would get to see it.]
week 2; post-trial
...which one?
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Hmm. Feel like playing a guessing game?
[It's asked idly enough; it seems like he might just be bored at this point, lounging around in an abandoned(???) building or something. There's the almost silent swish of water that you can hear when his daemon moves. The knowledge of something large at the edge of your senses.]
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Revali.
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And anyone should have been able to tell you didn't murder Roxis. As you said, you wouldn't kill him in a manner that could be traced back to you easily.
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[Matter-of-fact; that's just sort of the way things are in his neck of the woods, really.
(It's just his player wouldn't let him.)
He pauses a bit in thought and then shakes his head; a soft movement of air.]
Well, it was the easier answer? Maybe it was bound to happen sooner or later with all this water even if I didn't do anything, so I might as well have taken my shot. [there is no remorse here, basically, oops] Didn't really expect that many people on the scene, though. I didn't even see any of 'em.
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[She frowns.]
I can't deny you likely would have been accused of a murder taking place on the water, even if you were innocent. But I don't think most of us would have voted for you on that cause alone.
Will you tell me what the blue Dust was?
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[So like?? Maybe this city was Revali's kryptonite, in a way?
Maybe he would have had more to say about the water murders but then he just busts out laughing for some reason? It goes on for a bit because, okay, he needs a minute.]
Oh, wow. That was my bad, actually. Uh. You know the pool table?
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It was from the pool cues? Twelve above, and everybody was so focused on it! Even I wondered if it might have been from another entity here beyond our Watchers.
[WHAT THE HELL
Alisaie's going to take a seat now, stretching her legs out and crossing them at the ankle--though she still doesn't come any closer.]
Did the Angel that approached you offer you anything in specific?
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[But seriously, it was a dumb mistake. He has made his share of them and he will acknowledge them, he just refuses to acknowledge things other people did.
Just a huff, though it's still half-laughing. He's watching her, though he doesn't bother to remark on her getting closer or no. He is perfectly happy to holler across half a house if need be, as their opera house adventure demonstrated.
He stretches a little and shrugs, a shuffle of clothing.]
Yeah. They know pretty much everything, I'm pretty sure. Exactly what's going on and who we are and what to offer. There's power there.
[Definitely a devil's deal, in so many ways. But sometimes you dance with the devil.]
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I'm not surprised that they do. I can only assume they're watching us even now.
...would it have been worth it?
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His daemon rises up in a whisper of waves and noses a little closer in the no-man's-land in between, though Suigetsu himself merely continues to watch, taking things in.]
Hmph. If they could do what they said? Yeah, it would be worth it. There's somebody I want out of my way. [...] Out of our way. My team, the real one. If it was just me I'd take him out and that would be the end of it.
People are a pain, you know that?
[It's both thoughtful and kind of sardonic, but at the same time there's something solid wound through it; something like truth. He waves it away, reflexive even if it's dark and also she can't see.]
What about you? Was that worth it, what you did at the end there?
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I expect you're going to tell me it wasn't.
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Suigetsu snickers briefly.]
Why would I do that. Not like I've gotta deal with it; you're just messing up on your own time.
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Or she could be reading too much into it, who knows. At any rate, she won't be dropping her guard again--just in case.]
It was the right thing to do.
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Still waters run deep; restless waters run a little too everything.
Alphinaud probably got So Much Mental Noise, poor thing. On top of everything else]
So you're sayin' everybody else was doing the wrong thing, then?
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No. I expect that everyone else was likely voting for the person they thought most likely to be a culprit.
W2 Tuesday: just going to yeet return memshare here but it's the same general timeframe
At least, that's what everybody's probably going with right now.
You are pretty damn sure it doesn't actually make any sense nor is it actually going to last (seriously, you've had a whole team name change already and it's been, what, a week?), but that's the thing: there are few things in life that last, much like the morning mist, yada yada. Those are the things you don't bother to think about.
It's much better to focus on the present, even shrouded in mist as the Land of Thunder is -- you're all here gallivanting off into a foreign land, about to brew up one of the storms it's so damn famous for. Except this time, it's a storm from all the way around the world and here to turn the entire natural order of things upside down. Isn't that what you're all best at? None of you are anywhere close to the natural order of things.
That said, you're really not into this place for so many reasons. It is so not worth the trip.
"I'll take him down." Sasuke, ever-cocky and never listening to a thing anybody else says. He's got the raw strength to go through just about anything in his way, but the Thing in your way right now...
Well, it's some weird buff guy that you'd think was senile if not for his reputation -- maybe it's more like a raputation? he really, really likes to rap and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever -- but he's the Eight-Tails, one of the most powerful creatures in this world and probably the next and you all are about to go head-on with him. You've got the right; Juugo's got the left; and Karin as always at your backs, even if you really want to question the wisdom of that decision if you stop to think about it. You don't really have time to think about it.
Time to not die as hard as you all can, even if you're all about as elite a bunch of shinobi as you're going to get at your age.
(It goes about as well as and definitely not as well as you'd expect, because you're all following Sasuke in your own ways and Sasuke just tries to go through anything in his way like a shredder instead of taking a detour or two. But there are some things in this world that really, really don't want to be moved. You clash. You swing your greatsword like your life depends on it; it does.
Killer Bee is so much stronger than you, and possibly all of you put together. It's like you're the insects here, even if you've got the advantage in numbers -- it's nothing. None of you hesitate -- you were honed for battle like the weapons you all carry, and there is no turning back. Also, his rapping is still absolutely awful and you'd really like to shut him up.
You clash. You all cover for each other as though your lives depend on it; they do. You're not a perfect team, but maybe it's enough.)
It's not enough. By far, because the man ruining rap for the youth of every generation is a team too unto himself: he has the Tailed Beast at his beck and call, its bulk dwarfing all the mountains around you and making the seas look like rainpuddles.
Oh, boy.
A few bits of water aren't going to do anything, but you know water and you breathe water and move it as though it were yourself -- that's what it means to be you, after all. You can move the entire sea against him if you really want to. You've already taken a few too many hits here (Land of Thunder, why did it have to be Land of Thunder), because that's what you were built to do from your atoms all the way back through the history of things. That's what it means to be a Houzuki.
Still, you think, as you put yourself and the sea in between team and beast: this is honestly ridiculous. That you're doing this. That it's the only way to survive and also, seriously, is this survival? It's a die or die situation, never mind doing anything. You're still not even sure this is an actual team of any kind, just the first thing to come along since your last one dissolved like so much mist under sunlight.
Well, there's nothing for it now. You're here, and the beast is gathering power, and wow this is really going to smart in the morning--
(And it all goes dark.)]
week 4; tuesday night (masquerade)
But they'll probably make it work.
Once they're alone, Alisaie turns back to Suigetsu. Taf is perched on her shoulders as he's been over the past couple weeks, and he'll probably be able to notice bandages on her right shoulder, mostly hidden by the cowl she's wearing but still notable when it shifts.]
I expect by now you understand why I voted as I did.
skids in here
It's probably easier than conducting the conversation itself, at any rate. Not that he seems especially worried about it -- he'll even find the nearest place to lounge, because why not get comfortable if this is going to be as long and arduous as it might be. That and he's been running around all night, really. Hey, at least this is way more comfortable than their last one.
There's an amused salute at her statement. Despite the succinctness of his note, it really did encapsulate so many of his feelings on the matter. That being not-said, he'll lean forward and raise a hand -- hold up a couple fingers and then put them down again in a counting motion. Gesture to her and to Taf with the unspoken question.]
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There are a couple things he could be asking with that, and she's not certain which question it is. But--]
Ere I answer, I've a question for you: Is it your intention to share aught I tell you with the living?
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It gets quite stuffy in the crowds wearing so many things and layers.
In clearer lighting, there's a hint of dark furred ears peeking out from slightly higher than normal on the sides of his head. It also makes it a little easier to read his expressions without all the shadow and bulk of the hat messing with them, perhaps. May Taf and Alisaie's embattled eyeballs do their very best.
Easy shake of the head once that's settled, then spreading his hands in a shrug. Why should he, really.]
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[She lifts her hand, as though she's going to make the same motion he did a moment ago... but nothing happens.
Alisaie frowns, eyebrows coming down as she glares at her hand as though she can will her own body into submission... but while she can move it fine, there's something preventing her from making her point. After a moment, she scowls.]
Should I meet one of them face-to-face...
[She glances back up to Suigetsu, shaking her head. Regardless of which question he asked, it's not one she can answer, it seems.]
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Instead, he leans forward a little further and indicates her fingers, or perhaps her attempts. Tilts his head, the half-hidden ears flickering just a little, motion impossible to read in all the hair.
Thumbs-up and a thumbs-down motion, then an open palm at her. She's got the floor, it seems.]
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My hands are tied, I'm afraid. Even now, we still don't know all the rules.
Are you under similar restrictions amongst yourselves?
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Suigetsu seems to let out what might be a sigh or a laugh or both, sitting back a little to think things over. They're both under restrictions, and their communication has been further restricted by even more things... It's almost hard to say whether this is easier than just writing letters. But still.
He raises a hand to gesture between the two of them, at their surroundings, and gives a thumbs-down. Then indicates just himself, points at the sky. Thumbs-up.]
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I do have a question for you. What you told me the night of the trial--about the power they hold and offered you. Do you still believe it? Would you work with them still?