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Log; On-going [Just a Little Chat in the Forest...]
When; Late Night July 22nd/Early Morning July 23nd
Rating; PG
Characters; Jowy![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
for_destiny, Nanami sisknowsbest, and Riou bright_shield
Summary; Quite a few people have been acting under quite a few wrong assumptions for quite a while now. Expect a lot of "You faked your death?!?" to be on-coming...
Log;
He wondered if he was going insane.
Except for a brief respite while Nanami had been in the city, Riou had been chasing after a way to return home ever since he had been snatched from his world those long months ago. But for the past couple of days he had been physically chasing after shadows and flits of images between the trees, of home, of faces and places he knew that danced tantalizing close at the edges of his vision. Was the city just playing further tricks with his mind?
Riou topped a small rise and paused, winded, as he brushed damp hair out of his eyes. And then stared at the sight of North Window Castle hanging in between the trees like the gossamer of some spun spiderweb. A portal. A doorway in between time and space. Home. Finally... He began to launch himself at his long sought target.
"Don't rush so recklessly into something you don't fully understand," chimed a voice within his head in the odd yet oh-so-familiar tones of a certain albino squirrel.
In confusion, Riou stuttered to a halt a few mere steps away from the waiting doorway. He stared hard at the shimmering window of light, at the familiar expanse of the castle within. A trap, perhaps? Or maybe... And then he saw them, hanging silently at the edges of his sight, to the right and to left of the of the portal before him. Two more gateways slid out from between the trees, the vistas held within them quite different from the first.
North Window Castle stood before him, and to the right and to the left hung windows to the Tenzan Pass.
Tenzan Pass. Again.
What the hell...? Riou gaped at the three doorways before him. He paused, took a tentative step forward, unsure of which gateway to approach, and hesitated a moment longer-- and then before his eyes, cracks and fissures began to spiderweb through the left door to Tenzan Pass. For a moment the window flickered as the fractures widened and spread, melting into each other. And then with a silent shriek, the entire portal shattered like a broken mirror, shards raining down upon Riou as he staggered back and fell to one knee.
For a moment Riou gazed down in shock at the shallow lacerations that crisscrossed the skin of his arms before turning towards the two remaining gateways. They darkened and drifted back, fading away before his eyes. He lunged to his feet towards them, and then-- finally, inexorably-- the many sleepless days and nights spent chasing through the woods caught up to him. A tremor of exhaustion shivered through his legs and he dropped back into a crouch. Only for a moment, but it was long enough.
Tenzan Pass and North Window Castle evaporated away like mist in the first rays of the morning sun, gone as if they were never there. Half in shock and half in despair, Riou knelt alone amongst the weedy forest floor and cursed quietly to himself.
"Damn...!"
Rating; PG
Characters; Jowy
for_destiny, Nanami sisknowsbest, and Riou bright_shieldSummary; Quite a few people have been acting under quite a few wrong assumptions for quite a while now. Expect a lot of "You faked your death?!?" to be on-coming...
Log;
He wondered if he was going insane.
Except for a brief respite while Nanami had been in the city, Riou had been chasing after a way to return home ever since he had been snatched from his world those long months ago. But for the past couple of days he had been physically chasing after shadows and flits of images between the trees, of home, of faces and places he knew that danced tantalizing close at the edges of his vision. Was the city just playing further tricks with his mind?
Riou topped a small rise and paused, winded, as he brushed damp hair out of his eyes. And then stared at the sight of North Window Castle hanging in between the trees like the gossamer of some spun spiderweb. A portal. A doorway in between time and space. Home. Finally... He began to launch himself at his long sought target.
"Don't rush so recklessly into something you don't fully understand," chimed a voice within his head in the odd yet oh-so-familiar tones of a certain albino squirrel.
In confusion, Riou stuttered to a halt a few mere steps away from the waiting doorway. He stared hard at the shimmering window of light, at the familiar expanse of the castle within. A trap, perhaps? Or maybe... And then he saw them, hanging silently at the edges of his sight, to the right and to left of the of the portal before him. Two more gateways slid out from between the trees, the vistas held within them quite different from the first.
North Window Castle stood before him, and to the right and to the left hung windows to the Tenzan Pass.
Tenzan Pass. Again.
What the hell...? Riou gaped at the three doorways before him. He paused, took a tentative step forward, unsure of which gateway to approach, and hesitated a moment longer-- and then before his eyes, cracks and fissures began to spiderweb through the left door to Tenzan Pass. For a moment the window flickered as the fractures widened and spread, melting into each other. And then with a silent shriek, the entire portal shattered like a broken mirror, shards raining down upon Riou as he staggered back and fell to one knee.
For a moment Riou gazed down in shock at the shallow lacerations that crisscrossed the skin of his arms before turning towards the two remaining gateways. They darkened and drifted back, fading away before his eyes. He lunged to his feet towards them, and then-- finally, inexorably-- the many sleepless days and nights spent chasing through the woods caught up to him. A tremor of exhaustion shivered through his legs and he dropped back into a crouch. Only for a moment, but it was long enough.
Tenzan Pass and North Window Castle evaporated away like mist in the first rays of the morning sun, gone as if they were never there. Half in shock and half in despair, Riou knelt alone amongst the weedy forest floor and cursed quietly to himself.
"Damn...!"
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He made his way over to a nearby tree, felt his legs start to buckle, and ended up leaning against it a tad harder than he had intended. Wait, wait... he had to think. He had spent the past week running away from such, trying to escape his thoughts regarding his sister and best friend, but now...
It niggled at him. Riou dropped his head into his hands. He believed her to be dead and lost in his past. Within the city he had tried to save her... by putting her into a different timeline where she did not die at Rockaxe. Infinite worlds, infinite timelines, all of them springing from different choices, or so he had been told by others within the city.
Perhaps... perhaps this was merely the manifestation of that. This way, she could still be alive in his world without destroying the timeline he knew but... he wouldn't know for sure. He wouldn't know if Nanami was truly alive or dead in his own world until he went back. By then it would be too late.
She wasn't dead here and now, and that's what mattered the most. But still...
"You. Faked. Your. Death."
He laughed and there was the slightest sliver of an edge of hysteria to it. Family and friends he had known since childhood. Apparently he wasn't very good at reading them at all.
"I'm sorry... I'm glad that you're alive," he finally said.
You faked your death?! Well, that was one way of doing it...