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tushanshu_ooc2016-11-21 06:23 pm
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[Once he's free of the crowd he can speed up, and does; but before he even reaches the corner he recognises the mana signature on the end, the particular sweep of an unfamiliar staff and the flick of white hair.
[Kratos doesn't give himself time to be surprised. The thief is already on the ground and rolling away from Raine; in two more quick steps Kratos is there, his foot coming down between the thief's shoulders to pin them down before they rise. He immediately regrets it; they cry out and they sound young. Kratos pulls back his foot like it was burned; but then he stoops to pull them to their feet, slightly more gently.]
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[Raine's eyes go wide, and she's temporarily too startled by the person in front of her to do anything about the nearly-escaping kedan thief. By the time she has herself recovered, Kratos is handling it, which is-- also familiar.]
[She shakes herself, and rests her staff on the ground.]
...Once you've recovered your property, we should talk.
[Shock past, she's into cool reserve, analyzing. Looking for some sign on Kratos of where in the timeline he might be from, aware that she might not find any.]
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[He hasn't stopped to puzzle out her presence, yet, though he hasn't faced away from Raine, either. She has nothing to fear from him, but he still doesn't know details behind the inconsistencies in his arrival here; he doesn't know whether he has anything to worry about from her. From what he knows, from what was happening just before he came to ground -- Raine Sage should not be here.
[Kratos turns the thief around and they look up at him under a mop of hair and with a stubborn set to their chin that makes his heart pang. He sighs, keeping a grip on their shoulder but holding out his hand.]
The locket.
[The thief's response is muttered and half-hearted at best, given the way their fist is clenched to their chest.]
Dun 'ave it.
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[She also has never heard Kratos mention a locket before, but given -- Kratos -- Raine can, and does, make an educated guess.]
This man is a friend of mine, and the locket all he has of his family. I would consider it a favor if you returned it.
[A beat. In concession to the denial:]
Should you discover that you have it after all.
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You're the Foreigner healer. Can have a favour, y'said? Need a healer. I got family too.
[Kratos files away that unfamiliar title and takes another look at the child. Not a beggar; their clothes were too fine, if wrinkled, and their generaly bearing too well cared-for. But if they relied on a single parent for income, and that parent was ill, it's possible they'd resort to something more desperate.]
We're both healers. If you give me back my locket, you can have us both.
[It's ... not a lie, though Kratos certainly doesn't focus on the skill as much as Raine does. The child shakes their head and fists the locket closer.]
Healin' first.
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That's fine. I'm willing to help you. All the same, I'd appreciate it if you returned my friend's locket first.
[She supposes she can also understand the suspicion on the child's part. Quietly, Raine sighs.]
If it will make you feel more secure, you may hold on to something of mine instead until we've helped you as you ask.
[The hesitation before she slides one of the rings off her left hand is slight, but still present.]
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[But the child eyes the ring, and hesitates, glancing at the bracelet on Raine's wrist before daring to reach out. Only then do they thrust out their hand at Kratos for him to accept the locket; and the first thing he does is ensure the picture is still inside. This time, Kratos pulls it around his neck for safekeeping.]
Alright. Where are we headed?
[The child, fist now gripped tight around Raine's ring, motions down the street and trots off at a fast clip, stopping only to make sure they follow. Kratos turns toward Raine and bows, motioning for her to precede him. Her reaction should tell him something.]
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[Kratos presents no threat to her. Even if he comes from the beginning of the journey, he had no cause to want to harm her even then. It occurs to her only in retrospect that he may come from before that, but her back is already to him.]
[All the same, Raine doesn't think her trust is misplaced. Over her shoulder, as she turns briefly from following the child:]
I'll explain everything to you later. For the moment, can you be satisfied with the knowledge that this is neither Sylvarant, nor Tethe'alla?
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I know. I thought it was another planet.
[That's what he'd been about to explore -- he thought -- when he arrived and promptly lost all sense of mana and communication links to Derris-Kharlan.]
It isn't the location that worries me ... precisely. How you're here is something I'm curious about, but I'm more concerned about the time differential.
[Derris-Kharlan is a great many things, but it still needs to navigate the principles of time and extreme speeds.]
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It is. It's simply another world, as well.
[She appreciates that for once she doesn't have to define that distinction to someone else.]
You needn't worry. When people leave this world, they return to the time and place from which they were taken, no matter how much time has passed here.
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[Although the other part is ... good to know, relatively speaking. It does make Kratos's brow furrow.]
What's your last memory? And --
[Returning to the time and place from which they were taken? He actually doesn't like the sound of that. He may not have been the one to wield the Eternal Sword, but he did used to have a ... relatively intimate connection to the being who created it.]
When you say we return to the time and place, does that include souls and memories?
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When I was drawn here, I was twenty-three, and I had just seen the Great Seed germinated.
[She doesn't mind telling Kratos that much. After all, it's something he was working towards as well, wasn't it? One of them will have to provide a reference point eventually.]
It's been more than three years since then, for me.
[At Kratos' last question, she shakes her head.]
No. Memories... we don't retain those, when we're returned home.
[She realizes she's fidgeting with the ring and stops, quickening her pace after the child instead.]
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[Three years then, out of time -- without much prospect in retaining those years. It isn't an optimal situation, and Kratos can't help but have his attention drawn by Raine's fiddling with that ring. It seems to him to be not much different to how he'd kept reaching for the locket to make sure it was still there, after Anna had died.
[For that, Kratos doesn't ask.]
I'm from a point after you, then. I've left Aselia on Derris-Kharlan, to guide the remaining angels in their redemption.
[He's hopeful that some decades exploring space might help return some sense of emotion, or passion, combined with some other treatments.]
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You-- left?
[Somehow she wasn't expecting it; but as she considers it she can make some sense of it. Those angels would still exist, and Mithos -- Cruxis -- was responsible for their existence. Kratos has, after all, a sense of duty.]
...I see. How much later? Did Lloyd understand?
[Despite Raine's resolution not to get into this until they are in private, and not trailing a kedan child to heal a complete stranger, she finds she is curious, and natural instinct overrules sense. In a moment she shakes her head.]
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[Kratos, for his part, is still apparently focussed on following the child and navigating the unfamiliar streets, taking in his surroundings. He's not opposed to discussing things now, for perhaps opposing reasons; he's too used to forever holding off. It's something he's trying to work on.
[Besides, talking while walking keeps him from thinking too hard about the subject of conversation, and the pang of regret and homesickness he's been steadily ignoring since Derris-Kharlan left Aselia's orbit.]
Yes. He wanted to take his own journey to collect all the exspheres in Aselia, but we have -- had -- stores of exspheres on Derris-Kharlan, and someone needed to be sent there to attend to them before it broke outer orbit. I ... told him I would send them into space.
[That's what he'd said; but Kratos had destroyed them. Lloyd's too young to understand the burden of living without an end in sight, and if there was any chance a soul might still exist in those exspheres, Kratos wasn't going to make them suffer further. It hadn't been a lie, precisely. He did send them into space ... into a sun. It was the worthiest funeral pyre Kratos could imagine, for the suffering the exsphere souls had endured.]
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[It's something. Raine can't discount the value of even a little time.]
I see.
...A few weeks isn't the greatest misalignment. There have been people here some years removed from each other.
[It's a little strange that it's Kratos, of everyone, but at least he's from a point where Raine can be sure of him.]
Do you ever plan to return? Can you?
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[This, with some trademark faint amusement, accompanied by a head-tip at the fact that Raine even feels the need to ask.]
Even in orbit, it would eventually circle close enough to Aselia to use the warp. But Mithos was piloting it directly -- we've taken back control, and can return at any time. We did manage to moor it to Aselia the first time, remember.
[The difficulty had been getting to Derris-Kharlan before it was too far away to retrieve; and that was why the situation had been slightly urgent. A few weeks had been the most Kratos could spare, even with the engines turned off after Mithos's defeat, even with that unique gravitational force of new mana which had very nearly brought it back to earth. Inertia existed even in space.]
Besides, I promised I'd bring him some minerals from other worlds.
[This is tacked on at the end, as if it's the most important reason for him to return at all, and not just because Aselia is his home.]
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That's true.
--you did? I'm sure he'll appreciate that.
[She has to suppress a laugh, because it is such a deeply Lloyd thing. Something practical, which gives his father an even better reason to return. And Raine will admit she's curious as well.]
...It sounds like things will be all right. That's a relief, even if I'm liable to forget the reassurance.
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[Since Kratos had given him Flamberge, and all. Kratos could use other swords, of course; but Flamberge had also been forged of a metal from space. The thought of such equipment becoming a family trait is oddly pleasing, especially if forged within the family.]
It will continue to be a reassurance up until that point.
[Sometimes, the end makes the time before it all the more precious. That thought does make Kratos look at Raine sidelong, eyeing the ring on her finger, and wonder; but the child calls out before them, standing on the stoop of a door.]
In 'ere.
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[She catches the look Kratos gives her and isn't sure what to say to it. It seems like it deserves some response; but before she can formulate anything, they're interrupted by the initial purpose of their sidetracking. Raine nods to Kratos, and quickens her pace toward the door the child is waiting at.]
All right. Can you tell us what the problem is?
[It's also a very neat way to skirt talking about anything heavier. For now.]