#51 - The Bitty Invasion Continues
Feb. 11th, 2011 02:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Looks like I'm stuck not working until I can use . my weapon again. Guess we better hope things stay quiet - weird, but quiet.
And don't think _ I won't still kick your ass if you try anything.
- Smoke
[Okay that last bit was mostly for Black lol]
And don't think _ I won't still kick your ass if you try anything.
- Smoke
[Okay that last bit was mostly for Black lol]
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-19 07:25 pm (UTC)[He blinked a little.] ...evil twin? What do you mean? [Sometimes he forgot how long Smoke had really been in Edensphere... from his perspective, the man had shown up long after he had arrived.]
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-19 09:28 pm (UTC)Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-21 05:25 am (UTC)It was the work of moments to pull out one of his cigarettes and some matches. Really, things were a bit better organized in the pouch than his pockets usually were. Lighting it and inhaling, he had to suppress a cough briefly. This body wasn't used to the smoke.]
I see... how strange. [He held out the matches a little, offering them wordlessly to Smoke.]
...did he? Kill you? Or...?
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-21 06:25 am (UTC)Nope.
[He sighed, more breath than smoke that time, as he let the dead match fall to the ground.] Buddy of mine and I faced our twins together. It's hard to explain, but breaking this object it actually killed his twin. Made it pretty easy to promise that I'd never let that happen to the real him, but that still left mine. And also hard to explain - not that I won't, it's just complicated - but he couldn't kill my twin.
[He shoved his hands in his pockets with the pack there too. Then he turned his head to face Cloud directly, eyes serious.] So I did.
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-21 09:27 pm (UTC)It's not an unexpected conclusion.
He nods slowly. Kill or be killed, he can understand that... especially since it sounds like the 'evil twins' weren't about to listen to any sort of reason.]
Alright. [He honestly can accept the idea that Smoke has killed someone without flinching. He's not quite sure why... but he's pretty sure that Smoke doesn't go around killing people randomly, so... anyway.] ...I'm guessing your friend isn't here anymore? I am a bit curious about this thing that killed his twin so easily.
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-21 09:48 pm (UTC)[He removed a hand to pull at the stick in his mouth and exhale again, then replace the cigarette.] Trust had some kinda thing where he couldn't do all of his cool powers unless he was contracted to someone - bonded to 'em. The way his partner told him to do this or that was with a toujinki - little electronic bracelet sorta thing. Made little beeping noises and you had to make symbols in the air with it. [He made some motions, a little sloppier than he used to do when he was Trust's partner, but it was enough to give Cloud an idea.]
Apparently our evil twins had something identical to that, and breaking it killed Trust's twin. I was the one Trust was contracted to, so as a friend and his partner... it was my job to keep that thing safe.
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-22 11:18 pm (UTC)[A tiger, really? And... that bond thing...
Cloud doesn't really understand how a 'bond' would allow someone access to their abilities, but it must just be the way things worked for this 'Trust' person.]
I see.
[It felt like a very understated thing to say after all that...] Nnnn... about this bond. Do you think you'd be able to tell if he came back?
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-23 12:56 am (UTC)[It sounded really pathetic, Smoke knew that, but it was true. There also wasn't really any way to sugar-coat it, nor any reason he felt obligated to. It was Cloud, someone who didn't judge on that sort of thing, and he was in a pretty piss-poor attitude already that day by virtue of being small. He was just very raw. The guilt over losing the toujinki didn't help that.]
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-23 06:15 am (UTC)He looked thoughtful for a moment... this discussion was getting kind of depressing.]
...hnnnn. You hungry? I am.
I think it's about lunchtime anyway.
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-23 06:28 am (UTC)I wouldn't mind a snack. I'm supposed to meet Amurui later. [He pulled his hands out of his pockets again to hang them loose] As long as it's someplace that won't give us crap for being ... like this.
Re: QL
Date: 2011-02-23 07:08 pm (UTC)He shrugged a little.] We've got money, it's not like we're asking for free food. A lot of people probably know there are more kids than there should be running around--it's been mentioned a few times over the journals.
[And they could always leave, if the restaurant they picked gave them any trouble.]
Re: QL - lol
Date: 2011-02-23 11:25 pm (UTC)