And then, a pair of eyes flutter awake...
"Welcome to the Velvet Room!"
An all too familiar sight sits before Makoto Yuki. Igor, the mysterious, long-nosed "host" of the Velvet Room - and his attendant, Elizabeth. They had been instrumental figures in his journey. Elizabeth particularly...
It took a while, but eventually, all of your watches went off simultaneously. It was a vibrating sound and feeling, not unlike an iPhone (for those of you who even know what those are.) Regardless of those semantics, the buzzing was accompanied by a familiar voice.
"Hello! Testing, testing...
"Uh..." Leo was, admittedly, caught off guard by the escalation in Sage's response. He really shouldn't have been, considering what went down in the tent. He's dealt with this sort of thing before, and Black was much the same, after all. Maybe it's because he's still a little out of it himself...
"Maybe..." Asuka responds to Greed with a light shrug. "But... she already had someone."
Kaji... he's another sore subject, she finds, now that she has to actually think about him. She doesn't feel the same way about him that she used to. That can be said about most things... but for Kaji...
After staring for a few moments, Ryuji closes his eyes and lets out a low sigh. It's hard to tell... but it's a thankful sigh, truly.
"Is that all you need to know?" he asks, before they slowly open again. His hands slide down into the pockets of his jeans, and he slowly leans back against the...
"Much appreciated," Ford gives Raz a smile and a firm nod at his affirmation to help. "Honestly, you remind me a lot of my nephew - when he's not a sociopathic puppet of Bill's design, that is. If you're ever in town again, I think you two would get along." It's then that Clovis approaches - and...
"...huh?"
Ryuji, until now, had pretty much decided to stick to himself. Getting caught like that and strung up like a piñata wasn't exactly the best introduction for these guys... especially not for a Phantom Thief. He's just lucky his friends weren't here to see him. But even so... how is he...
As Wanderer rests on the roof, he finds that the sight is a pretty peaceful one, all things considered. Everyone seems to be taking the time to relax, though a few also use it to ask about or simply explore their surroundings. It doesn't take long for someone to join him, though. The air around...
When Rock enters the large building, she finds about what she probably expected. A nice room decorated with ornate furniture is what meets her gaze. A crackling fireplace provides a warmth that the rest of this dead world hadn't, and generally, this place feels more homey than the rest of the...
"Thanks, Hershel," Leo responds as the rag is dropped into his hand. He hadn't moved in the few moments it took him to walk off. Once Hershel leaves again, he wastes no time in wiping the dried blood off of his face, neck, shoulders, and wherever else he can find it. It takes him a few moments...
Ford had still been writing in his journal when Raz approached him. When the boy speaks, though, Ford immediately closes it up and lowers it, greeting him with a smile.
"Ah! Hey there. I suppose I shouldn't have expected you to enter the bar at your age," Ford says in a bit of an awkward...
That makes Asuka perk up a little. You don't really hear about royalty anymore, back in her world. Even before Third Impact... that all kind of stopped mattering after Second Impact when NERV came into the picture. There were world governments still above them, of course... but the Pilots were...
She almost smiles at that. She's happy that idiot is okay... truly. If he got hurt, all because she was weak enough to let that hündin control her mind... Asuka doesn't know what she'd do. A part of her still feels like he'd deserve it, after how he left her to fight off the Prototype Series...
"I've been through worse," Asuka lets her stare linger to really emphasize her eyepatch. And then she shrugs and returns to her drink, "Besides, I hardly even remember it." She isn't lying there. Whatever that freak had done to her brain had luckily fogged it up enough to make it seem like a...
Ling finds Asuka hunkered over a small table in the corner. The mug she holds is... frankly, really big for a girl her size. But she seems to be handling it without issue, sipping down some like it's water. The drink in question is a German specialty - something only Medic would recognize...
As Rock goes out to explore the small village, she finds that there's even less to explore than in Gravity Falls. She spots a few places, namely a shop, an inn, the aforementioned bar, and a large building that looks like it could potentially house the mayor. Other than that, she only finds dead...
"Oh, sorry about that," Poddley proceeds to grab a handful of ice cubes and drop them into Micah's glass without much care at all. Half the drink splashes out and onto the bar (some of it even on Micah himself). Before he can complain, though, he's already turned to face Hershel, "Well, one...
"We have whiskey," the hoarse bartender answers with a small nod, before promptly filling up a glass for Micah and sliding it over to him. Just straight whiskey, right out of the bottle. No ice or anything.
It's warm.
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