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[adragonslayer]

[Riffling-- rustling, air-- wind?

Yup. It's rushing wind.

The journal hits the floor with a solid SMACK and some distance away...

Whud!]

--oof...!

[Blew right into a wall. :|]

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[extraxi]

[ ... yup he's laughing ]

[adragonslayer]

[Hey, that stings, it's not funny, bro.]

...Hmph-- at least one of us is amused by it...

[extraxi]

[ give him a second, this is kinda funny ]

Heh, you okay?

[adragonslayer]

I'm alright.

[A bit of a grunt as he gets up, sure, retrieving the journal.]

A bit breezy today, I think.

[extraxi]

Really? I thought it was just a little hot.

[ shrugs ]

Hey... uh... Gaignun, there's something I've been meaning to ask you.

[adragonslayer]

You know, you could have just asked, Jr... [There's a smile in his voice, but, Jr., there's worry on his mind.]

[extraxi]

It's not something that simple, Gaignun. [ he's having trouble actually figuring out how exactly he is supposed to ask this, i mean how do you ask someone if they still have the consciousness of a bastard father floating around their brain? ]

[adragonslayer]

I imagine a son can ask his father anything.

[:| Okay, no one ever said he was very good at trying to make light of things. He's pretty clueless that his brother is from the future...]

Although, in all seriousness, if it's bothering you that much, it might be best just to come out with it.

[extraxi]

Ha ha.

[ deep breath, lets do this the round about way ]

... What was the last thing you remember happening before you came here to Solace? [ the answer should answer his other question too ]

[adragonslayer]

[That's what was worrying Jr.? Well... Gaignun's no fool-- perhaps it's a chunk of it. He pauses for a bit to think it over...]

I believe there had just been a call from you. We were ready for MOMO's arrival on Second Miltia...

[And perhaps the most vicious migraine he'd ever experienced...]

[extraxi]

[ there is a lengthy silence here, he shields his thoughts on purpose taking a moment to mentally swear up a storm. not too long after he takes a deep breath and sighs ]

Oh.

Would you believe me if I told you that was ages ago?

[adragonslayer]

By now? I'm sure it has been. Guess that makes me a little bit irresponsible, doesn't it?

[Still, though. It doesn't sit well. Gaignun's stomach is doing that odd tightening thing he never mentions, and he feels a little like he might be sick. Seriousness like this...

He presses just a little, reaching out the link, though most certainly not to read thoughts:]

(That's not what it's about... is it? Jr., I promise I'll find a way to get us back. It just might take some more time.)

[extraxi]

That happened over a year ago for me, not including the time I've been here. [ there is some shuffling in the background, he's fiddling with stuff ]

( ...It's not that, it's... complicated. There's so much you know know... ) [ a pause ] ( I don't even know where to begin. )

[adragonslayer]

[Gaignun falls silent. That rare, vaguely used sort; followed with a hollow stillness. He'd thought he'd gotten rid of the habit, transitioning from that younger frame to the Chairman the Kukai Foundation needed. All these carefully masked thoughts and emotions...

One poignant one: he's tired.]

I've heard... of things like that happening.

[Once or twice.]

(Then you don't have to. Focus on the here and now.) ['If it bothers you so much, then don't tell me, don't hurt yourself like that.' It goes unsaid, however.]

[extraxi]

[ he almost regrets saying anything but he needed to know. and he does not. he knows that Dimitri is in Gaignun's mind, biding his time, waiting to take over his brother's body... and he makes him so mad ]

I can't really explain it, but whatever brought us here has the power to interact with the time stream? Or something like that.

[ he takes a deep breath ] ( Not over this, or the journal... we should meet up sometime. For dinner or something. When was the last time we eat dinner together? )

[adragonslayer]

(Jr....) [Taking his own deep breath. Slow and even. There's been too much stress lately...]

Rather reminds me of a book I've read on it at one point...

[After all, if it can not only cause all these strange effects? Who's to say it can't interfere with the time-space continuum?

No telling if that old 'Butterfly Effect' theory is true or not.]

(I suppose it's been a while, hasn't it?)