.....Ow. Okay, uh. Was all that static really necessary? If that guy was hoping to give everyone a migraine, he was certainly on the right track. He excelled at being annoying as much as he did delivering creepy, cryptic messages. Alright. Good for you, whoever you were.
But no matter. The strange speech over the intercom was the least of the
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Luck and a promise. To who, about what? What did it have to do with getting weapons from a random stranger? As curious as Zack was, he had to focus on the main point, which was that regardless of how it had happened, he was now being offered a short sword. Both of his eyebrows raised when the blade was extended to him, but he grabbed the hilt firmly. It wasn't nearly as heavy as he was used to his weapons being, nor did it seem to be particularly well-made, but it would cut through some of the monsters here and that was all that mattered.
"Thank you," he said with a nod as he looked Lighting in the face, wanting to make it clear that he appreciated the favor. They barely knew each other, after all. She may have witnessed his death in some weird sort of way that he still couldn't explain, but that didn't mean they were friends. Not yet, at least. Though he got the feeling that with this one, he might be working at it for a while.
In any case, it seemed that it was about time to dispel the tension and get moving, and luckily, Zack was good at that. "So! Now that we're armed to the teeth" -- he said it jokingly, since this really didn't count for him -- "were we going to head outside?" He still didn't know what it was that Lightning wanted to do out there, but he was willing to wait and see.
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The way she finally did answer Zack, though, definitely struck a nerve. He actually wasn't 100% sure what specific promise she could be referring to either, but that word -- promise. He'd made a lot of those over the last few weeks. To Light, to Serah, to others and himself. He hadn't forgotten, of course. He never could. But seeing Lightning hand the sword over to Zack and fulfill whatever vow it was she'd taken was reminder enough of his own. He would see all of that through. But before he could, he needed to get out of this place and back home.
So when Zack went and suggested they go outside and deal with The Eagle already, Snow was all too eager to agree. He balled both hands into fists and held them up before him enthusiastically, nodding his head with a determined grin. "Yeah! Let's do this! Place won't know what hit it!"
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After all, she'd seen him doing the 'required' jumping jacks during lunch. During dinner there had been that metal possessions box that promised things wouldn't be returned if their owner didn't behave. If, unlike her, Zack would bend a little, that kept a weapon still in the mix if something happened to her or the two weapons she was keeping herself. It deeply irritated her to think like that, applying reason to some things but not to others and having to have to set out her plans twisted around the whims of the military goons trying to run the place, but there was little other choice. Strategies were rarely under ideal circumstances, and she was definitely at a disadvantage.
The joking comment got a frown out of her, though- clearly, this was pretty far from her idea of 'armed to the teeth' too. Again, she could have kept both swords, but a short sword paired with another, the use of 'twin blades,' was something she knew only vaguely out of old legends- fanciful things you might hear about a l'Cie barbarian from Pulse... or hero if they were from Cocoon. Primitive. They definitely weren't anything a young enlisted officer from modern times would use. Lightning's training with a blade made her pretty unusual in the first place, but not to the point of arming herself in that way and to that level.
As for Snow's words... make no mistake. She was still mad at him for sure, so that when he switched on the enthusiastic act again, she had to swallow down another swell of negativity. She realized that she desperately needed to have a talk with him, no interruptions, away from the ears of any other potential curious listeners entirely. It had passed the point of getting ridiculous. It was downright absurd, now.
Heading outside, though... Lightning tried to hide it, but she wasn't sure that she even wanted to lead the way into that now that Zack was with them and Snow had once again proven incapable of keeping his mouth shut. For a long moment she just stared downward, eyes moving back and forth in thought, before inclining her head and finally turning sharply on her heel to move back down the hall.
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