Night 55: M41-M50 Hallway

[corvus_veritas]

.....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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[heroesdontshave]

There was this weird moment where Lightning didn't immediately respond and just looked between the two of them. She hadn't bought the change in subject at all. At this point, pretty much anything and everything could have happened and Snow wouldn't have been real surprised. Well, anything other than what she did do. Which was nothing at all. Lightning wasn't exactly the type of person who held back, either with her actions OR with her comments. So to see her so obviously mad one moment and then brushing it away the next... it was weird. Snow wasn't really sure what to think.

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!"

[thestormishere]

Lightning had a strange sense of what was appropriate in this sort of situation, mostly a result of her upbringing and soldier's training on Cocoon. She didn't exactly throw it at Zack eagerly or anything, but there was also no hesitation evident from her at all as she let the man take the short sword from her; as far as she was concerned, she had little reason not to. While she could probably make herself think of something, doing it like this just made more sense to her at the moment.

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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