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Nightshift 43: Outside the Institute -- East

Sep 14, 2009 23:35

[from here]Suzaku stayed abreast of Yuffie as they skirted the northeast corner of the building and struck out into the darkness. It would be hard to keep track of their direction in this mist, without being able to see the stars or anything, but he was fairly confident the two of them could handle it. He had a decent sense of direction, and she' ( Read more... )

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thatdamnedninja September 15 2009, 09:35:31 UTC

Yuffie's hand strayed to her pink ribbon. She toyed with it as they walked a little ways forward, until they started hitting the rockier ground. Gawd, what a night. And they couldn't even top it off with some hot cocoa! Just like old times… Pfft, she sounded like an old fart. Maybe she'd started turning into Nanaki!

… This wasn't working. Yuffie was a master of being inappropriately flippant, but no matter what she did or what she thought, she couldn't quite banish the vision of Aerith from her mind. Or my eyes, she added silently, catching another flicker of pink out of the corner of her eye. Her whole body was as tense as a wound spring. But she had to focus; Suzaku was probably out of his element here, and sloppiness on her part would be three kinds of inexcusably bad. "Some people have their own methods," she murmured back, voice low. "I worked out from the directions I was given a while back, and then I just. Y'know. Slipped something into a conversation with Plucky--er, my nurse--to confirm ( ... )

superdynamic September 16 2009, 17:13:59 UTC

Suzaku glanced warily at the forest on their right. The trees were getting noticeably denser, even as the ground was obviously rising. He could handle himself in a setting like this, of course, but the circumstances weren't getting any better. He could only hope that the obstacles would present as much of a challenge to any potential enemies as to them. And yet, it was always easier to be the predator than the prey ( ... )

thatdamnedninja September 16 2009, 18:21:18 UTC

"Of course it's smart," said Yuffie, with casual arrogance and a brief smirk to match. Her footsteps were feather soft, bordering on silent as they trekked over grass and rock. The terrain was rough, visibility was shot to hell, and the wind - it sounded like Midgar on the breeze, with the wails and whisper of screams to match. Suzaku was right that they were vulnerable, but it always took a bold move to make progress; this would be worth it. She'd make sure of that.

"Stay alert, but don't let the nerves get to you. Rookie mistakes happen most often when--"

"--Alright?"

Yuffie broke off sharply. For a second there, she could've sworn that those anguished noises had taken another detour through Familiar Avenue. Not the poor suckers from Junon, kidnapped and slaughtered, but… like something, something close but half-forgotten; three years was a long time, no matter furiously it whipped by.

She knew, though. She knew that voice ( ... )

superdynamic September 17 2009, 04:56:26 UTC

"No. . ." The voice was right in Suzaku's ear now, right in front of him as she had been then, and him still able to do nothing. "I can't. . ." Oh, he had recognized the words now, the faint, pained tone. He hadn't even processed it at the time, but to think that she was fighting the terrible power of Geass to the very end, that even her last moments in this world were tormented by that evil -- that was almost worse than everything else ( ... )

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