DATALOG // entry 6 → [voice/video]

[exsergeant]

[Has anyone seen Lightning in the last week or so? Probably not: she's been training. From what the camera shows, she didn't heal herself or let others heal her at all, either--she's bandaged in a number of places, and her battle with one of the mannequins left a still-healing gash diagonal across one eye. Her voice is quiet at first, as if she's

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[Video]

[hopeandapromise]

Light... let me help. [There's a look of concern, and also of understanding. He doesn't want her to beat herself up for their failures, but he gets how she's frustrated for losing.]

If you won't heal, then let me teach Serah. I can at least do that.

[Video]

[exsergeant]

[...]

Ravager skills?

[Don't mind that look she's giving. She knows you just want to help, and she appreciates it, even if she won't say it. And if she didn't like the idea, she would've said 'no' right off the bat.]

[Video]

[hopeandapromise]

[He nods. In a way, he knows that's her kind of talk saying that she's thankful, even a little. It means something to him.]

Yeah. I'll teach her the basics, and when she gets that, we can go onto harder stuff.

[Video]

[exsergeant]

I'm going to be there too, of course.

[Translation: Permission, granted.]

[Video]

[hopeandapromise]

Okay. I'll do my best.

[A smile? There is one. Not one that's wide and bright, but one that's glad all the same.]

[Video --> Action (nayru, go ahead and start a new thread for the three of them. this is pre-that)]

[exsergeant]

[Lightning's already out there, training on her own. One side of her lip's curled up in what looks like disgust, but really it's half concentration and half because that's the side of the face with the gash over her eye and the sweat kinda makes it burn.

She doubts the goddess would've made anything anyone but her could destroy, so she's going to town on a stone pillar. She's starting with swordplay for a while, but the way it bounces off the stone reminds her too strongly of the way it bounced uselessly off Anima's hard shell before they even became l'Cie, so now she's standing back, shooting it from pretty far out. She's not just trying to hit the pillar--no, she's trying to hit the same spot on the pillar.

[Action]

[hopeandapromise]

[The fact that Hope can hear the sound of bullets going off gives him a good enough impression of where Light is, so it doesn't take him long to find her. A part of which he's thankful, since it can be really confusing in traveling between places.

Rounding a corner, he watches her without saying much at first. He knows that interrupting her isn't the wisest thing, and he's pretty sure she knows he's there anyway. So he waits until she's finished, letting her take the initiation into conversation.]

[Action]

[exsergeant]

[And she finishes off that round of shooting pretty quickly, lowering the gunblade to her side and glancing over toward Hope.]

You're early. [A statement of fact, neither approving or disapproving.]

[Action]

[hopeandapromise]

I thought it'd be better then coming late. [It's a weak attempt at a joke, as he knows right now is tense and meant for training.]

You're okay though, right? [Just ignore his tendencies for crushing on you, Lightning, it happens.]

[Action]

[exsergeant]

Of course. [Her answer is immediate and certain. No amount of wounding is gonna slow her down, especially right now.]

[Action]

[hopeandapromise]

Serah's not here yet? [Of course, this is small talk. He knows she won't be here for a while, but he's not sure what else to cover at this point. Light knows how to take care of herself, and she's not letting him heal her, either.]

I wonder what's going on back home. How far we are now, I mean.

[Action]

[exsergeant]

[Three months later? She looks away.] It's over by now. One way or another. [She distinctly remembers how it felt to be a Cie'th, so her voice isn't too optimistic.]

[Action]

[hopeandapromise]

So that means it's done. We won.

[He's not thinking about them losing. He can't. Not with so much at stake, and so many people counting on them to make things right.]

Even if we get close to becoming Cie'th- I know we'll make it. We can do it. We can get out of here and make it back in time.

[Action]

[exsergeant]

Maybe. [And she lifts her gun to shoot twice more at the target, as if giving herself an excuse to have not put it away sooner, and slid it into the holster at her thighs, stepping over to sit down on a nearby stone.]

[Action]

[hopeandapromise]

Light? [It's not like her to question how things are going. Even when they were told they were being used to destroy Cocoon, she didn't waver. She was the one who told him that everyone was just as scared as he was. To keep his chin up. Keep moving forward.

He pauses, a bit unsure, but still speaks.]

What's wrong?

[Action]

[exsergeant]

Nothing. [And by the tone of her voice, it was either true or she was making it true.]