You tell me all the things you know I want to hear [BACKDATED/COMPLETE]

[extantlaw]

Characters: Justice (extantlaw), Aurora (earth_uninstall) and later Praise (subject-e0057).
Date/Time: January 25th, 5.00 pm onwards
Location: Truth and Justice's residence, then the Hall of Beginnings.
Rating: PG13.
Summary: Justice has something to say to Aurora. Praise likes to watch. Warnings for violence, language and TLDR from the start.

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[earth_uninstall]

He was painfully aware that there were things that needed to be done. His job, naturally, was supposed to be one of his top priorities, and vaguely Aurora wondered if the others were keeping up in light of his sudden absence. He'd barely touched his journal since he'd taken refuge at the Hatchery and so his grasp of any recent events was nonexistent. In this eerie chamber of birth, he'd completing forsaken time and Edensphere in favor of waiting for him.

Keeping his sleep light and to the absolute minimum required hours to function, he'd barely moved from his spot. Food and cleanliness had been equally forsaken, and he did his best to ignore the hunger headache. He'd need water soon if he wanted to keep his vigil, but Aurora was loathed to leave for even a moment. What if he hatched while Aurora was gone, doing something as trivial as getting a snack? He'd failed to be here when Sniper had disappeared, failed to help or prevent it, and he'd be damned if he would fail to be here when Sniper returned.

[extantlaw]

It was easy enough to get into the Hall of Beginnings. The guard was on skeleton duty since Drake's disappearance - not enough bodies to cover too many shifts - and he knew some of the greeters, having visited Truth on a couple of occasions. The ones he did not know he had exchanged greetings with in passing, and they at least knew him by sight as a resident of Section Four

[earth_uninstall]

The moment Aurora heard someone enter he paid them no mind, thinking it was just the Guide on duty coming back to their shift. So far none of them had managed to find him, but it wasn't like they were looking; it seemed they only left their desk when someone had hatched. No matter, as it served his purposes.

His name caught his attention, but the voice wasn't one he knew. If that were the case, then it couldn't be important; he didn't bother answering back, only tracking the other person through the sounds of their footsteps. Aurora's hiding place was subtle, yes, but it wouldn't take too long for someone to find him curled up in a little niche formed by the design of the walls.

[extantlaw]

He worked his way along the rows, checking between them, his irritation building the longer it took. He wondered, briefly, if this was a fools errand - but Praise had told him the man was here, and he had no real reason to believe him a liar

[earth_uninstall]

So he'd been found. Aurora didn't bother to move as he was addressed, only looking up through distant eyes, red not just because of their natural color but from too many tears. If he hadn't gone out of his way to catch sight of everyone's faces to match to their name and handwriting, the words alone would have been enough to identify the other man.

Justice.

Aurora had been lax in his plan to confront him, thinking that if he kept Justice hanging it would be enough to keep him quiet. Until his back was against the wall there was no need to go out of his way to track Justice down just to spill his little secrets, but it looked like his time was up.

A shame, considering he was not in the mood to deal with this.

"I don't have time for you and your petty accusations. Leave me be." The glare he gave was too tired to be anything more than a pathetic attempt, but the very idea that Sniper's disappearance could be connected back to him.. It made him blind with anger and echoed far too true with his own self doubts.