Rule 1: [Accidental voice/action]

[praygenius]

[There's a whole lot of nothing at first. Some silence, punctured by quiet fretting and a heavy sigh. Porom's found no real clue about thier location in the book, bizarre as its contents are. The camera only displays Porom briefly, when it replaces the image for the first time she's already gone, glimpses of the sky showing through the trees above

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[Action]

[lunarborn]

[Sometime after the twins have arrived at The House FFIV Built, there's a certain Dark Knight staring at the strangers from a doorway. Oh, son. The people you bring traipsing through this house.]

Friends of Ceodore's?

[Action]

[praygenius]

[Porom recognizes the voice and then freezes in horror. Of all the things she'd prepared herself for, Cecil as a Dark Knight wasn't one of them. Neither, incidentally, had been teenagers with hormones. But this was slightly worse.

She speaks eventually, suddenly feeling like a five year old again.]

...Cecil?

[Action]

[bluffgenius]

[Palom's tone is a little more hostile as he takes a step forward in front of Porom. Cecil having returned to being a Dark Knight cannot be a good thing. In fact, he's feeling very much like this is a very bad development that could end with someone turning into a toad.]

Cecil... What happened to you?

[Action]

[lunarborn]

[He lifts his visor to see them better. This again? At least neither one of them is calling him "Father" this time.]

...My apologies. You both seem to know me, and yet I don't believe we've been properly introduced.

[Action]

[praygenius]

[Porom's voice trembles a little as she speaks. She is not okay with this at all.

For a second she doesn't actually think to introduce herself, he's clearly from before he ever met them.]

I- I'm not sure you know us yet. Not if you are still a dark knight. But- we are Palom and Porom of Mysidia.

[Action]

[bluffgenius]

[Although he hasn't raised it, he feels his grip tighten just a bit on his staff. A physical confrontation wouldn't end well, he knows that. Nevertheless, at least he isn't unarmed.]

Are you still with the Red Wings?

[Action]

[lunarborn]

[A moment please, while Cecil fights to process that.] Porom...? And Palom? You've grown so much! Are you from the future as well, then? [Because there's no reason to question their truthfulness, not after Ceodore-gate.]

The Red Wings? ...Well, I suppose I would be with them in your time, wouldn't I? Ceodore had recently enlisted with them, has he not?

[Action]

[praygenius]

[Porom relaxes a little at the fact that he knows who they are, at least. But that only means there's more questions.]

You're wearing dark armour. Why? If you know us, then-

[Action]

[bluffgenius]

[He's a paladin in their time, so...]

Something happened here in Luceti.

[Action]

[lunarborn]

Ah.. Yes. [He was starting to smile, but Palom's bluntness has him suddenly looking as morose as he ever did when the twins were first assigned to guide him up Mt. Ordeals.] It is a penalty this land has taken from me.

[Action] SORRY FOR REPOST, TYPOS FOREVER.

[praygenius]

[Porom's response is at first just silence. When she does finally find her voice it's a little choked.]

I knew you wouldn't have chosen it.

[Action]

[bluffgenius]

[After the discussion with Rydia, Palom understands completely.]

It could be worse. [Time to change the subject.] Hey Cecil, how old are you now?

[Action]

[lunarborn]

[It's good that someone understands how he's the biggest failure who ever failed at failing. :|]

I was taken from our world at 20. I've since turned 21 while here, if the calendar is to be at all trusted. It is difficult to properly count the months here, as there is only one moon in the sky at night.

[Action]

[praygenius]

This doesn't count as being older than him, Palom. [Only it totally does. Porom is just going to have a lot of trouble adapting to the fact that people who she thought of as her elders are now younger than her.

But she seems to have decided on being happy. Dark armour or not, he seems to be himself and that's more than she was when she last saw him in thier own time.]

[Action]

[bluffgenius]

Of course it counts. [This is almost too perfect. Finally, people will stop treating him like a child.]

[Action]

[lunarborn]

[Tell that to Rydia. Cecil's still not entirely okay with the idea of her being old enough to date.]

Older than me in what way? How far from the future have you come? [Because by all rights, the two of them shouldn't be able to reach his eye-level without standing on one another's shoulders.]