Gongaga, Gaia a-la Reno and Elena, Wednesday Fandom Time
Okay. So, Mideel had been a bust. But once Zack had been given clearance to leave the clinic that they'd found there, he and Ino had hunted down transit to get them the hell out of there. It didn't even matter where, at this point. Civilization. Any continent would do, so long as it wasn't Wutai, and wasn't drowned in mako. Fortunately, for some
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They'd had to consult the maps on their PHS systems, which were becoming ever more useful on this trip, and those had led them to a place which wasn't labelled Corel, but North Corel instead. And, while it didn't seem to be strewn with ruins the same way that Gongaga and Mideel had been, the sheer poverty that the people here were living in was...
Zack stared for a small eternity. And then shook his head and walked into the town, which seemed to be mostly made up of crates and tents and any junk that people would have been able to drag through the harsh desert from their old home. The other Corel. Or whatever Zack imagined was left of it ( ... )
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This was the worst vacation ever and why was every place they visited something awful? This was a different sort of awful, but almost more oppressive for all of that.
She stared, swallowed hard, and hurried after Zack. "Do we need a tent to camp out?"
Really, she was okay with the under the stars thing. Totally okay.
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He wasn't certain where he was going with that.
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She was just going to... be glad for his arm around her and try not to think about the... village and the crate and oh god she almost wanted to be back in Gongaga where at least there was fresh bed and quiet persistence instead of this hopeless anger that filled the air.
"Right," she said, with a bob of her head. "Um. Hello?"
One tent, super fast, and then they were fleeing this place.
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"Please, buy something! Anything will do!"
Zack looked at his stock. Nodded a little. Right.
"I'll take a... a tent?"
Not that there was much selection. His options were tents, potions, or phoenix downs.
What was with these phoenix downs?
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"Please."
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"And fifty phoenix downs." A pause. "Hand them to her, though."
... Well, he couldn't carry them. He was full-up.
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<> she murmured mentally to Zack, though, as a promise. She knew that he didn't really care, but Ino did. But--no way was she going to argue here. The woman in Mideel had been better off than this by far.
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He decided, instead, to just conveniently lose some extra gil on the way out of down.
One thing could be said for the shopkeeper. He was certainly efficient at packing up their order for them. For all of the rummaging that he had to do to find it, really. Zack gave him a slightly shaky if thankful smile, paid him (tipped him), and then, with several more tents on his shoulders than he'd expected, made a quick heel-face-turn and started his march toward the edge of town. His PHS map pointed to a rope bridge leading to the old railroad tracks, and they could probably just follow those out until they made it to the plains on the outskirts of Costa Del Sol ( ... )
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"You mean that trend where everything is destroyed and broken and we're kinda lost?"
Yes, Ino. That trend.
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"At least there are plenty of... birds?"
Yes. And cockatolis. Such lovely wildlife in these parts. The bombs across the swinging rope bridge back there were especially charming.
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Really. Three items. At least taking inventory would be easy?
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"I think that's going to have to be our route," Ino said, though reluctantly. "We're not getting anywhere fast here."
No, they were getting more lost with every turn despite the map.
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"At least this way, we can follow the stuff I tripped over on the way in until we get back to those railroad tracks."
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"It's just 'cause you get impatient and stomp along without looking as carefully as you could," she said, because Ino hadn't been tripping over near as many things. Carefully, carefully. "And I don't know that he'd accept charity, but maybe we can sneak the plumes into his place?"
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