Kalm, Planet Gaia, Tuesday Night
And the travels of the two potion-wielding weirdos continued, with Reno and Rikku catching a portal after Reno's radio broadcast to a town called Kalm, complete with cheery little colonial houses that gave no indication of the horrible state of decay that Midgar was sitting in, somewhere not far to the Southwest.
"Nothin' like complete government collapse and mass death and disease to boost the economy for the little folk," Reno mused as he made his way along the street, looking up at the cozy rows of housing around them. "Wanna crash at the inn here tonight, or would you rather start the hike to the chocobo farm place, yoto? It'll be a bit of a hike, ain't nobody here gonna led us their chocobos, and we got no way to snag a car or somethin' from this neck of the woods, yo."
"Where are we?" Rikku asked, peering around at the comfortable houses lined up in rows.
It was crazy, but she had sort of thought maybe all of Gaia was as bleak as Edge. Weird.
"We can get started tonight. I don't know how far the walk is? We can always sleep out in the open, though, can't we?"
Wasn't like they hadn't been camping out for the past week, anyway.
"This place is Kalm. Pretty much any place that had a reactor at one point or another is strugglin' through hell right now, yo. Kalm got lucky. It got a shitload of the Midgar refugees, and none of the Meteorfall downtime. I can do without stayin' the night here, yo. Campin's fine by me, zoto."
Not all of Gaia looked like Midgar. Just most of Gaia. Like Junon, for example. Poor freaking Junon.
"It's a bitch of a hike. Probably best we start the walk now, yo. I only ever saw the place by air doin' chopper fly-bys, anyhow. Rude's a friggin' hero for settin' up the deal for us in the first place, zoto."
"Rude gets cookies," Rikku decided, taking his arm and following along. It'd be neat to see the open countryside. Maybe there was a lot more of Gaia that was still okay than the bits that weren't. "Is he gonna meet us there? I'll give him big squeezy hugs if he is. Does he think you're insane for getting them?"
Hey, Rude, I want to buy some chocobos. Blue! Help me out?
"Rude always thinks I'm freakin' insane," Reno pointed out with a grin as he led her toward the edge of town. "I can't see him stickin' around a chocobo ranch for too long, but you never know with that guy. He's got a soft spot for little cute things that's bigger'n the bald spot on his head."
That was to say, Reno didn't know.
[NFB for distance! For the_merriest, who helped write this and who rules like a ruling thing!]
"Nothin' like complete government collapse and mass death and disease to boost the economy for the little folk," Reno mused as he made his way along the street, looking up at the cozy rows of housing around them. "Wanna crash at the inn here tonight, or would you rather start the hike to the chocobo farm place, yoto? It'll be a bit of a hike, ain't nobody here gonna led us their chocobos, and we got no way to snag a car or somethin' from this neck of the woods, yo."
"Where are we?" Rikku asked, peering around at the comfortable houses lined up in rows.
It was crazy, but she had sort of thought maybe all of Gaia was as bleak as Edge. Weird.
"We can get started tonight. I don't know how far the walk is? We can always sleep out in the open, though, can't we?"
Wasn't like they hadn't been camping out for the past week, anyway.
"This place is Kalm. Pretty much any place that had a reactor at one point or another is strugglin' through hell right now, yo. Kalm got lucky. It got a shitload of the Midgar refugees, and none of the Meteorfall downtime. I can do without stayin' the night here, yo. Campin's fine by me, zoto."
Not all of Gaia looked like Midgar. Just most of Gaia. Like Junon, for example. Poor freaking Junon.
"It's a bitch of a hike. Probably best we start the walk now, yo. I only ever saw the place by air doin' chopper fly-bys, anyhow. Rude's a friggin' hero for settin' up the deal for us in the first place, zoto."
"Rude gets cookies," Rikku decided, taking his arm and following along. It'd be neat to see the open countryside. Maybe there was a lot more of Gaia that was still okay than the bits that weren't. "Is he gonna meet us there? I'll give him big squeezy hugs if he is. Does he think you're insane for getting them?"
Hey, Rude, I want to buy some chocobos. Blue! Help me out?
"Rude always thinks I'm freakin' insane," Reno pointed out with a grin as he led her toward the edge of town. "I can't see him stickin' around a chocobo ranch for too long, but you never know with that guy. He's got a soft spot for little cute things that's bigger'n the bald spot on his head."
That was to say, Reno didn't know.
[NFB for distance! For the_merriest, who helped write this and who rules like a ruling thing!]