Liam ✒ 002 ✒ the fog and plot thickens

[prowallflower]

Who: prowallflower and anyone!
Where: Espoir, wanderin' wherever
Style: first
Status: very open!

[The fog didn't bother Liam in and of itself. The dark shapes that moved through it-some of which were recognizable and many of which were not-were what made his heart occasionally thump and his blood pressure rise and rise. The fog itself he knew was a very

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[prowallflower]

Right?

[He'd begun to turn as he heard the name called out, but the fog was too thick to stop one man from being walked into by another. Liam steps back a handful of paces and then steadies himself, straightening the front of his Pandora robes out of instinct and classy propriety.]

Sir, are you quite all right? Did something spook you?

[Standing straight-backed, Liam looks to the direction the stranger had presumably come from, but there's no seeing more than a few feet any which way, now is there?]

[prowallflower]

[Liam thoughtfully considers the last few figures he'd passed while walking along, but he can't recall a one of them being of that description. A short shake of his head follows the conclusion.]

I don't believe I have. Has he done something...?

[prowallflower]

A friend of yours, then?

[He'll ask for forgiveness for such undue loneliness later. Right now, Liam simply would like to know why any man would chase another so frantically through this dreadful fog.]

[prowallflower]

Hm?

[Liam doesn't mean to echo the sound exactly, but he does a good job of it. Fortunately, he's far too polite to look over at the other man's device.]

[prowallflower]

Is he not in the directory?

[The guess isn't a sloppy one-- Liam takes his time before saying it. Regards the other's demeanor. The put-out expression.]

[prowallflower]

Then it's possible he's returned back to your home region.

[Off with his glasses and some furious cleaning occurs. Liam's not very subtle with his thoughts-- he wouldn't want anyone he knows to disappear, but. Sometimes it's in their best interests.]

[prowallflower]

If I'm to believe this world is what others claim it to be...

[He's only mildly ruffled as he sets his spectacles back onto his nose.]

Then I would have to say 'yes'.