☈ strike #05 (voice / action) (fourth wall)

[thestormishere]

[ After all the stuff that's been going on lately, it's probably no surprise that Lightning has already been pretty on edge for quite a while now... particularly the last few days. Imagine her joy then, when halfway through making breakfast she opens her journal to find that yet another bout of insanity is going down.

Just... great.As soon as she

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[focuspunch]

What's that about snow?

voice unless you'd prefer different 8|

[thestormishere]

[ ....... No. No way. She has to be hearing things. Coincidence. First thing that comes to mind: ]

Pretty sure it's snowing today.

[ AND THEN: ]

... Snow?

voice is cool. SORRY IF I'M RUSTY AS HELL BTW

[focuspunch]

Hey, it is!

[Snow takes a pause (because he's totally not playing with the snow).] In the flesh!

[voice] :|b

[thestormishere]

[ -- WTH!!! She was walking, but upon hearing that she stops dead in her tracks. ]

Where are you?

[voice]

[focuspunch]

I'm pretty sure this is the middle of the village. It's got the fountain and everything over here.

[voice]

[thestormishere]

[ That pause doesn't last long- in the next moment, Lightning's brain jumps back into gear and she bursts into her apartment, pretty much drops everything by the door... ]

Hold on, do you know where this is?

[voice]

[focuspunch]

Luceti, right? [Snow sighs.] Didn't expect to end up back here, but I'm missing out on the wing motif this time around.

[voice]

[thestormishere]

[ ...snatches up her gloves and coat, turns on her heel, and is already back out the door by the time he finishes answering. She doesn't answer a moment, however, because this is really strange- so he's actually been here before, like Serah apparently had? And just what does he mean by that wing comment? Does he not have any for some reason?

... No matter, she'll figure it out herself pretty quick. ]

Stay where you are- at the fountain.

[voice]

[focuspunch]

Sure thing, Light. [So he'll stay where he is. And make a small snowman to pass the time.]

[voice] > [action]

[thestormishere]

[ And brb, using the rest of the hallway to throw on her gloves and coat, then probably wake up anyone still sleeping in the building with the sound of her charging down the stairs. She'll also be taking the distance to the village center at a dead sprint, thanks, regardless of how awkward that can be with her gunblade still holstered.

Her face is unreadable when she slows and approaches him. No wings. Just like he said, then. ]

[action]

[focuspunch]

[And there's a snowman. Which doesn't matter much, so Snow just pats his hands together and looks over to Lightning.] That was pretty fast.

[action]

[thestormishere]

Tch!

[ Never mind, her own mismatched wings start twitching in fury, matching the look of complete indignation quickly developing on her face. You idiot, she's been here all by herself for over a month, nursing a l'Cie curse without any way to get back to her Focus (even if she wanted to do it), no idea what could be happening back in her own world, freezing her butt off, and...

Damn it all, she's missed you guys. Even Snow. Of course it was 'pretty fast.' ]

[action]

[focuspunch]

[Lightning can be a little tough to read sometimes, and that face doesn't look like it could bode well. But all that does is give Snow incentive to shuffle his feet for a second before:]

How long have you been cooped up here?

[action]

[thestormishere]

Since the twelfth of last month. ... Over thirty days.

[action]

[focuspunch]

[Okay, so she's been stuck here for awhile. A month is a really long time.] Just you?

[action]

[thestormishere]

That's right. Apparently you 'all left before I got here.'

[ Echoing the words of the guy she talked to that knew Serah (and someone else who was never specified), only with a lot more bitterness. Not Snow's fault of course, but you'll have to forgive her since... she hasn't addressed it with anyone else at all in the entire time she's been here. ]