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[ttlynotawizard]

Ow...my head...fuck...

I'm...sorry. If I was rude to any of you...you were only trying to help. Thank you. I...think I'll feel better eventually. If only for your sakes.

Does anyone have a hangover cure that doesn't involve me seeking out Father Khidamun? I'd rather not be a waste of his time.

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Guess what she's set up, lol

[not_a_rock]

Remy, when you're feeling better... I could use your help with something. I hate to bother you but I don't know many people yet... is... would that be okay?

I'm down on 13, in the tenple.

D'AAAAAW

[ttlynotawizard]

The temple?
[He remembers that being the location where the incident with the red box went down and how much trouble it had caused for the ship. He now is worried for Ki's safety.]

I'll be right there.

[Remy gets out of bed, dresses and heads out his door for the first time since he'd been emotionally destroyed by Glaukir.]

:3

[not_a_rock]

(( Ki has hidden herself by levitating by the ceiling, behind a support column. As for the rest of the room...

With string and flowers, she's modified the shaft of sunlight illuminating the dias - the very one which held a red box, long before she arrived - into the shape of a hawk. The flowers feather the edge of the pattern in a naturalistic shape, and it stands out in the darkness.

She hopes he likes it. It took her a long time to secure the flowers up there, and even now petals flutter downwards. ))

[ttlynotawizard]

[Remy rushes into the temple looking this way and that for Ki.]

Ki? Ki!

[He hadn't been told what was going on here and he hoped she wasn't in terrible danger. He quickens his pace, moving rapidly to where he'd found the box

[not_a_rock]

(( The look on his face tells Ki her instincts were spot-on. Pushing off from the wall, she touches ground gently a few feet away from the edge of the glowing silhouette. She reaches out with one hand to let the light play over her fingers; the gesture would have been pretentious in anyone else, but she performed it with absolute clarity and innocence, sunlight reflecting in her pupils. ))

There was... something bad here, not too long ago. This place was put through great trauma. I think... it just needed a little help, to come back to itself.

(( Wise dark eyes turn towards Remy. She glows with the exhaustion of levitating and working so long to make this happen, but it's work she was happy to devote herself to. ))

I want to help you too.

[ttlynotawizard]

[He hears her voice, registers that she's there, but he can't tear his eyes away from what's in front of him. It made him stop and think. The past days had made him so...mean, so negative. But he had friends, people who were there for him and concerned for him and he only now understood that yes, they had meant to help him. Maybe all he needed wasto look at things in a different light. And now at least, he had help. Help and a new appreciation for his friends.]

I don't even know where to start.

[not_a_rock]

(( She lights up with a grin. That was okay, so long as he was willing, the rest would follow. She comes forward, gently takes his arm and guides him towards a place to sit where they can still see the dias. ))

That's okay. Start at the middle and choose a direction.

(( Her nose wrinkles humorously. ))

I can generally make sense of River, I can't imagine you'd be that much more confusing, hm?

[ttlynotawizard]

[He sits, eyes still facing forward, thinking. What directions even were there?

At mention of River, he looks at Ki surprise all over his face.]

You can make sense of that?

[not_a_rock]

(( Ki laughs, the sound clear and joyful in the old temple. ))

Well, most of the time. She speaks as one touched by the gods. I grew up speaking to gods. Her ways are not that strange to me, she just... speaks past appearances, which is all most people can see.

[ttlynotawizard]

Huh.

[He looks back to the image of the hawk.]

She was talking about a goat to me.

[not_a_rock]

Hmm. Perhaps she knows something you don't. But -

(( She glances at the sunlight hawk ))

- I don't think she was speaking of that sort of thing. I couldn't be sure without asking her.

[ttlynotawizard]

She asked if someone ate the goat and if I liked the goat. It was...I can't make sense of her. Ever.

[He shakes his head]

Can't make sense of a lot of things.

[not_a_rock]

I can't always, but I am likely missing pieces of her puzzle.

(( Aaand that was a lead-in statement if ever she heard one. Ki had been acting as mouthpiece for the gods' wisdom her entire life; some of their insight couldn't help but rub off. ))

Tell me.

Here have a novel.

[ttlynotawizard]

[Remy sighs. 'A lot of things' meant his relation with Glaukir. He bows his head and the words tumble out]Imagine...just think that you have this best friend, you know? You trust them and they trust you and you can talk about anything and everything and you've never been close to anyone like this before and you think he's wonderful and you wouldn't trade his friendship for anything. Then you find out real bad shit's happenin' to him and you go out of your way to help him and keep him safe because he's your best damn friend ever. Then you accidentally kiss him when he's drunk and yeah you're kinda buzzed, but still you kiss. And you both freak out a little and act like it never happened because you're both drunk and mistakes happen. Mistakes fucking happen. And then it happens again and you realize it's not s'bad and you kinda like him and want to try some kinda relationship with him and he says he'll think about it. And then it happens again and this time you kinda say that you love him and he runs out on you. And you figure that'd

FFF Ki’s favorite

[not_a_rock]

[Ki let her eyes close and leaned her head back against the wall. She heard his words, but they washed over her; what she was really listening for was his tone of voice, the emotion. Look past appearances; they always confused, like the succubus and the rock Ki had been turned into by Druaga. Listen to what’s underneath...

The fact Remy seemed to be speaking of another man in a romantic sense gave her a bit of a snag - but not very much of one. She’d heard of such things; they were more popular on the battlefield from what she knew, rather than in a domestic setting, but after all everyone here came from different cultures. She saw no reason to judge merely because they both were men, and that really wasn’t her place anyway. It would have been easier to pretend at least one of them was a girl though, with all this talk of romance.

Regardless of sex, unrequited love was one of the most painful ills to befall mankind, and it was sorrowful that a person like Remy had to experience it.]I think... hm. He is giving you many

[ttlynotawizard]

[Remy clasped his hands together and brought them to his forehead.]

I want...

[What did he want from Glaukir? What hurt most about the rejection?]

I want him to love me, yes, but...what I want most is his friendship. The closeness that we had.

I want to...I want to spend the rest of his life with him so that he doesn't have to suffer alone.

I want us to be best friends. I want that more than anything.