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· WHO: Dr. Cid (researchcrazed) and Five-Year-Old-Balthier, Ffamran (andliesiweave· WHAT: Dr. Cid was attacked by Kanda during the Christmas Event, but this isn't going to be the biggest surprise he gets for the day

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After a few minutes, Cid emerged from behind the door, limping slightly and looking distinctly worse for the wear. This day was off to a highly inauspicious start. Who attacks someone in a bathroom?

But he had managed to escape relatively unscathed, as such things went, though he certainly wasn't in the best shape and he could do with sitting and resting for a good long while after that. He could be grateful, he supposed, that Kanda hadn't found the mirror shard that still occupied his pocket. If Ffamran had indeed been correct about the mirror having something to do with these attacks... Ah, but he didn't really want to think much about that, or anything else, for the moment. Barely conscious of his surroundings, he moved toward the nearest chair. To his surprise, though, when he got to the chair, he found a young face peeking around it. A very familiar face.

Ffamran's face. As if he were five years old.

He simply stared for a moment, wide-eyed, then brought a hand to his forehead and closed his eyes for a moment.

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That proved it. He was definitely not kidnapped because that was his father. He looked...a little different. A little older, maybe. But Ffamran pushed these thoughts from his head. He was just being silly, or something.

And anyway it didn't matter - the fact his father was here meant he was not kidnapped, so he walked out from behind the chair.

For the briefest of moments it looked as if he was going to reach other and hug his father, but he stopped when he realized there was Something Wrong. And his father was hurt.

"D-daddy?" He managed, quietly, as his eyes widened in shock, "What happened to you?"

[researchcrazed]

As Ffamran approached him, Cid unconsciously took a step back. The continued presence of the child sent his mind reeling.

This must be an illusion of some sort, he thought, or perhaps a dream. Perhaps in reality I am not at all well. Perhaps I am truly still in the bathroom lying unconscious on the floor and this is all a very strange dream. Perhaps...

But were I dreaming, would I be able to have these thoughts?And beyond that, there was no doubting the pain that remained from Kanda's attack. So something strange was happening indeed, and while he was still unconvinced that it was not something strange going on in his head, it was certainly not a dream

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With the blind faith of the five year old child he was, he just nodded and believed his father. If he said he was okay, then he was okay. That was all there was to it.

He ran around the table to sit across from Cid, swinging his legs off the chair as they obviously did not reach the ground. He had so many questions, but didn't know where to start.

And although probably his father would scold him for it, he just headed off all the questions at once.

"Where are we?" He began, "Someone said we were kidnapped but I'm not sure that was true and you're here so it can't be true so I walked around a lot and then I found a graveyard and it was really scary and there was snow everywhere and I went back," he took a deep breath of air, cutting this so far run on sentence before starting again, "and I walked around until I got here but there were shouts in the other room so I hid behind the chair but then you came in and I'm safe now, right?" Another breath, " Oh and there are Viera here, Daddy, two of them."