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[last_dragoon]

Here! Take this! [The image comes on just in time to show a moogle shoving the sky phone into the hand of a man in dragoon armor.] Now you'd better get out of here, kupo. I don't like this place!

[The man doesn't follow after the moogle, though. Instead, he examines the sky phone in his hand, and the area he's standing in- the remains of a

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[warkitoff]

Man, a place where even the moogles don't wanna be? Sounds like bad news.

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[last_dragoon]

[Hearing the sound of a voice makes Ricard glance around the area- he has no idea what the device in his hand is, obviously.]

What? Who's there?

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[warkitoff]

Down here. That thing the moogle just gave you. S'for communication, carries messages from one of 'em to another.

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[last_dragoon]

[He finally looks down at the device. If he weren't wearing the helmet, it might be more obvious that he's staring at it suspiciously.]

That's what it was? A moogle?

That doesn't answer who you are, either.

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[dragoon_rising]

[Kain stares in surprise at the familiar-looking armor, not yet having a really good look at him to recognize further...]

Another dragoon...?

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[last_dragoon]

[Ricard's first instinct is still to glance around him to try and find the person speaking, but he remembers quickly enough to look down at the sky phone.

Then he stares for a moment. That armor wasn't what he expected to see.]

You're a-

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[dragoon_rising]

[and now that he's staring, Kain has an even better view. He stares back...]

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[dragoon_rising]

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[trinitycrusades]

Kain...? That is you, isn't it? Where are you?

[Witness amazing Harvey perception skills at work.]

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[last_dragoon]

[Cecil. CECIL. How could you. There is no long, flowing blonde hair on this dragoon. There is also no angst. How do you fail to notice that.

That definitely caught his attention, though. He's frowning down at the sky phone now. Maybe a bit scornfully. How could someone mistake him for his kid? Kain's still young after all.]

What? No, I'm Ricard. Kain shouldn't be anywhere near here.

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[trinitycrusades]

[Cecil's still not that great at recognition of a BFF that vanished for 17 years, sorry. He couldn't even recognise the Hooded Man.]

...Richard? Sir Richard Highwind? You're Kain's--?!

[He stares at the phone in disbelief, unable to even finish. He'd seen a lot of strange things on Gaia so far, but this...?]

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[last_dragoon]

[Something seems a bit off about the pronunciation there, but, well, there are more important things that have gotten his attention.]

Yes, I'm Ricard Highwind. Kain's father.

Who are you?

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[lunarianlegacy]

[More Harvey perception skills at work here.]

Hey Kain, what're you doing there? Where are you?

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[last_dragoon]

[What, another one? What is this. Does Kain really look that much like him, even as a kid?]

I'm not Kain. He's my son.

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[lunarianlegacy]

Whoa! Seriously?!

[He's grown up on Kain-is-the-best stories. Meeting the dad? EVEN BETTER!]

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[last_dragoon]

[And even better than that, the dad isn't angsty!]

Yes. [He sounds proud as he says it. Ceodore might recognize the tone- it's pretty similar to the Proud Father tone Cecil uses.]

You know him?

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[last_dragoon]

[Give him a moment. He nearly dropped the sky phone there.]

Firion?

[He stares at the screen for a moment. Then he turns away, shaking his head angrily.]

What are you doing here?!

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[last_dragoon]

[This isn't making things any better, Firion.]

You shouldn't be here.