Exploration time

[ysobritish]

Who: Liquid, Otacon, anyone who wants to bump into Liquid or just do their own thing.
When: June 5th, around midday
Where:  A random street in Sector 4
Summary: Liquid's apathy fades long enough for him to decide to bloody well explore.
Warnings: None so far!

It had taken a few days for him to actually wonder what this place had to offer. He had, of

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[otaku_mk_ii]

Otacon hadn't gone out very much; the city was dangerous, especially at night. But really, he couldn't help but explore. Just a little. After all, how could he resist looking around? Maybe he'd go to the hospital and check on Snake--he was worried about his friend, after all.

When he saw those small stones fall to the ground, Otacon paused and glanced around; he noticed Liquid on the roof, but didn't say anything. He was still a bit frightened of the soldier, no matter how he tried to hide it.

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[ysobritish]

Liquid, on the other hand, took just a moment to notice the engineer. A slight smirk crossed his lips and he flipped easily from the roof-

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-to land perfectly in front of him.

"Wandering around on your own, Emmerich?" he asked. There was relief in him at the sight of someone he knew, someone familiar, even if it was Emmerich. Emmerich, who would mutter something about Japanese anime while trying to fix malfunctions in REX's programming, Emmerich, who worked with Brother. Emmerich, who tried to get him to stop fighting even as Liquid knew that would never happen.

"It isn't exactly safe for a civilian. I thought Brother had more sense than that," he mused. There was an innocent note to his voice, the usual sarcasm hidden. It was more amusing to see the reaction to the clearly suspicious change in attitude.

[otaku_mk_ii]

He jumped back at that, stammering uncontrollably as he fumbled for actual words.

"I-I-I..."

Oh great. Liquid was either going to snap his spine, shoot him, or mock him and then do the other two.

"I'm not...I kn-know what I'm doing." Sort of.