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[contempsi]

Choice A - Fisherman's Horizon
[For someone who isn't exactly used to setting foot in a town and having people actually stroll by - sometimes waving or offering a smile, other times a crotchety old glare and a mutter about "kids these days" - this place is rather unsettling for a kid who'd almost, bitter as it was, gotten accustomed to pretty much

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B!

[focusedfate]

[Well, that's someone Cid hadn't expected to be seeing in the hallways.

Having had Hope in one of his courses this quarter, he had received notification of his apparent disappearance from the Garden--swallowed by time compression, so it seemed. As such, he finds it rather odd that this individual is standing some distance away, looking for... something or another. Cid's heard of people leaving and returning, but so quickly? Surely Hope's absence in his class hadn't just been a poor joke on the headmaster's part...

He closes the distance between them, speaking just as he draws up to the other's side.]

Hope?

[contempsi]

[Cid Raines's name on that roster had been the only other name to draw his attention beyond that of his comrades, and that had been shocking in its own right, so his presence doesn't startle him as much as it would have otherwise. Neither does his approach; Hope already heard the sound of his footsteps.

It is rather jarring to be addressed so directly by him, however. Hope blinks up at him in surprise, momentarily stunned, and every bit of it shows in his voice.]

... Raines.

[focusedfate]

[So it hadn't been a joke then.

While not nearly as volatile as his first meeting with the Hope he originally encountered here at the Garden, this sort of reaction suggests that their differences have not yet been settled; no apologies have been said on his part. Cid sighs quietly, and when he speaks again, his tone, while already formal, becomes even more so.]

I apologize for startling you--it was not my intention. [A pause.] Have you just arrived?

[contempsi]

[The youth merely nods in response, drawing back a pace or two. It's surreal to see Raines looking human again and not like the creature they'd fought in the Fifth Ark-Hope's own last memory of seeing him. Even uncomfortably still, this confirmed what their new-found archenemy had stated. A new Primarch. A puppet.]

So it's true. You really are alive. [Hope's tone is matter-of-fact, but unreadable all the same.]

A :D

[yellowzippers]

[Selphie is excited to see him as she stops the boy running around the town.]

BOOYAAAAAKA! Y'know that teddy bear you gave me is sure happy on my pillow. I renamed him Puddles! Doesn't that sound cute?

[contempsi]

Aah... [Honestly, he has no clue whatsoever how to react to that. So he'll just be stopping and staring at the strange girl, an odd look on his face.] What?

... I-I'm sorry, I think you have me mixed up with someone else.

[yellowzippers]

But you are that cute little boy from the carnival! I recognize your hair!

[contempsi]

... Huh? [That actually makes his ears grow warm. Hope shyly bows his head a little.] No... I-I haven't been to a carnival for a... a while now. That couldn't have been me.

B

[burntglory]

[Since Seifer doesn't have any classes- traitors or people under house arrest are too classy for school and classes- he's freely roaming around doing his 'job' as Head of the DC. Not like he cares but that's besides the point. So here he comes from down the hall and spots Hope standing outside a classroom.]

Y'know... there's a rule against loiterin'.

[contempsi]

[Hope was trying to peer inside to catch a glimpse of one of his friends, but upon Seifer's approach he pulls away from the door, a touch startled.]

Oh... I-I wasn't loitering. They, um. They said I don't have classes yet because the term's almost over...

[burntglory]

You hot for teacher then?

[You can't hide it, kid. He saw the way you were trying to peek inside...]

[contempsi]

What...?!

[He might be fourteen years old, but he is... well, fourteen years old. Hope gapes at the taller guy for a moment, flabbergasted, before quickly shaking his head. His expression turns considerably more indignant.]

No. I wanted to see if this was my... my friend's class, since she was listed under a different name.

A! excuse my lateness 8D

[bahamutgal]

[Hey Hope, you've managed to run into someone who totally wouldn't scream in terror....since that'd be weird, not to mention it wasn't really behavior fit for a SeeD - not that Fang really cared all that much about that.

She's grown to like Fisherman's Horizon - it was something to do other than be in the school, anyway - so it wasn't all that unusual for her to roam around town. She was surprised, however, to bump into Hope, and regards him with her hands on her hips and a quirked brow.]

Gettin' some air from all those exams, are you?

NEVER TOO LATE. :D

[contempsi]

Aah...! [He'd been spaced out, the way he's been through most of his wanderings in this place, and so Fang's voice startles him to attention. At least he'd managed to not actually run into her...

Hope shakes his head a little.]

What... what exams?

YAY 8D

[bahamutgal]

[That makes her cock her head, since most of the other students were running around like chocobos with their heads cut off. Well, as far as she could tell, anyway.]

You're still a student, yeah? Unless you graduated without us watching.

[...Which was plausible, really, since Fang had not been all there lately.]

\o/ and hello to you btw!

[contempsi]

Um... no... [While it's relieving to stumble across someone he knows, Fang's comments have completely thrown him off-guard. He frowns, scratching the back of his neck a little.]

What's going on here...? We're obviously not on Pulse anymore, but this clearly isn't Cocoon either. You aren't bothered by that?