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[warpstriking]

Who: Noctis and you
When: August 30th
Where: Yun'Ashia
What: It's someone's 21st birthday...
Warnings/Notes: Just a nerd, fisher, king trying to have a quiet cake day (and none of his closest friends letting that happen)

1. Just a Quiet Day...
2. Distraction of Flight (closed to Regis)
3. The Setup
4. Surprise Party!

Comments

[spaceforged]

I did. I don't know where. My signal became active again a week and some days later.

[He stares down at his mug and frowns. There had been no gap between going outside to think and waking up in a memory that wasn't his and yet it was.]

...I had gone outside and next thing I knew I was waking up inside my own memory, again. [He glances at his right shoulder and the metal arm.]

When I woke in the Dream width, I had the clothes I was wearing when I disappeared and all the things I now remembered including physical wounds were present. According to everyone else I wasn't greyed out. They sent me messages that my iMog received.

...there's more. What happened to the moogles of the others? Wimbledon stayed. And we found Hunk after me. [He shuts his eyes the shadow of grief passing over him and being shoved aside quickly.]

He didn't stay. We think it happened after the meeting in the Empire. We looked but his moogle was gone too and there was further evidence he was gone.

[sonoftenebrae]

...so there are signs when someone will not be coming back. [It is an invoiced fear that has arisen in this new world, that one of the people he's come to care about will suddenly disappear. It's...not a comfort, knowing whether to hold out hope of their return if it happens, but it is at least knowledge to be armed with.]

Noctis may have told you. We have lost several people from our world.

[The ones who had come and gone before Ravus' arrival, Ravus had not known well, but the loss of Iris Amicitia had weighed heavily on the Eosians. ]

...I am sorry for your loss.

[spaceforged]

...He might come back some time. At least we know he's alive at the last time we saw him in our own universe.

[He nods, yes he'd heard of people missing. He and Noctis have kept tabs on each other.]

One of the signs seems to be our moogle companions vanish and our names get greyed out. If neither happens we usually return. There wasn't any warning when Hunk vanished the second time.

[sonoftenebrae]

[Ravus takes what Shiro says to heart.]

If any of my household disappear, I will know what to look for. You have my thanks.

[He can only hope it will not come to that, but nothing about his life so far makes him optimistic about his chances. He drains his wine glass.]

Life exploded, sorry

[spaceforged]

If I figure out any other signs, I'll let you know. So far the pattern seems to hold.

[He nods once, combing back over what he knows in a vain attempt to find anything else. But what he does remember makes him pause.]

...actually, there's one last thing to note. If you're bound to something...this may hold true it may not. In my present time, I shouldn't be able to pilot the Black Lion. But here I still can. I think because of the time it came from.

Before I was no longer its pilot.

[sonoftenebrae]

[Ravus does not understand what it means to pilot a lion of any color, but he thinks he grasps the concept Shiro is conveying.]

I've noticed something similar. Noctis does not have the powers afforded to his bloodline on Eos, and two who should be dead live here.

[He feels no need to go further into that. They are not his tales to tell.]

Can there only be a single pilot for your lion? You said you were resuming your route here, so you are presumably still capable of performing your duties.

[spaceforged]

I've been doing my duties as an airship pilot. Gathering intel, funds, and contacts to see what I can find out and to help however I can.

The Lions are suppressed here. We still have our psychic links between us but, they can't fight or fly. And yes, there's normally only one link between a Paladin and Lion.

[He pauses, thinking how to word it then nods to himself.]

I'm more their commander now than a fellow paladin. Keith is the present leader.

[sonoftenebrae]

[Well, Ravus supposes he can't remark about the inefficiency of air crafts that rely on a tenuous psychic link, when he comes from a world where their hope for salvation relies on a single bloodline.]

That seems strange. This world nullifies our abilities, but it has given you back an ability you had lost. There seems little rhyme or reason behind it.

Still, I am sure commandership suits you. Competence is a rare commodity, and it should be used to its best advantage. [Best not to waste talent on the front lines, is what he diplomatically does not say.]