In and Around the Woods, Sunday Afternoon

[fh_spareparts]

The shadows didn't want to budge. They liked it here, and they liked their toys, and maybe they would like to reach out, sometime, and bring in more...

Because the island would let them do that, wouldn't it?

It would be oh-so-cosy.

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Re: Find Your Friends

[raspberryturk]

Reno stared down at the thing, it stared back up at him, growing more malicious with every moment he refused to acknowledge the nightmare it had trapped him in. He tilted his head a little.

A damaged slide. The plate, falling over and over and over again.

It's time.

"It happened," Reno mumbled. "The plate fell. I dropped it."

The slide's visage twisted a little more, sharp fangs growing in its smiling maw.

"Then Midgar fell," he added. "Doesn't matter I didn't know it would, I had a hand in that, too."

The snarl from down below was outright audible. Reno looked over his shoulder at the trio of ghosts.

"Let 'em at the control panel. I got the chance to do it right, now. I ain't lettin' Midgar fall again."

And then he pitched himself off the side of the ramp one more time, less a desperate leap in hopes of silence and more violent jump, feet first, down toward the twisted thing that was menacing him from below. His feet smashed into the cracked, damaged dome, and the whole thing shattered beneath him.

The illusion went dim.

Re: Find Your Friends

[atreideslioness]

Reno was moving, and Ghanima turned, leaving behind his ghosts as she followed him over the edge of the ramp, leaping off the side--

And she touched down on the solid ground of Fandom's woods; no slide, no plate, no faceless minions of torment.

"Well done," she said, standing up to brush the dirt from her robes. "Now, let us get you out of the woods and to the clinic. I did not poison my blades--" for once "--but who knows what side-effects you may be suffering from being stabbed by demonic phantoms."

Re: Find Your Friends

[raspberryturk]

"Heh, yeah," Reno replied, straightening himself up and dusting himself off. He was a mess. He could sleep for a month and he was still bleeding in far too many places. There were almost certainly a few things broken in there that he'd have to get checked out, and he was out of potions. "A clinic trip sounds like friggin' luxury right now, I gotta say."

Pride and sheer stubbornness were basically the only things keeping him upright, but they'd probably at the very least get him that far.

He was quiet for a moment more before glancing at Ghanima and adding, "... Thanks."

Re: Find Your Friends

[atreideslioness]

"I only reminded you of things you already knew, you simply needed a little kick to remember," Ghanima teased, giving him a half smile.

She reached into the skirts of her robe, pulling out a small waterskin and offering it to him. "Though clearly, a little bit of a reminder of what you have learned clearly would not be remiss. That first attack was reckless and inefficient. Four a.m. training, daily, until I decide otherwise."

That was Ghani for 'you're welcome.'

Re: Find Your Friends

[raspberryturk]

"Four a.m. training," Reno agreed, accepting the waterskin and taking a deep pull from it before handing it back. "Looks like I'm in need of a refresher course after all."

Something else to get up for in the mornings.

He'd take it.