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[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Anyone! Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: On the FLOOT LOOP stations! Or the planet!
When: WHENEVER time is an illusion.

[you know the drill! this is a mingle for the stations floating around the bizarre forest planet, or the forest planet itself!

want to get away from the forest illusions? are you stopping for supplies? were you just really craving a bowl of Floot Loops for some reason? whether you are backdating for pre-planet shenanigans or just want to mess around, this is the post for you!]

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action | planet field

[ladiesss]

[well, this is not her finest hour... but perhaps the only good thing about being forced to whisper all the time is that your gross sobbing is very hard to notice.

since she didn't want to hide in her ship (where it's all echoey and her crew would totally find her) and there wasn't exactly anywhere else to go on the planet, she's just... hiding behind someone's ship, huddled up in the grass, crying into her knees. buh.

anyone can stumble upon her, or hear her quiet little sobs and come looking. :( ]

[idealistic]

[ it could have been his shounen senses tingling, or it could have been he simply heard the soft sobs, but soon enough Krista is found by Lloyd, whose curiosity gives way for pure worry and concern. he jogs over, falling to his knee once he's in front of her. ]

Hey! What's wrong, you okay?

[ladiesss]

[as he falls in front of her, she looks up, startled... and her face is a mess, with her makeup smeared and smudged all over. her eyes are kind of red and puffy. she immediately starts stuttering out a really quiet apology:]

Oh my god, I'm s-so sorry, I wuh- [SMASHES her face back into her knees and talks into her legs.] --Oh god this is s-so embarrassing...

[idealistic]

Hey, don't be sorry! It's fine, really. [ he moves the hand not on his knee to her shoulder as a comforting gesture. ]

What happened? Why are you crying?

[ladiesss]

I just... [buuuuuh, she is so not okay right now. she's kind of mortified that she's been found by someone, not to mention that they know her... she's going to keep talking into her legs if that's okay with everyone.] It's just...

[sniffle, whining...] I saw my friends in the forest and I really... really miss them.

[idealistic]

[ ...oh. he knows that feel very well. he hadn't seen any of his friends in the forest, but who he did see probably hurt even more, doubly so considering what's weighing down in his pocket right now.

but this isn't about him. this is about Krista, and as much as he misses Kratos, that feeling has to go on the backburner for her sake. so he puts the heaviness in his chest aside as he shifts a little closer, moving his hand so that it's rubbing at her back. ]

...It's okay. You'll see them again, I know it.

[ladiesss]

But what if I don't!

[her head pops back so that she can look up at him with big, watery eyes. she was trying to keep it under wraps, but that's just the thing--she's been struggling with this for almost a year and a half, and the forest just forced it right in front of her.]

What if I don't see them? What if I never get back? Why hasn't anyone found me yet?

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka wasn't expecting to hear sobs coming from his ship today. He was expecting many things, but not that. He follows the sound (because who WOULDN'T follow the sound of a girl crying? A monster, that's who) and comes across a familiar face.]

...Krista?

[He pauses, unsure.]

What's wrong?

[ladiesss]

[she looks up from her tear-soaked knees, her eyes getting to that red-and-puffy stage, and--]

Oh no, are you kidding me?

[she drops her face back into her knees and whines into her legs...]

This is the worst hiding spot ever.

[alwayscomeback]

[Oh no, that's, like, the WORST stage. He offers her a small smile, before moving to sit next to her.]

Pretty much. I wouldn't set my heart on getting any hide and seek prizes, anyway.

[He tilts his head, his smile fading a little.]

So, what's up? Is there someone who needs a lecture with added threats of violence? Because I am totally the guy for that, if that's what you need.

[ladiesss]

Uuuugh...

[she doesn't move away from him, which is good, but she's too mega-embarrassed that someone she kind of wants to look cool in front of has caught her crying about dumb things...]

No... The forest is just stupid.

[alwayscomeback]

[Oh. The forest. The forest that does creepy stuff and throws weirdo illusions from your past at you. It's marginally less awful than the swamp, because at least it didn't throw Yue in his face, but still. Creepy.]

I can agree to that. It's not the creepiest place I've been to, but it's a close second.

[ladiesss]

[she peeks up over her knees. a little bit, peering over at Sokka with big, watery eyes... though she finally moves enough to reach into the pocket of her sweatshirt and hold up what looks like a folded photograph.

she sniffles and... smears a bunch of snot and crying away from her face.] Guh. This is what I got.

[got_it_memorized]

[There he is, just minding his own business, walking along playing a game on his communicator, when he hears it: crying. Oh no. Glancing up, Axel peers around to try and determine where the sound is coming from, and frowns a little when his gaze settles on a girl huddled behind a ship, her shoulders shaking with sobs. He looks down at his game, then back at the girl, then sighs heavily.

[As much as he tries to act like an aloof tough guy, Axel is actually a pretty big softie when you get right down to it. He's a pushover for puppy eyes and has a hard time just walking away from someone in trouble. He's not the proactive do-gooder type like Sora: he doesn't go looking for people to help, definitely not... but when he happens across, say, a girl crying behind a space ship, it's hard to convince himself he has no emotions at all, because that's just too damn sad.

[He doesn't know this girl, he doesn't owe her anything, but... well, Roxas would probably be pretty mad at him if he just ignored her, right? Fine. Sliding his communicator into his pocket, he adjusts his course and walks toward the girl. Pausing near her, he furrows his brow a little and pulls at the back of his neck.]

You hurt?

[ladiesss]

[oh jeez--when someone talks to her she looks up, startled, with biiig, watery eyes and her cheeks kind of red from all that crying. or maybe embarrassment, at the rate she's going. her makeup is an absolute mess.]

N-No, I'm okay... [accompanied by a big sniffle because she is not okay.]

[got_it_memorized]

[Dammit, big sad eyes, his one weakness. He frowns a little, then glances over his shoulder like he's making sure nobody can hear them before he looks back at her.]

Really? 'Cuz, I mean... people don't usually cry when they're okay. [He shrugs one shoulder.] If I should buzz off I will, but... I don't think it's cool to make somebody cry, so... [He's doing a lot of trailing off. This is kind of outside his comfort zone, playing nice with strangers, but he can't just turn away from those big sad eyes.]

[ladiesss]

It's... okay...

[she's making somebody awkward. this is so awkward. this is the woooorst. she smears away the big puddle of tears under her eyes and sniffles again and tries really hard to pull herself together.]

I just... saw some people in the forest and I'm... just getting sad and stupid and stuff.

[SEE SHE'S FINE she's totally great ugh she'll never breathe out of her nose again, it's so stuffed up...]

[got_it_memorized]

[She's obviously feeling pretty awkward herself, and that wasn't really Axel's goal. Now they're both awkward. He rubs his neck again and then shakes his head.]

Nah, it ain't stupid. I saw some pretty unpleasant stuff in the woods myself; it's not stupid to be upset about it, I think. Sometimes the past can be upsetting. [He turns and leans against the side of the ship a couple of feet away from her, his hands threaded together behind his back.] You wanna talk about it? I mean I don't have any context or anything, since we don't know each other, but it makes me objective, right?

[He's got nothing better to do, and he's always been a good listener.]

[ladiesss]

[she thinks about it for a second, the silence broken only by her sad sniffling...]

I guess, but if we see each other again, you can't think of me as that girl who was crying like a little kid behind someone's ship, okay? Guh... [she hugs her knees.] This totally didn't happen.

[heresyandlace]

[she's not behind his ship, actually.

he seeks her out, hunts her down, following a particularly tantalizing welling of sorrow. so, he's not surprised to find someone crying there, but he is surprised that it's her.

softly stepping around the side of the ship, he stops when he finds her there, and just... 'tsks' quietly under his breath.]

[ladiesss]

[she tenses up... but does not lift her head up, because she knows exactly who it is. in fact, the only thing she has in response to the sound is a soft groan of agony, because this may have just turned into the single most embarrassing moment of her life.]

[heresyandlace]

Don't be like that.

[at least he could have sounded like more of a prick if he'd tried. that's something, right? not as bad as he could be.]

Did something happen?

[ladiesss]

Nothing...

[she doesn't sound very convincing. she's doggedly keeping her face down in her knees. she doesn't want Tek to see her crying like a baby, even if it's obvious. last time it was over something scary, like almost dying. this time, it's over kids stuff.]

[heresyandlace]

[his arms are folded, and he settles to lean against the side of the ship. and his voice is quiet. see, he doesn't want to call anymore attention to her, and doesn't want to overpower her voice with his own. they can both be quiet, and he doesn't look like he's planning on helpfully going anywhere else anytime soon.]

Then, what's wrong?

[ladiesss]

...I miss my friends.

[it's really small, and pathetic, and muffled against her knees, but she says it.]