Mingle Post for Solace

[reflectedblight]

Who: EVERYONE
Broadcast: N/A
Action: On Solace
When: Second half of January

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Comments

[notzubats]

A whole small village, sure.

It wasn't that big. You could get across it in about an hour or two. There were a couple smaller islands near it, but those were tiny.

[monolike]

That is pretty small. Did you have everything you needed on the island? I guess you did, if you had a village. [It must've had a spring or something for fresh water, but that's so weird to think about. Not having water on an island.]

[notzubats]

Yeah, we did! [He jumps and pulls himself up onto the top of the ship. Then he holds out a hand for Sorey to grab] Had to. There's...really not any trade or traveling like these worlds have.

[monolike]

There's no trade? [wha t the fuck

Sorey grabs onto Sora's hand and pushes himself up with wind as well. Whew, they're pretty high up. Neat!] No boats or anything? You're just on that island the whole time?

[notzubats]

Well there were fishing boats! But nothing that could really get past the shallow waters around the island, no.

[He offers a shrug] It used to be different. But there was like some huge disaster like...500 years ago or so. Any towns left ended up cut off from each other after that.

[monolike]

[Whoa. That sounds like the Age of Chaos swallowing up the vast majority of their recorded history.] I guess that makes sense...especially if you're a little island in the middle of the sea. If nobody from the mainland even knows you're out there...

I'm sorry. That sounds a little lonely.

[notzubats]

...Yeah.

[Lonely's a good way to put it.]

Actually, when I was 14? Something happened and I ended up on the mainland - in this big city. And they'd been so isolated that they didn't think anyone was outside their town. Anyone I told about my village thought I was crazy, or hit my head too hard.

Eventually I just...stopped talking about it.

[monolike]

Sora... [Dude, what the heck.] You were stranded there? Away from your family and everything?

[notzubats]

Yeah.

For about a year. Then I came here.

[monolike]

I'm so sorry. [Rests a hand on his back.] I couldn't even tell. You're always so cheerful...

[notzubats]

Yeah, well...you know, I always try to be positive.

[You know, since anything else tends to blow stuff up]

[monolike]

You're allowed to be upset, too. It's just as much a part of your heart as anything else.

[notzubats]

Uh, thanks Sorey. But I'm pretty sure the ship's beat up enough without me getting upset and making it worse.

[monolike]

Your powers are really that much of a concern, huh? [He knows there was that...y'know, incident a while ago, but Sorey figured there had to be something with the augments going on too. Sorey's never purposefully tried to hurt anybody with his powers, after all; the most the ship's seen before that was just the occasional exploding bucket of water.] Maybe there's something we can do...it's not fair that you have to police how you feel just because you have psychic powers.

[notzubats]

They can be, yeah.

[And if he let himself start getting upset about losing his home? Yeah, he just has a feeling that'd be a well of badness, since that's a wound that runs deep]

Dezel and Mikleo are trying stuff out, they think if I'm properly trained it won't go off so badly. And Stefan's teaching me meditation. That helps a little.

[monolike]

Oh, really? [Huh. Mikleo never said anything about it, that's...weird.] Well, I'm really glad you're getting help with it. And the same goes for me; if there's anything I can do to help, don't hesitate to ask, okay?

[notzubats]

Okay. [he gives a nod and a genuine smile] Thanks Sorey. You guys are good friends.