homeless but...looking...?

[unmoving]

I ain't interested in going anywhere.

Too much of a pain.

Unless you've got a real good reason, you can send someone else. [ :| ]

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[snowe]

I'm always looking to have more friends myself?

[falenandawn]

Long time no see, Shigure.

[unmoving]

Prince. S'it really been so long?

[falenandawn]

A few months at least.

[The war had ended for him before he returned to Luceti.]

Have you been well?

[unmoving]

Huh.

[strange. oh well.]

Well as I can be, what with someone being intent on tugging me in this direction, or that direction-- I just want to relax. [read: laze. like 99% of his time is already spent.]

[falenandawn]

I can understand. You never did like being ordered around, did you?

[unmoving]

No. It's a pain.

[falenandawn]

Most places people will send you will allow you to relax. However, those times are always interrupted by occasional events and experiments.... dragons, too.

[unmoving]

...Dragons. Of course.

[falenandawn]

Well.... a Dragon. I would not be surprised if there were more, however.

[unmoving]

Where there's one there's usually more. [like bugs. except larger and scale-covered.]

[falenandawn]

Exactly.

I have been stuck in a few places, actually.

[Three, technically.]

[unmoving]

Have you now?

[falenandawn]

Yes.... one is a mostly peaceful village called 'Luceti' aside from the war outside it's barrier and the experiments. Roy and Lymsleia are there with me.

Another is a grey world governed by gods called 'Asgard'.

[He doesn't talk about the third one.]

[dwaggies]

You could always come to Mayfield, buuuuuut that place is a really big pain~

[unmoving]

Then why would I go there?

[dwaggies]

To see my smiling face, of course!

[unmoving]

...

No chance.

[dwaggies]

Ah, so cruel~

C'mon, it'll be fun! When the town isn't tormenting us, anyway.

[unmoving]

What part of it will be fun, exactly?

[sparkling_eyes]

Hello, Shigure! You look like you're settled in pretty well where you are, but my mun wanted me to tell you that you'd be more than welcome at Mayfield.

[unmoving]

The place that Miakis says is a really big pain? [he's so not tempted. but ah, he's still keeping up the believe he has a choice in the matter.]

[sparkling_eyes]

It can be. This last event was pretty bad.

...This probably isn't doing a very good job of convincing you, is it?

[unmoving]

There wasn't much of a chance from the start.

[at least he's honest!]

What's that 'event'?

[sparkling_eyes]

Well, there's this machine in Mayfield that's responsible for reviving us when we die. And a lot of us, um... well, we kind of destroyed it. So they were kidnapping people and experimenting on them because they said they needed to do some research related to fixing the machine again, but it was really just an excuse to torture us.

Halfway through, the revival was working again, but there were side effects. People would sometimes have their old wounds from previous deaths open up. That's what happened to me. I bled out overnight, and when I came back, a lot of my memories were missing. I think my mind just filled in the missing time with false memories of working for Nether Gate. It was terrible.

[unmoving]

...

[puffing on his pipe. replacing any memories with ones of Nether Gate, no matter if they're false, is terrible.]

Really does sound like a pain.

[sparkling_eyes]

I was just lucky no one provoked me, or I might have killed innocent people before I snapped out of it.

[Clenching her fists, knuckles whitening.]

[unmoving]

[takes note of clenched hands, exhaling a cloud of smoke.]

But you didn't. So it's pointless thinking of the 'or what's' now.

[sparkling_eyes]

You're right. I know I should be focused on the future. On finding a way out. It's just... I never thought I'd ever have to be reminded of what it was like back then. Not like that, anyway.

[unmoving]

Doesn't sound like something you'd exactly expect to happen.

[sparkling_eyes]

No one ever expects the things that happen in this town.

I mean, we do, but they manage to keep thinking of new ways to hurt and manipulate us.

[unmoving]

The ones who do that are usually the best at coming up with ideas.

[so so dry. not that shigure's praising them, just saying what he thinks is fact.]

Is there anything besides them throwing one thing after another at you there?

[sparkling_eyes]

Well, just that alone keeps us pretty busy. Aside from that, everyone who gets brought to Mayfield is forced to live with three or four other people as a family. I got lucky, since I ended up in a house with Miakis and the Princess. The Prince was here for a while too, but he lived in a different house.

[unmoving]

A--fake family? [oh no, the old man is bad enough to have for a 'family' much less a bunch of strangers D|]

[sparkling_eyes]

Yeah. You'd probably end up as someone's dad.

[unmoving]

[ffuuu] No way--

[sparkling_eyes]

It's not so bad if you get good housemates!

[unmoving]

That's just weird. [maybe sounds a little petulant shh]

[sparkling_eyes]

It is, kind of.

[falenanthief]

[Oh, it's the lazy guy. Still competent, but lazy.]

Yo.

[unmoving]

[oh, it's that one. waving a hand lazily in greeting...]

[falenanthief]

Your mun chick or guy still looking for a place for you?

[unmoving]

Apparently. I still ain't going to go anywhere. [/stubborn]

[falenanthief]

Good luck with that, they're really stubborn. [And, well, have a lot of power over them. Stupid muns.] My mun want to say that you're welcome to come over to Luceti.

[unmoving]

Isn't that the place with the wings? [hnn...]

[falenanthief]

Yep. If you ignore the war and other stuff, it's not so bad.

[unmoving]

You'd think it'd be hard to ignore a war.

[falenanthief]

You'd think so, but our dear benefactors hardly let us know the war situation, except when the drafts pop up. It's almost easy to forget about it.