Waking the Dead 2.0 || August 9, 2063 || Tuesday

[kalikat]

[Dinner is served late in the mess hall because it's a grand banquet in honor of the Magistrate of Kibo. It's a pretty modest celebration, all things considered: the people at Kibo are invited, along with her family, any Searing Wind members who feel like dropping in from wherever they've been as of late, and a few friends among the other Keepers of the Vigil. That's about it.

Still, Kalika looks like she's having fun. Her husband and her children are, of course, all in attendance, together with her husband's familiars and the entire division of the Strays from Seigi. The food, mind you, is excellent, and there is more than enough booze.

You're welcome to come and go as you please. Kalika's easy like that.]


OOC Notes:
+ Will have some threads for NPCs of note, but just to give you a general idea: many members of the three blades are in attendance, along with pretty much anyone whom Kalika views as family. If you want to request for somebody, lemme know!
+ Debby and Noey: feel free to put your NPCs in here. =w=
+ Feel free to start your own threads too. Just specify if it's open to all, or if you're going to thread something out with a particular PC.

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[bostova]

[ She's waiting for Josh to get to the porch with her; she knows he needs time to process things so she just leans on the post, arms in her pockets and waits.

She'll be here if he needs her... And if he wants her elsewhere, well... she'll have to see where this goes, first. ]

[larue]

[ There's a look of surprise on this one's face when he catches you leaning against the post and looking like you're not planning to leave him alone anytime soon. As such, he's going to set his tablet down off to the side on the top step so that it's out of the way before he goes to fish out his cigarettes.

His hand's shaking now. Maybe it's the fact that he's been crumbling ever since you cracked that joke, or the fact that he's been wrecked ever since this morning, when he'd tried to apologize only to have it not work and Hikaru had told him flat out and clearly hurt that whatever insecurities Josh was dealing with were things he couldn't fix.

Truth of the matter is, Josh knows that. He knows this is all on him. But he's just so fucking tired. He's tired in a way he can't put into words and his chest hurts so much and his heart isn't his own anymore. The tragic thing is, even if he could ask for it back, he wouldn't because he was way in too deep and it hasn't even been twenty-four hours since he fucked up all because he needed a moment to breathe.

This is what you see then: Josh attempting to light up, failing, trying again and again. And again until his hand jerks from the elbow and he very nearly throws that lighter.

Just very nearly, though, because he's now sinking down to sink onto those steps, bending forward to press a hand to his forehead, eyes screwed shut.

Yes, Yulia, it's dark, but you're standing at the right spot to see the way the light is slanted at just the right angle to reveal when those tears come streaming quietly down Josh's face. ]

[bostova]

[ Well... Shit. Was it something she said? Did she go too far? Should she knock and call Cindy, or someone? Why did she ever think this was a good idea?!

Momentary panic done (thank fuck no one else was around to see that), she sits over with Josh and puts a tentative hand on his shoulder.

She's trying to think of something to say, something that doesn't state the obvious or something that was too... too... ugh, why is dealing with feelings so complicated?! Especially when they're someone else's feelings? ]

...Sorry.

[larue]

[ There's a shudder from Josh when she says that, and an awkward sound -- something between a laugh and a sob -- escapes the Sin-Eater.

After several breaths though: ] W...why are you apologizing?

[ He's looking up at her now. And yes, he looks utterly wrecked. ]

[bostova]

Because I can't help you right now.

[ It's not like she can just cut up whatever's bothering you, LaRue. And she's not suicidal enough to try cutting the Blade King, not even for you.

So.

Yeah. She can't help you sort your feelings out. She can't even sort hers out. ]