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.

Comments

[therealbrianna]

[ That makes Brianna sad.

She settles in to hug Hikaru from the side, resting her head on his shoulder. ]

You're the same as him, you know?

[icarusalsoflew]

Am I? That's a little hard to say these days, isn't it?

[Wow yeah okay, pausing to take a drag from his cigarette.

This is hard.]

[therealbrianna]

[ Pulling away to look him in the eye. ]

Actually... It's especially easy to tell these days.

[icarusalsoflew]

Oh?

[And he's glancing your way again, and looking, for the lack of a better term, lost. Do enlighten him.]

[therealbrianna]

Both of you just want each other to be happy. Josh is so selfless, and so are you.

[ She sighs. ]

Both of you fight so hard to protect other people but you seldom fight for what would make you really happy. Love's not supposed to be complex, you know.

[icarusalsoflew]

[And truer words have not been spoken often enough. He's pensive as he turns away from her, focusing, for a moment, on his own thoughts.]

I suppose it's hard for me to act because I don't want to lose him. Do you really think I should push a little more?

[therealbrianna]

You know him more than I do, so maybe just think about what worked in the past with you guys? If it's anything, people do like being reminded that they're wanted especially when something like this happens. Just let him know that, daddy.

[ Softer now. ]

Pretty sure he doesn't want to lose you either.

[icarusalsoflew]

I'll have to take your word for it there.

[Smiling again, though, and moving in just long enough to kiss her cheek.]

Thanks. I'll try to do that soon.

[therealbrianna]

[ Returning that with a squeeze on the hand. ]

Anything else you want to kinda just get out there?

[icarusalsoflew]

No, I think I'm good for the moment.

[And grateful, beyond words, for the fact that there are people like you in his life now. Maybe that goes without saying.]

You really should go and enjoy yourself. Don't let me get you down.

[therealbrianna]

And you should drink more. For Kalika!

[ She's smiling now, happy to have done something or well, said something nice that made Hikaru kind of feel better, by her estimation anyway. She's positive that things will work out for both of them, eventually. ]

[icarusalsoflew]

I'll try to. Might just settle for eating a lot.

[Heh.]

[therealbrianna]

Because of course it's not like the Blade King should be afraid of gaining weight.

[icarusalsoflew]

Nope. As it stands, I've got a problem with LOSING weight way too fast.

[Because he is also the King of Bad Habits.

Kissing you on the cheek.]

Thanks for checking up on me, Bri.

[therealbrianna]

[ Giving Hikaru a warm smile. ]

It's what I do best. No need to thank me, daddy. Besides... If you're sad, then I'll be sad too.

[icarusalsoflew]

[It's moments like this that remind him of the fact that, Arcadian years aside, you're still so young.

It's also moments like this that remind him of how things have changed. How, when he would have been fine with having his operatives save your life and leave it at that, now he's quite ready to cut up the first Arcadian that so much as dares to touch a single hair on your head.

If the next kiss that he plants on your forehead lingers a bit too long, together with the hand he has on your neck, it's only because the full brunt of the love he feels for you is hitting him at full force.]

I love you. Have a good time tonight, okay?

[therealbrianna]

I love you too, daddy!

[ She turns around and is about to leave, but she faces him again. ]

Lots of people do. [ And giving him that :3 face before hopping off, just to remind him. ]