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 Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:10 am
Not... reborn?
"How can you not be reborn?" was Sue's very baffled response. There weren't senshi-making machines out there somewhere, were there? He... damn it, Zue had probably known all this stuff, but Sue himself was just one step above obliviousness. It didn't sound right to him, that senshi could be around and not be reborn. But with the measuring stick of his Zodiacs....
"I mean, how do you get to become a senshi?" Sue reiterated. "Without being reborn. I dunno, I feel like I'm a thousand years of evolution behind damn near everything that's going on, you know?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:43 pm
Kirin raised an eyebrow. "You're asking me? As in, you think Astraea paused and told me something useful, something more than 'hi, you're a magical boy, now break me into the school of doom'?" He paused, letting the image of a helpful Astraea sink in. Yeah, it wasn't going to happen.
"As far as I know, you Zodiacs are 'special' because your princess permanently killed off her prince to have you guys reborn after you died. For the second time." Kirin didn't need to say anything about his opinion on the Zodiacs about that. His face said it all for him, and it wasn't telling of a high opinion. "But I guess senshi had to be born normally to begin with, right? So that's possibly what the rest of us are. Maybe. You'd have better luck getting answers out of Astraea than I would."
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 1:08 pm
Killed off her....
Sue blinked. Twice. This was apparently news to him. It didn't seem to Sue like Kirin was on the "happy" side of the mood meter right now, though - more like "I am tolerating answering your questions but inwardly they make me rage at everyone I have to associate with." A very familiar feeling, and one Sue wouldn't push. He'd follow up on the prince matter with Chronos - later - but leave it untouched for now.
See? He had tact!
"Speaking of Astraea, have you see her around at all?" Sue questioned. All the Zodiacs were in the hospital, and all the Barren Pine kids - but if Astraea had come visiting even once, Sue hadn't heard anything about it.
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:36 pm
"Nah, haven't seen her." Thank God. Last thing Kirin needed while stuck in hospital (and meant to be stuck in bed) was a visit from Astraea. She'd either have a list of all the ways he ******** up during Barren Pines, or a list of things he was expected to do from now on. Neither were wanted nor needed.
Slumping back in the chair, Kirin said, "I don't think she's the Florence Nightingale of guardian cats. And seeing as how the survivors are either Zodiacs or civilians, maybe she thinks this is your job, not hers."
Kirin shrugged. Asking him to guess how Astraea's mind worked was like asking him why green MnMs tasted better than the brown ones even though they were exactly the same. A mystery of the cosmos.
"Maybe she'll drop by at some point to give you your Guardian Cat manual, though," he suggested. "She had another cat under her wing when I met her, so it's more likely you'll get a visit than I would."
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:51 pm
"It's worth hoping, maybe," Sue sighed doubtfully. It wasn't that he didn't think he was never going to see Astraea again - on the contrary, he had a feeling that she was something of a promise in his life. He just didn't know if he was going to see her again anytime useful.
Not that. She hadn't been useful at Barren Pines, of course. I mean. Sue wasn't. Ungrateful.
"So what're you going to do now, then?" It seemed like a valid question. The way Kirin put it, he'd gotten awakened as Foramen, thrown into Barren Pines -- and now was a dog without a leash, with the whole of his senshi power to explore on his own. And he knew more or less what he had at his disposal, even, which put him at least one up on Sue.
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:17 pm
"Well, for the immediate now, I have... half an hour? ... til I have to be back in my tiny, cramped hospital bed for the next round of nurses. The old man'll be back shortly after, I'm guessing, curtailing my plans for any more exploring."
Not that Kirin really had anyone else to visit. The Zodiacs knew more of Foramen than they did of Kirin, and either way he'd seen enough of them during the last day of Barren Pines. He didn't know the other civilians at all - well, okay, Imogen had gone to karaoke with him once or twice, but they weren't bosom buddies.
"School-wise, apparently I was meant to be at Meadowview the past few months. So I start back up there, I guess, and try to come up with some excuse for cutting classes for such a long time... What about you?"
Maybe he could get the doctors here to write out a medical certificate. Lord know what excuse he'd need for months off school. Polio? Whooping cough? And to convince a doctor of any of this?
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:41 am
"Yeah, Meadowview." No more being gifted, no more private school; whatever little academic edge Barren Pines had been supposed to provide a student like Sue was lost, and -- oh my god Sue had not just been missing that damned deathtrap right now. Meadowview would be fine, thank you!
Though, Sue owed Kirin fair warning. "A lot of the Zodiac boys are going there." He fixed eyes on the other, drew his mouth into a tight line. "And you know that the Geminis are going to want to have the same classes...."
Which meant Andeon and Mackenzie. Meadowview was a ******** deathtrap of its own, if the death of sanity was to be regretted.
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:45 pm
"Oh, joy." School with Andeon and Mackenzie. At least Kirin wasn't a 'friend' or team mate to be targeted like Sue. Hopefully. He considered praying for a quiet school year.
"Well, as long as Meadowview kids don't start dropping like flies, I guess we can't complain." Except for where Kirin totally would - loudly, coldly, and at great length.
"I suppose at least there'll be one non-annoying person going there," Kirin said, pointedly not staring at Sue. "That'll be new. And hey, if you ever feel like escaping your crazy Zodiacs..." It could be like old times. Eating lunch at the same table, no particular urge to talk or be social, just comfortable silence and break from the morons around them.
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:25 pm
"If?" That said everything right there. Sue was looking forward to many lunches taken in peaceful quiet - or at the very least, with wingman Kirin around to help him glare down any incoming annoyances. Maybe Meadowview wouldn't be so bad?
... Hah. "We might be able to survive that way, at least," Sue remarked, though he didn't sound much like he believed it. At least at Barren Pines, his reputation had carried him through; he'd never gotten to know anyone too well, and they'd been happy to avoid him. New school meant a fresh slate - and years of unfriendliness that had to be made up before he could be comfortably ignored again. Sue had a creeping feeling that he might never get those days back, that things were just going to have to change from now on... as though they hadn't already.
Less than two years to graduation. He just needed to last that long.
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:21 pm
Kirin wanted to snicker at Sue's immediate reaction. He held himself in check, thinking he was taking down enough armor around Sue already. "Sounds like a plan," he instead confirmed. "Offer's open, anyway."
Hopefully the plan wouldn't wind up with the Zodiacs just following Sue over to harass Kirin as well. He wouldn't put it past the Geminis.
"Anyway, better get back to my room before someone notices I'm missing," Kirin said. It took an effort to force himself to get out of the bedside chair. And it wasn't a comfortable chair. Maybe everyone had a point about this whole 'resting up' thing. A tiny point. Maybe.
"I'll see you at school, whenever they decide we're fit to be released," he said, rolling his eyes at the entire hospital staff and world in general.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:36 pm
"If they ever do," Sue muttered darkly. He at least seemed to be joking when he suggested, "I mean, it's not like we're at Barren Pines Hospital, right?" But god, what an awful thought to leave a conversation on - what if the hospital were phase two of some master plot? What if it were all a trick, like the school had been, and they were never going to be released?!
... Yeah, okay, maybe not. Still, it never hurt to consider the possibilities. Unless you drove yourself insane with them.
With a wry smile, Sue waved after Kirin. "See you at school, then," he agreed with her him (no more confusing that! Not ever, dammit, not EVER!)
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