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Seiana_ZI

Codebreaking Conversationalist

PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:55 am


"Done," Pendour didn't even need to ask twice. Abzu played with his flashlight to make sure it was as bright as it could be before he directed it at the water. He could see some of the light reflecting against things immediately below, so it must have been penetrating deeply enough.

Hopefully, it was enough to ensure she made it back up there before anything went wrong.

"Good luck," he offered as she disappeared below the surface.

He didn't expect her return to be fast, but it was hard to sit there with a flashlight as Pendour disappeared below the surface and didn't immediately come back up. Abzu was nothing if not patient, but that wasn't quite enough to stave off the way the grip on his flashlight got a bit tighter. "Add deep sea free-diving as a potential knight talent," he offered, attempting to keep it light.

No reason to worry, right? She would have come back if it wasn't going to work.

And it did. The first sign that she had gotten the Code was that it was suddenly getting closer; the second sign was when she actually poked her head above the surface and smiled at them. Abzu turned off his flashlight and disappeared it to subspace to take the much more significant light in front of him. "Got it."

He moved it around in his hands, letting Basiluzzo or Stromboli handle getting her out of there. (Probably Basiluzzo. That guy regularly lifted people anyway for performances.)

"Wild to just be holding a ball of light..." But there was more to it than that, in any case. The Code was sentient. Were these separate pieces sentient too? He had to imagine they were if they were so important to the Code's operation-- "Suppose I'm supposed to be bonding with this now, right?" Or resonating with it? How was this supposed to work? This wasn't about to be meditation or some other nonsense... right? The last place Abzu wanted to be was more in his mind.

But if they wanted to get their magic working again, he would do what he had to do, he supposed.

stari_maga
amasis
PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:37 pm


Basiluzzo watched, quietly fascinated, as Pendour slipped into the water from her seat. Since Abzu already had the flashlight situation covered, Basiluzzo was content to wait with his in case the battery died on Abzu's. Otherwise, he watched attentively for any sign of trouble or anything else that might indicate Pendour needing help or bailing out from her dive. To Abzu, he offered, "well, only some of us, I guess. I don't get to do that."

Stromboli was trying to stop himself from pacing. It wasn't working. Talking about magic was distracting enough, however, so he tried to lean into that. "What do you get to do? Do you have any extra abilities you haven't told me about yet?"

Basiluzzo shook his head, leaning forward and craning his neck to peer into the water. "Nope, not yet." He crouched down, resting his elbows on his knees. "I'm extra fast, I guess, but that's just a Uranus thing. You should be extra fast, too." He leaned forward, using one hand braced against the ground in front of him to keep himself from toppling forward. "I think she has the orb."

His father breathed a sigh of relief, but the pacing didn't stop until Pendour's head broke the surface again. "Welcome back." He watched anxiously, however, until Basiluzzo reached down and offered a hand to lift Pendour out of the water. It was easy enough with how light she was, though the water did add enough weight that he used his other hand to lend a bit of extra lifting power.

Once she was back on solid ground, Basiluzzo grinned. "That was super cool." Stromboli didn't bother asking before reaching into his subspace to withdraw a blanket and handed it to her. It wasn't the basket of comfortable things he kept for her at the Bell house, but he hoped it would help. While Stromboli fretted, Basiluzzo turned to Abzu. "Maybe doing the resonating will be easier now that we're closer?"

stari_maga
Seiana_ZI

Amasis

Everyday Blob


staripop

PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:35 pm


Even when she was still treading water, Pendour smiled to see the Code in Abzu's hands, the light reflecting softly off of his face. Maybe it was strange to be holding something like that, something that should have been incorporeal, but it suited him. She could almost ell that it was the source of his power.

She watched even as Basiluzzo lifted her from the water, but she turned to offer him a smile, and a nod of thanks.

Then she turned to herself with a bit of a wince. With the light from the Code, she could see more of the beautiful area they were in, and here she was, quickly making a puddle in the middle of it. "I'm sorry I'm dripping on your amphitheater," she said, quickly moving to wring out her mermaid skirt the best she could over the water hole. She wrung out her hair, too.

She knew that it was Neptune. This place was probably not a stranger to water, but it wasn't a swimming area like on her own Wonder.

Stromboli draped a blanket over her, because of course that was what he was carrying around in his subspace pocket. She smiled at him, too, at the way he always was so kind to her.

He'd had a basket of things for her before she'd even officially moved in to his house.

"This helps," she told him. Usually she would have just powered down and back up again, but with the way their powers were being, that might have taken more energy than it was worth. "I feel it in my ears a little, but, um, hopefully I won't get sick?"

Sometimes pressure sickness came up later, didn't it? It wasn't something that she'd had to worry about before. If it did, she'd get through it, but she hod it didn't, so that she didn't worry the others.

"But you should be able to do it, now," she told Abzu, watching him. She wondered if she would be able to see something happen.


Amasis
Seiana_ZI
PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:15 pm


He hoped Pendour would be fine! He would feel bad if she had actually given herself the bends by dipping down into the water to retrieve this. He would have followed that up with he would have gotten it himself, but the whole problem was that he couldn't breathe the water...

No winning in that situation.

"It's okay! I promise, the floor will dry." Abzu snickered. "I think the amphitheatre will survive." Well. It would survive if he took care of the whole code out-of-sync issue. The code piece, that he was holding in his hand, that he needed to resonate with. Resonate by reaching out to it, probably. He probably needed to find a new place for this. Abzu couldn't just throw this back into the depths, considering he wouldn't be able to get back to it again until he enlisted Pendour for that.

... He'd figure it out later.

The problem, for now, was to deal with this.

"Y'all can keep exploring, if you want. Think I'll be here for a minute."

He hated meditation. Zoltan was always promoting meditation to settle the emotions, or maybe quiet the brain in general, but it was boring and honestly just made his brain louder. Abzu felt it already, really, the voices that felt like more than just quiet murmuring and instead an overwhelming wash that kept banging around in his ears unendingly--

-------------


"Sir? Sir!"

"Yes?"

"We have a guest here? They're from the surface. They ran in?"

"Ran?" Mito's gaze rose from his sheet music. "Do they seem alright?"

"No." His assistant fell back, putting his hands behind his back. "I think they need help. To run down the tubes to get to us down here, he might have been really trying to get away from something, and he seems panicked--"

"Calm down," Mito passed his assistant, rubbing his shoulder briefly with a practiced touch, as he moved beyond him. "I'll address this." His walk was calm, unbothered, as he regarded everything happening around him with a distant gaze. People interested him innately, and it was part of the reason why he loved his position as much as he did. Observing them, learning what made them tick, learning what made them creative and what made them bloom in that sense, what made them happy. What made them... fear.

Oh. This guy was legitimately terrified.

"Are you alri-" Mito was hushed by their newfound invader, who slipped around him to hide themself into an alleyway. Alright. Why were they--

Abzu was surprised that the man who ran in, and who hid, was not their only guest.

"Sir. You are the caretaker of this wonder, right?" The smile they offered him was perfect. Charismatic in a way that others might have envied. Charming in a way that might have charmed the pants off the right attendees of his wonder. "Have you seen another come through here? I've been trying to bring them back to their home."

... Why was he so terrified, then? "Home?" Mito tilted his head. Something seemed odd about the way the dim lights reflected off the other's eyes. "What is home that it would bring them so deep to get away from it?"

"I don't know." His smile in return was easy. "They have everything they could need. They're provided for well."

Provided for? "Are they your child?"

A pause. Something twitched in his expression.

"They are dependent."

"On?"

His lips upturned slightly, not quite reaching his eyes. "Me. Now, if you would tell me where they went--"

Mito found himself giving the other man a hard glance. He had a few choices in front of him. He could reveal the terrified person in the alleyway who had looked about ready to piss themselves. He could simply claim they weren't there and let this person keep looking, perhaps eventually finding success. He could go off his instinct. Why would this person be so terrified to run down to their depths if it wasn't for a reason? It certainly wasn't to participate in the artistic retreats, and he doubted it was to join the scientists. At least, not at this juncture.

Mito checked behind him, observing the pillars that the other had run behind to hide themselves.

"Is he back there?"

Mito's gaze turned back to the one speaking to him. "Patience, sir."

"I would like him returned to me, now."

Mito's head tilted.

"Returned?"

The other's expression ticked just minutely differently, then. The charm was replaced with another type of charm, entirely. One that Mito knew would be attractive to the right people under the right circumstances, but this one? This one had him advancing.

"No."

"... With all due respect, what rights do you have to interfere?"

"They're here, now. That makes them one of mine." Mito chuckled. "And it seems you choose to threaten one of mine. That would make you a threat."

"Threaten?"

"Did I stutter?"

"What is your name, sir? This is the Abzu Retreat, hm? Mito?" The man's head tilted. "You have a reputation. I'm sure you understand what I need them back for, hm?"

Mito didn't care to find out the name of the person he faced. He knew his people. He knew people. He could hear the way the man breathed at his advance. Goosebumps prickled his arms as Mito pressed his lips to the other's ear. "No, I'm afraid I don't. Please explain."

"I can certainly detail it if you'd like," was a returned purr, perhaps self-defense, perhaps feeling haughty about the whole thing. Mito didn't particularly care.

The moment he heard what he needed to hear, he pulled a knife out of his pocket and sliced it across the other's neck, shoving him to the floor.

"Pity. Sounds like your head is in the wrong place."

... And now to make sure this person was alright. Mito recalled where they had dashed off to, taking his time to pursue where they might have gone. A safe, hidden place, no doubt.

They had crunched themselves into a corner, hoping it protected them from view. They, who looked at him, like they would rather merge into the marbled floors below, never to be seen again.

Mito crouched down in front of them, reaching to touch their shoulder if they would accept it. "You'll be alright now. He can never hurt you again."

There was hesitance, at first, but they relaxed into the shoulder touch.

-------------


Abzu jumped, his eyes widening as he realized what he witnessed.

On one hand, he respected the decision. Honestly, he didn't even question it. The concept of what he was hearing chilled him. It was exactly the sort of thing that he would act in defense of. It was exactly the sort of thing he would put himself in the way of for.

... On the other hand, well.

Perhaps he hoped he had experienced that alone.

The Code seemed content, in any case, that he saw himself defending the land. Perhaps it was for the best.

"... Is everyone good out there?" Did they go explore? Elsewhere?

stari_maxa
amasxs

Seiana_ZI

Codebreaking Conversationalist


Amasis

Everyday Blob

PostPosted: Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:23 pm


Stromboli and Basiluzzo exchanged a look from where they were sitting on the ground. They hadn't gone anywhere, content to amuse themselves with their own thoughts and whispered conversation while Abzu did what he had to do. "Yeah, we're fine." Basiluzzo leaned toward Abzu, elbows on knees. "How about you?" Stromboli, for his part, moved closer to Abzu and offered his hand.

"You don't look like that was a particularly good memory."

Seiana_ZI
stari_maga
PostPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:23 am


Pendour's eyes fluttered open. Maybe the others had thought that she'd fallen asleep, but she'd tried to fall into steady breathing and meditate, herself, to give Abzu that emotional support, and then, well, something had happened.

"I, um," she looked over at him. "I saw it."

The blanket was pulled tightly around her shoulders, but her expression was as serene as usual.

Yes, she hated violence, with her whole soul, but she'd seen plenty of it, all the same. She wasn't about to get squeamish over something like that, not after everything else that she'd been through.

Yes, she would have handled the situation differently. No, she wasn't about to judge someone who had lived a thousand years ago from making a quick decision in what had been an awful and high pressure mess.

Abzu looked like he was carrying it heavily, though. Pendour's brows inched together. "Are you okay?"


Amasis
Seiana_ZI

staripop


Seiana_ZI

Codebreaking Conversationalist

PostPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:54 am


Abzu took Stromboli's hand without question, squeezing it lightly. "Suppose good depends on how you look at it. I did do my job. Glad y'all are alright though."

Aw, s**t.

Pendour was exactly the one he was hoping didn't see it. Not that he hoped the others would over her, but she was a pacifist whereas they weren't-

"I'm... Alright."

Mostly. It was hard to grapple with the fact he had just watched himself murder someone, and harder still the reason. What had ever happened to the one he protected? Where did they go from there? Abzu wanted to know more and also wanted to scrub the imagery of a partially beheaded guy from his mind--

"I did protect them. That feels good, at least." The murder? Not so much, but he did understand why he did that.

In the same situation, with no other option? He might have done the same.

"Are you sure you're alright, Pen?"

stari_maga
Amasis
PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:50 am


Stromboli moved to bundle Pendour tighter in the blanket, resisting the urge to 'tut' over Pendour and Abzu like an old woman. "Hey, why don't we get somewhere where it's warm and dry?" Basiluzzo echoed his father's sentiments, moving to get to his feet.

The sooner they moved on, maybe the sooner Abzu and Pendour could stop thinking about whatever it was they saw.

Seiana_ZI
stari_maga

Amasis

Everyday Blob


staripop

PostPosted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:03 pm


She saw the way that Abzu was looking at her, all worried, and she saw the way that he hesitated before saying that he was all right.

"I'm okay," she told them all. "Really." She let Stromboli tuck her in, but the blanket was more for warmth than comfort. It was true that some things set her off, but she could handle more than people thought.

She turned to Abzu. "If you want to talk about it later, we can," she said, soft as soft. There were things to unpack there, certainly, and upsetting things to soothe. For now, though, she made sure to say, "It was another life, though. Know that I'm not going to hold any of this against you."

There were ethical dilemmas to process, maybe, but they were ethical dilemmas from history. A shared starseed didn't change that. This was a new life, a fresh start. Michelangelo was his own person.

And even if Michelangelo had made those choices, she would understand. Maybe not approve, but understand.

"Should we go to Pendour next?" she said, standing, and thinking about how much they still had left to do that night. "Since we're already on Neptune?"


Amasis
Seiana_ZI
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:36 am


"I'd like that," he murmured, rubbing his neck, "but we don't have to, either, if you'd rather not think about it. We're talking about something from a thousand years ago." It was a thousand years ago but it was still sitting on his brain. Was the Code trying to show him that sometimes more extreme actions were justifiable, or was it just something significant in his prior life?

Perhaps trying to pretend it was some sort of moral lesson was a bit much for what it all actually was in the first place. It was probably just a significant event. Abzu figured that if Mito was still his same starseed, they probably had a lot in common even if they weren't quite the same.

"Appreciate you don't hold that against me, though."

Even if he wished she was feeling less of it. He offered an affectionate smile in Stromboli's direction attempting to tuck Pendour in more. Stromboli was an adorable man, honestly. He would tell Safira that, but probably not Luke himself--

"Staying on the same planet sounds like a good idea," he chuckled airily, a hint as to how much he was still in his own head. "That'll let us move gradually closer to Earth, even if it doesn't necessarily get us to drier land."

Not that it really mattered when they were this far away from the Earth in the first place, both conceptually and factually.

"Let's get going. This place isn't going anywhere."

stari_maga
Amasis

Seiana_ZI

Codebreaking Conversationalist

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