♘ The Twenty-First Move.

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

[Emil's out enjoying the weather; in the end, he decided not to go on the exploration trip. Watching all the animals out and about reminds him of all the young monsters he made pacts with back in Aselia.]

I wonder how everyone's doing back home...

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[wolfisdumb.livejournal.com]

[Have another animal strolling around, hands in his pockets. :|b ]

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

[rofl. You stand out far too well, Fox.

Emil squints his eyes, leaning closer just to see if he's not dreaming. Sure he's had his fair share of monsters back home, but this animal-thing is different.]

He-Hello.

[He doesn't exactly know if it can talk, but he's curious.]

[wolfisdumb.livejournal.com]

[Fox catches onto the boy's staring before he speaks, but he looks like he's used to it by now.]

Hey there.

[He takes a hand from one of his pockets, giving Emil a lazy wave.]

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

[He quickly waves back.]

Taking a walk?

[wolfisdumb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's nice to be out without worrying about messing up the fur around here.

How about you?

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

[chuckles a bit]

Ah-- Well...I-I think I fell asleep while I was lying out here. Thankfully, I don't think anyone noticed.

[wolfisdumb.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with that, unless you've got somewhere else to be.

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

No, not really. Ever since the exploration trip began, I've been pretty free, but I know it's not really an excuse to stop my studying and training.

[wolfisdumb.livejournal.com]

Where are they going, anyway? Everybody just kinda.. upped and left. Or that's what it looked like.

[pkfightinglove.livejournal.com]

[this is actually Lucas approaching the animals and is apparently talking to them]

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

[Sees what you're doing there, but not really.

He gets up and walks over to him.]

Hey Lucas. What are you doing?

[pkfightinglove.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was talking to the sparrows. They're not real conversationalists here.

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

[blink, blink]

You can talk to animals?

[pkfightinglove.livejournal.com]

Some of them... It's a little hard to explain.

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

O-Oh. That's still pretty neat though.

[pkfightinglove.livejournal.com]

Sparrows at home used to have a lot of tips and news.

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

Hmm? What sort of tips?

[love-alice-chan.livejournal.com]

[Oh hey, it's his fan.]

There's no point in worrying about it too much.

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

Hu-Huh?

[A bit shocked, he didn't think anyone could hear that. A bit more surprised, it's Decus who heard it. He shuffles a bit.]

Yeah...I know. I just can't help but think about it sometimes.

[love-alice-chan.livejournal.com]

From what I heard, time stops in our worlds while we're gone, so it's not like anything has changed there.

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

True...and it's not too bad here either. Well...putting losses and world changes aside.

[love-alice-chan.livejournal.com]

I could do without the losses, but the rest of it isn't half-bad. I wouldn't mind having ghosts to wait on me back at home.

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

They're still a bit creepy though, being ghosts and all. But they fit in with the surroundings well, and I guess that's really what matters the most in the end.

[love-alice-chan.livejournal.com]

So what would you rather have instead?

[eightpacts.livejournal.com]

Instead of ghosts? I...don't really know.

[pauses a bit]

Maybe something less intimidating?