1st Solo [video]
Aug. 13th, 2011 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whithersoevergo[In the darkness, a hunched figure appears near the fountain and the sound of a cello echoes over the network. The playing is precise and haunting, executed flawlessly until a single note is missed, then two, then there’s the sound of the bow being dropped and a scrape as the chair falls backward and the tall figure unfolds upwards, finally realizing that he's not where he was when he started the song.]
Saya?
[He looks around, movements as measured and precise as the music as the cello is packed away hastily. The figure stands again, turning, a pale, concerned face finally coming into view.]
SAYA! ANSWER ME! …Saya?
[He starts off in a direction, intent on something. Someone should stop probably him.]
[ooc: Pretend this is happening tonight, and just posted now because it's easier, okay?]
Saya?
[He looks around, movements as measured and precise as the music as the cello is packed away hastily. The figure stands again, turning, a pale, concerned face finally coming into view.]
SAYA! ANSWER ME! …Saya?
[He starts off in a direction, intent on something. Someone should stop probably him.]
[ooc: Pretend this is happening tonight, and just posted now because it's easier, okay?]
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Date: 2011-08-15 05:02 am (UTC)She doesn't catch the crack about the penthouse, at least yet, but she hms.]
Arriving? We must be ordering tonight.
[Which with Solomon was never a little affair. It seemed to make him happy though so she never breathed a word about how she'd be just as happy with a ridiculous amount of Chinese food as she would be with four-star cuisine.
She nods though.]
Just follow me then, it's not that far away.
[It's a testament to how many years they've spent together that she's just kind of falling back into routine. Her leading, assured he was following nearby.]
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Date: 2011-08-15 05:09 am (UTC)[He says it simply, with all the decades and decades of experience he has with it, falling into step behind her and to the side just as he always has. He makes sure to keep his eyes on the shadows, and on the streets, learning the layout as they go.]
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Date: 2011-08-18 12:57 am (UTC)Action;
Date: 2011-08-18 01:08 am (UTC)The strange fact that he also feels gratitude towards him for caring for Saya in this place only confuses the issue further. But for now... the location appears safe and Says seems to have no hesitation.]
You are comfortable here?
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Date: 2011-08-18 03:56 pm (UTC)[Then she pauses, smile slipping and voice lowering a touch.]
Haji... he's dead, isn't he? Not here of course but at home.
[She hated asking it out loud, in Solomon's own apartment, but she couldn't help it. No one else had ever come from home besides Diva. And that Diva was so big and pregnant, obviously from a time when Solomon was still firmly her Chevalier, that she wouldn't have had any answer for Saya.]
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Date: 2011-08-18 09:35 pm (UTC)[He looks around the apartment, getting his bearings as Saya speaks. He's never really cared much, one way or the other, where they lived so long as Saya was comfortable and safe, but this was... nice. Certainly nicer than the apartment David and Kai had secured in New York.
But her next question makes him turn to her, expression serious as he tries to decide what to tell her. But he didn't want to start keeping things from her again as he did when her memory was lost. The things he didn't want to tell her because she was so... happy.]
I believe so. During the fight with James, your sword pierced him. I can't imagine he survived. [He pauses.]
I am sorry.
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Date: 2011-08-19 03:40 am (UTC)[When had he ever failed to protect her, save during his absence the last time she awoke.
She mulls over his response, giving her head a shake when he adds the sorry.]
There's no reason to be. I did ask, after all.
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Date: 2011-08-19 03:49 am (UTC)[At all, frankly. She hadn't been thoroughly insensible to his offers or his feelings but... well, who had time for such? And what right did she have to such? At the time, she firmly thought none at all.]
Can I ask you for a favor then, Haji? Don't tell him, alright? A long time ago when I first arrived here, [she leaves out the 'first time' bit because it's unimportant] he wanted to know if he could help raise Diva's twins if we both ever returned home. He asked me very nicely if he could be a part of their lives.
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Date: 2011-08-19 03:58 am (UTC)[As if he'd do anything else. Telling Solomon he was dead or dying wasn't likely to accomplish anything other than create tension, and since Saya had to live here... he hadn't planned on saying anything anyway.]
I can imagine caring for Diva's children would be a priority for him.
[As it will be for him, he imagines, with Saya safe and hibernating. Assuming her earlier silence didn't portent his own death in which case... he hopes Kai keeps them all safe, and perhaps when Saya awakens, she can make him her Chevalier in Haji's place.]
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Date: 2011-08-19 04:09 am (UTC)[She laughs a little, moving further into the apartment. She comes to one particular door.]
Babies are a surprising amount of work! I never imagined it but... well, I never really tried to. You wouldn't think something that little would need so much looking after.
[Opening the door, she flicked the switch just inside. The room is a touch musty from being closed up but the bed is made and the room itself is clean. A light sheen of dust has settled on most of the furniture, save the cello sitting in one of the far corners.]
When I first came here, Solomon said this was your room. He kept everything in case you came back. I come in here sometimes to clean but that's more or less it... oh, and I play the cello too. Not as much as I probably should though.
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Date: 2011-08-19 04:37 am (UTC)Probably not. It's been a very long time since you had any regular practice.
[The cello is a mystery. It looks like his, but as he removes his case from his shoulder it is clear that there's another inside. He's tempted to take his out, compare the two, but what would be the point. It either is or isn't the same and the duplication would be no stranger than the fact that he's being told he was here before when he has no memory of it.]
You should take it to your room, I have no need for two. [Pause] And where is your room, Saya?
[Since he'll spend a fair amount there, he imagines, checking on her and the like.]
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Date: 2011-08-20 03:44 am (UTC)She glances to the instrument after a moment, considering.]
I suppose you don't.
[She doesn't bother to mention why she hadn't moved it before now, how the sound of a cello had sent her into tears for far too long. Instead she gives him another smile, slips round him out the bedroom door and to the door straight across the hall from his own.]
This one. Solomon's room is right next to yours and the other room there belongs to Marishka.
[Saya pauses there, giving a somewhat sad look.]
She left the City before I came back though. I'm afraid I never really talked to her much.
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Date: 2011-08-20 03:56 am (UTC)Who was she?
[The impact she had on Saya is obvious. There's regret there. Regret of a friend never known?]
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Date: 2011-08-20 04:03 am (UTC)[She notes quietly, voice hushed like she's gossiping here.]
I think Solomon was in love with her too. I mean, I don't know for certain! He really did seem to like her though, you know?
[Back to a more normal tone.]
I only talked to her once and saw her now and then. She... ah, didn't care for me much. Before I arrived here, there was another me. From around that year you and I spent away from Red Shield, just after Riku's death.
[She looks a sheepish now.]
I was so angry then. It's no wonder she hated me. I probably hated her too... or the other me did. It's selfish but I always wanted to make that up to her somehow. I guess partially to make myself feel better but...
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Date: 2011-08-20 04:13 am (UTC)You had every right to be angry, Saya, we all were. Riku was... a very special person.
[His brother, the only one he'd ever had. Truth be told, he had been looking forward to it. Ever since the young man invited him to dinner, he'd always taken care to regard Riku as different from other humans. Something more. That he'd become Chevalier, while he regretted the circumstances, he couldn't imagine anyone better for Saya, someone who could make her smile, remind her of the times when she was happy.
Something Haji knew he never could do. It would have been good, for both of them.]
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Date: 2011-08-20 07:41 pm (UTC)[She opens the doorway to her own bedroom. It's lightly decorated too, the windows open a touch to let in the evening air. The bed is covered by a myriad of stuffed animals, from cats to bears to dogs and such. In one corner, a guitar is settled on a stand as well.]
The anger was justified but not the way I dealt with it, I understand that now. At the time... well, you know as well as I do why it didn't matter much to me, right? All I wanted was to kill Diva and end it for good. That was my only wish.
So I was harsh to people who didn't deserve it. And while I was here before, those people were Solomon and Marishka.
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Date: 2011-08-20 10:06 pm (UTC)[He had enjoyed it, that time with Riku, while they were brothers. He actually... missed it. Walking over to the bed, he picks up one of the animals, examining it. He's never seen Saya with things like these, all the little touches that made a room... hers. Not since the zoo, and that was so very long ago. He wasn't entirely ignorant of her desires for normalcy, but it hasn't been a priority in so long...]
You have nothing to apologize for, Saya. Not to me. Not to Solomon.
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Date: 2011-08-21 07:09 am (UTC)Both of you are far too forgiving.
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Date: 2011-08-21 07:24 am (UTC)[His hand falls on her shoulder, giving it a reassuring squeeze.]
Did I wake you up when I arrived?
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Date: 2011-08-21 10:44 pm (UTC)[She reaches a hand up to his lightly. It's just so easy to fall into this pattern of chatter. Even during the hard times and the times when she spoke little, if she did speak? It was to Haji. And if she ever spoke of troubles, it was chiefly to him - when she ever spoke of them, of course.]
Huh? ... Oh! I was thinking about it.
[I.e. she was trying to avoid it. Even if she somehow mysteriously stays awake here, she still fears the possibility of going to sleep and just not waking up again for years.]
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Date: 2011-08-21 11:23 pm (UTC)[His hand falls to his side and eh starts for the door, intending to go back to his room. It should be easy enough to sneak back in to sit by her side awhile once she's asleep, then he'll be able to let himself think on what has happened. What it really means that Diva is gone and Saya is free.]
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Date: 2011-08-21 11:39 pm (UTC)[It doesn't take her long either to follow the advice, a heavy weight lifted from her shoulders that she didn't even know was there. Or had chose to ignore.
And thankfully she still sleeps like the dead at times.]