reach the residents

[ximilian]

● ● ● REACH THE RESIDENTS

For any questions you want to ask Viveca or Degar and receive an IC response, please direct them here. Please indicate in the subject line who you are trying to contact.

// VIVECA

Hi, what can I help you with?

// DEGAR

Today was gonna be the day, but they'll never throw it back to you. And by now, you should've somehow realized what you're not to do.

▶ NAV

Comments

[stationmaster]

[ degar reaches out to take the sword, accepting it from finn.

it feels ... heavy in his grasp, but then he was never much of a swordsman even while he was in the peak of his hero days, preferring small blades, his magic, and his lute. mostly his lute.

right now it all just feels weird. ]

If he did, he had a really funny way of showing it. [ there's no bite to degar's tone. it's really more just ... tired.

there are probably a hundred more things he could say but all he does is find some flat table surface to lay the sword down, blood and dirt and all, and turns back to look at the kid. ] You okay?

[heroooic]

[It's a tiredness Finn recognizes, for all it scares him too. A weight was draped over the man, it was obvious from how he moved through the energy-charged air that permeated through the orb room. An anxious need to relieve that weight somehow is all that buzzes through Finn's mind watching him; equal parts desperate to help and completely clueless as to how.

What else was new?]

Me? [The question surprises him out of his own train of thought, answering with semi-automatic breeziness:] Yeah, man. Always.

[What else was new?]

Are you? [He hesitates, nervous.] Um, okay, I mean?

wow i'm so sorry for the delay

[stationmaster]

[ he's not sure he buys it, but far be it from him to argue with anyone just trying to fake it till they make it — or however the saying goes. and finn might be young but he's every much a crew member as the next person here, he and viv recruited him after all, and he deserves to feel whatever he feels without anyone pushing back against it.

degar's smile is wry and it doesn't quite reach his eyes either when he nods. ]

I will be. [ and it's not a lie either. ] I have to be.

omg don't worry!!

[heroooic]

[ The sentiment is appreciated and shared. Finn smiles back, mirroring the man's tired energy. Unlike Degar though, his smile did seem genuine enough. He'd done what he came to do, for both Degar and for Jun, whatever it was worth to him.

He holds up his hand in a truncated wave; a bit of an odd sight, considering how caked in blood he still was. ]

Heh. Yeah. We all got your back, dude. [ Finn's smile tightens a little at the corners in wordless parting, drawing himself together as he turns back down the corridor. ] And if you ever want to talk about him, I... uh, well, you know where to find me.

[ Empty offer or veiled hope? It's hard to say, and Finn doesn't stay long enough to watch Degar's reaction, already turned to trudge down the hall toward the sunlight room. He had his own thinking to do. ]