thebastion | Day 174 | [CLOSED] The pictures in his mind arose and began to breathe.

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Day 174 | [CLOSED] The pictures in his mind arose and began to breathe.

Who: Yukio and Rin Okumura. Possibly Bon later?
Open: Closed
When: Day 174
Where: The Skyway, in that convenient chunk of True Cross that's still lingering.
What: Siblings are reunited. Put on your hard hats, this can't possibly end well.
Format: Action
Warnings: Hurting of the brain meats. Probably language. And, of course, Rin.

[This was impossible. Completely unthinkable.

Yukio closed his eyes for a moment and took several deep breaths, trying to still the trembling in his hands and block out the unbelievable world around him by focusing on the things he knew to be true. The things he remembered. Falling down the funnel and into the darkness below, hearing the snarls of approaching zombies and the frightened shouts of his team (his students, his brother), and then... nothing.

He opened his eyes again, but nothing had changed. Those unreliable organs were insisting that he'd fallen through the floor of a shopping center and into... another shopping center. But there was no ceiling above, not even the pipe he'd fallen through. Only sky, and all around scattered chunks of rock and concrete leading to a street that Yukio had once known like the back of his hand. A street that should have been hundreds of miles from Inari. Not that something so trivial as distance would matter in a place there the ground was not actually the ground, but pieces of land suspended in mid-air by nothing.

He shook his head. Impossible.

He tucked his flashlight away, but kept his gun at the ready as he carefully ventured toward shops that were both familiar and strange at the same time. Where was his team? Where was he? If this was supposed to be True Cross (no, it couldn't be), where was everyone? What sort of trick was this?]

... Is anyone there?

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[Incinerated or killed by monsters. If that's true, then that means... that means everyone Yukio's ever known is most likely dead. The priests back home, his students, his brother-...

Nope. Not going there. Not yet.]

How could something like that happen without us remembering it...? It doesn't make sense! [His voice lowers and he glances in the direction Rin fled, caught somewhere between anger, confusion, and growing sense of guilt that he can't explain or control. He shouldn't feel guilty, should he?]

... I told her I don't have a sister.

[Because he doesn't. Or didn't.]

[Bon is definitely frowning now. Weren't you listening to him, Yukio?]

Of course you don't. The Rin we know is your brother. But that Rin is a girl, and the Yukio from her world is a girl too. And there's probably more people who got switched like that too, we haven't exactly gotten around to discussing it yet.

And as for no remembering the Calamity, well, time gets distorted out on the Skyway. That's about the best answer we have for that.

[Well he can't exactly change what he said now. :\

Haven't gotten around to it?] How long have you been here?

[Because if he's judging by Bon's hair, then it's definitely been a while.]

[Give him a moment, he has to think about that.]

About...four-ish months ago. Maybe just over four months.

[Yeah that sounds about right, it was right before they found that one core.]

Four months...

[Four months on a floating rock after the end of the world and all Yukio can remember is falling down a hole.]

How can we be sure this really isn't some sort of trick? Or a hallucination?

[Because he really wouldn't put it past the Illuminati. He can't imagine what they could accomplish with it either, but it's not as if their motives make any sense anyway.]

[He understands why Yukio would be hesitant to believe him. There are so many demons out there that can cast illusions, that can change how people perceive the world. If Yukio couldn't remember any of the last six months, or somehow ended up on a warped piece of the Skyway that didn't experience time the same way others did, then of course he wouldn't trust what Bon was saying.

Proof should be enough though, right?

Wordlessly, Bon unbuttons the cuffs at his wrists, and then rolls up the sleeves of his shirt, all the way up to his elbows. At a first glance it might be hard to tell what he's trying to show Yukio, since those particular injuries are almost entirely healed, but if Yukio looks closely he'll see patches of skin that are a slightly different color from the rest of Bon's skin, running from his wrists up his forearms in a pattern like spreading fire would take.]

I got these about a month ago. They're not from anything that happened back at the academy, they're from something that happened here, out on the Skyway.

[Yukio is a Doctor, so Bon is hoping that seeing injuries which are in-line with what Bon is describing will be enough to convince him.]

[Yukio moves closer to get a better look at the marks Bon's showing him, eyebrows furrowing in concern. They look like burns. Or what were burns, and they're fairly convincing evidence... or they would be if Yukio wasn't still toying with the idea of this all being some sort of trick of his own mind. If this was all a dream or something similar, anything could happen, right? Bon could be green with yellow polka dots if his subconscious felt the whim, so why not burned?

But he's not going to press the issue again. At least not out loud, not right now. His initial burst of anger has passed and, real or not, they're not going to get anywhere by standing here arguing all day.]

... So what happens now?

[That's good enough for him. He rolls his sleeves back down once Yukio is done inspecting his arms.]

We survive. There's monsters everywhere outside the Bastion, and we're still trying to repair this place and get it back to how it's supposed to be. The guy in charge of repairing this place, he said that something should happen once it's completely fixed, but he didn't go into details.

So until we get there, we keep ourselves alive, and try to find others who lived too.

[Just "something"? That's so vague that Yukio can already feel irritation rising at the idea. He can't seem to go anywhere without people withholding information, but finding and questioning the guy in charge can be left for another time for now.

He glances in the direction Rin fled once more.]

... What about her?

[Because he sure did bunk things up with Rin immediately, and he's still not really sure what to do about it or where to go from here.]

[Bon looks in the direction of the hospital.]

...I can go talk to her. When she's calm you two should probably talk again too.

[AKA apologize and try to get along.]

She'll probably want you to stay at our place, there's one more free bedroom there if you decide you want it.

We were attacked on the Skyway. She really should have someone check on her wounds.

[Sorry for unintentionally ratting you out on your early morning adventure, Rin, but Yuki figures that Bon should know if he's going to go after her.]

... Thank you, Suguro-kun.

[...damnit Rin. They're going to have to have a talk again, aren't they?

Bon just sighs in annoyance when he hears that Rin was out on the Skyway again. Though it's good that she was out there after all, since she found Yukio in the process.]

It's nothing, you'd do the same for me.

We live in the tall apartment building, in 5B. If you want food, go over there- [He points to the Distillery.] -and ask around. We've been pooling resources instead of having everyone cook for themselves, since anything besides fruits and vegetables is pretty rare here.

[What else...]

Oh yeah, there's dragons living here. Don't attack them, they're friendly.

[Welcome to Yukio's world, Bon. Prepare to spend the rest of forever trying to keep Rin from doing all the things.

He tucks all that information away for later use, though he's not sure just what he wants to do yet. The information dump has left him anything but hungry. Maybe he should just have a look around the Bastion. Talk to some more people, check things out for himself.

The mention of dragons earns Bon a raised eyebrow, but after everything else? It's not all that shocking. Not when you come from a world with demon whale gods and you just took your first trip on the wind.]

Ah. Alright... Are there many?

There's two with human intelligence, who live out on the huge field by the apartment buildings. The rest are small and more like dogs than people.

[So yes. There's lots. But yes, Yukio exploring and talking to people would be good too.]

[Well that's... kinda weird, but it really says something about the kind of day you've been having when little wandering dragons are the least strange thing around.

Yukio nods.]

Thank you for telling me. I think I'm going to go have a look around... Find out a few things for myself.

[Bon nods in return.]

I'll come by later, in case you need anything.

[But for now, he's going to go check on Rin and make sure she's okay.]

[Probably a good idea. She can bandage other people just fine, but getting her own legs where the injuries were the worst is proving difficult.

He'll find her in the hospital on a bed, opened gauze and other supplies scattered around her and a few stained bandages already tossed to the side along with some bloodied towels.

She's not crying but she's pretty damn upset.]

[Rinplz

When he sees Rin there, he wordlessly goes over to start bandaging her up. He's not as good at it as Yukio is, but it'll probably turn out better than any attempt Rin herself could make.

Also he's being quiet, to see if Rin will say anything first.]

[She's not going to argue with him on that, and she's equally as quiet as she lets him take over.]

... I grew up there. If it'd been Kyoto you'd probably wanna go back, too.

[Lame excuse, but its the only one she can come up with.]

I know.

[Hum de dum, focusing on bandages right now. His voice is actually calm right now, because talking with Yukio gave him time to get over being angry.]

You could have asked me, though. I would have gone with you.

You were asleep. I... couldn't. I tried to sleep last night but I couldn't. I just keep thinkin' about it. About what we found...

[Oh no Rin noooo don't think sad thoughts.

Instead, as Bon finishes with that bandage, he'll try to bring Rin's focus onto something else.]

It looks like you found something else there, today.

[Sad thoughts. :c ]

Tch, yeah...

[She's not exactly happy about that, Bon.]

Thank you, world. I really wanted a reminder that I shouldn't be here.

I don't think the world is trying to tell you that.

[Now he's moved on to cleaning up the dirty bandages and other supplies.]

Maybe it's trying to tell you that the True Cross you found isn't your True Cross.

I know you're tryin' to make me feel better but the way everythin' has gone here, it's not exactly givin' me a lotta confidence in that whole "I survived over other people" thing...

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