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[Day 196 and 197] Seconds march into the past [OPEN
Who: Everyone!
Open: Open
When: Days 196 and 197
Where: Skyway
What: The last locations have arrived
Format: Any
Warnings: N/A
[Call it a strange sort of intuition, but when more locations were found out on the Skyway, Zayna couldn't help but feel like that was the end of it. Maybe not for good, but it just seemed sort of... final, the way things were arriving.
She didn't really speak this thought aloud to anyone but Zulf and her father, showing the new sketches to the residents of the Bastion once more without too much insight in to what was on her mind.]
Open: Open
When: Days 196 and 197
Where: Skyway
What: The last locations have arrived
Format: Any
Warnings: N/A
[Call it a strange sort of intuition, but when more locations were found out on the Skyway, Zayna couldn't help but feel like that was the end of it. Maybe not for good, but it just seemed sort of... final, the way things were arriving.
She didn't really speak this thought aloud to anyone but Zulf and her father, showing the new sketches to the residents of the Bastion once more without too much insight in to what was on her mind.]
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Another reason he was grateful not to have his home on the Skyway.
"Shall we, then?"
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"Do you have the map? How do we get there? Is it terribly perilous?"
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"I suppose if it is we will have to be doubly cautious? It is not in a very dangerous place, nor is it surrounded by many territories of more dangerous creatures. I should like to think it will not take long and will not threaten our well-being in the slightest. I imagine the worst part will be the traveling, honestly," he offered, reaching into his robes and withdrawing his copy of the local area maps and the marked spot where the ruins were supposed to be, walking while they spoke.
"Its here, and covers this entire area. If we can retrieve anything of value more the better. If not, it should at least be somewhat cathartic."
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"It's pretty big, huh? To think Hikaru and I only got a single room..." A big room, certainly, with plenty of spaces to explore, but still… "So plant cuttings and scrolls and… anything else we can find? I mean, it's not that far, we could possibly manage to bring things back in a couple of trips if we find a lot of stuff…"
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"Your music room was a special place filled with memories. It made it bigger, in many ways, than Izumo could ever be."
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…because that would be kind of gross. He was hardly going to be throwing strangers' skulls around. Or touching them. Or even looking at them too long.
"…but you said Izumo was a village, right? I'm sure it's full of memories, too, just… not our own." Getting petty about places on the Skyway being bigger or smaller was probably not a good thing. They were all precious places to someone, after all, even if those someones were not necessarily living in the Bastion.
(("Even wish". I went a bit Japanese schoolkid on you there XD))
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"My primary motivation, really, is going to honor the dead and possibly the last piece of my world that exists. It is my duty to see this done. Nevermind any personal motivations."
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"…no loss is laughable. Even when the scheme of things is so vast."
Of course, Izumo would still have been wiped out in the Calamity, even if the Mikado hadn't already done the job. But in some ways, oddly, the Calamity was a little easier for him to accept than the idea of humans killing humans.
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"Shall we be off, then? The sooner we leave the sooner we can return. I would not want to take you away from your brother for longer than he finds tolerable. His acceptance of me has more stipulations than I can bother counting."
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"Mmm. Sorry. We might have been there already if I hadn't stopped us," He gently tugged Seimei along again. "Let's go and do this, then, shall we? So that Hikaru doesn't get mad at you for bringing me home late or something."
"…he'll relax those conditions eventually, I promise."
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"You know, I do hope we find something though. I would like to have a genuine artifact of my time, not some replica bought with shards."
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It was hard enough just sacrificing their closeness until Hikaru got comfortable with the idea of Them - he even had to fight the urge to be selfish sometimes.
"I hope there's something there for you," he squeezed Seimei's hand lightly, "We brought enough stuff back from our own world - it would be nice to have something of yours. Do they keep many artifacts in Izumo? Or… well they might not have been artifacts then, but they are now…"
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…wait.
"…you're saying that threesomes were common in your time?"
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"It was not uncommon at all, however, to support the entire family of one's lover, provided you have the wealth to do so. Gratitude comes in many forms, I suppose. I myself kept a very solitary life and never had men or women in my private company. I never entertained the idea, really, in fullness. My status would have afforded me quite a lot of leniency, socially, should I have chosen to keep more than one - ahem, if you will pardon the vernacular - catamite."
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Kaoru himself didn't particularly care either way what other people did in their bedrooms, but it was strange how in his world - if not necessarily his country - people could be so progressive and accepting about some things, but not about others.
He couldn't help but chuckle at Seimei's other comment though.
"...when you use that word I automatically try to imagine you as a lecherous old man and it just doesn't fit."
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"And to be fair, considering my preferences, even with the allowances it would be somewhat scandalous, and there would still be expectations. I would have to marry and have to have heirs, regardless. Though generally, as high as my rank is, or was, it would be the Mikado who chose my wife. It would be unlikely I had any choice in the matter."
[ Want to do a few more posts to whittle down the conversation and then time-skip the travel to Izumo? ]
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A frown clouds his features for a moment. The idea of arranged marriages never sat well with him. It was not a practice in his own family but for a lot of his classmates, the prospect of being pushed into a 'sensible' or 'advantageous' union for the sake of their family was very real.
((sounds good!))
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"Kitsune are ageless, but I am only half and there is no precedent. Not insofar as I know, personally. There are stories of half kitsune men and women, but none of us communicated personally and there are rarely tales of their lives at length. By the same token, there are no tales of their deaths, either."
Shaking his head, Seimei returned his gaze to the path ahead, keeping an eye out for places ensuring their footing.
"what are you thinking of that makes your face so grim?"
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"…it doesn't happen so much in my world, but in my society it does. I have schoolmates whose engagements are already planned out, or who know that, when it does happen, it will proceed like a business transaction. I just... don't like the idea of someone ordering people around as to who they should marry. I don't care who they are."
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"It should not trouble you so, now. This is a world where those old laws are mere stories. When the Bastion grows enough to sustain future generations, I highly doubt there will be anything put in place determining who must marry one another. Though repugnant as I find the idea, I might suggest voluntary coupling without commitment for the sake of bolstering numbers, but that is hardly a concern at present. We cannot afford the care and protection needed for children now. We can barely protect ourselves."
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"It stands to reason, though, in families like the ones I was surrounded with, that those values would never really disappear. Since they've been around for all of those years..." After all, commoners didn't really care since they had little to no hope of getting into high society without the head-spinning wealth to compete with the other families.
Probably just the same as in Seimei's time.
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"Did you, or do you, want a family of your own?" he asked, tilting his head and keeping his eyes on the path ahead. "Before, I did not. I was not...Hm. I did not think passing on my legacy was a good idea. I had a very difficult childhood and any enemies of mine may have become enemies of my child. Now...now my only concern is my lack of ability to raise one. Ah, well. That and the actual having of a child, but there was always adoption."
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He couldn't help smiling a little at the shift and leaning into it, gently running his thumb against Seimei's fingers.
"…I was still figuring a lot of that out, to be honest. I guess… I don't know. I mean, I like kids. Kids are cute. But at the same time…" …he was not sure how best to put it.
"I think part of me is scared that I could never accept anything that isn't... well, part of me. Or part of you. Anything that isn't a part of me-and-you. I mean, assuming it were to happen some time in the future. That might not be the case but what if it is..."
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Now the world was potentially right and he had fallen in love with a man. would wonders ever cease?
"I would try to reassure you and say you were young, but by your age many young men were already well on their ways to starting families of their own. I am completely out of the ordinary," he chuckled, shaking his head and turning to press a kiss into Kaoru's hair.
"Are you suggesting I try to find a way to make the impossible possible? I would, you know. There is nothing magic cannot accomplish, given the will."
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