thebastion | Light years away from home, just my demons and I alone

Who: Rin Okumura and anyone else in the Bastion
When: After Groups A and B return and the Core is installed
Where: Near the apartment building
Style: [these fun things]
Status: OOOOPEN

[So hey. There's this girl. She's been in this place for a while, helped out with a lot of things, and today she got to help do something awesome! Cores are important to the Bastion after all, so that's a good thing.

Except she kind of... lit herself on fire and a lot of people saw it.

Anyone want to talk to her about that?

In all seriousness, Rin can be found after all that hubbub taking a break near the apartments, outside because she really doesn't want to be in her room right now. She's nursing a bit of a wound on her thigh from sliding on her legs under the bird earlier, but whatever road rash she got from doing so is starting to fade finally. Her sword is lying next to her in the grass, and she's just on her back, watching the odd sky above the Bastion quietly.

Mostly because her ears are still kind of ringing from what Crona did.

Ringing ears won't stop her from holding a conversation, though, if anyone cares to bother her, and she's in a decent mood given their accomplishments.]

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... yeah. Especially in cows.

[ Neither does Duke. ]

What you know how to, I think.

Cookin' only goes so far, and swingin' a sword around with flames is only good on enemies.

"Only goes so far".

[ Just raising an eyebrow at that. ]

I know that I'm no great cook, so its definitely good you're here. As for "only good on enemies", that just means you're one of the first people we'll look to - unless its lunch time or something - to go with us for searching on the Skyway. Maybe someone else will show up and not be good at fighting, but good at... taking care of places.

... I guess that's true.

Maybe its just me being awkward and saying that "being good at one or two things is fine, so long as you're not picky about attempting new things".

I'm not normally, no. I can be stubborn about a lotta things but I do like tryin' new stuff.

Stubborn is both good and bad, I've found. Get you into trouble and keep you out of it. But with how small of a group we have here, I think we're all going to end up with an odd skill list eventually.

That wouldn't surprise me. It's uh... for the greater good and all that, right

Greater good, survival, self-reliance.

[ The knight shrugs. ]

Right now, I think its probably all of them.

Mn... yeah. That makes sense.

[Rin lets out a sigh, shaking her head slowly.]

Yuki woulda been better all this...

[ Duke thinks on that for a moment. Would someone be better at this than the knight? Very likely. Brave Vesperia was better at dealing with age groups, but...

They weren't here.

Which is why the knight reaches over and casually shoves at Rin's shoulder with the intent to tip the girl over. ]

[Rin was still dealing with the effects of Crona's attack, and her balance was already compromised, even sitting up as she was. There was a wobble before she flopped backwards, partially do to the shove but partially because she just didn't care to remain upright after that.

Sorry, Duke. She's just going to lay there and stare the odd colored sky.]

[ The knight studies this behavior for a moment. Then there's a sigh and some knuckles against the side of the girl's head. ]

Yeah. It sucks, missing the familiar faces. But you know what? They aren't here. You are, they aren't, who knows exactly what happened. If you let it bring you down too much, then you start sinking. If you're sinking, then what about the rest of us, huh? We're a group now, all in this little floating island. We need everyone to stay afloat.

Yaaahh!

[The fist dropping on to her head gets a yelp and the end of her tail poofing out as she jerked back in to a sitting position. She listened, but not without a frown and her hands on the sore spot on her head.]

What if she's still out there though? I never found her statue--! ... Yuki is tough... she's the youngest certified exorcist ever, she could survive, but...

[But for how long.

It wasn't just Yuki not being there that bothered her, it was the fact that they hadn't found her.]

Then those peckers are edible.

[ Okay, so that's the first thing that came to mind. Something more serious takes another moment of thought. ]

What does this tell you?

[ Duke points at Rin's torso. Gut or heart, take a pick. ]

...

[The joke doesn't earn much of a response, but the motion at her does. She opens her mouth, closes it, and looks away with a pained expression.]

... that... even if she did survive... we woulda found her by now.

[She hated herself for admitting that.]

So unless you're a terrible pessimist by nature, I would listen to that.

[ The knight gives a thin smile. Somewhat sympathetic, somewhat 'just focus on other things'. ]

It will hurt, not being sure, or thinking them gone forever. But dwelling on it, that's not terribly good for you either. Would she be happy with you, constantly dragging yourself down because she ought to be here? Or, if miracles on miracles and she finds us, we find her, would she be proud to see you doing your best, pain and all?

Not... usually, no...

[She was pretty optimistic, actually. But her time in the Bastion had already jaded her regardless of how hard she tried to hide it.]

She'd... want me to do my best...

And whether its a memory or for when she shows up, doing your best would be for the best, yeah?

I'm not saying that sometimes you shouldn't take a good cry or something, just...

[ Can Duke find a way that isn't rude to word this. ]

Take all that energy that's going into feelings of.. being wrong, being worse, anything like that, and use it for doing .. stuff. So maybe focusing on everything else isn't the healthiest option, but... It works.

I'm not gonna cry.

[Huffiness aside, though...]

Not much else to do here, is there? 'sides focus on somethin' else.

Wasn't expecting you too.

[ In front of Duke, anyway. ]

Pretty much. Hold a seed of hope, but don't let it choke you.

Sounds like somethin' out of a book.

[Meaning what Duke had just said]

... It wouldn't surprise me if it was. I read when there isn't paper or foot-work to be done.

Oh.

[Rin... doesn't read much. Or didn't, rather.]

Light years away from home, just my demons and I alone

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