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ɢʀᴀɴᴅᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ᴋᴜᴀɪ ʟɪᴀɴɢ | "SUB-ZERO" ([personal profile] paletteswap) wrote2019-06-21 11:39 pm
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callada: (solo soy distractor)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-11 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Barely past where we usually meet the ferry. It wasn't even that dark out where they'd gone yet, I still had clear sight of them. They weren't up all that high yet either, maybe a couple hundred feet.

[High enough to fall too hard, though. That's for sure.]
callada: (this is definitely going in my writeup)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-13 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Well, we know light's a problem. Knew about the river. But because the harbor is safe, I'd thought the lake would be something a person could travel on for at least a little while. Thought the worst that could happen was getting lost.

[A deep drink to that toothy bullshit out there. He should probably explain, though, because Kuai keeps asking about Stone and Bodhi and they're important too but they have nothing to do with his own unfortunate discovery.]

Dunno if it's like this everywhere but past the peninsula lighthouse, the lake has fish. You know what fighting fish are?
callada: (solo soy distractor)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-15 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't fishing.

[An odd assumption, he thinks, but all right. He eyes the drink in his glass.]

I was with Jason. The blond kid. We were sailing just to explore, thinking maybe we'd find more of the town. Fish came up underneath us - big ones, lots of teeth. They chewed right through the boat in seconds.
callada: (beware the silent observer)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-16 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Jason made it back. I didn't have time.

[Not that he can swim, anyway, but that deserves a good stiff drink all the same.]

Harbor might still be all right, but at some point the lake turns more hazardous. Didn't think right by the museum would be so bad but now we know.
callada: (never believed in reading the leaves)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-17 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods yes to answer. While drinking, because sometimes he just pulls dumb shit like that. Ends up spilling booze down the front of his shirt, which he really should have predicted, then sputters in trying to recover himself and some small amount of dignity. Hmph. Well, he'll try his best to dry off and then wipe the table with a napkin before refilling the glass and continuing as if that hadn't happened.]

A letter, huh? Might be the church spirit, since that's the one who brings people back. Needed the lantern to put his soul back into it. I wonder how it gets around without people noticing?
callada: (se siente bien estar aquí)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-17 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Not sure? He fumbles through his coat pockets for his tablet, then sets it on the tabletop. Let's answer this the way he's so rapidly become accustomed to. Don't mind him fiddling with it, Kuai - he's listening, but he's also flipping through screens to find the network contacts list.]

Aziraphale talks to it sometimes, I think. Maybe ask him if he knows how it gets around.

[Or, Rosinante might ask the angel himself anyway. It's interesting. After a second or two more, he turns his tablet and pushes it toward Kuai.]

His tablet is registered as "subzero", right? Shows him still there so at the very least his access hasn't been canceled yet.
callada: (lurk moar)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-20 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Bi-Han. So the mystery shadow man has a name. He could have asked him directly, but he's never felt all that compelled to try to get to know the guy. Sometimes it's worth it to act benevolently toward such people if there's a benefit to be had from their cooperation but Bi-Han doesn't seem likely to offer him much of anything he wants.]

I see. In any case, the spirit isn't on the network, no. I think the ones who have spoken to it just left it notes and gifts in the church.
callada: (se siente bien estar aquí)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-21 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Who, indeed. He'll let Kuai wonder, for he has no idea. A spirit? Maybe. One of the others? Honestly just as plausible given his brother's personality. Self-defense. But he's not going to say that aloud.]

I've never seen the church spirit fully, no. Just a glimpse. Its hand slipping through the trap door. If you're quick enough to open your eyes you can catch that much before it leaves. Nothing more, though. I'd ask Aziraphale, if I were you and wanted to know details. If he doesn't know them personally he might direct you to someone who does.
callada: (this is definitely going in my writeup)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-23 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know.

[An unusually blunt answer from him as he knocks back more of his drink and lets the glass settle heavily on the table. He didn't come here to think hard thoughts. He'll do it anyway, though, but damn.]

Better than chance. We're doing what we can. But I can't just make up odds when space monsters are out there coming to turn out the lights and we don't know the first thing about how to tackle them.
callada: (never believed in reading the leaves)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-25 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[He silently raises his drink in a toast to that, then gulps some of it down. Already time for a refill, he's going through it too quickly, but it's hard to find the effort to care. He's tired still, a sort of lingering exhaustion more than any result of being underslept; and besides, it takes a lot for a man his size to get drunk.

Though it's starting to take effect, slowly but surely. He can tell, because the things that come to mind that he wants to ask about are things maybe best left alone, but he's damned well going to ask at least one of them anyway. If it gets awkward, he can blame it on the alcohol, it's an easy scapegoat.]


You and the other Grandmaster, Hasashi. You were together, weren't you?
callada: (se siente bien estar aquí)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-25 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[He's known for a while, he thought. Suspected, certainly, but the kind of suspicion that doesn't actually really need confirmation. It's sweet, though. Maybe bittersweet, given the circumstances.]

Wish I'd gotten to know him better while he was here, but he seemed to keep to himself. Not that I blame him. Dying isn't an easy thing.

[He refills his glass, and hovers the bottle near Kuai's. There's still whiskey if he wants it; otherwise, plenty of other things to drink at the bar.]
callada: (sit and wait a while)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-27 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
I guess he would, given the nature of your world's Netherrealm, but yes. This is still different.

[And he can't imagine it ever gets easier. He's died three times himself now and only the second time was quick and painless. Wouldn't it be nice if they were all like that? But he doesn't mention it, not wanting Kuai to have to remember exact circumstances of his - ... boyfriend?'s death.

The world feels more appropriate for young people, but oh well. It's staying in his own head.]


Sorry, this probably isn't helping any. We all have people we miss, though, and sometimes it's nicer to think about those good memories than the things around us here.
callada: (just the usual heroics)

[personal profile] callada 2019-12-31 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
They were.

[He had braced himself for Kuai to ask about his own good memories from home and was already sorting through ones safe to talk about, or ready to invent new ones as needed, so it's a relief when instead he decides to focus on their current surroundings. Yes, good choice. Much preferred.]

Mary is a lot of fun to have around. One of the first things she did was insist we put our handprints in paint on the door to the room we share. Every time I see how much smaller hers is, I smile.

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