☈ strike #13 (action / voice)

[thestormishere]

[ Today, Lightning's doing something fairly unusual in comparison to her normal - and recently even darker than normal - behavior. For once, she's outside and yet doesn't seem busy, merely watching as her puppy Baldr frolics about in the general area of community housing 4 in search of sticks to defeat, things to dig up, and nearby people to greet. In fact, the young woman and dog look pretty safe to come 'visit' with today- especially since there's also no gunblade in sight, and as she sits down to lean against the outside wall, she makes a pretty inane-seeming public message. ]

These seasons... usually last about three months each, right? How much warmer does it get?

-- Filtered to Sigmund --

Sigmund. About earlier... when and where?

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[thestormishere]

[ And Lightning doesn't quite look away yet, even when Baldr comes to stand between them- Lightning's instincts are pretty good, and she can't quite shake the feeling of something strange going on, even when it's dismissed. ]

PET? [ The puppy doesn't seem to have any problems, though. Lightning blinks, coming back to herself suddenly ]

-- Oh. I guess.

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[winged_moon]

[Yukito's grin brightens, and he crouches down to be more on the dog's level.]

Maybe it was just some kind of strange deja vu moment. I'm Yukito, by the way. Tsukishiro Yukito.

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[thestormishere]

Hm. [ Her gaze falls finally, lashes obscuring her eyes with unusual ease. Meanwhile, Baldr steps forward, tongue lolling out in a puppyish grin. The weirdness has gone right over his head, obviously. ]

Lightning.

[ Just Lightning. She's not really in the habit of tacking her last name on the end, even if she did still go by it in the military. ]

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[winged_moon]

Nice to meet you, Lightning-san.

[No, there's something about that name that's familiar as well. Not just the unsual wings, but something else, something that Yukito suspects comes from Yue given the odd change in the sense of the guardian's presence in the back of his mind. For a second his eyes unfocus, as though he's trying to remember something, but then he returns his attention to the puppy and holds out a hand.]

How long have you been here? Since before Christmas, I'm guessing, but....

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[thestormishere]

Half a year, by the calendar used here; mid-"November."

[ And that... that is just depressing. ]

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[winged_moon]

Oh? Then we arrived at around the same time!

[It probably doesn't really mean anything, but he seems intrigued by the coincidence.]

The village isn't that large, so we've probably seen each other in passing before, I'd imagine.

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[thestormishere]

Probably. [ Not the best at conversation, this woman. Her eyes are down as she idly pulls a seed-pod of some sort out of Baldr's fur. ] I'm pretty sure there were quite a few people in that particular 'cycle.'

[ And like he said, it's not like the village is all that big. Lightning just... doesn't really pay much attention to the others there, unless there's something particularly notable about them. ]