Let's be war buddies...

[initiates]

Date & Time: 18th, beginning at 2100 hours, through to the 20th.
Location: All around Exsilium.
Characters: Everyone!
Summary: The United Earth decides Exsilium had obviously not learned its lesson back in October, and does another round of humble-making bombing for those impertinent exiles. OOC info can be found here.
Warnings: Violence, death, general gloom and doom.

The warning had gone out approximately two hours before the bombing began, broadcast to any available receptor on the island: UE aggressions incoming, bombs expected; please proceed to Catacombs immediately. It repeats over and over, right up until the first bomb, aimed at the Hold itself, silences the signal.

The air is thick with smoke and worse. Every one to two hours another bomb shakes the island. Buildings crumble and shatter, but the focus is on the Hold and the native hospital. Initiative employees, some sick as anyone else, are steadfast in their escorting natives and transports alike into the underground catacombs. For two days the bombs continue ceaselessly, dropped by their cloaked and invisible carriers overhead.

The United Earth is nothing if not thorough.

Comments

[hiddendepth]

How brave... [A pause, though, as she tries to remember the faces of those she saw at the party.

Not many, considering how she was staying holed up in his room.]

Which roommate?

[wilder]

Don't admire him too much, he can be a real idiot sometimes about it.

[Seriously, kid has like no survival instinct sometimes]

Allen. Uh, kid with the white hair? You remember him?

[hiddendepth]

[Raising her hand, she whaps him lightly on the arm. Not too hard but enough to draw attention!]

Don't speak of your savior like that! You thanked him, didn't you? [Tell her you don't have as much pride as you act like Zelos!!!] ...I do believe I may have spotted him, but we've never spoken.

[wilder]

What? Heeey!

[WHY ARE YOU WHACKING ME TOO? WHY DO THE WOMEN IN MY LIFE ALWAYS HIT ME?]

Of course I thanked him! But I've still had to heal him enough times to know he's an idiot!

[hiddendepth]

But did you really thank him, or did you simply say the words as a formality? Idiot or not, you can't take it for granted!

[Hmph!]

I know I properly thanked my savior!

[wilder]

I cook for him! Trust me, that's all the thanks he'll want!

[And wait what]

Your savior? Wait, did someone help you out?

[hiddendepth]

Cook for him...?

[Kind of quietly, and to herself. Hmm... Maybe she could try that later too!

But for now.]

Ah, yes! I hadn't mentioned that yet? Emil saved me just as things got horrible.

[wilder]

Uh yeah, Cheria and I share the cooking in our place.

[DON"T KILL EMIL SELES OH GOD]

Oh? Emil did? [WHOA HEY]

[hiddendepth]

He did.

[She's got so many feelings on this matter that her tsun personality is balling them all up and they just come out with her looking very... serious about it!]

A bomb had gone off nearby, and soon enough the ceiling above my room and hallway had mostly collapsed. Emil was the one who found me and helped guide me to safety!

[wilder]

[Whoa, she looks really serious about it! He must have done a lot, Zelos is impressed]

Really?

Wow, I didn't expect him to do that- talk about a hero.

[hiddendepth]

...Like out of a book. And after only just meeting me, as well...

[O-oh gosh that was a little too much, and her cheeks might flush the slightest bit, but she's quick to brush that away, clutching her purse and holding it in front of herself.]

Anyway! Are you going to be able to get back to your room like that?

[wilder]

[Uh wow Seles, if you weren't his giant blind spot when it comes to picking up emotions, he'd say you were crushing on him pretty hard!!]

[Fortunately for Emil's balls, he doesn't pick up on it and just...decides to go with the topic change because that was weird]

Uh, I live on the first floor...?

[hiddendepth]

Luckily enough, but that doesn't change the fact that you'll have such limited movement! Are you going to need help? [Are your roommates secretly butlers tell her they are so she can feel at ease]

[wilder]

[Accepting that he needs help is awkward even if it's from Seles- no especially because it's from his baby sister. And so here comes the snark]

Why can you lift 150 pounds?

[hiddendepth]

[She frowns at that, looking away quietly first. Maybe she could. She'd find some way to help, at least. Why did he have to be like this?

And she finds she has no idea how to really argue around it, either. Maybe it's pointless of her to insist he needs help when she can't even give it properly herself.]

...There's no need to say it like that. Can't one of your roommates be of any help?

[wilder]

[Annnnd he instantly feels bad. Do not want to hurt sister's feelings ever]

...Sorry.

[he'll rub the back of his neck] Once the bombing's over, I'll see if I can get some crutches. That'll make it easier.