found you [OPEN]

[theguideless]

Date & Time: Sept 30 - Oct 6
Location: all over the danged moonbase
Characters: Martin, all sorts of folks
Summary: He's not a lion he can talk to people now
Warnings: BUH...





Martin had barely found his footing on solid ground before it was settled on stranger tiles. Yet stranger things had, and would happen, wouldn't they? He stressed little on his own behalf, only wincing and worrying on behalf of others. His friends...the old and new. He couldn't have warned them, could he? Not with the deal he had made. Simply being around others turned out to not be enough.

And those others...He couldn't wait to see them. To speak to them! To understand, better than what a cat's ears and nose could spell out, how they've endured. The scale and scope of their stay in this place still hadn't wholly formed in his mind, still so used to working step by step, piece by piece.

He wandered, often too brisk, at times distracted by the sights outside, and sought those familiar things out. The nature of the base only frightened him for moments, easily forgotten in the face of what he was really after.

Where are they?

Comments

OCTOBER 5

[fintastic]

[ As it turns out, it is super easy to miss an entire person for an entire week. But Feferi has been busy; if she hasn't been scuttling about trying to see to everyone else she can find who looks like they need help, it's stay back in her new "room" (read: her commandeered storage closet) and making it nice and cozy.

She almost misses him again, turning one corner as she turns another, but she catches enough to pique her interest and give chase, however short it is as she slips around the same corner. ]

Martin?

[theguideless]

[he's not as quick to realize there's someone worth taking a second-glance for, not when she's moving around with a purpose like she is. so he stops with a start when she zips back into view and calls his name.

he turns and looks over his shoulder, eyebrows shooting up with surprise.

oh! that's...]

Fe-feferi...

[fintastic]

[ Nope, that's it, she can't even try to contain herself, and bounds up to him to throw her arms around him. Hopefully he likes big hugs. ]

You're here! I haven't seen you in forever, where did you go? You made it!

[theguideless]

Fe–! [oof! even if he didn't want a big hug, he's got no chance to escape, let alone protest! he staggers a little, stomping a foot back to keep from toppling right over.

he gasps a breath, then laughs, lifting what he can of his arms and hugging her in turn.] I was! Looking for you, Feferi!

[fintastic]

I didn't even know you were here, or else I would have been looking for you!

[ She gives him another squeeze before she backs off a little, to give him an appraising look over. ]

Did you get bigger? You're taller than me! Not counting the horns, anyway.

[theguideless]

A– huh? [taller? he blinks.] Oh...maybe? [that's what Koltira mentioned, anyway.] I'm not really sure, but... [hey, it's either that or Fef shrank.] But that's alright, isn't it?

[fintastic]

Well, I didn't give you permission to get so tall, but I guess it's okay! Where have you been?

[theguideless]

[he's a little slow to blink and squint at permission, but he hardly dwells on it. it's the other question he's trying to think on, now.]

I...Well, it's...a lot to explain, I think. [his mouth twitches. aha...] But I was here – with everyone, I mean. For a little while. But not like this. [he gestured up and down himself.] I had a different body.

[fintastic]

Really? What kind of form? We should go sit down somewhere, you can tell me all about it!

[theguideless]

Al-alright. [she never really makes it possible to argue, even if he wanted to. he's easily led along, in any case.] And– you can tell me, too? Where you've been...I was looking for you before...

[fintastic]

First I was kidnapped, and then I was helping get people to the moon. You know how it is!

[ There's a bench not too far down a hall, and she brings him there, seating herself and patting the spot next to her. ]

Nothing super exciting though. What about you?

[theguideless]

[he's hesitating only because he's staring at her, trying to process the unexciting times of kidnapping and spiriting people away to the moon. heck, being on the moon hasn't wholly...processed for him yet; everyone is here, doing fine. the backdrop's just weird, like odd wallpaper.

but he shakes out of it and sits down, fidgeting a little.]

Oh, uhm...well... [WELL...] I, we...Bariyan and I. We vanished. And then...I got called back. And I couldn't be a boy anymore, so I was a lion.

[fintastic]

I noticed he was gone...

[ She's pretty sad over that, but what can she do about it? ]

Why couldn't you be a boy? Why did you have to be a lion? Did being a lion make you taller?

[theguideless]

Ah, uh– [he scratches at his arm, trying to shake the weight of Bariyan's mention.] I couldn't...The one who wanted me here didn't...[grimacing.] Didn't want that. So I had to be something different.

[fintastic]

I wanted you here too! But I would want you to be whatever you wanted to be, even if it was a lion, or a boy, or whatever!

[theguideless]

[smiling:] I'm glad! I'm glad... [nodding faintly.] It's why I can still be here, after all.

[fintastic]

Why you... can still be here?

[ Why is he so weird! Most humans aren't this weird! ]

[theguideless]

[he nods, his head ducking down sheepishly as he does.] That's how it works now. [a slight pause.] I'm not a Darkov anymore, so it's...not the same as everyone else, being taken from other places. I'm... [he frowns, squinting. his hands lift and gesture feebly, trying to give the words shape.]

I'm something made here, now. In a way. Because people want me to be here.

[he's looking at his hands for a beat. the looks at Fef, eyes wincing, wondering if he's making any sense at all.]

[fintastic]

[ She has that look of someone who really desperately wants to understand but is just failing to grasp it, but it softens a little with the look he gives her. ]

Well, I want you here forever, so you don't ever have to worry about that!