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you've been acting awful tough lately

Date & Time: The 8th, from 12pm - 3pm
Location: Outside town
Characters: Nill and YOU
Summary: Nill promised to meet an anonymous person on the network, and has decided to send smoke signals with cigarettes to find them. Also action spam.
Warnings: None! Will be updated if needed.

[It's a strange day that finds Nill smoking during daylight hours, but one way or another she's found herself doing exactly that. Small promises made and easy modes of identification, she supposes - she'll end up going through half a pack by the end of this, but it's worth it if she can actually manage to help the person she promised to help.

Even so, it's not difficult to tell that it's a strange sight, a blond girl bundled up, sitting on the trunk of a fallen tree beside one of the better-known ways to town, just... smoking. She doesn't appear to be going anywhere, apparently comfortable where she is, though she smiles at anyone that spares her a glance while they're on their way. She'll be there for most of the early afternoon, from noon to about three, and will welcome anyone that feels like sitting with her.

Hopefully it won't decide to snow while she's sitting there. It's cold enough out as it is, and a new layer isn't going to make her stay terribly pleasant.]

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[Coming back from town is Kano, a small bag of groceries in hand. It's nice to be able to find little treats to bring back--wooden toys, some good meat. He doesn't expect to see Nill on his way back, but he greets her with a bright smile anyway.]

Hey, hey~ It's a pretty cold day, isn't it?

[Even Kano was out running errands today, huh? It's kind of refreshing to see him with groceries, even if it's not a great deal. She's so used to guys who neglected to do these things, less because they don't want to and more because they just frequently forgot. Her own expression brightens considerably.]

At least it hasn't snowed yet today. Are you heading back?

[Kano'd been bad at menial tasks, even back home. Most times, he walked off on his own or let Kido handle most of the housework. Down here, though, he's been pulling his own weight. It wouldn't be fair towards the Dan if he didn't.]

Some more snow'd be nice. It's a nice sight at night, I'll tell you that.

[He sits beside her, the bag crinkling softly as he did so.]

Anyway, anyway, I'm in no rush. I got time to kill before Kido bugs me again.

It is really nice at night. Even when it's not snowing-- if it's not too cloudy out, the moon makes it very bright outside.

[She'd know. She tended to smoke most at night, if only because it was when she was the least busy. At the thought, she takes another drag from her cigarette, but as she's exhaling she realizes that's not terribly polite with Kano sitting there, and she has no idea what his thoughts on smoking are. She coughs, and quickly waves the smoke away from him.]

Ah-- should I put it out?

[Kano opens his mouth, about to answer, then stops as if considering something. He didn't mind the smoke at all. In fact...

He holds out a hand.]

Nah, it's fine. Actually, actually... let me try it.

[Ah. She's reminded briefly of the boy who had walked past her earlier in the day - maybe an hour or so ago, when she could still feel her toes. "You know that's not good for you, right?" And she had known, sort of, and she knows she probably shouldn't introduce Kano to a habit like this. At the same time... one cigarette won't get him hooked, and their lives in worlds like these were short.

Nill takes a drag, before passing it over to him.]

It will probably burn.

[He's surprised that she doesn't try to persuade him otherwise. With a slight smile he gingerly takes the cigarette. He hasn't smoked before. He normally wouldn't think of it, since he didn't want the smell clinging to him constantly. But things have been strange and unsettling these past few months, so another act out of the norm wouldn't be anything special.

It's horrible. When he breathes in he feels like he's tasting something foul. Kano coughs, shaking his head as he passes it back.

Give him a moment.]

... never mind, never mind.

[kgjhdakjh oh no. Nill instantly feels a little bad, but at the same time she can't help but giggle, if a bit sheepishly. She takes the cigarette from him, and pats his back twice, briefly.]

I'm sorry. I should have given you better warning.

No, no-- [cough cough] --it's not Nill's fault...!

[He waves a hand.]

I was too curious for my own good. I admire your iron tastebuds now.

I still don't like the taste very much, actually. But I'm used to it.

[She takes another drag, but like last time she's quick to wave the smoke away to spare his poor lungs.]

Are you okay?

I'll be fine, I'll be fine. [He glances her way with a small smile.]

What're you hanging around, looking tough for anyway?

I promised to meet someone here.

[Her wings would flutter if they weren't stuffed into her jacket. As it is she just looks a little embarrassed.]

Do I look tough?

[He giggles a bit.]

... ah, no, I take it back. Nill's too cute to be intimidating in any form.

[kano u lil shit. Nill doesn't really look any less embarrassed, but she doesn't look bothered, either.]

Thank you?

[SHE HAS NO IDEA WHAT TO SAY TO THAT, AND IT SHOWS... people don't usually go around calling her cute.]

[Kano can tell by her reaction. It makes him laugh, loud.]

Well, well, there's no need to be shy about it! Acting like that only increases Nill's charm.

[HOW DOES SHE DEAL WITH THIS. Geeze, he's--]

Worse than Yosuke...

[Except, she hadn't meant to 'say' that, and it shows about five seconds after she does.

HGKDJAGHD]

[NOPE. NOPE TOO LATE HE'S LEANING IN]

Yosuke? Who's that, who's that?

[LEANING AWAY THE SLIGHTEST BIT... Kano why this.]

He's-- someone I need to get back to. I haven't seen him in a long time.

[Not the right version of him, anyway.]

[Ah. He gets it.]

Ah~ For a moment there I thought he was someone else to you. Well, well... [It's unlikely, but--] ... once this is all over, you'll be able to see him again soon enough!

He's very important to me. I promised him I wouldn't leave him.

...I don't know if I will get to see him again when this is over.

[It's super unlikely, and she knows that much. She appreciates the attempt at reassurance though, even if she doesn't look totally comfortable. At this point... Kano already knows she's a telepath, and that she can use a gun, of all things. What's the point in skirting around this topic?]

We aren't from the same world-- and even if we were, I haven't been to my world in a long time.

[At that Kano's smile slips to one more subdued. He understands these sorts of promises.]

... I see, then. If that's the case... both of you were taken from your worlds to a new one. Right? So seeing him would be a difficult task.

Right. ...If I include my own world, this is the fourth that I've been to.

[She smiles, and takes one more drag from her cigarette, before dropping what's left of it (mostly filter) near her shoes.]

But I made a promise. So even if it's unlikely, I'll keep moving like this until I go back there.

[The fourth? That gets a surprised look from him. He's heard of people stopping at a world before winding up in Exsilium, but he hasn't thought that it'd be possible for someone to be taken to so many places.]

... ah, Nill? How long have you been traveling?

[It's a difficult question to answer. Not because she has an issue with it - in this case, she doesn't. She's just not totally sure of the answer, between various time shenanigans and the years being different in different worlds. The easiest way to answer it is probably with her age, but even that's... difficult.]

The last time I was in my own world, I think I was fifteen-years-old.

Right now, I'm about twenty.

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