A visit to Alexandria.

[3rdangel]

Mikoto has been almost overly cautious in picking the time to confront the younger of her brothers. She'd waited until she was certain Regulus had recovered, found suitable Gaian style clothing, and had the Mages arrange for transportation from their Village. They could PINPoint there, thus avoiding too many guests at the Desert Palace.

Mikoto has already dressed, and is in the sitting room of Kuja's former quarters.

So is Regulus, but he's still glancing over his clothing options with a look that, under the initial calm veneer, hints that he's more than a bit disbelieving that there are people who actually dress this way in public. It seems to have almost rendered him incapable of speech. He gives a particularly incredulous look to a wide-brimmed red hat with a big white feather in it. "Rather... foppish isn't it?"

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[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

Move on? Telrim winces - or perhaps Natasha does, and the Yeerk with her. That's a dismissal, not advice - it hardly ever works as anything else. How could it now, when Mikoto's pain is so fresh? The Genome's strong-willed, but she's no Yeerk.

She backs off, frowning and keeping in the knowledge that there is plenty to be done about it. Zidane doesn't need to know, and as far as she can see he won't be any use. Yet. The Controller glances toward the Magelets, wondering if she can put that eager exploration to use in a minute or two. If even a couple of them were to wander off into the castle, everyone else would be needed to track them down...

[3rdangel]

Regulus has managed to make his way all the way over to the other side of the room, while trying not to look like he did so to avoid being too close to Mikoto and Zidane for the moment. It would seem he's had some practice at this.

"Miko..," Zidane starts, but a glare from the other Genome gets him to shut up.

"As to the first... I've had access to recordings of your encounter with Kuja shortly before Terra's destruction, however there were issues with the sound." She avoids telling him directly that Garland's half of the conversation simply did not record. After all, what she wants is confirmation as to whether there was any message from Garland at all, or if Kuja had been having auditory hallucinations. Either could explain the one-sided discussion on the recording. "I would like to know what you heard shortly before Kuja entered Trance."

Zidane's tail flicks and he looks out a window as he replies. "No one else heard anything... Like when we went to Oeilvert. It sounded like Garland, but I don't understand how. He said something about how Kuja's victory didn't mean anything." Zidane's face screws up a bit as he tries to remember, "That he could never build an eternal kingdom because he was going to die. He was only supposed to last until I was old enough to replace him."

Mikoto nods slightly, it was what she had expected. And she couldn't help but note a certain relation to her second question. "And you still plan to stay here, with your little Gaian queen. Did you learn nothing at all that would make you reconsider that?"

"No, I didn't," Zidane says without hesitation. "Mikoto, the only memories I had of Terra were of a weird blue light. Anything I learned, anything I could learn won't change that. Gaia is my home. And if what I am causes any problems for me and Daggar in the future, well, we'll deal with that when it happens. I'm not going to ruin now thinking about things that might happen in the future. I got over that before I came back."

There's a Magelet peeking out the door now. It probably wouldn't take much to nudge them into exploring further.

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