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Offline Tally

Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #40 on: October 30, 2011, 09:01:13 am »
Temple stopped and leveled a flat look at Cyrus.  He cast out a quick scan of the area—not with his eyes.  They were alone, this time, but he suspected the whole of Teinar would find out the military was keeping a Pilot alive through Cyrus's drunken bar proclamations some night.

He stepped closer.  He made a challenge of it.  Whatever he may have been before he hit his head, the him now didn't run from anything.  If he'd gone through his whole life like this, it was a wonder people like Cyrus hadn't killed him yet.

"I'll stop with the freakshow when you stop antagonizing me."

For good measure, he added, "Violet."
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #41 on: November 02, 2011, 06:35:36 pm »
"And I'll stop antagonizing you when ya--"

Cyrus cut off. It took him a second or two to process that the 'Violet' had been directed at him. In their last little argument, he'd sort of blessedly forgotten Temple's epiphany and had kind of been hoping he'd forgotten, too.

His face heated and he averted his eyes to try to hide them. Goddammit! He'd never be able to look the kid in the eye again now, fuckin' punkass.

"Ya can't use that word," he growled. "Doesn't work for me."
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Offline Tally

Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #42 on: November 02, 2011, 08:02:29 pm »
"Oh really?  Funny.  It works for me.  Violet."

He wouldn't even be saying it as much if it didn't bother Cyrus so.  That, and telling him he couldn't use it made him all the more determined to tag it on to the end of every sentence that left his mouth.
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #43 on: November 03, 2011, 12:59:20 pm »
"No, no, no! Y'see, it doesn't work 'cause it's my name for you and ya can't just go divorcin' it from it's original...uh..." Cyrus blinked, not quite sure where he'd been going with that. He soldiered on.

"Ya can't just go using your nickname on someone else! It ain't right. And violet's a flower, like pansy, and I ain't a pansy. You're the pansy...pansy."
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Offline Tally

Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #44 on: November 03, 2011, 11:46:58 pm »
Temple nodded along, like it was fascinating, like Cyrus was making valid and intelligent points.  Sometimes he got the feeling Cyrus called him things like pansy out of nothing more than principle.  An odd principle, but it still came out without any weight behind it.

"I'm learning so much from you, Violet.  Tell me more."
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #45 on: November 04, 2011, 09:47:08 pm »
Cyrus was more than willing to tell him more. His scowl deepened, fingers twitching with genuine annoyance. He had the feeling he was being mocked but wasn't really sure, exactly, what about. He was serious, here!

"There ya go again! Now you're just bein' a fuckin' punk! What? Ain't creative enough to make up your own names so gotta go and steal mine?"
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #46 on: November 04, 2011, 11:53:17 pm »
He stayed calm, because he had a feeling that would only goad Cyrus further into a fit.  "That is absolutely right.  I can't think of anything else, so I'll just have to stick with Violet, Violet."
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #47 on: November 06, 2011, 08:47:32 am »
Cyrus let out a string of unintelligible curses and threw his hands into the air. "God-motherfucking-dammit! No fuckin' wonder the other Pil--"

He clipped his words off just in time and shot a paranoid glance around the place. There was still no one around, but that sobered him a little so he lowered his voice. "Uh, piles of shit. Yeah. Was goin' somewhere with that just then. Probably that ya are one. Point being, fine. Fine. I get it. I see what you're doin' here and it's stupid."
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #48 on: November 06, 2011, 10:55:03 am »
He stepped closer to hear.  They were out in the open now, buildings on either side of them but with the roof of the cavern stretching up overhead, too far and too optically confusing for Temple to even judge its distance from him.  It seemed to suck up sound when you weren't yelling.

"I seriously doubt that."  He doubted that Cyrus "got" much of anything about him.  "Violet," he added.  He would get tired of that eventually, but not just yet.  Some part of him—and it must be a reckless part that craved death—wanted to see just how far he could push Cyrus.  There was a limit to this somewhere, and it would be handy to know where it was, but he was finding that Cyrus managed to surprise him often with some unexpected self-restraint.
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #49 on: November 17, 2011, 03:38:51 pm »
Cyrus grit his teeth and took a deep breath, because his first impulse had been to belt Temple one good and the kid was seriously starting to try his patience. It was like a little kid who had just discovered the word "why", only in this case it was a stupid, stupid nickname. But just like you couldn't really smack a kid across the mouth for being an annoying little twat, he couldn't, in good conscience, start wailing on Temple just for being a dipshit.

As satisfying as that would be.

He did allow him a couple seconds to fantasize, a couple seconds to rein in the urge, before he ground out, "Ya havin' fun yet?"
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #50 on: December 17, 2011, 12:39:55 am »
He had a fun time trailing along with Cyrus's train of thought.  It was almost impressive how he managed to restrain himself when he wanted so badly to clobber Temple then and there.

"Yeah, Violet, I am.  Isn't that something."  The really remarkable thing was that it was true.  Today hadn't been terrible, and he hadn't thought about how much he'd rather be elsewhere in...hours at least.  He'd forgotten he was supposed to be trying to get out of here.
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #51 on: January 05, 2012, 01:39:32 pm »
Cyrus shot Temple a death-glare that slowly turned into a smile. If flashing grit teeth could be called smiling. What was it Harmony had called him? Oh, yeah. Right.

Cyrus shrugged. "Whatever ya say, Princess. Anyway, we probably oughta be headin' back," he said, finally noticing where they were. In the distance, a section of tunnel had been blocked off and he recognized it as leading to the area that the earthquake and creatures had ravaged. He'd been there when shit had hit the fan and while everything was mostly taken care of, the area had been evacuated and closed off to anyone but hunters and the like.

"Shouldn't be hangin' 'round here."
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Offline Tally

Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #52 on: May 03, 2012, 08:09:58 pm »
So Princess was catching on as a name.  Just super.

"Why?"  He followed Cyrus's eyes off to a barricaded tunnel, and only just then realized how deserted this area was that they'd wandered into.  He could have read the answer in Cyrus's mind, but it might have surprised the soldier to know that psychics didn't listen in all the time, for a lot of reasons.  One of them was the need for actual conversation, the give and take of talking with another person instead of just knowing everything.
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #53 on: May 03, 2012, 09:02:36 pm »
"'Cause we just shouldn't. Ain't safe," Cyrus said and shouldered Temple as he moved past him in the opposite direction before pausing and giving the guy an odd look, eyebrow cocked.

"What? Ya mean ya don't...know?"
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #54 on: May 10, 2012, 01:32:14 am »
Temple gave Cyrus a shove as he jostled him, but he stayed where he was, eyes on the barricade.  His interest was what lay beyond, the structures and landscape torn by the earthquake.  Someone needing to get out of Teinar could make use of a place like that.

"What, the earthquake?  The incursions and the structural damage right?  What, are you saying Teinar's fine soldiers haven't gotten this place secure yet?"

He still had not moved, looking back at the tunnel, considering.
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #55 on: May 11, 2012, 10:57:43 pm »
"No, dipshit. I'm sayin' it ain't...stable yet. Not over there. We're fine on this side, Violet, but there's still some critters runnin' around--"

Cyrus paused when he realized Temple wasn't following along and turned to face him, one hand on his hip. "Violet? Ya comin' or what?"
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #56 on: May 12, 2012, 01:28:44 am »
Temple's eyes fell to the shackle on his wrist.

"Looks like I am."

If it weren't for that shackle and it's ability to kill him instantly, he'd have made a play for freedom a long time ago.  He would have risked the tunnel.

"You sure there's none of your...critters around here?"  He quite hated Teinar and its utterly patternless arrangement.  You couldn't see anything.  Blind spots above, below, around every corner.  Overpasses, underpasses, walkways that opened up over a void one minute and found themselves crisscrossed by arcing ledges the next.
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #57 on: May 15, 2012, 10:33:15 pm »
Cyrus slowly let out the breath he'd been holding. The way Temple had been looking down that tunnel, with eyes only for it--that was the look guys got before they bolted for it and for a second there he'd thought, maybe, the guy was crazy enough to do it. Of course, he wouldn't have gotten far; not only because of the shackle, but because of the elements.

He may be a Pilot, he may be able to fend off hordes of nasties, but he wasn't going to get far without clean water and breathing toxic air.

Cyrus gave a small shrug. "Yeah, positive. Me and the others, we put 'em all down. They never got this far. Over there, though? Well, might be a straggler or two, but the earthquake, it made everything all unstable. Gotta worry more 'bout the place cavin' in. It's all--"

He cut off. A sound caught his ear, the sound of shifting rubble from somewhere beyond the tunnel. Cyrus froze. It could be anything; it was unstable so the ground and piles of crap were still shifting and settling, but it was sometimes hard to tell if that's all it was--or if it was something more deadly.
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #58 on: May 17, 2012, 11:13:17 pm »
Temple heard it too.  Felt it, even, in the soles of his feet and up into his legs.  The trembling of earth.  He was suddenly aware of all the solid rock suspended above him.  For something so immense, this cavern could mighty delicate under the right circumstances.

He picked up on Cyrus's thoughts.  "Was that a quake, or...?"
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Re: Late night noodles
« Reply #59 on: June 02, 2012, 10:45:30 am »
The sound was growing and the tremors, too, and it struck Cyrus abruptly--but far too late--that this wasn't just earth settling; it was the sound you heard just before a quake.

By the time the thought struck, the earth was shaking in earnest, rolling beneath their feet--not a large shaker, not enough to knock you off your feet, but enough that the already unstable ceiling above began to rain down chunks of rock and dust. Cyrus let out a curse and gave Temple a hard shove. "Whatcha think, fool? Go!"
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