Finding a House in this Market is... HARD....

[sakatree]

WHO: Hatsu, and YOU
WHAT: Hatsu's carving his room outta the ice! ...Probably.
WHEN: ONE DAY A CALENDAR...WILL EXIST.
WHERE: Sealeo Inn
WARNINGS: Noneeeeexcept for Hatsu's mild cursing. Bad tree.

This way mister, end of the hall is over here!

[Finding the Inn in Illumina wasn't especially difficult. Outside, it was an enormous building carved right from the ice, with strings of lights moving directly up to it. Inside, it was also rather simple. There was a dining hall, a number of rooms available for rent, an office...

...And plenty of space for more, or so he was told. Sealeo had sent their daughter as guide when Hatsu came in, and he was now following a rather eager little one that was literally rolling around with a torch in her mouth.]

Ahaha...you might want to calm down kid, that fire is kind of...

Yeah make sure you don't touch it mister, you're grass type!

Gr- [There were types?! Before he can so much as ask he's shown a wall, the torch somehow slipped into a hook at the side.]

Here you are mister! Just carve yourself a room and it's all yours!

Er...carve..?

Yep! Good luck~!

AUHHHeY HEY WAIT! [Hatsu's shouts fall on deaf ears-or rather, no ears at all, as the spheal has long since rolled off back down the hall by the time the phantump can start protesting. In her absence, he's left turning back to sigh at the wall.] ...Right...let's get started I guess...

[..........................

....About a few hours later, cursing can be heard from the hall.]

COME ON BARELY A CHIP!?

[Along with the sounds of something hitting the ice.] AUUGH I'm giving it everything I've got just. CRACK. BREAK. SOMETHING, I need a room!

[....]

Come onnnnnnn...

[.....]

OOOOHhhhh this would be SO much easier with my guns..!

[This is not going very well, as one can see.]

Comments

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun skims into a landing and flaps his wings a little to ensure the fire goes out before he watches the ghostly plant do his own work. The way the seeds shoot out and nail the ice with near pinpoint precision is telling as to how much experience Hatsu must have had with the "guns" he mentioned, and the sound of plants moving through and cracking the ice is a surprisingly satisfying one after the trouble of trying to figure out how to set himself alight again.]

If this was what you were trying to do earlier, what made you think firing the seeds with guns rather than on your own would do a better job? [Because at this point he certainly doesn't think the other was referring to actual bullets - that would have been a waste of time against a wall like this.]

[sakatree]

Because my guns, [he emphasizes without thought of the implications,] wouldn't need a headstart like that.

Hell I could probably get a proper forest going in there with those things, [he mutters, crossing his arms.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[And that entire comment combined with the previous tidbits is what finally makes Shun peer at the ghost plant a little differently.] That sounds powerful, even for a gun. Unless it's something to do with what you were talking about earlier.

[Even if they could make guns that powerful, why would they shoot seeds? Going back to the shadows or the "gloves" they were discussing in the city seems like the better guess to him.]

[sakatree]

If you're worried about it being in the hands of the general population, it's not, [he states coolly, covering his tracks.]

Not even most 'Doctors' and 'Officers' can match that kind of strength.

Of course~ [he adds with a more 'cheery' tone,] If you were far enough in time to talk to Yuuto again, you'd know why~

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun's feathers seem to rise in irritation at that last comment. "Cheery" is one way of putting it, but to Shun it reads more like a taunt, or at the very least an unnecessary flagging of information not known to him yet.]

Are you done reminding me of Yuto's disappearance like it's funny to you? Or would you rather rub it in some more?

[For such a minor comment, his tone is awfully acidic.]

watch it be more like a year G OD

[sakatree]

[Oiii oii.]

Eugh. You make it sound as if he won't be back-he might be gone at your time point but he's back before the week is over you know..!

[revolutionfalcon]

[Yeah, because that's specific at all. Especially given he doesn't recall discussing where exactly in his time he came from with this guy.]

And exactly what week is this? Because it's already been longer than that. [Not by much, but still.]

[sakatree]

Well I'm assuming you're at least far enough to have been driving a d-wheel for a while...

[...Just before they go to XYZ he figures? Shit he should have checked this stuff from the start.]

[revolutionfalcon]

I am. [His tone is a little cautious there. Despite this being a future Yuya of some description, he's still rather leery about revealing too much about his time and circumstances to anyone, especially since he's not so much the best of friends with Yuya regardless.]

[sakatree]

Then in your own time, you'll be seeing him within the week, [he says with a more calm tone, looking back to the mess of plants clearing out a block of ice.] But if you ever want the more grim spoilers of things one day just ask where he was in the first place, how's that?

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun eyes him a little suspiciously, but relents and looks over to watch the plants as well. He doesn't have the optimism to believe that he'll see Yuto again properly that soon, regardless of circumstances.]

I've already "seen" him once. Seeing him and having him return are two different things.

[sakatree]

Hn! [There is a snort.] Then look at it this way-you'll be seeing him in person, physically, whenever you head back.

Whatever brought us here obviously knows how to rip apart the timestream after all..!

[revolutionfalcon]

[That point does make Shun frown a bit, in as much as a beak can make that motion.] That's another thing. Someone from home should know we're missing if we got brought here.

[Let him pretend it might be a dream instead of an actual thing that's happening for a few moments, at least.]

[sakatree]

Maybe...

But as far as my memory says, you never left.

[revolutionfalcon]

[Which is strange, because in his dimensional travelling experience, time still passes when you're in-between dimensions.]

You were talking just now like you know something about timelines. [Maybe it's done something to time, but he wouldn't know, not having experience in that area.]

[sakatree]

I know enough that we shouldn't be in the same spot at once..! I'm from years ahead of you you know!

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun almost scoffs at him. Figures he doesn't actually know anything substantial.] That's obvious. Don't talk about the strange things this place can do to time if it's the part of it that's utterly plain to anyone here.

[sakatree]

Right, so what do you think that means if I don't remember you going missing at any point? [He's trying not to take offense from that almost scoff.]

[revolutionfalcon]

You could be remembering things wrong, for one. [So he might be intentionally misunderstanding that particular comment, but the sanctimonious plant kind of deserves it.]

[sakatree]

I'll pretend not to be insulted by the fact that you'd think I could just 'forget' you were in an area.

When I knew you were there, you weren't exactly hiding-unless you forgot how much of a 'keen eye' I had around then, [he adds, clearly intending for that to mean 'none'.]

[revolutionfalcon]

I never said I would've been hiding from you. But there's obviously a clear distance between our times, and memory isn't always reliable.

[Having forgotten what he was fighting for at least once before this, he knows that more than most people. And they haven't exactly been together for all of the Friendship Cup, either.]

[sakatree]

Hiding, no, but it's still pretty hard to ignore when you're around-and my memory is fine when it comes to 'who was there'!

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun levels a very unimpressed look at him.] And when do you think I'm from? Either you spent far more time with me than I can remember ever happening, or there's enough gaps in your knowledge to allow for something like this.

[They've only been here for less than a day so far, after all.]

[sakatree]

I wouldn't say much for how long...

But I definitely wouldn't forget a bunch of raid raptors carrying everyone to the stadium...

[revolutionfalcon]

[Except last he remembers, he was running through the city with none of the other Lancers in sight, so that's not much of a reassurance to him.]

Good for you. That still doesn't account for lost time and separation, even assuming you are remembering right.