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 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.

[sakatree]

Except it's been what, a day maybe?

Even if the time hasn't passed 'now', if it was going to pass at all, then you'd have to go missing for a lot longer than the time between those points.

[Did any of that make a lick of sense.]

[revolutionfalcon]

And since when do you know how long this is going to last? [They were separated in Synchro on and off for probably a good week, though all the captivity made him lose count a bit towards the end.]

There's no clear reason we're here. So there's little point making assumptions about how much longer than a day we're going to be in this place.

[sakatree]

Well I know how long it was between Point A and B at home..!

But fine, if you want to wait around stressing out for no reason, I'll just get back to work here. [They'll see in a week, after all. Anyway, he'll be clearing those plants out now...] I don't know how long we'll be around.

What I do know is we're not alone, and we're from all stretches of time.

...That's a good sign of something that can pick and choose without causing ripples.

[revolutionfalcon]

[If a bird could snort derisively, Shun just made a valiant effort at it.]

I'm not "stressed". It takes a lot more than something this pathetically stupid to stress me out. [He's been on the battlefield far too much for that.]

And what makes you think it's "something", rather than multiple things or this place itself drawing us here? [With what he's seen since the start of the war, he'd believe anything at this point when it comes to interdimensional ridiculousness.]

[sakatree]

Whatever you say~ [He'll busy himself with clearing the plants into a pile. Ooooh this could make a nice bed...]

And come on, you think multiple sources are gonna be that consistent on the 'drag someone in, make them a 'pokemon' thing?

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun gives the plant a complete look of flat unconcern as his feathers spark up again in an implicit threat. He doesn't need to be dealing with so-called "wit" on top of everything else.]

That depends on how organised they are. It's far too early to rule anything out.

[sakatree]

Well then it's too early to get irritated about what we're missing, [he adds, nodding.] Anyway, this seems like it'll be fine...thank you for that torch job...~

[Oh man but this is COZY...sinking onto a pile of vines never felt so good.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun scoffs, turning away. He never planned to share a room with the plant, but he doubts he'll be able to make another room in this place without some serious honing of his fire abilities. That leaves very few options.

And despite that, his first instinct is to hop towards the door.]

Don't waste words.

[sakatree]

Nothing lost, nothing wasted-unless you think you're more exhausted for it...

[And ohhh..?]

If you need my help at least, I'm right here.

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun scoffs at the comment, not even really bothering to look back over his wing when responding.]

Why would I need your help? [Given he's just about to hop out the door, the logical assumption to make would be that he's not looking for anyone's help.]