finalflight | PSL; [FLOWER, STARDUST, STEEL EXPLOSION]

Really?

[ except... maybe the readiness with which that text comes offsets how quickly aerith had gone from hey-i-might-have-committed-theft to sorry-for-bumming-you-out.

but honestly, that's a lot of leeway to give her. ]

When do I get to see you?

Really.

[He won’t break his word to her. Not about this, something he would want just as much if pressed to truly admit it.]

Two weeks’ time. Can you be that patient?

I guess I have to be, won't I?

[ but!! because she's getting tired of giving up - ]

What if I sneak out now?

Do I at least get to see your face? For two minutes tops!

Could you manage it without getting caught? I wonder.

I wouldn’t tell if you did.

It would be easier with a chocobo...

[ because, back then, she really had a lot of fun, frolicking in the flowers with him.

but... there's a reason why she was so boring as to suggest racing sephiroth across the facility and those random sectors halfway through that sim run. ]

How long do I have until you have to move again?

I don't know.

[That admission comes with a slight delay, as though a knife slicing through the airiness of the conversation's prior tone.]

Scheduling fluctuates depending on war. And war is never as controlled as Shinra would like for it to be.

[Though perhaps with Sephiroth flung on the front lines, like a weapon of mass destruction, he might be the force to transform it into something deeply in their favor. That seems to be the hope, a buzzing promise that he seems to embody to all those who look upon him.]

When it's over, I'll have more time to use as I please.

You wouldn't let me sneak onto the van going out, will you...

As though the company would allow it. They really would take you for a laboratory escapee.

Oh.

But you'd allow for it? :)

My authority will begin and end in Shinra’s military. Ideally.

I have no purview over you, but if I did, then yes. I would.

Hmmmmm...

I think the trail of your outfit might be long enough.

[ which begs two very important questions:

1. how does she know what he's wearing? and,
2. long enough for what? ]

Long enough for what?

[Indeed.]

My disappearing act, of course.

You're going to be a magician's assistant today. Lucky you.

PSL; [FLOWER, STARDUST, STEEL EXPLOSION]

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tags from beyond the grave

same tbh <3

stick a fork in me i'm done

maybe I'M the done one

it's ok, if we're both dead, then maybe they cancel each other out so we're alive, like in a remake

😩❤️

why always that emote

does it not encapsulate the prevailing mood

4 months later, and it's still definitely 😩

This is, in fact, the eternal mood

at what point does 😩 become 😫