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familiar FamiliarArtemis, the Great Red Potoo
played by OOC NameSho
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Post by Kap Az'es on Jul 11, 2022 20:28:28 GMT -7
[attr="class","kap"]It had been weeks since that day. Zephyr had come home with a revelation. What would you do if you could turn back the clock on your mind? Find yourself again? Fill that massive empty void that nothing else could relieve? It sounded too good to be true. Probably because it was.
It brought you back to yourself, but at the cost that you may lose who you became.
Kap knew this. He fully understood everything Zephyr told him when he explained it to him. And he told him to do it. Not as if he wished to lose someone he cared for. He mourned for weeks when Zephyr never returned home. He was still in mourning.
But Zephyr could have family out there. Friends on another land he didn't know he belonged to. An entire life that Kap had no right to prevent him from having back. Kap was... just an old man that clung on a bit too hard.
He swore when he saw him, he'd seen someone else. A figment. But when he double took, it was unmistakable. He didn't know what force drove him anymore, but he was running. He felt frantic, trying to reach for the man he'd lost. "ZEPHYR!" The name shot from his mouth, as he shot down the zlley to catch up to his tail. "WAIT!"
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familiar FamiliarSprocket (squirrel monkey)
played by OOC NameIceguin
And following our will and wind, we may just go where no one's been
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Post by zephyr on Jul 12, 2022 17:25:19 GMT -7
Zeph woke up one day to people saying that he'd been gone for over a year.
But that wasn't quite right, was it? A more hollow version of himself had been traipsing around, blind to Salem's webwork but just sharp enough to cause problems along certain threads. And now, he had no goddamn idea how many messes that Zeph had caused that this Zeph needed to clean up. He'd apparently had the obnoxiously justified forethought to lock down his interface contacts and history before the memory rewind, so the current Zeph was almost certain that the other him had been involved in something worth looking into.
Or maybe, someone?
Zephyr doesn't stop walking when he hears his name called, nor does he even acknowledge it. This is a bad spot for a confrontation, with these quiet neighbors with watchful eyes. He makes a sharp turn, but doesn't quicken his pace.
He isn't running.
When Kap finally catches up, Zephyr's waiting for him. With a lazy smile, he sits atop a shipping crate with one leg propped up to rest crossed arms and hidden hands. He's in a well-loved aviator jacket which Kap had never seen before, and it looks like his hastily reconstructed leg was no longer causing any mobility issues. With its metal mechanisms hidden under dark jeans, it looked real.
Sprocket was nowhere to be seen, though Kap had definitely just spotted her at her usual place on Zeph's shoulders moments ago.
"'Ey there," he says, "Lookin' for me?" [newclass="nullelem"]} div[rel~="user-82"] blockquote b { color: #8a695b; [/newclass]
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familiar FamiliarArtemis, the Great Red Potoo
played by OOC NameSho
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Post by Kap Az'es on Jul 12, 2022 17:35:59 GMT -7
[attr="class","kap"]He wasn't stopping? Maybe... maybe it just wasn't his name anymore. But it was definitely him. He hurried his pace to catch up, panic beginning to boil up noxious from his belly. What was he doing? He was following what may as well have been a stranger into a dark alley. He didn't know this man, but the carefree way he navigated away from an obvious pursuit told him one thing.
Danger.
But he still followed, panting softly as he came around the bend and saw the man as he was, sitting comfortably nonchalant on a perch. Hearing his voice again, that smooth drawl, had his eyes shutting a moment as the pain it brought with it. No matter what, he was still so much like he remembered, but all the same so very different in such a short time. "Hey..."
He rubbed the back of his neck, eyes desperately searching. The question was there, but he was afraid to ask it. Afraid to meet the man's eyes, even, and see that he was a stranger to him. "... Sorry... I just chased you and... that's not fair to you. You-" his eyes dipped down hard, "you... don't remember me, right?"
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familiar FamiliarSprocket (squirrel monkey)
played by OOC NameIceguin
And following our will and wind, we may just go where no one's been
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Post by zephyr on Jul 12, 2022 17:54:48 GMT -7
Since this guy had taken the initiative to chase him down, he must have had something to say. Zeph gives him all the time he needs to work out his apparent nervousness. Or was it cautiousness? Maybe both; neither was out of place.
He's rewarded for his patience, because the guy manages to say something that hooks him.
"I don't," he carefully admits as he leans forward just so, eyes sharp as he analyzes the other's reaction, "But ya seem t' know me a decent amount, so I'd be interested in gettin' a reminder." [newclass="nullelem"]} div[rel~="user-82"] blockquote b { color: #8a695b; [/newclass]
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familiar FamiliarArtemis, the Great Red Potoo
played by OOC NameSho
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Post by Kap Az'es on Jul 12, 2022 18:02:43 GMT -7
[attr="class","kap"]I don't. His eyes slam shut as he dips his head down. I don't.
His heart felt like is was going to burst.
He took a deep breath, then looked back up at the stranger's eyes. Because, he supposed, that's all they were now. There was no love to be seen in that gaze anymore. The one glimmer of hope he had was in the proposition laid out before him. "Not sure you'd like hearing much of what I have to say," he answered honestly. Who liked the idea of forgetting a loved one? Or wondering why you'd leave it all behind? Maybe, you'd think to yourself, you were trying to escape it, or there wasn't much worth clinging on to?
Still, he had to try. "My name's Kap." He familiar materialized, and he gestured to the potoo that nested himself in his wavy hair, "and this is Artemis. We were.... well, we were close." He swallowed dry, "... can I buy you a drink?" Maybe that's help things a bit. "I'll get something for Spock, too- wherever she is." He glanced up once, half expecting to see the squirrel monkey hanging above up to no good.
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familiar FamiliarSprocket (squirrel monkey)
played by OOC NameIceguin
And following our will and wind, we may just go where no one's been
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Post by zephyr on Jul 12, 2022 19:30:38 GMT -7
He's hurt. Zeph had hurt him.
At the moment, that revelation doesn't mean much to Zephyr. They must have been close, sure, but he could have determined that from the way he'd chased him down.
"Really?" Zeph asks, propping his cheek up in one of his palms, head tilting, "I always considered myself a half-decent listener at least -- an' what better story t' tell than one that's real?"
Kap might have spotted a flash of movement from one of the rooftops when he looked up, but it was already gone by the time he even noticed it. Zephyr looks thoughtful for a few moments after the offer of drinks, index and middle finger alternating tapping his temple as he contemplates. He knows how easy it is to feign weakness, and he knows how misrepresenting real emotions with false motives could make a lie sound like truth.
But he couldn't know for sure without more information, and Kap was offering answers freely.
"One question first: If ya knew 'bout the memory loss, what made ya wait 'til now t' reach out?"
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familiar FamiliarArtemis, the Great Red Potoo
played by OOC NameSho
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Post by Kap Az'es on Jul 12, 2022 19:56:24 GMT -7
[attr="class","kap"]He knew that. That sounded like the Zephyr he knew. A half descent listener. He always had been, and it was one of the things he cherished about the guy, especially since Kap tended to ramble on about things. He nodded. Maybe they should talk it out, then. At least regain some amount of friendship, at the very least.
But, Zephyr had a question for him, and Kap looked him in the eyes finally, looking uncomfortable. "You er... you warned me about that," he said carefully. "We talked about you doing this- before you did it. You'd be locking up your device. I couldn't call you, or message you. I hoped you'd come home, but hoping was all I could do. I didn't see you at the CAD, or Pegasus either. This is the first time I've managed to find you since then."
He scratched the bad of his head and sighed. "He's been a miserable mess since your departure, Zephyr. If you could offer him some minutes of your time."
You didn't have to say that.
Well, I did anyways.
He swallowed, catching Zephyr's gaze, "if anything I ask is unreasonable, it's fine to tell me that. But I just want to get the chance to get to know the-... well... get to know you again."
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familiar FamiliarSprocket (squirrel monkey)
played by OOC NameIceguin
And following our will and wind, we may just go where no one's been
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Post by zephyr on Apr 26, 2023 5:58:14 GMT -7
"Hah, yeh, well -- I guess turnabout's fair play..." there's an amused huff of air and a smile on his lips, but at the same time the slightest dash of bitterness mixed in his tone. He had more or less done the same thing before all of this memory nonsense started, putting protections on his devices just in case the worst were to happen and someone were to break him to the point that his family would be put in danger. This time, he suspects, was something more like retaliation.
(After all, he couldn't imagine developing so deep a relationship after so little time -- not to the extent that his reasoning then and now might be the same. That didn't sound like him at all.)
"Ey now, you're sellin' 'im short," Zeph retorts against the man's familiar -- Artemis, he'd called it -- as he moves his chin from the palm of his hand and sits up properly, "I'd quite like t' know what I'd been up to over th' past year y'know -- it isn't as one-sided as ya make it out t' be."
Finally, he hops off the crate and brushes off whatever bits of dust and sawdust had clung to his jeans. "Well ya 'aven't asked anythin' out o' line yet -- so how 'bout that drink?" he suggests, offering one of his characteristically bright smiles.
Kap Az'es [newclass="nullelem"]} div[rel~="user-82"] blockquote b { color: #8a695b; [/newclass]
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