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[midgarhorizon]

Characters: Reno, open
Setting: 2-12. day after takeover plot
Format: Either
Summary: Cuteness! Fluff! Cuddles!
Warnings: Cuteness, fluff and cuddles?



24 hours after the takeover plot
Waking up with that sleep paralysis was starting to annoy him. Not to mention the visual ghosts he saw at the corner of his eyes, but thankfully he shut them. It took an eternity to move again, and when he did he sighed, rolled over, and went back to sleep. Maybe he'd forget about it in the morning.

Later, that morning.
The light woke him up. There was light. Wait. Did that mean the power was back on? Quickly, he sat up and looked around in confusion, half expecting retrieval units to burst into the room and drag him off.

Blinking, the thought occurred to him that if they were going to... he wouldn't have woken up back in his bed.

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[savedbyasong]

Shion was blinking just as confusedly, he had only been to the parties in the tower but he had no idea what a night on the town was, or a bar... Games... he had played the video games here that Reno had taught him, and as a child he had played games sometimes... But mostly they were thought of as wastes of times, they had to study.

But he nodded as well, happy to learn new things.

[midgarhorizon]

"All right..." Hmm, how to teach them.

After a moment's thought, he nodded and sat up. "Shion, you got any paper and pencil? Xion, check my closet, see if I got any nutribars after all. We're gonna need something to play with."

Poker was a good game to teach them. Sometimes games seemed to be the best way to learn something that was difficult to explain outright. The understand of something was worth more than words.

"Take the paper and cut it into a bunch of squares." He knew Shion would probably be able to do a better job at getting them all pretty even than he would. "Then label a set two, through ten. Draw a moogle next to the numbers."

[attheclocktower]

Xion gave him a look.

"I thought I was supposed to be lying down," she said. If either Reno or Shion were paying careful attention, they might realize that there was the tiniest of smiles on her face, and a faintly teasing note in her voice.

Despite this protest, she got slowly to her feet once more, wincing as she rose, before crossing the room to his closet to dig through it looking for the nutribars.

[savedbyasong]

Shion grinned at Xion and went into his trunk to find the paper and pens he had borrowed from the study room. His medical kit had a pair of scissors and he started cutting squares as directed.

He blinked again, "What's a moogle?"

[midgarhorizon]

"Earth doesn't have moogles?" Facepalming again, Reno signed and took a pen and a piece of paper and did a small sketch of a moogle. Then he started on another drawing, this time of a bird with a large beak, a small creature with glowing eyes and wearing a cloak, and a little figure that looked like a cross between a man and a cactus.

"There." Reno gave Shion the drawing and took some more papers to make some cards. "Tonberry's kinda hard, I'll do him."

[attheclocktower]

[At Shion's question, Xion's head jerks up in realization. She pauses in her nutribar search to glance back at Reno, surprise evident in her expression]

You have moogles in your world, Reno? [As she pauses to think about it though...] And... you don't? Huh... [She looks back forward and down] I guess I never really thought about it...

[And suddenly she's not sure which is weirder, worlds that had Moogles like hers did or ones that didn't...

Shaking her head, she continues her search until she spots what she'd looking for - a few nutribars. She picks them up, turning back to face both Reno and Shion.]

I found them.

[savedbyasong]

No we don't... I've never heard of them so we probably didn't even before... [Many many species were extinct now but Moogles were definitely not something he had heard of, and looking at the drawing it wasn't a case of an animal called something different. He glanced at Xion] Your world had them too?

[He begins slowly copying the drawing, his own wasn't as good but he managed to copy the lines okay.] Is that alright?

[midgarhorizon]

"Yeah, that's fine." Glancing at Shion's drawing, he mused that maybe teaching the kids about the fun things in life may be the toughest job he faced yet. Meanwhile, he was scribbling out a suite of tonberry cards pretty quickly.

He wasn't that great of an artist, but he could get things looking... sort of all right. It helped when they had to identify somebody at times.

"I kinda guessed when I talked with Axel your world was similar to mine," he answered Xion, shuffling the tonberries into a small stack. "We have similar magic enough he taught me to cast Cure. I tried Fire but... never got the hang, and-" he had disappeared from the Tower before the lessons could go, but he wasn't about to remind Xion of that, though it was probably too late. "Huh, it isn't that easy mastering how to use materia in the beginning, it felt too weird without it."

... wow I accidentally slipped into action previous tag of mine orz

[attheclocktower]

Xion nodded at Shion's question, "Yeah, we do. A lot of them sell things in my world, like shopkeepers. At least... the one I knew did."

And yeah... she could guess what Reno had been about to say.

"I could probably try to show you, once our vacation's over," she offered quietly as she turned around, nutri-bars in hand. "I can use magic. Axel's best with fire, but..." She shook her head "I lost my Keyblade once, and magic was the only way I could fight, so I'm pretty good at it." Not that fighting alone had been what the Organization really cared about so far as she was concerned, though that was another story entirely.

[savedbyasong]

Shion had never heard of moogles and was surprised that Reno and Xion's worlds were the same, though he supposed with all the different worlds there apparently were, including some that had the same people... finding two different than his but similar to each other was not that surprising.

He continued drawing through their conversation about magic, something else his world didn't have and he didn't understand, though he believed in it now; he had seen it after all. It was still strange.

[midgarhorizon]

"Yeah, I'm trying to learn more magic. I'd appreciate that, kiddo." Reno gave Shion a glance over, and handed him a finished suit to put in a pile. "Shion should learn, too. In fact, if you know a lot of spells, Xion... I might get ya to teach the others, too. Materia could get lost if someone dies."