search for something warm

[poisonousflame]

Characters: Axel and OPEN!
Setting: Any floor where powers work. ALSO, any day between December 1st and December 13th. (Just note the floor and date in the subject!)
Format: Anything goes; I'll match you!
Summary: It's cold. Axel's trying to find a warm spot. Travel ensues.
Warnings: None yet!


The carnival, while not exactly his thing, had been warm. Not just warm: it was like a nice summer day, and Axel had enjoyed every second of it. He'd even taken a few naps. Sure, it ended up being creepy and full of crying girls and whatever else, but he preferred to look on the bright side.

As the temperature continued to drop, Axel began to search for more places like the carnival. Warm places, that is. And what better way to search than to open up a corridor and just ... walk through?


[ ooc: prompts for floors 100, 54, and 38 are also all OPEN! ]

Comments

It's good!

[justabignobody]

Riku shoots him a flat look at that smirk; he doesn't see what's there to smirk about and he has no interest in what Axel may or may not be bitter about. He is different to Ira, would have insisted on that in Castle Oblivion already, but now - three years later - he exactly understands the differences, understands that no matter the circumstances of Ira's creation, they are each as real or fake as the other.

"It's the way I've learned to see it."

Hard won experiences and realizations that have only come to him with time to reflect, in his struggles with Ansem's darkness, through his interactions with Xion, and he has no need to hide or belittle that. But even so...

"Though, I don't particularly see how that's any of your business."

What is it with all those questions?

[poisonousflame]

Axel shrugs and waves a hand. Both gestures are careless and dismissive; it's as though the questions don't mean much, and neither do the answers.

"It's not," he says. His smirk is still in place, though the bitterness has faded. "But there's no harm in asking, right?"

Nonchalant as it sounds, there's a slice of honesty with that answer, even though the answer itself is yet another question. Axel really does see no problem with asking Riku what he thinks of all this: if Riku considers the questions too invasive, Axel figures he wouldn't answer at all. Besides, his experience with Riku is limited. He can either work with observations, or he can try a more direct approach.

Given the fact that Riku's obviously met another Axel here before, the redhead's leaning towards the more direct approach.

[justabignobody]

Riku snorts softly, irritation flickering over his face - he doesn't care to be dismissed by Axel of all people, but well. There isn't much that he can say to that apart of...

"I suppose."

That doesn't mean he likes it. He's met Axel several times during his years in the tower, has watched him from afar before that and well, it's left him with mixed feelings about the Nobody. They've had something of an uneasy truce once at least, the very first time Axel had been here, but... that was a while ago.