just this once, everybody lives!

[sageprincess]

Characters: Everyone.
Setting: Anywhere.
Format: Party style.
Summary: Post-Ex Machina catch-all mingle.
Warnings: See individual threads.

[After a long, drawn out battle, the infiltration team returns to the residential portion of the Tower, weary, battered... but victorious. Some catching up is in order.]

Comments

[keybearer]

You know, that makes me wonder... What's she gonna do once she finds out he's turned on her? Jason and Dax were bad enough as it is... to get 'betrayed' by someone so close.

[He looks down and shakes his head, breathing out through his nose.]

Don't get me wrong; I still think she's nuts, but isn't that all the more reason to worry?

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid pales slightly as he thinks on Riku's point.]

I...don't know if I really want to ponder that too hard. She is bad enough as it is, but if she literally has nothing left to hold onto?

[Desperate people do desperate things, and Ruana...]

If we do convince him to help us, it may be best that he not reveal he is until the last possible moment. Both for our safety, but even more importantly, for his.

[keybearer]

Man, I hope he realizes that. Zo's just a kid, after all, and kids don't always think things through.

[He's also shown to be highly sentimental. What if he has second thoughts when confronting Ruana?]

[oathshackledbird]

That is why we will be there to help. Don't underestimate him just because he is a kid. A lot of those we would call 'kids' here have done amazing things.

[Xion and Ken just to name two...]

[keybearer]

True. Back when I started my journey, I was still only fifteen-- a kid by most people's standards. Plus, I guess if you really want to get technical, Zo's older than a lot of us.

[...At least, that's always the impression he got from the admins.]

[oathshackledbird]

In some ways, he sure seems that way, doesn't he?

[It's an odd dichotomy Diarmuid has noticed even in just the few encounters he has had with Zo. For all intents and purposes he seems a child, but then sometimes there are those odd glimpses of something older. He honestly has no way to explain it.]

I wonder if he is something like what my people would call an old soul or if it is just the environment that has forced him to grow up faster than he should have had to.

[Or both.]