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[fierybluebird]

[Anyone wandering the quad might find a certain phoenix only about a foot high and chirping warily, looking about and giving you cock-eyed glances trying to find his crewmates and Pops. This doesn't work fantastically in the snow, but it doesn't stop him from trying either, hopping about on the top and leaving bird tracks everywhere. If you should happen to accidentally step on his tail though, that will get a VERY angry squawk and possibly pecking eyes out. So don't do that. Scooping him up might not be a problem though, as Marco has gotten almost used to being manhandled by his "giant" crew members.]

[[ooc: Replies will mostly be made with "chibifirebird" so I don't have to delete too many icons.]

Comments

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry. You're not?

[Low phoenix growl sounding like an angry swan, and temperamentally covers an arm in blue flames.] WHY NOT?! He's my Pops! Of course I have to find him!

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Put that away. I'm not threatening you.

[]

I know you want to, but it's just not practical. It's dangerous, you have no idea what the territory's like, and have no idea where you'd be going. That's the sensible argument.

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

[Startled a little, tries to calm down and no more blue fire. Yet.]

It doesn't matter. It's my Pops. If I was out in the snowstorm, he'd come find me, so I have to go find him.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

I figured that wouldn't work. Okay - more farfetched but accurate version: it's actually impossible to find him. Right now, anyway.

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[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

Why?

[Just waits for the detailed answer he obviously expects to receive.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

You need to be able to travel through time and space. You're on another planet right now.

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

[Luckily he definitely seems to believe Espio. This doesn't help anything though and he practically wants to cry.]

What, how?!

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

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Well - uh... long story, and I'm not the best to tell it. To cut it short, time was compressed and now there's a handful of people stuck on this other world. This place, Balamb Garden, lets us stay here.

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[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

[DEEP breath and calms down, brows furrowed though.]

Are you from around here or did you know me and Pops from back home. [Because EVERYONE who knows Marco, knows his Pops.]

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Neither, actually. I'm from the Special Zone.

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

Special Zone? [Stated very slow in echo.]

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't have heard of it, but it's my home. [] Your ships and boats qualify as space travel there.

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

Space travel?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Don't know what that means? I mean up where the stars are. Travelling around them.

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

[A very mystified look up even though it's not night. Espio might not know it, but Marco's always been very captivated by stars.]

How can anyone fly that high?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Technology.

That, and the Special Zone's just weird. I heard that here, even if you go into Space, the stars are still far away. And you have to wear special equipment just so you can breathe up there.

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

[Back to a little bit scared here.]

So my Pops is... stars and stars away?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

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For the moment. But don't worry - you'll still see him again, I'm sure. Even if it takes a while!

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

Promise?

But... what do I do until then? Are Joz and Vista or Thatch here?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

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Barring anything odd happening. But I'll at least promise to look out for you while you're here, okay?

Sorry to say you won't really know anyone here. But the Garden's quite a big place - why not look around? Just don't go in the Training Centre. You might get eaten.

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

Then how did you know me?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Good question. You I said time was acting up?

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

Kind of? [Thinks over the whole Time Compression thing and space and stars and nods certain of himself.]

Yes.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Right? Put simply, I met you when you were older.

[chibifirebird.livejournal.com]

I was older?

What was I like?