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Lark was patient, with all of them, all the time - only patience bore fruit and there was really no way to make someone trust her faster, or easier, than this one. How long until she gained Logans? Frankly, that was hard to tell, given that he seemed like someone that, while easy to get along with, was a rather secretive person at times - and every single on of them had secrets, most of which they were hardly willing to share with mere strangers that they bought wares from. For her, it wasn't a …

There he was, bright and early as ever. To her people, someone like Logan was but a speck of dust in this tapestry one of them called the world beyond their own confines, and to her, he was another customer, another friend in the skin of a stranger that, if only he had enough coin and power, would turn a place like this into something unrecognizable, even to the most schooled eye. "I should have all of that, not like I get a lot of wanderers coming through here and then buying my wares anyway.",…

This time of year, not a single cold gust blew into the small town of nowhere, situated right next to nothing - Qidao came here ever so often, when her travels wouldn't lead her further and the hungry townsfolk and exasperated merchants ate from her hands whatever her bag could carry. For years now she had been the only constant between them and the world beyond the cold border, the lifeline to a different part of the world, so unlike their own; when Qidao made the trip, across a treacherous exp…

f3f9a2559a97210b3e91d0730204271f880737a3.jpgName: There's tens of thousands of them, anywhere, scattered across the vast expanse of snow, a tundra not meant to be inhabitated by anyone. Qidao Zhou knows many places within it's confines, from impenetrable fortresses to small settlements, all of them carrying their own stories and therefore valuables with them. Not many are willing to share, not without being paid for their intelligence, but a broker like her - like A-dao - knows when to haggle, a…

A devious smirk spread across Rhys smirk, like a match lit aflame and dropped on the forest floor during summertime - and as soon as it had crept on those loving features' that Rhys sported, it had dissipated into nothingness. Logan's little employer seemed to be almost ever-eager to please everyone around him, and even if it visibly soured Logan's mood, Rhys was more than overjoyed for the opportunity to stick closer, for now. "Hm? Oh, yes we can!", Cecil answered, letting himself be dragged al…

> Cybernetics Headquarters, Former Soul-Zero Cradle "Do you now? I guess I'll keep that in mind.", Morris chided Allison with a slight snort - he wasn't always interested in indulging in jokes or making light of a situation, it just fit. When was the last time they had had time to be a bit less serious, anyway? As far as he could recall, it had to be quite a while ago, maybe months at this point, while Zero had been more of a blueprint than an actual living, - theoretically - breathing being tha…

> Cybernetics Headquarters, Former Soul-Zero Cradle "Hah?", Morris looked up upon being asked a question he didn't think he'd receive. He had stated the obvious - all of the lifeforms that Cybernetics Inc. created were, in fact, handsome or pretty to a fault, to appeal to an audience that needed saving and would, at best, not even remember what dashing hunk of metal had saved them, and yet. "I was stating an universal fact, but I guess you don't look half-bad." Not what he'd go for, no, he'd pro…

> Cybernetics Headquarters, Former Soul-Zero Cradle Silence befell the ongoing conversation as Morris was harking over what Allison was doing but lending the two Souls an open ear, in case they needed it, while at the same time he somewhat felt like an intruder into a sacred practice of two participants, one unwilling in hindsight and the other not wise enough to be aware of what had actually happened to him. In reality, this was like bringing a lamb to the slaughter, wasn't it? One could argue,…

"I won't disagree, but if anything, I'd like to share everything I have with you.", he made clear. Yujin was a man of his word, and to him, Richard was important - he'd combed through his mind and memory for him, and he'd do so time and time again, just to keep reminding himself that he truly loved this man, be it as it may. "But I'd like to. Sure, fantastical flowers not found anywhere where either of us have lived are nice, and to imagine what could be is nice too, but a little memento of some…

Whatever Richard wanted, he’d get - at least Yujin thought of it that way, and he didn’t want it to be anything else, either. To him, if the stars grew legs and walked all the way down here, onto this earth, he’d catch and shatter every single one of them to gift Richard their sought-after stardust, which also, in turn, meant that he was neither above nor beyond committing atrocities for him, even if sometimes people wouldn’t see eye to eye on that. “My room?”, he chuckled. “Not ours? That’s nob…

"I know, it's a shame. I know a few of them that I never showed you, and where they bloom, though, and I'd be happy to show you one day.", he suggested with a smile. Yujin would do anything for Richards sake, even if he concurrently doubted himself; there was nothing he'd lay off from, nothing he thought he couldn't do, and the audacity to just want to try things was probably enough to keep him alive past whatever point he'd crossed at some section in his life that led him here in the first plac…

"I know, and you know, too.", Yujin laughed without much fanfare. Richard, to him and like this, was akin to a stuffed animal that he had free reign over - he could grab him, if anything, and hold him tight over night, but not much else; their relationship, while not at a standstill at the moment, had at the very least reached an impasse which neither of them wanted to push past. Boundaries that were set in place, as well as their own personalities seemingly made it impossible to do so - Yujin w…

That he said, but Yujin knew that Richard had to be able to be swayed by something - whatever it was, he didn't care much, but it was apparent to him that it had to be something that he had to come up with in the first place, no matter what it turned out to be. Would Richard hate him if he treated him like an animal, unsure of what to do next? In a way, they both were tiptoeing around that line, just to not earn the ire of Richard as he was, shy and scared without any way out. Was this a life wo…

Enticing Richard to spend time with him was about as easy as getting him to admit to his own shortcomings, and often enough, Richard decided he was about as flawed as people could get, and that all of this was something that he couldn't deal with. Everything was his fault, and for Yujin to be able to mend those wounds ever so slightly, it seemed almost as if they both needed to work on themselves from the ground up. "Trying is good enough.", he assured the blonde, knowing that eventually, someti…

"I would like that, I think we could both use one." Yujin was in favor of any idea, no matter how short or long, as long as it ensured that Richard left the bed and this room for once, just to get a change of scenery and see that the world outside his own four walls wasn't as scary as he thought it to be. "Huh? What do you mean?" Not wanting anything to change was, in fact, not much of a favorable outcome - Richard would eventually start rotting alive, in the loosest sense of the word, and Yujin…

“Is there anything that would motivate you to get up?”, he asked Richard, already brainstorming ideas in the back of his head. No amount of food or love would do that, and no empty promises would get a broken man to move from his grave that he’d picked to rot in, but maybe a challenge, to make him strive for something better than this - a stressor, of sorts, to push him places. “I know it’s hard, but nothing’s going to change if you just lay here and watch the day move by.” He was too lax with h…

Yujin was scared for no real reason - he was simply looking for an excuse, wasn't he? For Richard to rest in the palm of his hand and be safe, that was what he wanted, but never to lock him up, or force him to be with him. Yujin wasn't like that - he loved freedom above all else, and yet, he had someone by his side that didn't even want to move, or leave, and he wondered if, judging by his fathers continued jealousy, he'd ever become like him, obsessed with the fact that he had a lover devoted t…

Nothing could go wrong like this - he was holding onto Richard, and he was holding him tight. Yujin didn't want to let go, nevermore to begin with, and just make sure he'd stay warm and save in this embrace, realize that there was nothing else that would happen to him, not as long as he was there, and that it all boiled down to having to try and let go of the things that bothered him. Maybe Yujin was expecting too much, and even the apology he received for the ounth time felt grating, but it tru…

Doubt was like die cast on a board - once done, the rolls wouldn’t be able to be undone, their nature unfurled before anyone’s eyes, given they’d watch the display in the first place. What, if not a bothersome gambit was life? Yujin knew that thoughts like these plagued him, but it wasn’t about how Richard wouldn’t accept him for who he was, but much rather that there was no space for him in that downwards spiral that he slipped down upon, and no matter how hard he tried to grasp onto Richard, h…

Yujin was the one that felt like he'd done something so fundamentally wrong, it would only be right for Richard to tell him to leave and not come back, but instead of that, he simply fled from his touch, letting him know that it was neither wanted nor appreciated at the moment, and it led to his shoulders sagging and his head hanging a bit low for a second. To keep the distance that Richard set alive, Yujin stayed on the bed for the time being, watching him and the kitten on the carpet in front …