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Character(s): Rinoa, and Squall
Content: Rinoa and Squall meet up for the first time in Paixao. Or atleast the first time as far as Rinoa's concerned.
Setting: Niflheim Gate
Time: Week 32
Warnings: None for the moment

Having wandered off from it earlier, Rinoa made her way back to the gate, trying to make it easier for Squall to eventually find her. She would have to ask him more when he got to her, but right now, the last thing she wanted was to chat with him through a journal. She wanted to see him in front of her. Wanted physical proof that he was really here. No, she needed it.

When she reached the gate, she chose a spot to wait for him, already knowing that her black hair and brown eyes stuck out like a sore thumb in the sea of blond hair and blue eyes.

She pulled out the electronic journal, talking to others as she waited for Squall to arrive, not really sure how long it would take him to get to her. Still, she would wait. She would always wait for him to find her.

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Fortunately for the both of them, the train system is at least on time, if not the fastest. Faster than walking, yes. But even with that it still took a moment or three before he managed to arrive at the stop nearest the gate in question. Far too long, if he was going to be honest about it, but what could you do? It wasn't like there was any faster way through the city. Still, as soon as the train had come to a stop he couldn't keep himself from hurrying through the streets towards the gate itself. It had been far too long since he'd seen anyone from home, and the fact that she didn't seem to remember the place was an inconvenience, but one trumped by the fact that she was present at all.

She wasn't hard to find, even in the crowd of people milling around the gate. He could probably have found her even in a crowd of brunettes, to be honest, and there was the start of a smile on his face as he made his way towards where she was waiting.

Rinoa waited patiently for Squall to arrive, her attention switching from searching the crowds, to further taking in the scenery, and then back to the journal. Most of the time she found her attention mostly on the crowds, eager to spot the face that had become so very well known to her.

As the time ticked by, her hand moved up to grip the Griever ring out of a habit. So many questions wandered through her mind. Some of those questions had been answered by others over the journal, but that hardly seemed to lessen the amount of them. Perhaps when Squall arrived he would be able to clue her in more.

The moment she spotted him, the thoughts in her mind instantly vanished for the moment and were replaced by Squall as she quickly moved forward to meet him, her hand waving in the air to make sure he saw her, even if she already knew he did. "Squall!"

There it was. The face that he hadn't been aware he'd missed so badly until he'd seen it again. She was here. He wouldn't have to be alone, wouldn't have to cling to the few fragments he had or turn a blind and uncaring eye to the goings-on of the city just to make it through yet another day. He had something now.

The start of a smile that had been on his face earlier was just about threatening to make it into a proper smile at Rinoa's wave. Even if he hadn't really needed it, it was a welcome sight, and he picked up his pace as he made his way over to her.

"Rinoa."

She continued towards him until she was only a few feet away before stopping and holding her arms wide open, smile plastered on her face, especially when she saw the spark of one on Squall's. "How about a hug?" She asked playfully, waiting patiently for him to close what was left of the distance between them.

Edited 2011-06-24 00:05 (UTC)

She wouldn't have to wait long. As a matter of fact, he was already closing the distance between them before she'd even finished speaking. Even if he could have said no to that suggestion he wouldn't have wanted to. Not after all these months (was it really that long?) alone.

He didn't say anything though. He figured the hug itself would be answer enough.

Okay, so she had to admit, she hadn't been expecting that short of a wait, but she also had to admit, she wasn't complaining as she put her own arms around him in response, pulling herself closer to him so that any space that might have been there had completely evaporated, and then let her head lay on his chest. It was true, he didn't need to say anything. Rinoa never seemed to need any words to explain this kind of hug, though she now did have to wonder how long he had really been here.

Well, that information could wait until later. Right now, she was perfectly happy with the embrace. The same embrace that seemed to comfort her, and make her feel safe. The one that made her feel alive.

She honestly could never get enough of these kinds of hugs.

Too long, if you asked him. But he was just as content to not need to answer. He had a sneaking suspicion that heading down that road was like walking into a den of monsters. There were too many things that would need to be explained, and not all of them would be simple things. No, far better to simply stay here like this, where he didn't need to explain anything. Not if he could get away with not having to.

"I missed you," he spoke up, after a long moment.

Without leaving the embrace, Rinoa lifted her head from his chest, letting her curious gaze focus on him.

"How long?" She asked. "How long have you been here?

She was sure that it had been some time if he was being like this, again, not like she minded it.

He didn't have a concise answer for that. He'd been here almost longer than he cared to remember, but not all of that had been alone. Rinoa had been here for some of that, and every now and then another person he knew drifted into the city just long enough to get his hopes up before vanishing again.

Hopefully that wouldn't be the case here.

"Months."

Edited 2011-06-30 21:58 (UTC)

"Nobody was kidding. Time is strange here. I just saw you earlier today. Or that's what I remember." She paused, deciding that now was a good time to get some more answers.

"Okay, so I've got the part where we're stuck in a castle..." As unbelievable as that was. "That this place is called Paixao, and that obviously time works funny here. Oh, and I gathered that there's currently no way home. Anything else that I'm missing?" Because she'd really like to know if there is.

Luckily for her, Squall had just about all the answers that had been found as people learned more about the place. He'd had to do something while he was ignoring the rest of the population as best he could.

"Apart from the Heartless and Lumens, you'll also want to watch out for the Organization," he answered. "They haven't been doing much that I've seen lately, but word is that they're the ones responsible for bringing us here. Besides that, there are different worlds in the different floors of the castle."

Well, that information only seemed to bring new questions, the first one being where to start. "Okay, think I can get an explanation for all of them? Preferably one at a time." She finally said after a brief pause.

Squall had to resist the urge to smile at that. Of course he'd meant to tell them one at a time. Trying to tell them all at once was a logistical mess that would likely take someone like Selphie to manage properly, unless Zell stumbled across the formula by accident. And really, as far as he was considered, they could keep the formula.

"The Heartless are monster of darkness. I've heard they'll steal people's hearts. Lumens are their opposite, more or less."

"More or less?" She questioned, looking for a little more information there if there was any. Hey, anything she could get out of him about this place and what to expect here would be useful. She really did like being in the know.

"No one really knows a lot about the Lumens," Squall answered with a shrug. As far as he knew, it was the truth, and he wasn't really sure who he'd even ask if he was wrong. Or rather, he had his suspicions about who he'd have to ask and he wasn't all sure he wanted to try. Some people it really was best to not draw the attention of, even when nothing had been definitively proven one way or the other.

"They just look like they should be the opposite of the Heartless."

"Okay, and what about that Organization you mentioned?" She asked, ready to move onto the next subject of the conversation now.

Ah, now they were on more familiar ground. Sure, he hadn't had much of a call to use the information in a while, but that didn't mean he'd forgotten. Why should he have, when he was most likely one of the few who still remembered how things had been before the first world-floor had opened.

"They're the ones who brought us here, supposedly. They used to experiment on the people brought in, too. They've been quiet recently though."

"Which probably means they're up to something?" She asked, coming to her own conclusion for this so-called Organizations silence.

"Probably," Squall answered with a nod. "We don't have a way of telling for sure, but it's better to assume they are." That way they'd be ready for them, when they finally decided to return to being visibly present in the city.

"Why were they experimenting on people before?" She asked, moving onto the next question that had come to the forefront of her mind.

"No one really knows," Squall answered with a shrug. At the worst of it, people had had a rather distressing habit of simply vanishing from the streets, but no one had really understood why people were chosen or not chosen. And worst of all, there hadn't actually been anything anyone really do to find out. Without knowing where the Organization was usually found, there was absolutely no way to actually try and ask, assuming of course that the effort wouldn't just make you the new prime target for experimentation.

"They just... did."

"Well, there had to have been some reason, right? We'll just have to see if we can find out what it was." And hope that it might uncover what was going on, and perhaps why they'd been brought here and how to get home in the end. Though, that was only a hope.

"Presumably," Squall answered with a shrug. It wasn't a reason he pretended to understand, but yes. He would admit that logically speaking there had to have been a reason. Some unknown reason, but that was a reason all the same.

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