star_kingdom | 004 Θ Video/Offline for Port Royal

[It's been three days. No sign of his sister, no answer from her communicator, no ability to even get a message to her communicator.

For someone so ready to point out the more painful truths to others, taking Schala's loss again has not been a simple matter. He would pronounce anyone else vanishing back into the darkness weak or a fool; she was neither, obviously. So this is Different.

And it's also why he's in the shadows of Port Royal, watching the Heartless and the inhabitants of this world. The communicator has come on at some point and that's about all that the camera is showing. And it's a fairly still screen because the person who keeps that particular communicator isn't really moving much.

Stepping back from the darkness hadn't kept Schala safe. So obviously, it's time to start studying these creatures more. Because if he can understand their darkness, obviously he'll be able to find her again and keep her safe this time.]

{{ooc: if you're on Port Royal, feel free to run into him... if not, feel free to harass him anyway.}}

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[Isn't it nice that Hades always manages to appear when people are at their lowest point? And such an entrance... a swirl of black smoke and the Lord of the Dead was stepping out from one of the darkened alleyways. ]

Not that you have ever looked happy but today, today you look especially down, am I right?
Come on... why not tell me all about it...

[He's not the type to be impressed, really. And a trick of creating smoke before teleporting to that point? Complicated, yes, but it doesn't impress him.]

I see no reason to.

No? Well, its not like I'm going to force you to... I just thought...

[Walking away absently. ]

When some one important is missing it might be appropriate to go looking for them...

What do you know of this?

Only that a certain person has been pulled back into the darkness. Too bad, the only way to get some one out of the darkness again is to...

Nah, I doubt you would be interested.

[He says nothing for a moment.] What is the method?

[With someone who seems to be studying the Heartless' habits, she comes transformed as Mercury.]

Have you been able to learn something new about them so far?

[It is a few moments before he answers her. Honestly, he was going to ignore her.

Finally the camera moves as he lifts it away from where it is, although he doesn't exactly look at it right away.

That darkness that's been not so prominent since Schala arrived? Yeah, it's back.]

Nothing particularly fascinating.

[Something doesn't feel quite right here... He's never exactly been talkative, but the way he won't meet the camera's eye, and the cold rather than cool response, make her just vaguely uneasy. Have the heartless attacked somewhere...?]

Is something wrong? If something happened, please tell me.

[He looks at the camera finally, looking away from the Heartless for the moment.]

The darkness has taken Schala.

You know it already don't you? The only way to get some one out of the darkness is to go in and get them and only someone who can control the darkness can do that.

I see. [And she does, she knows the blow that is, and more: She knows Schala was everything to him.]

I'm sorry. I know that's inadequate to your feelings, but if there's something I can do, please tell me so.

There is nothing you can do. [Because reliance on others for anything? Not his thing.]

You tell me things I already know.

That may be. But please accept my offer.

Then maybe you would like to know something a little more useful... like how to control a doorway into Darkness?

Hmph. [That's not really a no, just... him being his angry little self.]

I'm listening.

Is there anything you need? I don't know if she cooked for you, or something like that.

I teach you how to control the heartless and how to use the power of the darkness to open a doorway that will let you search for that person and it return... I get a little contract, a formality really, that means your soul belongs to me.

( oh hey! there's a face that's been keeping to himself lately... we can't have that... ) Blue-hair!

I am quite capable of caring for myself.

[The very sound of her voice is going to make him twitch. :| ]

Cave woman.

[Dryly.] I get to use the powers of this darkness solely to look for Schala and you get my soul in return?

Not solely... who ever said anything about solely? What you do with those powers is up to you. It just can be a touch dangerous to learn how to control the heartless without a guide and doorways into darkness are not for amateurs.

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