http://skyboundknight.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] skyboundknight.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] star_kingdom2011-08-14 02:31 am

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[Ugh. Not only was he beaten in a fight by some younger girl, he also bears the feelings of coming out of darkness. Again. It never gets any easier. There was something else, something odd about things said in a couple of encounters he's had, but he doesn't feel like bringing any of that up just yet. Kain doesn't really... want to face any people right now, but he feels he owes this apology as an act of penance. So he'll do this and then he intends to vanish. Forever if he can manage.]

[He'd vowed never to turn Dark again, and now look what's happened.]


To anyone I've harmed or spoken harshly toward, I apologize. There's no excuse for my recent behavior...

[Hesitates, he has no idea how to properly end this.]

...forgive me.

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I will come shortly.

[And by shortly, she means right away. However, travel by Gummi isn't instantaneous and it gives Rosa far too much time to begin putting together puzzle pieces that at one time did not fit. He claims this was the darkness acting, just as when he came and stole her from Damcyan in black armor, or his claims he only wanted to keep her close to him in that horrible tower. She cannot believe that she is nothing more to this darkness than a prize. Kain is far more honorable than that. That only leaves one other alternative and it grieves her heart.

It makes it for the best she did not bring Cecil with her. This is a discussion they should have alone. She disembarks feeling weighted down and begins the process of inquiring with people for the whereabouts of her friend.]

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Yes well last time Kain took it on himself to self-punish for his crimes, he took off not to be heard from again for almost two decades. Rosa is not about to let that happen again.

Eventually she manages to make her way far enough up the mountain to garner his attention, even if she cannot quite attain to the ledge he's on. She waves and calls out his name. For once the dragoon will have to abandon the brooding post.]

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[That brand of entrance never gets old and were circumstances not so serious, it would put a smile on her face how little he's changed.]

You're already forgiven. You don't have to apologize anymore. Not to me.

[She sighs quietly, compassion written all over her face and takes a step forward.]

Why won't you look at me?

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-20 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It was not of your volition. Yet, you take so much blame upon yourself.

[This meeting is turning out mildly more uncomfortable for her in light of what she has begun to suspect is an underlying truth. Still, he is hurting and she cannot abide that, worse still is the knowledge she could be causing him more, no matter how indirectly.

One hand goes to rest light on Kain's arm.]


Please do not inflict wounds on yourself which I cannot heal.

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-21 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
No! It's not! Please don't do this! Not alone. It was never your fault!

[So she's a little worked up but the last thing she wants is an open invitation for him to be used again or an excuse for him to exit their lives for so long again. Her eyes close in an attempt to steady herself, and when at last she does open them, it's to plead reason with him.]

Kain, nothing you could ever do would ever make me stop caring about you. You are my oldest and dearest friend. Please, let me help you.

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
You are not a burden. Never. Don't you see it hurts more when you pull away from us? We care about you.

[She stops short and sighs miserably, now wishing that Cecil were with her to affirm all that she says. Rosa dislikes the chiding tone to her words, no matter how right they are, because she knows how they will be received and that Kain will only use that to justify more distance.]

Your absence is more a burden than anything you could do.

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rosa's just as stubborn and has a bossy streak to boot. She's not used this tone on him in years, when she was still young and scolding the boys for getting in yet another scrabble with each other, but it comes easily to her nonetheless. Her hands go on her hips to accompany the stubborn set of her face.]

Kain Highwind, would you stop being so stubborn and listen?

[Pot, meet kettle.]

I am not giving up on you, and you shouldn't either.

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-23 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Straightaway, she reaches out to touch his arm, with her eyes lit with a sad compassion.]

Is that what you're afraid of?

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-24 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah no, she's not buying that. Rosa's known Kain and human nature too well to believe it. Even if she had believed as a child that her own father was fearless.]

Then don't look away.

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-08-26 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Fine. There are two ways to go about this. Rosa marches herself directly into Kain's line of sight with a stubborn set on her face.]

I loved Cecil even when he took up the dark sword. I wasn't afraid of his darkness and I'm not afraid of yours.

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-09-01 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
I am.

[This is a battle you cannot win, Kain.]

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[identity profile] kidnapbait.livejournal.com 2011-09-01 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
And why should I? Do you have any fear of the sky?

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