[ it's monday and eiden is out here looking for luo wenzhou where is he? where he be? topper is curled up on his shoulders just rubbing their faces cheek to cheek like the affectionate little rat he is.
in his hands, two cups of to-go coffee from the matronly golden arches. he will plop himself right now next to him in the /throws dart park. ]
Hey there, Wenzhou. How are you and your two cats?
[ park is good, he's lounging with his legs kicked out and his arms crossed as he surveys the surreal but normal experience that is the park. what with the foot traffic that's not really there and all that. ]
Better. The scrawnier one was a little banged up, but he got healed apparently. [ beat ] Weirdest goddamn sentence. Magic and things like that aren't real where we're from.
[ yiguo is pouncing in the limited greenery at the moment ahead of them. ]
eiden settles in with him, his stolen roll of receipt paper in hand and pocket clinging with something that sounds like a bunch of little wooden pencils. he smiles a little bit. ]
Yeah, didn't really exist in my world either before I ended up getting dumped into a world full of it. You get used to it after a while.
[ it's not my first rodeo. it'll be okay. he opens his phone and scrolls a little before blinking. ]
It'll take getting used to, but no point in us panicking over it. [ "this might as well happen" sort of vibes. ] Better to figure out what's going on and what needs to be done.
[ SHRUGS, but then his head lolls a little to look eiden's way when he mentions photokinesis. ]
Oh yeah? I haven't done too much with it just yet.
[ we are in the void of walking around - maybe near the warehouses. wenzhou does not look like a happy camper, as he continues his way through japanifornia with a determination and familiarity to the situation that he doesn't like having to fall into here.
what a joke, having to solve a case in a day. >:V ]
... Eiden. Don't suppose you or Topper saw anything?
eiden is just vibing a little to some music while sitting outside the warehouse, outside a fantastic set of calligraphy that translates to "uncontrolled burning flame" (thanks sqq) ]
Hey... Wenzhou... no. We didn't. Still feels unreal.
[ wenzhou has the tact to not say not really that surprising, considering what eiden says and his general ( gestures at all of him ) at the moment. he's not jaded, but it was a self fulfilling prophecy that he'd prepared himself for.
the rule book had it. someone was going to act on it. ]
Come walk around with me. Fei Du took pictures of the bowling alley where he found evidence, but apparently it's disappeared from all the locations people actually saw things.
[ hoo boy, yeah, he heard it out of rang's mouth during the npc unveiling and he's thought about it every day.
his expression shifts to something more curious, and he joins him, topper curled up inside of his jacket and poking his head out to squeak a little greeting. ]
Disappeared? Completely?
... Might be part of the game? What do you think...?
Yeah. And Valerie had debris from a blimp explosion that just vanished, which - [ he gestures up at all the merrily floating blimps in the skies above them, like. hello? nothing amiss? ]
It probably is. Especially considering we're meant to solve the erasure tomorrow. What a fucking joke to an actual investigation and trial system, but, sure, why not.
[ well eiden is actually looking for luo wenzhou and decides to backtrack back to the macdos after getting some fresh air. he will just? look around for him, topper curled around his neck, his arms wrapped around himself as he kind of just kicks around, peering out from behind a doorwayβ ]
[ jacketless and perched backwards in a chair, wenzhou glances up from where he's swirling around a pitch black coffee, unlit cigarette behind his ear. he was half in his head, frowning intensely. the frown disappears but the furrow in his brow doesn't. ]
[ new week new m(ingl)e! wenzhou wasn't sure what he was expecting, though he was somewhat hoping that there would be further access to the spaces around them. even if... that means weird tourist trap style shit. it's fine.
the cathedral is an interesting exception, sort of. he's not much usually for the historical sites at the end of the day, but it's better to check it out than to not know your surroundings.
when he spots eiden, he frowns and gestures with a tip of his chin up at the stained glass. ] What the hell?
[ with coffee in hand, he is here and just kind of sitting on one of the benches because we're digging the lights. he glances up at what wenzhou is gesturing at............... ]
They probably think it's real generous to let people have a look before tomorrow.
[ grumbling as he looks up at the stupid blimps, fry squinting. he folds his arms over his chest and topper scrambles a little so he's not TRAPPED IN THE JACKET, giving eiden a soft headbutt under the chin. ]
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