audience - axelea

[cyclists]

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[cyclists]

[Don't be offended, he's 100% just kidding?]

Is Xion okay? [He already assumed and now he wants a report, thank you.]

[leaberator]

[ he waves a hand ]

Yeah, she's fine. I think she was just exhausted by... everything. [ it's been. a week, for her. for all of them, really. ] Not to mention, from experience? That corruption thing before the partner kicks in stinks.

[cyclists]

Yeah...I kind of thought so. [There's a flicker of guilt in his expression.] The bonds are what keep you safe, so not having them for even a minute makes it a lot easier to be corrupted. Even if it doesn't feel like it, it can infiltrate without notice.

[Ugh.] I'll go see her again later. We talked yesterday, but that was before she was re-partnered.

[leaberator]

[ he hums a bit at the first part, since he's already heard as much before. ]

Sounds good. She'll be glad to see you when she wakes up.

[ the implication being that she always is, but. ]

[cyclists]

Yeah. I have some other things to take care of today but...I want to spend time with you guys today.

[He squints at the paper.] What is this anyway?

[leaberator]

[ the secret jealous needy bitch in axel preens at that. anyway: ]

Morse code. Basically, all the letters are made up of dots and dashes? They used to use this to communicate with people out at sea and stuff.

[ this is a very simplified way of saying it. he taps on the floor ]

Minato wanted to learn it, and now he's roped me into it, too.

[cyclists]

[God that word repetition. Anyway. He's busy looking at the paper, tuning it this way and that as if it's going to help him figure out what it actually says.]

Why does Minato want to learn so many weird things...[Just. Saying.] What's it say? How do you know what letter is which?

[leaberator]

I think he just likes to keep busy so he doesn't have to think. [ like. blunt honesty, there. anyway-- ] There's a space between each letter.

[ he takes out a cheat sheet to hand to roxas ]

Think you can solve it?

[cyclists]

That would make sense, considering. [You know, considering how much everything sucks? But he's going to put the paper and the cheat sheet down in front of him to use a free hand to begin tapping letters out.

He has yet to let go of the ice cream.

The answer is "yes, I'll try" which he doesn't actually say and it means he's going to spend a few minutes working this out? Have fun sitting in silence while he tap-tap-tap, Axel. What does it actually say anyway...]

[leaberator]

[ it literally just says "hi, roxas"

he's an asshole and he is chinhanding as he waits patiently for roxas to solve it ]

[cyclists]

[Mom...it takes him a few minutes to figure it out and some of the letters come out wrong and he redoes it, but eventually he gets it.

...and laughs. So thanks Axel.]

Hi to you, too. Should I be looking for hidden messages in all of your notes now?

[leaberator]

You kidding me? That's way too much effort for no payoff.

[ he's lazy, roxas!! ]

You can keep the cheat sheet, though. I've got it memorized.

[cyclists]

That doesn't surprise me. [But there's still a smile as he carefully folds both papers up and shoves them somewhere into his cloak.]

And the spiky ball is for...? [We're going down the list, apparently.]

[leaberator]

I have a bag of infinite spike balls and no idea what to do with 'em.

[cyclists]

The prizes keep getting weirder and weirder. It came as a reward from that war, right? Like the sword Naminé and North had, or some of the other stuff.

[leaberator]

Yep. So I'm probably gonna be giving you those for the rest of our stay here.

[ just? to do something with them? it's fine. ]

[cyclists]

It's probably better for me to have them than to leave the out for somebody else to take them anyway.

[...he means Hisoka.]

[leaberator]

...Yeah, I'm hiding these.

[ he's got a hand on his forehead as he says it, just so roxas can see that he's got bandages on both his arms to show off his bad choices :/ ]

[cyclists]

[The nice thing is that without a hood, Axel can see his disappointed face =\]

What happened to "all of us need to be careful", by the way? [Axel..]

[leaberator]

It's a scratch, Roxas.

[ a literal one, this time, ]

Besides, as fun as it would be to get rid of him, I knew the guy wasn't corrupted.

[cyclists]

Yeah, and that guy's crazy. That's like inviting him to fight you and stalk you even more even if he's not corrupted. And he's a cheater anyway.

[Not that this is about fairness but he refuses to be even remotely unbiased about Hisoka.]

[leaberator]

He's already doing all of that anyway.

[ he's not backing down from "whatever i can handle hisoka" but, uhm? ]

A cheater?

[cyclists]

That really doesn't make this better. [Huff.]

But yeah, a cheater. And a sore loser. [He's going to take a bite of his ice cream.] Is it easy to ignore him?

[leaberator]

[ hm. ]

You fought him, didn't you?

[ he does not answer the other question because :) ]

[cyclists]

[Rude?]

He started it. What was I supposed to do?