[catchall] Caelus

[sixillusions]

This doesn't fit Kanda at all but I saw it while I was scrolling and I had to

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[trashprince]

[ a simple nod. ]

Will you ever come back here? Or to another world?

[ perhaps better to say what he's really trying to ask ]

After this, is it really that we never see each other again?

[sixillusions]

[He's quiet for a little while, considering how to answer.

Blunt honesty has always been the easiest, though, so--]

I might be dead before you'd even want to. [Partly because he's constantly in danger, that's just part of being a soldier in a Holy War, not even counting the fact that he's not entirely sure he isn't Falling. But beyond that--] I was attacked by something right before I woke up here. It wasn't like anything I've ever heard of before.

[Bad!]

[trashprince]

[ caelus listens, thoughtful. the flaming lance provides some mood lighting and the mood itself sinks low. ]

I always want to see you. You're important to me, Kanda. You're my friend. It doesn't have to be two-sided.

[ a lesson learned in scawwy specifically ]

Do you want help?

[sixillusions]

[He shakes his head slightly.]

You can't. [What familiar words--though this time they're not personal.] Akuma can only be damaged by Innocence. If you got attacked, you'd die. ...And the thing that attacked me--it used pure Innocence.

[So he has. No idea what the fuck that's about!!!!]

There's one person who might know, but I have to track him down first.

[trashprince]

[ caelus has the child-like wonder necessary to see clockie (no), but he got nunce Innocence. he has to consider if paths, fueled by aeons, could possibly squeak past the rule. but if that theory doesn't pan out, he'd be dead and kanda would probably feel some twinge of regret over it. ]

And there's nothing I can say to bring you and Lavi onto the Express instead of going back there.

[ a statement, because it's an easy, no points earned assumption. but if anything has changed in the last few days for kanda, why not say it? ]

[sixillusions]

[More than regret, he'd be pissed. Despite everything he says and does, Kanda doesn't like seeing people die on him. That's part of the reason he shuts himself off in the first place.

He opens his mouth to respond--but the lingering remnants of this place kick in before he can, giving Caelus an answer in a different way.]

[trashprince]

[ if there's one person caelus doesn't want to cry in front of, it's kanda. so, when the memory becomes too much and his eyes grow warm, he's wiping at them immediately. he understands better now--not completely, but enough to see the picture within the frame, to have an idea of why there was no squirming his way into kanda's heart. maybe lavi will manage it, someday. maybe someone will convince kanda it's going to be okay again. he'll feel happy again. he'll forgive himself. ]

You have to go.

[ a nod. agreeing with his own words because caelus needs to hear it more than kanda. ]

I'll miss you.

[sixillusions]

[He sighs--but fortunately, through emotionshare, Caelus will sense no signs of true irritation.]

You never learn.