Event: Abort! Part Two (day 25, Egret). Luggage carriage

[voidtreckermods]

They are on world world#27462947582 for about five hours, helping, ushering people out of the city, fighting monsters, keeping guard. All seems well in the city itself, peaceful even except for the slight panic of people being told to move south.

Wherever they are, north in the desert, travelling through the countryside to the south or still in the city itself they will notice from their peripheral vision a darkening of the sky. Looking up they will see clouds. Strange clouds, appearing in the blue sky out of nowhere.

Their SCA’s start beeping, rapidly, flashing red. The clouds are too weird to be clouds, dark shapes in the sky. It might be that the Voidtreckers heed the warning and tap their SCA to evacuate to the train. It might be that they do not.

If they don’t then there is a moment, a moment of absolute stillness as those around them notice the shapes. A confused pause. Children stop their chatter, people stop their complaining, even the monsters seem to sense something and pause in their attacks.

The remaining voidtreckers are yanked away, even without pressing their SCA, they glow gold and disappear.

They all appear in the luggage carriage and not even a second later, with no warning the train lurches, flinging everyone off their feet as it enters the void.

It’s not really easy to tell speed in the void, but they will get the sense that they are moving fast. Faster than before, leaving that world and whatever those shapes were behind.

(OOC: Information on this event is here and part one is here)

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[areasontohope]

He moved as Inigo snuggled into him and he felt lucky that the warrior couldn't see how red his face was at this point. So Yuki's other arm comes up to wrap around the man in his arms and thought maybe his slight joke went past the other. Well that was just as well, and he was teasing anyhow.

Something like that would be a long way as long as he didn't go pinning Inigo to anymore walls, which of course he didn't plan to do.

Yuki tensed as he thought he might get into trouble and then he noticed the warrior's face was red too. But he just smiled. "What makes you think I'm soft?" He was totally turning this in another direction.

[flatteries]

"I.. uh.."

He stammers for a moment, the blush on his face not fading in the slightest now Yuki has got him all flustered. Especially with this new direction Yuki is heading in - it makes him wonder if he just misunderstood. By Naga, does he just have a dirty mind, is that it?!

"Y--You just are.." He lowers his head again to rest it on Yuki once more. Cuddling him is oddly comforting - or at the very least, it makes it easier to talk. "You're really soft to lie on.. And whenever I'm with you, I just feel comfortable."

Even if it might not always be apparent whenever his dumb social anxiety hidden under that thin extrovert layer gets in the way. But no matter how flustered he may get at times, he really is super comfortable with him.

"You make me smile without realising it.. And you're so sweet to me."

[areasontohope]

With the confession Yuki decides to let it go and rolled with it. "And here I thought you were saying that you just thought me soft." It wasn't at all where he was going but that's the new direction he's going in right now. There was nothing but a sweet smile on his face as if that other conversation was never going to happen.

"I'm glad you're comfortable with me." And that was true because the alternative would've been for Inigo to run and never look back. Heavens knew he'd tried to get the other to go away and he just wouldn't.

There was a slightly red face as the other compliments came in and Yuki wasn't really sure what to do with them at all. "Well..you were sweet to me first."

[flatteries]

See, this is exactly why he thinks Yuki is so sweet. He thinks it's natural to react to sweetness with sweetness in turn. Inigo can think of so, so many people who instantly shot down his sweetness instead - it instantly elevates Yuki so much in his mind.

"I don't think you're soft." He lets out a breath, and then shakes his head a little - just as much as he can while still lying on top of the other. "Not in a bad way, anyway. I think you're more.. kind, but not soft. You're sweet, but I feel like you wouldn't let anyone just walk all over you."

Unlike him.

"I really admire that."

[areasontohope]

With Inigo laying the way he is, Yuki quietly shakes. He's keeping everything inside, not trying to blow his cover. After all, what if the warrior figures it all out? He can't let that happen so he doesn't say anything in reply at first.

Finally though he comes up with something to say. "No I wouldn't and I'm not going to let anyone walk all over you either." Hopefully that's enough to get his mind working on something else other than quietly shaking.

[flatteries]

It's a good thing for Yuki that cuddling is getting Inigo all cozy and sleepy. It sure makes it a lot harder to be very attentive to what Yuki is dealing with - the shaking goes completely unnoticed by Inigo. If he does pick up on it even slightly, he's probably attributing it to the fact that Yuki has been through a lot, getting completely jostled around by the train, even though he was healed just now. Maybe there's just still some aftereffects.

So those words just draw a soft laugh out of him. "Okay. I like that."

Inigo tries really hard to put up a strong front all the time, but even he can't deny that the idea of his boyfriend standing up to him sounds really nice.

"You should get some sleep though, you know."

[areasontohope]

"Good." Yuki replied softly to Inigo saying he liked that. Because now that gave the warrior a fair warning that stuff was going to go down if one of the other's friends came aboard and wanted to start their trouble. He didn't want to fight his boyfriend's friends exactly but he wasn't going to let anyone walk all over him either as he'd stated.

Fair warning or something like that.

Gray eyes blinked at Inigo and he curled himself around the warrior, closing his eyes.

"Alright, good night."