opportunitycosts: (• but somehow you always find me)
Alvin ([personal profile] opportunitycosts) wrote2018-04-15 11:10 pm

[ empatheias ] message box

Alvin will have acquired his own little carrier pigeon to send messages, so he'll have one stationed at the main carrier pigeon place that will come and find him.

In the meanwhile, this is the entry for any private messages that are delivered via the carrier pigeon system.

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[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-06 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Trust? [ He knows that one by heart--probably more than he does the others, just because of an incident with the pods. Though trust is hardly what comes to mind with that.

It's more of a curious remark than an actual question though, that coming a second later. ]
...Why?

very nice choices

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-08 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Good for Alvin, too. The words linger with him, both the thought of using the alignment as a personal goal and the idea of proving the arehtei wrong--Red had never thought about doing either of those things, really.

Though, he wasn't completely foreign to the idea of wanting to help. And that pod... ]


...I remember that pod. [ It was something he soon remembered before everything else, that experience, and the solid sensation it formed in his stomach to recall. ] You think he's out there somewhere, still feeling that way?

[ And then he pauses. A pause that wasn't going to come, except Red's then too well aware of how he's slipping this into an actual discussion, which isn't exactly what he meant to do at all. And how Alvin was just minding his own business just a second ago.

He rolls his shoulders, hands going up to roll one around the wrist where his amulet sits, the petals safely tucked at the side of his leg, pinned. ]


I guess he is. Elios said he was the same for centuries before he came here. [ There, an answer to his own question, just so Alvin doesn't feel obligated to it. ]

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-08 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He gives a light nod, just to acknowledge the answer, not wanting to continue further down the conversation he'd accidentally directed it to. Not from a lack of interest, but.

The point in stopping Alvin. He had one, and he waits a second before bringing it up. ]


I wanted to ask... have you felt anything coming from your crystal lately?

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-08 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Red tilts his head, rubbing again at the wrist. But he then lightly shrugs. ]

Anything. [ A look down to his hands. ] Mine's just [ ... ] warm sometimes.

[ Well-- no, warm wasn't right. Soothing was maybe better, but he doesn't bother to correct himself. ]

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-09 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
...Thras. [ Which-- is uncomfortable to admit, for some reason, his lips pinching a little afterwards. ]

It doesn't hurt or anything. I just wondered if anyone else felt it.

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-09 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ A nod. ]

It happened before. After the tournament outside the city, I felt it stronger back then. It was... nice.

[ More than nice. Red looks down at his arm, turning his hand to look at the crystal sitting just near the rim of his jacket's arm, barely showing in the dark with his murky colouring. It was nice now--definitely in a soothing way--though appreciated in a different manner.

He puts his arms back by his sides, on the concrete. ]


Thanks. [ with an apologetic tone- ] You probably didn't want to be standing out here in the cold.

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-09 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Was it odd? Maybe a little, but Red shrugs his shoulders. ]

Why? It wasn't anything special. I didn't reveal a big secret. [ It wasn't exactly the type of subject that could make him feel like crap or anything, for another example. ] And you apologised, remember?

[ He kicks a foot against the ground, a hard thump against the end of his shoe. ]

If I didn't think you meant it, I wouldn't have said anything to you. [ He kicks his foot again, sour tone slipping into his voice. ] Maybe it was for the best you did what you did, too.

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-09 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Red doesn't say anything, but the ruffle isn't that appreciated, eyes squinting at his and then a quiet huff coming from him, shoulders tensing. Okay, okay, old man. ]

Is it really that random? People care about what the arehtei are up to all the time. [ A look back. ] Or you just want to prove one wrong.

[ Which maybe isn't a bad thing but we're still going to sound a little like a huffy kid right now saying it. ]

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-10 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His mind on something else? He wonders that himself, though he already knows that isn't right. No, there were a few things, but- ]

No. [ No reason to share those, but he does lose the slight sour note that had been in his voice previous. ] A lot's been going on lately. It's been one thing after the other.

[ A pause. ] It's not just the arhetei, but--what do you think about it? Did you go to that city?

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-11 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
What about how they reacted? I know it was a shock, but everyone got so--violent about it so quickly. I heard people went after the arehtei in Lake Niras too.

[ It wasn't as bad as it could've been, probably, but it still shook him, the reminder knitting his brows. ]

What happened in your world?

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-11 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
So... did Elympios attack Riez... [ uh ] the other country?

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-12 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
...Do the important details justify what they did to them?

[ No. No, they don't, but even if the story is long, he wants to know what had justified it, beyond what Alvin's already said. ]

[personal profile] gottacatch 2015-12-13 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ So

someone on the Elympios got greedy, acted desperate. Sympathy isn't what comes to Red first, but he's quiet, through the explanation and some after, because it's a lot to take in. Diplomacy could have come up in the at the beginning, discussions of the situation for the country of Elympios; there was no knowing whether Rieze Maxia would have helped out or not, and that an agreement had come at the end--

people were a messy business, weren't. Red stops thinking too deeply about it (it doesn't matter entirely, not here, what could have been, what ifs), when there's something that occurs to him with that. ]


Thras told someone a war between Shaarnath and Verens was possible. [ His mind goes back over Elympios and Rieze Maxia, to the red posters that had covered every surface in Verens, a thought already on his mouth--but he holds it, and instead- ] What do you think?

[ Alvin's the one who's been through this already, seems to know what he's saying. Any issues between them can be put aside for this. ]

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