(Route) [003.5]: The fateful meeting. [action for Kay Faraday]

[corvus_veritas]

[It has to be, what, three, four in the morning now? Maybe even five, who knows. He's been up for almost a whole entire day and could collapse any second, but he doesn't feel even the slightest bit tired right now. Even if he did feel tired, he wouldn't care.

Right now, there are more important things than sleep. Like standing outside of the Pokemon

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[yattagarasu]

[ Kay is proud of her entrances. She likes her high vantage points, her dramatic speeches, and the fact that she can never reveal herself quietly.

But this is the most silent she's ever been. It took a good ten minutes to get Flapper to stay behind, even longer to coax her Murkrow off her shoulder. The two Byrnes would meet soon enough, but she needed to do this - mainly - on her own. Oliver the Absol is the exception, because he was Badd's.

So soon enough, there's a figure slowly making her way along (ironic, because she'd been in such a hurry before).

... And he's there. He's right there, and Kay stops in her tracks. What does she do? What does she say? Seeing and hearing him was one thing, but being so close to her father...

... It's agonizing and wonderful all at once.

Give her a minute, she'll take a few more steps, fighting to look composed. ]

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[corvus_veritas]

[Somehow, Little Thief spots her before Byrne does. He must've been lost in his own thoughts, focusing his attention elsewhere - or nowhere at all. But then there's his Vulpix pulling at his pant leg to grab his attention, and before he can give her a questioning look for it, he spots that shadow in the distance and instantly forgets everything else.

...If his heart wasn't pounding before, it sure as hell is pounding now. Kick it up another notch and it might explode from how hard it's working. He swallows hard and fights to keep a straight face, but if one were to pay close attention to him it'd be obvious that he's faltering. It's her. It's really her. In the past week and a half he has been thinking about what this place really is, coming up with all kinds of crazy theories...maybe this really is another planet, maybe he's been on drugs and this is his delusional fantasy world...hell, maybe he had a stroke and is lying comatose in a hospital bed somewhere, and this is all just one screwed-up dream he's been having all this time.

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[corvus_veritas]

[As she gets closer, close enough to hear his voice, he clears his throat, shifting his weight uncomfortably and keeping focused on her. It...seems he's lost his ability to speak all of a sudden. Great. He can't get this hesitant now! He has to say something, anything!

And--after about a minute of fighting himself--miraculously, he finds something to say. Something very little, but better than nothing. He speaks, but in a voice that's obviously wavering and nothing at all like the strong man his daughter must remember from her youth:]

...Kay?

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[yattagarasu]

[ She can't move. She can't move. Moving means being close enough to touch him, to truly confirm that the most important person in her life - the one who'd been stolen from her in a single instant - is there. And it took Kay seven years to learn the truth, to be able to eat Swiss Rolls without a lump forming in her throat, to stop waking up every night calling for someone who was no longer there to assure her that she was safe, that Daddy would keep the bad guys away.

Every last bit of confidence and bravado and cheer is peeling away, and it's only when Byrne speaks that she moves. It's an involuntary jump, one that has the Absol studying her with some concern. But she's reminded that she's not the only one impacted now. Her father, stalwart Byrne, was just as uncertain. It's ultimately her name, though, that spurs her. ]

D...

TIMESKIIIIP TO THE MORNING

[yattagarasu]

[ it's been a long, exhausting night. And so Kay is curled up on top of her bed, having been too tired to actually crawl under the covers. Prise the Espeon is curled just as tightly against her, and the two smallest birds, Byrne the Murkrow and Sola the Swablu, are perched nearby. The Wooper contentedly sticking her head in a bag of trail mix on the floor seems to be the only one awake. ]

[corvus_veritas]

[And thus a small group of SUPER AWESOME NINJA THIEVES sneak in!

...Which is to say, worrywart Daddy Faraday has quietly entered the room to check on his daughter and make sure she's okay after the events of the night before. He's got Little Thief following close behind him (being as stealthy as possible, of course) and a derpishly happy Wooper sticking out of his scarf. Obviously this is the best team in existence since the original Yatagarasu.

Well, looks like Kay is sleeping right now. This is good - she's getting her rest, unlike a certain someone who, ah, hasn't slept since the night before last. (He? Sleep? Ha! Since when does Byrne Faraday, Great Thief Yatagarasu need to sleep? ...since he got those wrinkles under his eyes and started crashing in the middle of paperwork, that's when, but not like he cares! That's what coffee's for

[yattagarasu]

[ Kay may curl up even more, if that's possible-- but Flapper has no such reservations about being anywhere close to silent, and at the sight of... someone who reminds her of her trainer and OH WAIT-- ]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[ the bag goes flying, Kay jolts awake with a startled yelp, and Flapper starts leaping up and down like a pogo stick, tugging insistently on the scarf when she can reach it. BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. ]

[corvus_veritas]

[.......SO MUCH FOR A QUIET ENTRANCE....

Aaand there goes Tal, leaping out of Byrne's scarf while making all sorts of happy Woopery noises, crying out like MOMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY and Little Thief is almost literally facepalming beside Byrne as he's just standing there like :|;;; right now. Oh, best quiet entrance indeed.]

WOOPAH WOOPAH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! [Says Tal as she bounce-bounce-bounces her way to MOMMY]

Oh--Tal, you--

[Face it, Byrne. It's too late to say anything to Tal now. You might as well direct your attention to the daughter that is now probably wide awake and freaked out thanks to the Wooper reunion you have just created. GOOD JOB.]

...Well, nice to see you're up!