Night 49: Courtyard

[neuepolitik]

((From here.))Ludwig had no explanation for what happened next. One moment he hopped through a shattered window, leading to the outside, already preparing himself for a dash into the next building over... and the next, he was in a courtyard, a lake stretched out before him and rain lashing his face. Once more, he had no explanation for how this had

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[notthistrain]

[from here]

Cloud thought for a moment that he'd been wrong about the church having a secure roof, but then he realized what had actually happened. They'd simply walked from one area out in the pouring rain to another.

He was almost a hundred percent sure now that they were being toyed with. Going to find shelter and being led right back out into the rain again? Someone out there was definitely enjoying this. Sighing in irritation, he once again glanced skyward. "Well, that was a bust."

Their only real option was trying the door back in, unless the others really did feel like tramping around in the rain. Though, he wouldn't be surprised if they ended up under the downpour for the rest of the night. He gave Yuffie a crooked smile. "Your turn."

[zack_fair]

Zack hadn't expected a whole rundown about the ruined town, but that was what he got -- and it was pretty informative, at that. The way Yuffie talked about having resources and informants made it sound like she was actually pretty well-connected in this place, though that was bound to happen if she'd been around for so much longer than the rest of them. Still, the fact that she was able to play nice for long enough to exchange information did show that she had grown up a whole lot since their last meeting.

While he wouldn't have minded wandering around in the rain (he'd handled conditions that were far worse in the past), he didn't blame Cloud for wanting to get to some shelter. He'd followed after his friend, taking in the stray skeleton with a grim frown. Yuffie hadn't been lying about that part.

Before he could spend some more time trying to decipher what had destroyed the town, however, they were somewhere else entirely. It seemed like even ruined doors counted as portals (though he shouldn't have been so shocked -- if windows

[thatdamnedninja]

"Bust is-urgh, o-on-one way of putting it," Yuffie choked out, voice muffled by the hand she'd slapped over her mouth.

A violent shiver wracked through the young ninja. Her stomach was still complaining, egged on, no doubt, by the non-stop location hopping. The driving rain and bitter cold were like icing on the world's worst cake. If this kept up-no, no, she'd be fine. She'd been trekking through the frozen northern wastelands, right the way up Gaea's Cliff and beyond, in the midwinter sub-zeroes. In her shorts. And a knitted woollen turtleneck without sleeves, which covered her even less than her tank-top ensemble.

This was-should be-nothing.

Gritting her teeth, Yuffie headed right back the way they'd come.

[Returning here]