just_muse_me 15.1.2 {RP with bulletcarnage}

[kandescence]

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston ChurchillKanda awoke to stillness, the near-silent whisper of falling snow. It coated his bare shoulders and his hair, which fell loose and limp and already wet over his cheeks and back

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[bulletcarnage]

"Hm?" Heine lifted his head to eye Kanda more directly with a look resembling something like surprise, but not quite pronounced enough for anyone to be completely certain. Simply because he didn't register the surprise completely and unquestioningly upon his face, however, did not mean that he was not. Clearly, the language barrier was not as firmly set as Heine had originally believed it to be.

Heine had never really been big on introductions. He didn't like wasting time greeting people, shaking hands or even giving out his name directly. It seemed a waste - he didn't commonly invest enough time, effort or interest in people to warrant them using his name and the idea of actually sharing that information off his own back made him narrow his eyes at the long-haired boy in front of him. He wasn't unsettled by his presence still, didn't feel threatened or challenged as such but there was that underlining sense that fighters just had, a sense of one's own kind and the process of trying to predict their talent from appearance alone.

He

[kandescence]

The expression on Kanda's face darkened. He was, on the one hand, infinitely familiar with this kind of attitude. In general though, he was on the opposite end of it. He couldn't exactly be pissy that this guy had given him very much the sort of answer that he might have given had their positions been reversed. But then on the other hand he was short with people who deserved it, who wasted his time with pointless questions or expected him to explain things to them that they should already know for themselves.

As far as he was concerned, that wasn't the case here. This guy had been watching him-as far as Kanda was concerned, an answer to his question was well within his rights.

Still, he could play this game if that was what was called for. He breathed a derisive little hrmph of his own. "Don't think I give a damn about you personally," he said coolly. "I just need to know where the hell I am, and it looks like you're the only person here."

[bulletcarnage]

Heine blinked at Kanda once, then quite abruptly pushed himself forward so his palms were pressed upon his thigh where he sat on the dusty ground with his legs in a half-crossed position. From there he stared at Kanda for a long, hard moment.

"You're kidding, right?" he said at last before moving a hand up to scratch the side of his head "Great. I was going to ask you something like that..."

He gave out a short huff from the heat and also from general frustration. So this guy really wasn't from here either. He'd had an inkling but it didn't remove the fact that it wasn't going to actually get him answers. Not that he'd made any real effort to get information out of Kanda himself yet, but that was beside the point...

Another grumpy noise followed as he planted his chin and cheek in one hand and rested the elbow on his knee.

"So you're not from this place either, huh? Then how'd you land yourself here?"

[kandescence]

The look on Kanda's face became nearly withering at that.

Where the hell did this guy get off making that sort of a joke? Any idiot could see that this wasn't the time for that kind of crap. Ok, granted, maybe the guy didn't exactly look like he belonged here any more than Kanda did. Whatever kind of attire he might have been expecting of the locals, after all, it definitely wasn't leather trousers done up in straps and boots that went half way up the calves.

But Kanda had an explanation for how he got here-well, the Ark was an explanation of sorts, anyway. All he knew for sure was that the guy sitting in front of him was not an Exorcist and looked too damn pale to be a Noah.

"I'm warning you, I'm not in the mood for games."

[bulletcarnage]

Heine's expression didn't change at all upon hearing Kanda's words and for around ten seconds, which when there is complete silence and only two people staring at each other is a considerably long time.

He then shifted in his sitting posture so both his knees were drawn up and he could rest his arms upon his knees.

And another ten seconds passed. Which, still, was a considerably long silence between two people staring at each other.

Until...

"What?"