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]

Heine's gaze tracked the boy's movement, and when he was staring at him from the corner of his eye he actually turned his head to continue following him until he rested his back against the wall. He found he was not too troubled by this set-up, not feeling the appeal to be protective of his space nor was he unsettled by the dark-haired youth's gruffness. It was familiar to him and aside from displaying his annoyance, Kanda really was not exerting anything that Heine would interpret as aggression toward him directly

[kandescence]

Kanda knew when he was being sized up, and he could tell that it was happening now. He could feel it in the subtle unstated intent of the other's eyes, the way he held his shoulders and turned his head. He didn't feel threatened by it, but he was aware of it and he held his own posture accordingly, his body oblique to the other's, more deferring any potential confrontation than inviting it. If and when that time came, Kanda was confident he would have no trouble, whatever happened.

For now though, like it or not, he needed information from this person, and he didn't want to waste time bickering with a stranger when there were more immediate things to deal with.

"Underground. So you came out of a building here or one of those caves in the cliff-side," he nodded his head in that direction, the direction from which the other had said he'd first spotted Kanda.

"Why didn't you go back the way you came?"

[bulletcarnage]

In a way, the kid had a point... Why hadn't he turned around and gone back again? He didn't really have an answer and for a while he kind of blinked at Kanda a few times in subdued surprised at the question itself.

"Ah--" Was the only sound he made for a moment before rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. Why indeed... Likely it came purely down to instinct. He had been in one place and had emerged somewhere completely different. If there had been a way back then he doubted it was so simple as turning around and retracing his steps. When a location went from pitch black to blinding sunshine in an instant there was some fucked up shit going on.

"...why didn't you?" He asked finally, cocking his head to the side curiously. He knew his reason for not turning back even if he hadn't explained them out loud to the dark-haired boy, but he was somewhat interested in hearing his reasoning.

[kandescence]

Kanda took the non-answer at face value: apparently there was no good reason. He realized, of course, that it was possible the guy was just trying to hide the real explanation, but his gut told him that whoever this person was, he was too damn lazy and apathetic to bother with scheming. He also wasn't, for the moment, completely convinced that the guy wasn't just an idiot too.

He had no particular reason to hide his own rationale though and he gave a vague shrug to indicate as much. "There's no reason for me to go back to the place I was. If it wasn't always, it's dead now. I crawled through a tunnel in the rock. It brought me here-only way out."

[bulletcarnage]

"No reason to go back and the only way out, huh?" Heine mused aloud in reply, staring off somewhere ahead for a few seconds before moving his attention back to the long-haired boy once again.

He really wasn't sure what to make of him but for the time being it didn't really matter so much.

"If there's no reason to go back to where you were why do you even care where this place is? Got somewhere else in mind where you need to be?"