Stagnation, Boredom, and a Holiday Scrooge

[handpuppeeet]

Characters: Ankh and whatever poor sap wants to talk to him
Setting: Floor 20
Format: Starting Prose 'cause I hadta introspection, will match you as I cater to laziness
Summary: Plus makes up for being absent for a month Ankh is still ruminating after the Nightmare World stuff, and being a brooding birdy up at the top of the tower.
Warnings: The

Comments

[hoboherooo]

Eiji's presence would probably do nothing to improve Ankh's mood - though one might consider having a reaction of some kind an improvement given the lethargy. Either way, he was coming up here, after stewing for a few days on some previous events - namely, the run-in in the nightmare worlds, and his own little encounter with Romeo in the cafeteria.

There's an audible huff, then Eiji finally speaks up. "Ankh. We need to talk."

[handpuppeeet]

Ankh didn't even do so much as sit up to properly look at Eiji. Instead, he just craned his neck back to be able to see him. And hey, he wasn't even angry about being bothered! He just looked kind of bored and maybe mildly annoyed.

"The hell do you want?"

[hoboherooo]

Man, this was...odd.

Eiji didn't want to reach out to others. He didn't want to be a burden, but... If anyone would know anything about what had happened before, it'd be Ankh. Besides, if he just inquired about if what happened was what he thought, that wasn't the same as seeking help, right? That, and it wasn't like Ankh would be eager to reach out and help anyway...

"...the purple medals. If they stayed in me long enough, what do you think would happen - if anything?"

[handpuppeeet]

This conversation. What a wonderful conversation it was shaping up to be. Ankh still hated those damn purple medals, as much as he did from day one.

He propped himself up to reach a sitting position, but opted to look out over the...Nothing instead of looking at Eiji himself. "I can't say for sure, but if I had to guess-- I'd say you'd start turning into a Greeed. The purple medals are the same kind of cores that created us, after all, just without a vessel. I'd wager that means you become the vessel."