two flames ☆

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[Here is a crazy redhead casually leaning against an odd-looking light pole, dressed in his checkered default. The pole is curvy and purply-pink and crooked like everything else in Hollow Bastion and sticks out sorely compared to the rest of the Plane. Axel, too, but that's readily obvious.

He doesn't seem to care, though-- could be waiting for someone, actually. A black and white skateboard rests beneath his arm, while one painted with flames rolls gently back and forth beneath a boot. As if this isn't boring enough, he's humming something.]

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[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Axel plops down and shoves the ice cream in his mouth. As a result, the following is kinda muffled.] M'upo?

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

[... what. Roxas sits down next to him, licking at his own ice cream a bit more sedately.] Mupo?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Swallow.] I said... kupo.

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

That's not an answer.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

It is now. [lick]

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

It is not.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

Would you rather I stole a pom-pom just to prove it?

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

... the only thing that would prove is your cruelty to moogles.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

Then eat your ice cream.

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

[... licklick.] I'm eating it.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

Good. [chomp ♥]

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

This is good.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

Naminé had some, too.

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

... Yeah. I know.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

... What's up?

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

How long has it been, Axel?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[... hesitation.]

Since what?

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

Since we've been home. How long?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[The ice cream is ... dripping down his hand now, and suddenly there's an uneasy grin.]

Too long?

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

Naminé said it's been over a year.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[... Damn it. He looks away, shakes the stray drops of sea salt ice cream from his popsicle.]

A year and a half. It's been a year and a half... since we last saw Twilight Town.

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

Then—I really was asleep for an entire year! [It sounds like a statement, but don't be fooled. It's more along the lines of a desperate question.]

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[silence...

... tweedle tweedle]

It was better than the alternative.

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

What alternative?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

... When you meet her, you can ask her to tell you. It's not my place to say.