Day 48: Courtyard

"I could tell you some stories," Yuffie suggested brightly, "of unquestionable legality." Illegality, that was. Petty little things like the law didn't usually mean very much to her, except for the times when she had to uphold it. Always fun for the breaking, though, the law, and messy for the clean-up. Just the way she liked it.

Her nurse looked like she wanted to rub her temples. With sandpaper. "No, thank you," she said instead. "Why don't you run along, now?" Please!, was the unspoken request. Before I spontaneously combust. Or commit various acts of violence that would have me arrested, or placed in a loony bin. Like this one. Yuffie had quite a bit of fun filling in the blanks other people left. Sometimes she did it outloud, just to see the reaction; sometimes she kept it to herself. It really, really depended.

"Don't mind if I do!"

She took off, bolting out into the Courtyard. The weather was dour, overcast and threatening rain, but Yuffie didn't care. She'd refused a coat on principle, and had found herself bargaining: Fine, fine, Plucky had conced she could go without a coat, but unless she had at least a sweatshirt on, there'd be no outside-time for her. She ran a little ways down the dirt path, then toppled herself into a series of cartwheels. Straighten, run. Cartwheel. Straighten, run, just for the sheer sake of movement, and the whip of the wind. She laughed a little giddily, checking her gait down to a jog. Gawd, Leviathan, she'd needed this. Right from the get-go, she'd needed this. Every day she spent cooped up in side, the more nervous energy she had.

Nanaki had helped, she realized. Sort of. He'd…helped. In a way. His presence and everything that was wrong with it weighed on her, for sure, but he was still Nanaki. He didn't deserve to be here, didn't deserve to be stuck in a body that he hated and couldn't use, but all the same, she found herself glad to have him.

Yuffie started to hum, as she jogged leisurely around the Courtyard. A cheery little tune, one of her favorites; no, it was her favorite. A Wutaian walking song, with the roughly translated title of Pathway After the Rain. The pace stayed even but the tune picked up, and she found herself half-singing snatches of the lyrics to herself. It felt like ages since she'd last said anything in her native tongue, at least outloud; she wrote in it all the time.

[The Doctor]

[identity profile] mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com 2010-03-10 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh.. I'm sorry, Neku," Sheena replied, momentary horror at what the teen witnessed clear on her face. "It's never easy to see friends die," she added on quietly, her thoughts naturally turning to Corrine.

"Take a deep breath..."

[identity profile] composers-proxy.livejournal.com 2010-03-10 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
It took a few moments for him to regain his usual composure, his expression falling into one of careful indifference. He almost snapped again when she apologized; sorry wasn't going to bring anyone back. But it wasn't Sheena's fault. Sheena was trying to help. He ran a hand through his spiky, still-wet hair and found himself doing as she said.

After letting out a few choice curses under his breath, he did feel better, or, if not better, at least like he was thinking a little clearer.

"I'm really starting to hate this place," he said finally.

[identity profile] mizuhomaiden.livejournal.com 2010-03-10 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
"You should," Sheena stated. "It's a human ranch. They're horrific places. "

She paused a moment. "Even if there are more than just humans held here with us."