audio - desert

[undespairing]

Hey, I found a building! Or part of one, at least.

[Said cheerfully, as if this discovery were something amazing worth broadcasting to the world.]

I wonder if there's anything useful in here...or treasure, that'd be fun.

[A hoarse chuckle--he ran out of water today. There's the tap tap tap of someone climbing a flight of ruined stairs, the whoosh of a gust of wind...]

Wow, the ceiling's totally gone. And that wall, too...[Obviously this means he should move closer to inspect the nonexistent wall.] Heh, I think this is as high up as the classroom back at the libra--

[He's interrupted by the flapping sound of some sort of flying creature (a buzzard, maybe) going right past his head--followed by the sound of a certain someone losing his balance and falling off the building.

Oops?]

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[undespairing]

[There's a moment's silence before he answers...from a little ways away because gosh i guess he dropped that communicator thing when he fell]

H-hey, Kazu. There...wasn't anything in there after all.....[pained laughter. BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HEAR SMILES AND HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW he's fine okay]

[errandry]

[ high buildings, high buildings—he can't run on sand, not properly. but hell, he still has feet and a memory for the ruins he tore through when he went looking for Ikki. ]

They're the City buildings, what'd you exp—shit. Are you bleeding?

[undespairing]

[lying here patiently--not that he can move right now.]

Uh....no, no blood. [he attempts to move and winces a bit.] Think I might've...broken something though.

[errandry]

Shit. Shit. Just—stay still, okay? S'it hurt to talk or anything?

[undespairing]

I'm fine! Fine. I've seen worse than this.

[caught his breath again! always a start.]

Can't remember how to set a broken leg though...do you know?

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[errandry]

... You fell off a damn building—what's worse than falling off a building?

[errandry]

You think it's broken? —Don't touch it!

[undespairing]

Well...getting stabbed is pretty painful! Or getting pushed off the building, that'd be worse than just falling.

[a pause--oh well, lying back again.] Not touching it!

[errandry]

... And that's personal experience talking, huh.

[undespairing]

Just the stabbing part.

[His next laugh sounds more like a cough.]

[errandry]

Maybe you shouldn't talk.










But don't fall asleep!

[undespairing]

Hey, I'm not dying! That buzzard won't catch me sleeping, don't sorry.

[you can't shut him up i'm sorry]

[errandry]

[ sort of a choked laugh. this is how bad things have gotten: he is laughing at Elmer's lines. ]

That wasn't what I was thinking! Aren't—injured people supposed to stay awake 'til they get to a doctor? Or something like that.

[undespairing]

I wouldn't know, I haven't been to a doctor before.

[kazu's laughter makes him smile a little more. definitely giving up on laughing himself, though. for now.]

Try bringing water instead of doctors! Much more helpful.

[errandry]

L... later, okay? And how would you know if you've never even seen one!

[undespairing]

Because I'm thiiirstyyyy...

[errandry]

That's 'cause it's a desert! ... how thirsty?

[undespairing]

...very?

[errandry]

[ LONG SILENCE. ]

... Give me a couple extra minutes. How big's the building?

[undespairing]

Well I fell from the second floor....so about that tall.

[errandry]

How do you— Don't sound so cheerful about that!

[undespairing]

But it's true...!

[your comment is making him laugh and his laughter is making him cough]

[errandry]

Hey—hey—stay calm, all right? Falling one story's still pretty bad!

[undespairing]

Haha...I'll try to be quiet, I promise.

[errandry]

Nah, talking's fine... that cough can't be good, though.