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[dropkick]

[ Wandering through the City in something of a daze, Arthur is on his way to the outskirts of the City proper. From there it isn't terribly far from the forest, which isn't really the place for him - prepared or not, and he's more the former than the latter today. His mind is one-track though his goal is anyone's guess.

It's an unexpected day all in all. What had originally been intended as a day spent to scout around for different work has become, instead, an indefinite search for the end of a rainbow. He doesn't give much thought to others wandering around him in a similar state, doesn't give much thought to anything except his destination where he's 100% certain there's something he's looking for.

Or, well, someone.

If you happen to run into him, it might be literally, because that's how attentive he is to his surroundings at the moment - hardly.

At one point, turning his device over and over in his hand absently, the audio clicks on, just barely picking up the end of him muttering: ] ...the woods? Figures.

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[archivy]

Why are you going to the woods?

[dropkick]

[ some more mumbling to himself, as if he's going through a list of some kind but it's not really audible in an articulate way except for his actual answer to her, ]

Looking for someo-- something.

Think it's there.

[archivy]

[ he is clearly cursed. she should know better than to attempt to engage in rational conversation with the cursed. ]

What are you looking for?

[dropkick]

[ More pausing and just the footfalls as he keeps walking, though there's a subconscious apology in his tone, like part of him knows he's being rude to someone he normally wouldn't be as he says, ]

A friend.

[ He can't explain it, why he's so sure he's there even though he'd settled with the idea of him having left back when the City was made of glass. ]

[archivy]

You believe Mr Cobb to be in the woods.

[dropkick]

[ this is the pause of AM I SO TRANSPARENT followed by a pause of WELL MAYBE and then the far less self-away um.... ]

Well, wherever this thing ends.

But yeah.

[ thing being a fucking rainbow which really just...tells you how cursed he is :| ]

[archivy]

[ yes arthur. yes you are. or maybe she's just really smart. ]

You are very cursed.

[dropkick]

[ :( or both sob....ivy ;-; ]

What?

I don't think it's that.

[ Other people he ran into seem to have been searching for their own things, sure, but...as sometimes is the nature of a curse, he's sure it's different for him. If the rest of it is a wild goose chase, fine. But if there's even the most remote of chances Dom is still around, doesn't he owe that to him, to look? Some of the strongest curses play into preexisting truths. ]

[archivy]

Of course you do not think so. [ Reasoning with a cursed person. But for better or for worse, she— likes Arthur. ]

Be that as it may, you should be careful while searching.

[dropkick]

[ Mutters something that is suspiciously like I know so (which, of course he does...ahem.) Her suggestion for caution does make him pause, however. Where he might argue with someone normally, or at least reply mildly that he planned on being absolutely reckless, he answers honestly instead, insofar as the curse allows. ]

Sure. I mean, yeah, of course.

I will be.

[ 'Careful' while cursed of course is not all the usual is cracked up to being. ]

[archivy]

Good. It would not help your search for Mr Cobb if you were injured while searching, after all.

[ perhaps beating the curse in its own logic will help. ]

[dropkick]

[ that brand of practicality does resonate with him, cursed or otherwise, and though she can't see him, he nods, in this case to himself ]

True.

[ Considering how long he's been missing, last thing he needs is a faulty rescue-party. Party of one...but, well, details. ]

You...looking for anyone...or anything?

[ still interconnected to the curse but part of him wants to know if she might be, because if she is then he could keep his eyes peeled for that too. ]

[archivy]

No, I am not searching for anything or anyone.

[dropkick]

Probably better off.

Feels like I'm going in circles anyway.

[archivy]

Perhaps you are. You may wish to re-evaluate your directions.

[dropkick]

Whenever I backtrack, I just reconfirm where it looks like it's going. But it's harder to say the farther it goes.

[archivy]

Of course. It is very difficult to find the end of the rainbow.