Backthreads, Continuations, Offscreens, Etc

[tothelight]

[ Mainly for backthreading purposes! Entailing offscreen shenanigans possibly. Each thread to start with the usual When/Where/Who/What format but the When is most important. ]

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Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[thinks]

We must have been doing it for some reason, but I don't have a memory of what it could be yet.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

'We'... that'd be you and Kurogane and Sunny, right?

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[pausing to scrub a little at a pesky stain]

Yes, and Sakura, too.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

* pulls the rocks off the bloody tunic and starts scrubbing at it again, too. Hums thoughtfully *

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

How about you, Claude? Weren't you travelling too?

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

Yeah, I was. It wasn't always with the same people, though.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

Do you remember why you were doing it?

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

* his hands slow down. Looking at the cloth but not really focusing on it *

...different reasons in different memories. The couple where I'm with my father, or on his ship... we were exploring areas of space no one'd ever been to. Checking out planets, looking for signs of alien races, that kind of thing. It was dad's job.

The others, where I'm with Rena and everyone else... I'm not too sure exactly why I was there, but most of them feel like they happened on the same world.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[watching his expression :|a ]

You must have a lot of good memories.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

* it's not unhappy, exactly... *

...a lot of them are, in their own way.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[bittersweet?]

That's good.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

* maybe so. Turning the tunic over to check for new rents *

Wonder if everyone's doing okay out there.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[scrub, scrub]

You mean, without you there?

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

* piiiicking at an interesting-looking thread *

Do you think they know I'm here?

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

...I don't know. But they'll be waiting for you to come home.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

...hahah. It's funny, I think I was trying to tell myself as much, back then.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

What do you mean? 'Back then'?

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

The message the old me left myself. Hang on...

* wiping a hand on his pants and digging in his inventory bag, pulls out his tube *

Wanna take a look?

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

...Are you sure? You don't have to show me.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

Go on. There's nothing embarrassing about what's in there, anyway.

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

...Alright. Thank you.

[taking it carefully and looking :|a ]

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

* it's grainy like all these things are, but you can see Claude standing with one hand in his pocket, the other mussing his fringe. He might be smiling as he looks at you, but it doesn't reach his eyes. *

You're your own person. Don't forget that. They're waiting--

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

* stops, glancing to the side. *

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[tothelight]

--I do this willingly.

* the recording ends there. *

Re: [LATER: Riverside]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[giving it back, carefully, after a moment]

...You don't think it's true?