City Of Secrets Continuation

[objectionattorney]

Who: Phoenix Wright (objectionattorney) & River Tam (soulmakingsound)
What: Bonding over homesickness
When: 6/20
Where: The Library within Nadrisl Center Hub
Warning(s): None what so ever!



((OOC: Continued from this thread!))

"Connected? Perhaps..." More so then he would have liked to be. His guilt once more spiking up, a little stronger this time, as he thought of all he could have done to have stopped the outcome they were currently in. A man guilty due to his own helplessness, wallowing in what he could have changed in a past that wasn't entirely reliant on him.

"Still, I can understand the feeling. Each of us with our own worlds. Our own lives. Our own families. It's difficult to simply accept that it's all gone. Heck, I've been here for ten months now and sometimes I can't help but wonder if it's all some messed up fever dream," He paused, letting the nostalgia wash over him and biting back the sadness that came with it, before looking over towards River with a pang of sympathy. "What was your world like? If you don't mind my asking. Was it anything like you've experienced here on El Nysa?"

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[soulmakingsound]

"No dragons," she points out. Though she realizes that might not be true for everyone, so maybe that answer isn't so obvious.

"Not so different. I was on a boat, before. Much smaller than the ones here. Not so many people. Not so many resources. But they're all asleep, still." Her voice cracks a little at the end and if she could gouge a hole on the book with her thumbnail she would. She tries, anyway.

"Inara says it isn't their time. It's too early for them to be here. At least when they wake up, they'll be somewhere familiar. The black starts to feel like home, after a while."




ooc: I should ask, what are your limitations with River's abilities? What do you not want her to see?

[objectionattorney]

((OOC: Absolutely fine with it! Pheonix is a pretty open book when he wants to be anyway so she is more then allowed to pick up what she wishes~))

"I see," Phoenix's voice took a calm tone as River spoke of her situation before waking up on the Orbiter. Was she perhaps a refugee even before showing up on this world?

None the less, something else had caught his attention. Something that had managed to distract his mind from his own worries and at the same time made him feel a little more hopeful for the girl who sat in the library by herself.

"'Inara'. Is that someone you know here? Someone awake here on Nysa I mean."

[soulmakingsound]

Just the mention of her name makes River smile, and she nods, hair falling in front of her face a little. "Like a sister. We were a family we made together, on the boat. Serenity. She was old, and she was broken, but she'd fly true."

A flash of something, not quite a frown, flickers across her face. "I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar..." Her nail tears a little from pressing it too hard into the book and she sticks it in her mouth with a scowl.

"Is your family here?" she mumbles around her thumb.

[objectionattorney]

"My family?" The question had managed to sink Phoenix's heart a bit. Of course, no one related to him was here. And the one person he had truly considered his closest family was still up on the Orbiter, still frozen in time and looking so peacefully asleep in her pod.

He couldn't help but suddenly feel a deep longing to see that cheerful smile of hers again.

But it was not as if he was completely alone either...

"I wouldn't call him family per-say. But I do have one close friend here. Someone I've known since childhood," Someone who perhaps had an even deeper connection than something familial. "Although, as much as I'm grateful that I'm not entirely alone here. I suppose it's difficult to not long for those who are still asleep."

He paused, taking a moment to smile as he looked back up towards River. "Was it a big family? How many of you lived on that ship together?"

[soulmakingsound]

"Family is who you make it. It sounds like he's your family." There's a smile at that, because it's nice to be reminded of the good times, when everything feels so upside down.

"Nine of us. We'd pick up travelers now and again, but it mostly it was just us.

Some cows, once," she amends. "So many little souls in a small place. But then they saw the sun again and remembered how to be cows, and they were happy."

[objectionattorney]

"My family huh?" The thought did manage to ease his heart slightly. A small smile tugging at his lips as he felt his body warm a little at the concept. They had been spending a lot of time together these days. And they were fairly close, especially now that they had lived together. "I suppose. Although I doubt he would admit to it."

The mention of cows threw him a bit off guard though. But the rest had felt almost too relatable to how his own life had been before he had shown up on El Nyssa.

Just a bit of lost souls who happened to end up sharing space and growing close because of similar circumstances huh?

"Wait... Are you saying your family all turned into cows?"

Yeah. No. He... He was still definitely thrown off by all of that a bit.