Catching Up

[soggypastry]

Who: Hope Estheim (eagletalons), Lightning Farron (soggypastry), Oerba Dia Vanille(hipstermark)
Where: Pewter City, Kanto.
When: August 26, late. (backdated)
Summary: A long overdue talk between siblings.
Rating: PG.
Log:


[The problem with determined runners? They put some major distance between themselves and the ones chasing them. Lightning knows this. It doesn't stop her frustration from being visible as she and Hope finally ride into Pewter after Vanille, and they've all had better weeks at this point. Enough was enough. She wasn't getting away again, if they had to tear apart the whole city to find her. Or, now that they had slowed, they could just release and follow the Arcanine. They at least would know where they were going.]

Comments

[eagletalons]

Fang had a plan-- or rather, the division she'd collaborated with had a plan.

[How to explain Raines to her... though it probably doesn't matter right now.] After you had gotten separated, Fang began to work with the Cavalry in order to find you. In return, they had her find us, to stop what the Sanctum wanted to do with us and to overthrow the government.

They allowed us to infiltrate the Palamecia by transporting us in a gunship, pretending to be PSICOM soldiers.

[soggypastry]

They knew we were there from the minute we landed, but we weren't going to let that stop us. Fang wasn't going to let that stop her. [And they got dragged in her wake, mostly. It had certainly been something, that charge through the ship.]

By the time we caught up, you two had already broken yourselves out. After that...[she shrugs.] We took the fight to the Primarch, who was really a fal'Cie pulling the Sanctum's strings from the inside. Everything that had happened to us was because of him.

[Serah...maybe even the Vestige itself. Even almost three years later, that thought still makes her blood boil and she clenches her fists.]

We ended up in an Ark somewhere in Cocoon after we got off the Palamecia. Didn't take long to get to Pulse from there.

I am so sorry this reply is so late. I really am.

[hipstermark]

[It took a little for Vanille to even react - all these things being said to her. It didn't make sense yet - but, she knows these two. Even if it's not as much as they trust her, she... trusts them.
And, so, the first thing she does?]
Lucy - I think it's time for you to get some sleep, okay? [...She withdraws her Yamask, putting the Pokeball away, giving it a smile. To be honest, she didn't feel safe discussing this out here. But - she then looks between the two of them, hands still buried in the (confused) Mamoswine.
There's still so much to process, though - and Vanille doesn't want to claim to know it all. Because she doesn't.] So - we all went to Pulse, something happened... and then we, well, survived? [Which she doesn't get. As she speaks, though - she's clearly trying to look a little stronger, stand a little taller.]

[eagletalons]

I'm here, just like this. It should be enough, shouldn't it?

[Waves a hand at himself. All of himself.]

We survived Gran Pulse. [And he emphasizes the locals' name for it, to let her know that yes, he really does know all about the world than what typical Cocoon citizens do.] Then we returned to Cocoon.

[soggypastry]

[In Lightning's eyes, Hope being here and so much older is all the proof anyone would need that things ended well enough. But even she can tell Vanille's not totally convinced, and so she nods.]

We went back to Cocoon and took out Orphan, the fal'Cie keeping it running. After that...[Over Vanille's head, she glances at Hope. They should tell her the truth. That she and Fang sacrificed themselves to save their Cocoon family and Cocoon itself. But she can't. Not now. She shrugs, trying to act casual.] We were back on Pulse, making a new life for ourselves. That's the last thing I can remember before I was brought here.