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[Action - Campfire Post I] [Locked to people in Terra]

[Night has fallen and a small fire flickers in the dark, the only bright thing in a landscape that's utterly black. Terra has no moon and if there are stars, one cannot tell since the sky is shrouded by clouds. Mikoto is sitting cross-legged by the fire, her hands tucked in her lap.

This is a great place to camp, right? It totally is. Let's toast some muffins and have a chat.]

[ooc: Here is your first weekly campfire post! It's completely optional: your character can be tucked up in bed if you like, but this is a good chance to have some interaction that doesn't involve being attacked by dragons. Mikoto is available if you want to ask questions, but please feel free to threadjack and create as many subthreads as you like.]

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[He's not particularly cold but Vivi has bundled himself up tightly in a blanket more for comfort than for warmth.

He's cheered up a little, having resolved to make the most of what are probably his last days before he stops again. Even if those last days are to be spent in a dead, broken world it doesn't mean he has any excuse to waste them moping around. He has a tin soldier he bought from the market at Figaro while he was there in one hand but hasn't been playing with it for a while, instead looking into the fire and trying to find shapes and stories in its flickering movements.]

[Spotting the little mage nestled within a blanket, Edward approaches with a slight smile on his face. Vivi seemed to be troubled, perhaps the gloomy landscape was making the poor mage feel uncomfortable.]

Are you well?

[Vivi looks up when he hears Edward and nods.]

Yeah, it's just different from how I remember it here...

[He fidgets idly with the toy soldier, marching it across the barren ground.]

Are you okay? Thanks for helping me before.

You've been to Terra before?

[The bard blinked his eyes owlishly.]

Really, what was it like? The world I see before me now seems to be devoid of all life. What happened here, do you know?

[Edward smiled faintly at the mage.]

Think nothing of it! I am certain you would have done the same for me. We are this together, aren't we?

[Vivi nods, lifting the toy soldier from the ground and clutching it to his chest briefly.]

I was here with Zid- with the King og Alexandria when he visited. It was still different from Gaia but it wasn't like this at all...

[He pauses briefly, trying to recall more of what Terra had been. So much had happenned in such a small amount of time that he remembers little of the world itself, just the events that had happenned there.]

It was the ultima spell. Kuja used it.

[He fidgets again, moving the tin soldier across the ground on its head this time, and then nods a little more cheerfully.]

Yeah, we are!

[The bard almost paled at the thought of Kuja casting a single spell that rendered all of Terra to ash.]

Is Kuja truly that powerful that he could destroy an entire world?

[Edward sighed.]

How vile, he's no different than the monster that once plagued my world.

[Vivi clenches his fists angrily, more aggressive than normal.]

He's...he is a monster. And a liar and-

[He sighs, calming down and placing the soldier on the ground.]

Did you have someone that bad in the sky people worlds?

[Vivi's demeanor made him frown, since not too long ago Edward used to be that angry as well.]

Yes, in fact my comrades and I did face a person just as wicked as Kuja. His name was Golbez and he worked for an evil tyrant called Zemus.

Like you and your friends, we did our best to stop them.

[Vivi listens carefully, pulling a corner of the blanket over the tin soldier]

You managed to stop them, right?

Indeed, we did. We managed to stop them before they could herald the end of our world, but so many were lost during the conflict.

[Edward sighed softly.]

Many died, Vivi. Many died...

...were they important to you?

[The mention of death makes Vivi fidget uncomfortably and he hangs his head.]

We lost a lot of people, too. Dagg- Queen Garnet's mother. And all the casualties in Lindblum and Burmecia and Cleyra and Alexandria. This world, too. And Eiko's best freind and all the other mages...

[He sighs, drawing his knees up to his chest and staring into the fire again.]

This time we're going to do it better so that nobody else has to die.

Yes, in fact many people who were close to me perished during the chaos.

[One such person being the love of his life, but Edward didn't want to think of her right now. His memories of Anna were always a pleasant distraction for him, but he needed to stay focus.]

Kuja will be stopped at all costs, I can guarantee you that.

[Edward hoped they could make an example out of Kuja, a clear example for Garland to behold. No one who threatens the safety of this world shall be spared. Not a single soul.]

If we can spare at least one person from grief over the deeds Kuja and Garland partake within, then we have done our duty.

All shall be well.

[He smiled.]

[Were he capable of visibly smiling back, Vivi would have. As it was, he just moved more of he blanket onto the toy soldier so there was enough to tuck it in.]

Yeah, it will be. He won't get to come back again this time.

[At some point, Mjrn wanders over to Vivi. She made a mental note earlier to check on him, concerned about the welfare of the young mage. This is a difficult enough journey on the adults and those nearly so, but a child....

She watches the pensive youth for a moment, then approaches with a soft and gentle tone.]

Vivi? How do you fare?

[The flames, he decides, look a little like noble knights riding on armoured chocobos if you look at them right. For a moment, anyway. They don't stay for long before shifting and in the middle of trying to see something new he's distracted.]

Oh, Miss Mjrn! I'm okay. It's been a long day, though.

[He shifts a little to look at her instead of at the fire.]

Did you leave Chit with Miss Penelo?

[She nods with feeling at that comment about it being a long day, settling down nearby so that he doesn't have to strain to look up at her. There's a wistful smile at mention of Chit.]

Aye, that I did. I suspect she would travel with me wherever I would go, but this world...it is not the place for a young cockatrice. It eases my mind to know that she is safe, with my friend.

Is she from your world? I don't think I ever saw anything like her here.

[Mjrn nods.]

Chit is from my world, a domesticated cockatrice from the Giza Plains. She escaped from the nomad village one day, and eventually found herself in the Wood. That is how we met. She comforted me at a difficult time, and then she returned to her own kind. I will not forget her kindness.

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