凶 spring grinding

[liveandforgive]

🧙 WHO: Cloud Strife & CR
⚔️️ WHAT: April catch-all
🕒 WHEN: Throughout April
🗺️ WHERE: Currently just the Librirynth Quest & Training Grounds
⚠️ WARNINGS: None for now!

( OOC; I flubbed up this April my bad. kjsdahf So I'm currently posting one open thread and closed prompts in the comments! If you're interested in threading with Cloud for something else specific (even if it's a fresh encounter), feel free to HMU here on the CR meme or ping me on Discord @ Kuraudo #0214 or even Plurk! )

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[sparkstrikes]

[This isn't the first time that Lightning's been to the library, having come here once before to find books on mastering healing magic, but those were easy to find, so her stay was short-lived. It seems like an obvious place for her to hang out, with silence being mandatory here, and maybe that will change now that she's here again, but she's definitely a rare sight to spot among the bookshelves.

And she looks frustrated when she hears a familiar voice from the end of the aisle, and she stuffs a book back onto the shelf when she sees Cloud, responding in kind with a firm nod.]

You just browsing, or you here for the labyrinth too?

[She's so far off from the entrance she's been trying to find...]

[liveandforgive]

Yeah. I'm heading down.

[ Not that he has to whisper or anything, but he's not just doing this for the brownie points either, fixing Lightning with a more determined yet calm expression. ]

Less interested in slime hunting and more in what's hiding down there.

[sparkstrikes]

You and me both.

[Y-Yeah!! She's totally not here for the pies! Ha ha...

From what I've heard, it'll be nothing good. Which quirks the corner of her lip downward with a frown. It's always their job to find out what sort of big monster or mystery lurks down in the sewers, isn't it? The non-locals... All the more reason to get down there.

As she wanders over to Cloud, she gestures to the tall shelves on either side of her.]

Too bad I can't find the entrance. Thought it would be one of those magical bookshelves or something.

[And she's too proud to ask for directions. :| ]

[liveandforgive]

[ Cloud's taking his pies home. It's okay. His eyes follow her gesturing the tall shelves, his own hands going to his hips as he muses where to go from here. This would be his first time venturing down, though apparently others had gone into the labyrinth once already. He won't say it, but he's already taking it upon himself to go with her. Her call if she wants to split up or stick together, but at least he'll be venturing with someone he knows.

Two former soldiers is better than one. Part of him is tempted to ask if she ever considered...y'know...asking. But instead, he nods to her and coolly retorts, ]

I know a thing or two about getting intel. [ A beat. ] Comes with the territory of being a former merc.

[ Which is his way of saying that he's...going to ask the librarian for them. kljadsfh ]

[sparkstrikes]

Huh. [She raises a brow.] Guess I'll be learning more than just what's lurking underneath all this.

[And here she thinks that he's got some cool trick up his sleeve, and even starts to head away from the front of the library where the librarian would be, as if she knows where she's going.

Time for you to spill the ex-merc secrets, Cloud!]

But if it turns out to be one of those magic bookcases, don't say I didn't tell you so.