just what does lie in other minds

[adorabastard]

Who: Alistair Argent and Aaron Harding
Where: ... A PLACE. A place with open space. (Will update this.)
When: Saturday
What: Sparring!
Warnings: None at the moment. Will update if needed.


[Although he had been the one to initiate contact, it's still with no small amount of wariness that Alistair arrives. He's met the man all of once after all: what was he thinking, asking if the other would be up for this?

[But the potential damage has already been done. And here Alistair stands, wearing nonrestrictive, flexible clothing, ready for whatever Harding has to throw at him.]

Comments

[show_my_cannons]

[Harding just grunts. Next time, he's keeping the hood on. Dammit.]

It was one of those pulses.

[He says it flatly, almost annoyed -- well. Okay, he sounds annoyed. But his irritation is with the marks on his face, not the other man.]

Don't know anything more than that.

[Yeah, he gets the meaning there. And doesn't push it. Maybe that explains something about why this guy is so skittish.]

[adorabastard]

[A short nod. The annoyance isn't missed: Alistair lowers his stance, cutting the small talk in favor of what they're here for.

[But not before he adds:]

So's the accent, if it helps.

[show_my_cannons]

... The accent is? How'd that happen?

[Which is probably a really stupid question, but... how else do you answer that?]

[adorabastard]

I wish I knew. I was raised right here in Locke City.

[He hasn't yet connected it to the pink lights he saw in the sky, before it happened.]

[show_my_cannons]

... And suddenly your voice changed. Just like that?

[Which shouldn't be any stranger than his face suddenly being tattooed but still.]

[adorabastard]

Exactly like that. Trying to explain it to my boss — my then boss, I mean, was a fun morning.

[No. It was not a fun morning.]

[show_my_cannons]

Your then boss? You quit?

[While he's speaking, he's begun rolling his shoulders, loosening things, all in preparation.]

[adorabastard]

I was offered another job.

[So ... yes, he quit. And now he's the star of a children's television show. There have been times when he's questioned that decision, but there it is.

[He stretches his arms in the meantime, offering nothing more in terms of explanation.]

[show_my_cannons]

Good to hear.

[And he means it too, even if he'd raise an eyebrow at the whole... television show thing.]

[He pauses in speaking, watching the other man.]

Whenever you're ready.