~~TO MEET YOU~~

[struckout]

[ Kallie had suggested to Miles that if the place they held their grand three-of-them-in-one-place meetup was up to her, she'd probably choose somewhere with coffee... and while in the end pizzeria had been chosen instead, the young woman's still managed to secure a cup of black caffeine anyhow, as overcooked and otherwise indistinct-tasting as it is in a place like this.

... She tries to keep her nervousness and uncertainty down, resisting the urge to tap fingers on the table. Sierra doesn't worry her - she's positive the other woman will definitely show up - but "Raven"... she's not so sure about. Paranoia makes for not just a stubborn determination to be able to see her motorcycle through the restaurant's window at all times... but a straightness to her back that almost seems painful to her, too.

All she can do is hope this doesn't turn into a disaster, somehow. Ignoring the curious gaze of a random child, she pulls at the yet again newly-shortened tips of her hair instead, tamping down a frown. ]

Comments

[envisaging]

Speak for yourselves. "Serah" is pretty pun-free and normal.

[ Not that anyone should take that as a challenge. Please don't take that as a challenge. Although since it's said with a smile, she's clearly not that worried about it. Anyway, the names are the important things...not really.

Kallie's right. It's a matter of what was going on with them.

What can she guess from what she knows? Lightning was in the military, and was meant to take care of the l'Cie...who were probably related to the tattoo. And she'd been somewhere, and Lightning had come for her...

Pieces of a puzzle. ]

We probably all have pieces of that. It's just a matter of whether or not we want to...talk about it.

[ Echo them back. ]

[skycutter]

[Miles makes a small 'hmmm' in his throat, tapping his fingers against the table as he thinks.]

We were... doing something. We were in trouble, at least. I knew that from the start-- my first showed me being in big trouble. [He doesn't want to actually say out loud that he's gotten shot in an echo, so he instead makes the appropriate hand gesture instead, drawing back three fingers, sticking out his index finger and thumb, and jerking it like the motion of a gun that's just had its trigger pulled and given its owner a kick.]

I don't know if it's something we did, or something we had, or something we were. I don't have a lot of context for it.

[nevergivesup]

[ Jake makes a bit of a face at Sierra's comment, sticking his tongue out a little at her. She was right. She's the only one so far with any kind of normal name. ...They should change that and figure out some crappy nickname to give her. You know, just so everything is even. Obviously, it's good that he isn't the one in charge of this meeting, otherwise this would have been the next big topic of discussion and nothing would have gotten accomplished. But as things are, Sierra is saved from a horrible nickname assigning session by Kallie's shift to a more serious subject. Not that he's complaining much.

He frowns listening to what bit the kid had managed to get from his Pulses so far. It's not that it's strange. It's that it syncs up pretty damn well with what little he actually knows. But like Sierra said... How much do they really want to share right now? ]

...Yeah, I got the same kind of impression. I remember saying something about laying low and about having to fight some people. We were... definitely involved with something.

[ Well specifically, he'd said something about fighting "the army". Normally, this would seem important to share, but... knowing now that "Claire" had been in the military makes him hesitate on just blurting that out. Judging by what he'd seen on the Network already, there are people who kind of take things to heart or freak out. There's no telling how any of them might react to the possibility of Kallie being with the people they had been "fighting". Or hell, what "fighting the army" implied about what the rest of them might have been involved with. It sounded terrorist-y or something. What the hell had he been doing? ]

Well. At least you and me were.

[ He looks at Miles while saying this then glances at the girls. He only has guesses for Kallie and nothing for Sierra. He might as well clarify right now that he basically knows nothing about what was going on with them. ]

[struckout]

[ Kallie gives Miles a piercing look... but finds herself not wanting to think too much about the implications of the teen's vague description for his first Echo. Again, she keeps on looking between Jake and Sierra in rapid succession.

This time, though, it's probably even more obvious that she knows something she's not saying here. She's usually not even the least bit fidgety, but it's hard to keep her hands and fingers still when she's busy fighting down a weird restlessness she'd have a hard time explaining. By accident, her eyes linger in the direction of Sierra's arm- the place where the slightly younger woman had showed her the weird tattoo that had appeared there before, when Kallie had dared to mention just one little phrase out of one of her own Echoes....

She decides not to mention "l'Cie" (or any other weird phrases she doesn't recognize out of her current life) out of the blue this time. But. There is one thing that stands out to her, at least. ]

I know some of it, but I think... [ -- No, wait. ] ...I do know: they were confused, too. About what was happening.

[ She frowns deeper, because hot damn is this uncomfortable for her. ]

A lot like us.

[envisaging]

[ Sierra sticks her tongue out right back at Jake. That...probably doesn't help Kallie's glances between them, but it's almost automatic, ingrained from a lifetime of having a younger brother. And, well, for all she likes to seem serious and studious, sometimes Sierra just...isn't. That's the most she'll do, though, turning her full attention to the Actually Serious conversation going on now.

She does so in time to catch Kallie's glance at her arm, and almost unconsciously reaches up with one hand, gripping at the place where the strange tattoo still exists. It's easy to guess what Kallie's thinking, based on that. The word l'Cie, and then suddenly the brand - so much as saying something odd had caused that, so...

Kallie's making the decision not to talk about it. Sierra stays quiet on the topic as well, for the moment, although she'll speak up about the current topic. ]

I...don't know what was happening, either. I think the man we remember wanted to kill...

[ ...me. Although she also remembers him in that other memory, and he clearly hadn't. But an argument while Kallie - Lightning - held her, about killing her. ]

...Someone, though.