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nagi’s foot sinks into the soft, waterlogged earth by the pond. fingers, damp and half-way to numb, fiddle at the buckle across his chest — unfastening and re-fastening clasp, the rhythmic
clk, chk, clk, chk a low bass-and-snare beat beneath the instrumental patter of the rain, and the rising vocal line of conversation.[break][break]
he skirts around it. plods along the periphery of the crowd, an exoplanet in orbit, eyes flicking from face to face, cataloging each to working memory in an absent-minded roll call. they linger on
Isaac Merlo for a beat longer than the rest; memory, unbidden, overlays an image over the dense, sepia fog. a snapshot, saturated in contrast: a morning a summer ago, soft sand under the arch of his sole, the sun a honeyed streak on the horizon.[break][break]
there’s something bedraggled and weary about the man now, beneath the sodden weight of the pouring rain. in the set of his shoulders under the rockfall of
Tempest Quinn’s arm, the shift of his gaze.[break][break]
nagi wonders. purses his lips, and turns away.[break][break]
and catches sight of a streak of pale blonde and red beyond the water-stained lens of his glasses. the blotch resolves into two figures as he draws nearer — he hears
Oliver Shrakes’s voice rise over the ambient din.[break][break]
there’s a child on this expedition? [break][break]
his eyes drop to the small figure. [break][break]
“oh — ” recognition is a slow, warm shock.
“the prodigy.”[break][break]
the spitfire with a sygna suit from the border, memory supplies. [break][break]
nagi shrugs, pack riding up on his shoulders with the slow, deliberate motion. he steps in closer to the pair, his voice a quiet, tepid murmur:
“i think she’ll be fine.”[break][break]
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notes.
[break]
AREA 2[break]
・recognises (or, does he, really?)
Isaac Merlo from their first meeting at a beach last summer ー chooses not to approach[break]
・recognises
Eris Halla as the prodigiously competent and terrifying child from the border. approaches her and
Oliver Shrakes[break]
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