I gotta know 'till then [Closed]

[attheclocktower]

[She arrives near the top of a place that is both mountain and city, big enough to be a world in its own right. There's a castle nearby, and lots of large houses surrounded by nice walls. Fountains, gardens, that sort of thing.

She thinks she knows where this is. She thinks she remembers Asch telling her once about it. Baticul? In either case. She needs to find him. Make sure he's alright and let him know that she's all right.]

Hey!

[She turns quickly to see two of the normal Kimlascan Guard (not the White Knights, though she wouldn't know the difference either way) approaching her, sounding none-too-happy.]

What are you doing up here? This area isn't for common rabble.

[Xion hastily takes a step or two back, keeping an eye on the pikes they have half-lowered in her direction. It's not a threat yet, but it's a warning. She holds up her hands. Worst came to worst she could just bolt (or fight, though she was still getting her feet back under her and it'd probably make a bad impression regardless), but for now these guys are the only way she can find out more about where she is.]

I- I'm just here looking for someone important to me.

[The guards look at each other skeptically, until one scoffs]

Chances are they aren't allowed up here any more than you are, girl.

How did you get up to the Royal Quarter?

[This is going south, fast. Xion takes another few steps back.]

It's not-! I mean... if I came here, he's here. I wouldn't have come here if he wasn't.

[It's sort of hard to explain the whole concept of heart connections to a world that works under an entirely different belief system and science of How Things Work. ASCH IF YOU'RE AROUND, SOME INTERVENTION MIGHT BE NICE.]

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[The streets of Inaba were blanketed with snow. School was out, so there was more than the usual number of pedestrians wandering the streets, though many of them were rushing to their destinations, owing to the biting chill in the air.

Others, meanwhile, are pausing and staring at a rather unusual sight: a girl, looking not much older than 15, wandering about the Inaba Shopping District in very ill-fitting clothing. She's wearing a very close-fitting, floor-length black coat, with matching boots and gloves, and not much evidence of very warm clothing underneath it. Indeed, she looks very cold, arms wrapped tightly around herself and shivering.

Still, she's a girl on a mission, and she's not going to let conditions not near as bad as those in the Tower at times stop her. She's asking those she meets about a friend of hers, a boy with silver gray hair. Yu Narukami.

Some of them recognize the description, and a few of those know exactly who she means. But nobody can tell her where he is for sure, at the moment. He did tend to be a very busy person, after all...

She keeps going though. She's obviously in the right place, and she has to meet somebody eventually.]

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