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[wingenvy]

[Okay, so. He'd been en route to Midgar with Cloud. With a motorcycle, it had been awesome. And they'd been making good progress! Sure, he wasn't all that certain about directions, but being underground for so long can screw with a guy a little. There's no helping it. He'd been in a pretty good mood, though.

So if things had been going well for the first time in ages, why did he wake up this morning and find himself in the woods, alone and unarmed, in a fresh pair of white pants that didn't belong to him? It meant he hadn't been captured, since he wasn't in the lab, so... what? Seriously, what?

More importantly, where is Cloud!?

There's a sense of panic he hasn't felt since the troopers in Nibelheim had first started dragging Cloud away from him, so he wastes no time getting up and heading off to get a look around. If the military isn't responsible for this, maybe Cloud just wandered off (somehow) after whoever it was had taken Zack out. Man, so much for life getting easier...

tl;dr Zack will be ducking around the village early-ish in the morning, trying to make the most of the late November sunrise by doing his best ninja impression. He's trying not to be seen, but how effective he is at doing so? Really depends. SOLDIERs are sadly not ninjas.]

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[bearingevil.livejournal.com]

[Sanosuke is not impressed by the way you ninja. And he doubts the ninja he knows would be either. So he just leans against a wall until Zack gets close enough, and oh look, he's wearing the same outfit you are.]

You know you're just making yourself look really suspicious, right?

[wingenvy]

[...Caught. This is not good. Zack narrows his eyes and turns in Sanosuke's direction- ...what, are white pants just the norm around here?]

You weren't supposed to see it.

[bearingevil.livejournal.com]

[Apparently? Though Sanosuke does wear white pants anyway.]

You might want to work on your skills, then. I think even a blind man would've seen you coming.

Just what are you trying to do, anyway?

[wingenvy]

[Damn, so much for keeping a low profile. And here he thought he'd been doing okay.]

Just trying to get a feel for the town. I don't recognize it, so... mind telling me where I am?

[bearingevil.livejournal.com]

[Well, to be fair, Sanosuke probably has insanely high standards. Blame the company he normally keeps?]

Guess that makes you another new guy. You're not going to recognize it. We're in a place called Luceti, and it's an entirely different world, or something.

[wingenvy]

[Trufact, Mister Charge-in-Guns-Blazing isn't going to be up to par with the Oniwabanshu.]

...I'm pretty sure we don't have space travel where I'm from. [Then again, construction for the Shinra No. 26 had just started before he left...]

[bearingevil.livejournal.com]

Space travel? What the hell is that?

[Sanosuke decides that it doesn't matter, and keeps going.] Look, this place doesn't make a damn bit of sense. You just have to kind of accept it, starting with those wings on your back.

[wingenvy]

[Whaaaat? He doesn't have wings on his-

...Wait.

He has wings on his back.]

....Whaaaaat!?

[bearingevil.livejournal.com]

[Okay, Sanosuke's got to admit, it's kind of funny when it's not him being shocked out of his mind. He keeps his reaction to a grin, however, since he definitely sympathizes.]

No kidding. Really fucked up, isn't it? Just don't let them get damaged or it'll hurt like hell. Oh, and if you lose them completely, you die. At least, that's what I got told.

[wingenvy]

[You laugh at his pain D|]

That's messed up! You can't just give people wings like this!

[bearingevil.livejournal.com]

[Pretty much.]

Hey, I didn't do it. I've got a set of them too, okay? I'm just telling you what I got told. Ask around and you'll keep getting the same story.

[wingenvy]

I didn't mean- [Ah, nevermind.] ...That's crazy, anyway. And you're new here too?

[bearingevil.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Just got here yesterday. There's not much point to trying to sneak around. Not just because you're bad at it either.

[Sanosuke reaches behind him, pulling out his journal from the waistband of his pants.]

Should've been one of these near where you woke up. Don't suppose you grabbed it?

[wingenvy]

A journal? No, I didn't notice one. I was supposed to get one?

[bearingevil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so far as I know. Like I said, mine was next to me when I woke up. It works like some crazy telegraph or something. You can talk to people with it.

Some kind of tech-whatever. At least that's what a couple of guys said. [Sanosuke holds it out in case this guy wants to take a look.] I'm still not convinced it isn't demon magic or some other crazy shit.

[wingenvy]

I guess I better find it... man... [How could a journal work like a phone? If that is how it works. Zack accepts Sano's journal though, flipping through a few pages. Suddenly he jumps as a voice post starts up.] Whoa, it really does work!

[bearingevil.livejournal.com]

No kidding. It started working without doing anything. [Except, you know, throwing it away, but Sanosuke doesn't need to mention that.]

You can talk to anyone in the village using it. Or write stuff. It's convenient, even if it's freaking weird.

[wingenvy]

Huh... I'll have to remember that when I find mine. [Zack flips the journal shut, spotting the name on the cover.] "Sanosuke"... that's you? That's right, I never introduced myself! I'm Zack.