END OF ARC 1: DAY 169-170 DOWNTIME

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[The first battle is over, but the second will begin any time. For two days, the enemy forces will remain on the other side of the battlefield, working on strategy and tending to their wounded. Both sides have taken heavy losses, and the Arena is full of the hurt and dying.

The battlefield itself has turned to a bloody, muddy mess. The elves will be asking the Army Engineers group and anyone else willing to help them lay timber and gravel out to make the ground easier to walk on for the next battle.

What will you do in your breathing space? Keep working, mourn your losses, or retreat from the horrors of war?]


[ooc note: This log takes place IC on Days 169-170/Nov 4-7. Please be sure you've read the plot post and the battle log's starting info thoroughly. Make absolutely sure that you include the day/rough time in the subject line of top-level comments, as well as if your thread is open or closed.

In addition to the battle log, there is a full-event log for those hiding out in Folkvang here. If you have any questions, please direct them to the mod post so everyone else can see them!]

Comments

[tenacityformed]

Hey hey hey - I'm fine. Didn't hear the bracelet until now, sorry.

Where are you?

[faints]

Back near the arena... I was looking all over for you.

[tenacityformed]

Okay, I'll be there soon.

Sorry to worry you, partner.

[faints]

Where did you go? [ there is no pout here, none at all ]

[tenacityformed]

Just needed some exercise, I'll be at the arena soon.

[HANGING UP NOW ok you'll see him in a few minutes :3






SEE HERE HE IS right outside the arena hi bestie howgoesit]

[faints]

[ HFFFFFFF it goes him running over and hurriedly looking like he sorely wants to inspect you for damage mister )8 ]

Don't go off like that without saying anything... You coulda woken me up.

[tenacityformed]

[o m g Roxas he's fine stahp. Lets him inspect anyway since it'll calm him down.]

Sorry, should've told you.

[actually isn't, since he wanted Roxas to get more sleep.]

[faints]

[ No never okay )8 He lost you once and he doesn't want to wake up and find out you're gone again ]

It's okay...I'm just glad you're alright.

[tenacityformed]

[who lost who? --Oh right, here in Asgard.]

M'fine, like I said. Wanna grab some food while there still some left?

[faints]

I'm okay, I-- [ Guuuurrgrgrgrgrrlleeeee. His stomach disagrees vehemently :c it would very much like something to eat, actually. ]

[tenacityformed]

[EEEEEEYEBROW. Yeah, that's what he thought. Grins and slings an arm around Roxas' shoulders, steering him back inside.]

C'mon, let's get some breakfast.

[faints]

Okay... [ sob, total defeat. At least he gets to stay near Lea this way, stick close like the duckling he is ]

I think there was some oatmeal and other stuff by the water. They don't have time to get a lot, so...

[tenacityformed]

[yes, good duckling, come with him.]

Hey, we'll take what we can get right now, right? Better than nothing...

[which he's gonna need if he needs to give energy to people in the future.]

[faints]

...Do you think we'll be able to do this?

[tenacityformed]

[doesn't say anything for a few moments. He doesn't have to ask what. But truthfully, he's got no idea. Zero. He's only been here for a few weeks, after all. There's nothing for him to compare it to other than his own experience, which has never been on such a...large scale. Truthfully he doesn't care what happens so long as the people he's concerned with stay safe, but on the other hand, if they LOSE...that might not matter. Still, he doesn't know what the gods might have up their sleeves.]

...Dunno. You've been here longer than I have...what do you think?

[faints]

...I don't know. [ After what he saw yesterday? He's not sure they'll be able to do it. It's so easy for someone to get hurt, so easy and it only took a second for Lea's life to be put in danger. And the enemy just seems so...powerful. ]

I just want everything to be okay.

[tenacityformed]

Yeah.

[he can't guarantee that "everything" will be okay, but he's going to do whatever it takes to make sure that Roxas and everyone else from their world make it out of this more or less whole.]

[faints]

You'll stay with me no matter what, right?

RIGHT IN THE KOKORO, ROXAS

[tenacityformed]

[god, Roxas.]

[Lea stops them right there. He really can't keep walking with this feeling in his chest at those words. Both hands go to Roxas' shoulders, making sure he's looking at him before saying anything.]

I won't leave you. No matter what. Promise.

[faints]

[ he's trying to put on a brave face here, trying to be strong...but he really was so, so scared that Lea might be too seriously hurt the other day. He knows people come back when they die here but that doesn't make him feel any better--it just reminds him of when Nakama had died in his arms.

very quickly he throws his arms around the other's middle and buries his face there, quivering but managing to at least keep his eyes from getting too wet. He won't trust his voice. ]

[tenacityformed]

Whoa- hey-

[okay, well he wasn't quite expecting that-- Lea's just kind of. stunned for a couple of moments before he wraps his arms around Roxas in return, holding him tightly.]

Hey, Roxas...

[faints]

[ The blonde doesn't answer with words, but the way his shoulders hunch and he holds the redhead a fraction tighter should speak volumes. He's practically quaking with fear--at losing the war, the people he cares about, not being strong enough...

Battle-hardened his old self may have been, until three months ago this one thought he was a normal kid who's biggest challenge was getting his homework done. ]

[tenacityformed]

Rox...

[holds him back just as tightly, one hand brushing over his hair and running down his back to try and soothe him. Lea spots an open bench and carefully maneuvers them both over there. It takes a little bit of coaxing to get Roxas to let go enough to sit, but he joins him a moment later, staying close.]

Hey, look at me.

[faints]

[ The typical 'but...' would go here, but Roxas still doesn't have the nerve to find his voice. He doesn't trust it not to crack so he just looks into his lap, hands fidgeting. ]

[tenacityformed]

Roxas.

[gently tilts his chin up, trying to catch his eyes.]

Look at me.