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]

We don't really know that.

[just mutters it quietly, slowly drawing ??? closer into a light embrace. It's hard to just leave him looking like that, lost and unhappy. He's seen that before on Roxas' face, and he doesn't really want to see it again if he can help it.

But he has a hard time believing that this is the end of it when he'd been brought in himself barely a couple weeks ago. So maybe he'd been here before (more than once), but what was the point of bringing him back just before the war ended? Bolstering troops, perhaps, but it doesn't make sense to bring him back and not have enough time to (re)develop the necessary abilities for this world.]

[key_illusion]

[As much as ??? is averse to physical contact, he doesn't try to flee or break away when Lea takes him into his arms. However, he glances toward the ground and remains silent before he leans his head against the redhead. Eventually, he returns the embrace as well, but he still can't believe in Lea's words.]

[tenacityformed]

[just keeps it light, gentle. One hand rubs slowly up and down his back, attempting to be somewhat soothing. There isn't really anything to back up his words - he can only hope. Hope that if they don't win the battles now, if they lose completely, their end will be swift. Hope that if they do win...maybe there will still be time. ??? deserves what little happiness he can hold on to in whatever time they have left here.

But hope is really all that he can try to give him.]

[key_illusion]

[Hope is almost a foreign concept to ???, and he doesn't accept it so easily. Being comforted is something he's learned to expect at times, so the little motions Lea goes through is easier to accept. It does help, but despite the earlier energy transfer, he feels tired once again. So, when he finally calms down enough to put back on a disconnected mask, his arms loosen and fall to his sides.]

I gotta go.

[tenacityformed]

Yeah, okay.

[drops his hands slowly when ??? pulls away. He does look tired, but at this point there isn't much else he can do for him, given the limitations of his power. Some sleep and rest will probably help get him recharged (literally. . .) for the next fight.]

Make sure you check in with Roxas. He's probably worried about you.

[key_illusion]

Right...I'll get to that. [But first, he needs to do a few things before that. If he's going to do anything for himself before being returned to the data-scape, it might as well be ice cream.]

Good luck on the battlefield.

[tenacityformed]

...You, too.

[and with luck it won't be the last time they see each other.]

[key_illusion]

[Guess finding him pinned to a overturned cart isn't that bad. ??? gives a small nod at that before pulling his hood back into place, and he turns to leave with a slight wave.]