Open | Getting all parkour in here

[everysecond]

Who: Riley and ANYONE
What: Riley is getting back into the swing of things and that means roof running.
When: D460
Where: Various districts...feel free to pick one.
Rating: PG for her mouth

Riley had been out of touch for a couple of weeks. Honestly, it had sucked because it had kept her from finding away to save Ellie or going down with her. It was a fucked up situation, especially with what her girlfriend knew about what her future was like. She hated that she couldn't be there for her back home but that was kind of the price of being, well, dead.

That really did come up a lot in her mind. Here she could do things for Ellie and be there for her but in the end they'd have to part ways because Ellie lived and she died. Perhaps she should have hated her for that, hated her for all the love she got from everyone too. It would have been fair really. Though it didn't seem like it, Ellie had it going on. People loved her and cared about her. They'd always put her first. Hell, Riley put her first too.

She was jealous. Who had actually given that much of a shit about her since her parents died? Well, besides Ellie.

Not a damn person.

Today, she just needed to clear her head. Then she could go back and be all smiles and laughter for Ellie again since that was what she needed. She needed her to be awesome as fuck and she had to make sure she had her head in the game for that. Which meant she was now running along rooftops, swinging along ledges. It wasn't anything anyone had taught her to do, she'd figured it out on her own and had the guts to bother to try. Practice had made her pretty damn good at it too.

Landing on another rooftop, she took a breath of air and planted her gloved hands on her hips. It was nice being alive. It really was.

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[notsogrimreaper]

“Yeah… yeah, that’s a new one. We didn’t have a fungus, we just had Apathy Syndrome. That made people pretty insane too, though… But that was thanks to getting attacked by Shadows.”

He’s not trying to show her up at all. He’ll just tell a bit of his story for a bit of hers.

[everysecond]

Riley didn't feel shown up at all. If anything, she was more curious about what that meant.

"Shadows? How do shadows attack? I mean, I get how they do here but they don't make people go insane or anything."

[notsogrimreaper]

“Oh… well, they’re not the shadows you’re thinking of. Shadows are monsters born from a combination of dark energy and negative emotions from humans. As a result, they kind of feed on people to become stronger… that results in them going a bit insane.”

[everysecond]

"No kidding. Negative emotions all the time will fuck anyone over," Riley said with a snort.

[notsogrimreaper]

“Yeah. It was a little messy… getting rid of the Shadows was the only way to try to fix things.”

[everysecond]

"Did you get rid of the fuckers though?"

[notsogrimreaper]

“My… friends did. At least, I think so. I think they may have come back.”

It worries him, that the Shadows are still out there, despite all they did to stop it.

[everysecond]

Riley shoved his shoulder the second he said that part. Seriously. She was surrounded by pessimists.

"Dude. Come on. Have some faith in your friends."

[notsogrimreaper]

“I-I’d like to, honest! I’ve just met people here from the same world, dealing with the same monsters in the future.”

Not that Ryoji isn’t a pessimist sometimes. By all means, continue to keep hitting him.

[everysecond]

Which she did. She didn't care that they'd just met because she punched his shoulder.

"Faith in your friends. The end."

[notsogrimreaper]

“O-Okay! Sorry, I’ll stop…”

He rubs his shoulder, chuckling sheepishly.