castleinthemist | 02-- Things might yet turn around.

So he's taken to spending quite a bit at time in the common area of the residential chamber. Usually? Chilling out at the table or finding a nice little niche to settle in. Right then? He'd found a stone bench near a window that looked out onto the courtyard. On the opposite bench, a green-gray crate with numbers on it and a packing label. Someone got a package today. How? Probably a good question.

He'd gotten it the night before at the fountain while he was still restlessly awake. Didn't really take him long to figure out what had happen once he decided to throw a coin in and make a wish but he didn't think for a second that it would work. About two hours later? He asked again. Past midnight.

Now. It was late afternoon and he'd held off from indulging long enough. He settled onto the window seat, propped a leg up on the opposite stone ledge and plucked an apple from the crate of perfectly ripe fruit. Strawberries, mangoes, apricots, grapes, apples and pears. Perfect. He took a bite out of the apple, sighing contently.

So he'd lost his nerve for a spell. So those damn Shadows sapped a bit of his courage away. Didn't bother him so much right now. He'd just have this and enjoy his little birthday eating, drinking and being merry. Like you're supposed to do.

"Bottoms up." He said, drinking the last out of his flask before looking to the bottle to fill it back up.

[OOC: A window seat are common structures in castles. They look like this. Feel free to join Duo and have a drink, eat some good food, he's happy to share and plenty to go around. Also I may prefer prose but you can also respond in comment spam. I really don't care either way.]

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Skateboard? Right on! Maybe he'd have to ask, rather, plead with Shinichi to let him use it some time. He'd just picked up after the war considering how great some of the streets on his colony was for it.

"Now, that is something I hope you get, Shin'" Duo started looking around. It was almost instantaneous last time he tried.

"Shin?" Shinichi raises an eyebrow. "Isn't that too familiar?"

And then he spots the familiar yellow and green skateboard sitting by the side of the Spring. He walks over and picks it up, immediately turning it over to inspect the casing for the engine on the bottom of the board.

"Heh. Do you mind?" Duo asked. It wasn't that it was familiar, more like he had a preference for abbreviating things. Once he spotted Shin' pick up the skateboard, he smirked a bit.

"So? What's your analysis, detective?"

"Only my mother calls me by that ridiculous of a name." Some annoyance has crept into his voice. Having his name shortened like that made him wary of pranks being laid. "I usually prefer to go by Kudo. Shinichi if you must."

He's still checking over the board. "That whoever is responsible for this is uncomfortably aware of our lives. This is my board. Which was in my house. There are no copies of it."

"I'll call you whatever you want. Kudo it is then." Easier to say anyway. He examined the board briefly, noting the motor and the custom parts.

"Just like that package back there is my package. Labeled for me and everything. See? I told you. For the sake of argument let's just dismiss like..." He scratched his cheek, flushed from the alchohol. It was clear he had a buzz here.

"--magic, and the crazy explanations. Let's just say whatever mechanism brought us here works the same in here. Sound reasonable?"

He considers that. "It is a possibility. Although I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of factions among those reposnsible for the situation. This seems to be helpful in nature. Not something I would expect from the persons responsible for arrival in the sarcophagi."

"Factions?" That gave him some pause. He had kinda veered into the impression due to the prompting of others to assume it was just one 'big bad' as they seemed to imply. He also had no desire to conjecture himself because it was so beyond his depth.

"Maybe, but don't you think if there was anyone here at all that they'd have shown up by now? So far we've seen shadows. What if they're the ones responsible?"

"Anything is still possible right now. There isn't enough evidence to say anything for sure."

"Sounds like what I've been saying." Duo nodded, looking over the skateboard.

"Any chance I can ever give it a try?"

"I want to check it out first. The engine is powerful enough that it could be dangerous if some of the wiring is wrong." Especially after the professor's last upgrade.

"Sounds cool. I just got a skate board back home. Guess I'll have to rely on you to teach me all the tricks. And hell. Whoever came up with a motorized skateboard? It's just awesome." Duo said, waving to him as he started back to his little nook.

Shinichi tucks the board under his arm and follows after him. "My neighbor is an inventor. He's invented many useful tools for me."

Oh yeah? "Okay, so how fast does this baby go anyway?" He was naturally curious about machines like that, given his position as a sweeper.

He wanted to know how it worked, how to build one. Too bad they didn't have the tools.

"It can keep up with cars and motorcycles easily." An ability he had always found very useful.

Someone is an engineering genius, no doubt about that! He nodded approvingly and headed back to his bin of sweets.

"You wanna have a bite to eat, Kudo?" He asked, gesturing back to his little hideaway.

Shinichi follows after him. "Thanks for the invitation. I don't really like sweet things, but I might try some fruit if you don't mind."

"That's what I meant by sweets." Duo shrugged.

"I like candy well enough but there's nothing like fresh fruit when you haven't had it in a long long time." He made his way back to his window seat and pulled out a strawberry.

"You could call it nature's candy."

02-- Things might yet turn around.

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