#kigendragon

[shiroi---kumo]

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ There is chatter amongst the walls of the Comodeen to the sound of a familiar voice. One he has not heard in some time and somehow he finds himself believing that his mind might be playing tricks on him to have heard it. To have heard her.

What is she - why is she - back in Wonderland?

He's not upset at the notion but at the same time he can't help but bring himself to worry because anyone who is dear to him, well worrying is just something he naturally does... and while they were not as close as he would have liked the bond was still building slowly and he would to build it even more.

So sharply tuned ears have him floating through the halls as silently as he does until he finds the source of the sound. A young woman with deep black hair clad in a shade of orange he has to admit he's always been fond of.

"Miss Lisa?" He chimes in a sing song sort of question. "You're back."

A slight smile on hidden lips as starts to bloom on his features.

"It's been some time, are you well?"

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[kuroki---kaze]

⋆୨𖤓୧⋆ He doesn't need to be told she's here to know. He doesn't need to see her to either. Even if the woman of the spirit's flow has made her way into the sight of the wind just yet, he knows she's here because White Cloud seems lighter. White Cloud was brighter in recent days and he doesn't know if that meant that his counter could metaphorically dump his troubles into the woman's lap but it was no doubt that something of the like happened with the way the younger was acting.

She's been here for a few days and he's made no attempt to find her. She would meet him as needed and it seemed that Bahamut be blessed, now was that time. They haven't locked eyes since he brandished vörös at her and demanded she stay behind the last time he went to fight Chaos with the cloud at his side. That had been too messy and the seals weren't holding.

White Cloud could not and would not take another seal.

He wouldn't allow it. If his Other took another seal who knows if his soul would survive the damage. He would not put it past the beast to smash out what remained of the shattering mirror of white during the struggle. White Cloud can not and would not take another seal and he'll fight the swordsman to the grave about it.

It's not doing any of them any good if he was dead. There was nothing noble about throwing himself on the fire in order to protect those around him and he was hoping that maybe Lisa being here could grind that into that cloudy head of his.

He's found her standing in a room with a few of the others. Knave ... and the woman with purple hair who only give him a half frown and excuse themselves from the area as if they know he and Lisa need to have a conversation far more than anything they could have been already speaking of and cold blue take their time to take in the sight of her.

Her soul feels different. As it had after she rendered it to energy in order to save the submarine all this time ago. She feels like White Cloud but at the same time not and he can't quite put his finger on it but something tells him it will come to their advantage in the future. Even more so when he can hear Bahamut laughing in the back of his head. The old man is being as cryptic as usual.

"Why have you come back?"

||| the @kigendragon stands before the wind

[shiroi---kumo]

˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱‧₊˚ "Lively is a word." Cid sounds as he starts to rummage through his desk to find what he's looking for, before he turns back to Lisa noting the fidgeting of her hands and he decides to start there. There are marred to say the least and scarred to say the best. The state of her is something to be of concern and he's trying to find the best words to say to bring that up so they don't come out in a mess of awkward and rude.

Miles has other work to tend to so that leaves the two of them here alone. He supposes he can start by explaining what's been going on.

"There are a lot more people here and I'm sure it's because Chaos has been on the move to either destroy or mark more worlds. We haven't figured out which one yet. Some of the people here now are refugees that I never thought I'd see in my life, but here we are. Five of them and if you saw Kumo, I'm sure you already saw one of them."

He pauses to sigh for a moment. "They're all Kumo's family. I mean I'm happy for him, but I was under the impression that he was the only Misterican left - though I suppose he was too."

There's a sigh again.

"Kaze is around, somewhere, doing whatever Kaze does and there's some people from a world or country or place called Amestris. Kumo keeps bringing them back when he finds them."

Indigo eyes are fixated on the state of her hands as his lips pull into a low frown.

"So you wanna drop the usual chipper act and tell me what really happened? These marks weren't caused by just anything Lisa. Excuse my bluntness, but you're mess compared to the last time we saw you."

"It's really good seeing you, too, and I'm so glad to be back... I'm not gonna lie, I think I got a little lucky in finding the Comodeen again on my own," she admitted, laughing softly as she spoke. "When I first came back through to Wonderland, I was in such a rush I think I forgot how much everything changes."

In reality, it didn't cross her mind at all when she had returned through the portal. She simply didn't care how much Wonderland kept changing or how difficult it would be to find them, or how long it took. Even if it had taken years, she would've kept going; Although she was thankful to have found them in a more timely manner.

She followed Cid's instructions, having a seat so he could go through what he needed to do the checkup.

"I got some things I need to do myself, so I'm gonna go while he does your check up, I'll see you later though, and you can always just share a room with me again, it'll be nice having someone else there anyways," Miles stated, smiling and waving to both of them quickly before rushing off to attend what she needed to before she had ran into Lisa.

"See you later, then," Lisa replied, smiling and waving to Miles and relaxing in her chair.

As she sat she couldn't help but to fidget with her own hands, absentmindedly running over every mark, before she finally spoke again.

"So... Things seem to have gotten... Lively... or maybe hectic I should say?" She asked with a smile. "I didn't get a chance to really look around since I was looking for you guys to let you all know I was back, but it seems like there's more people here... I'm sure you've been kept busy with that being the case," she stated.

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@kigendragon 💙'd || [ x ] || Accepting

·:¨༺ ✩★✩ ༻¨:·. She's a new face and she looks lost in thought. It's not often that he sees other faces in the library except for maybe Pilvi or Sinfonia. She seems like she's looking for something and he wonders if she's always been here or if he merely hasn't seen her with the way he's been setting in his room for most of the time he's been here thanks to the difficulty he had in getting around on his own.

"Excuse me, Miss." he sounds for just across the room, hoping he isn't being too loud but also just loud enough to get her attention without startling her. "I'm afraid I don't know your face and I'm still meeting everyone who lives in this place. Have you been here long or are you new to come to this place?"

He's trying to remember how the people here greet each other but he's falling back on habits as his hands move in two arcs and his hands end flat palm against he each other as he smiles with the slightest tip of his horns.

"I'm Valo." He smiles behind the mask covering his face. "I was looking for a book, do you think you could help me for a moment?"

[shiroi---kumo]

@kigendragon || X

⋯✧・♪♫♪・✧⋯ They both went tumbling to the ground and slowly he scrapes himself off the ground, and turns to help the young lady up as well. She smiles, introduces herself as Lisa and he wonders for half a moment what world she hails from and then decides he doesn't really care because they're all stuck here nonetheless. Even if he knew where she came from, that wouldn't change the fact that it was highly unlikely that any of them would be going back - and on the off chance that she could - he would rather not know because it would only leave a bitter taste in his mouth.

"Ah, no problem. Hauska Tavata, Lisa. I'm Sinfonia." There's a pause in his voice as he looks from one side to the other and then back again with a bit of confusion lurking in a citrine gaze.

"You wouldn't happen to know where that blond man is? The doctor? He wanted to see me, but I'm completely lost in this damn place."

[shiroi---kumo]

//Excuse me, can you explain the difference between mains and exclusives? I've seen these terms on your blog but not sure what they mean exactly

Good morning Anon,

Let me see if I can help you out.

Within the space of the RPC main and exclusive have the following meanings

Main - the main version of that muse I interact with. Meaning, I will interact with other versions of that muse (written by different muns) but when my muse is speaking of say Lisa, then because Kigendragon is my main, my muse would be referring of that version of Lisa first. I will interact with other Lisa's but Kigendragon is my main so when Kumo speaks of Lisa to other muses, he means Kigendragon first.

Exclusive - a muse / blog that my muse acts with exclusively. Sielu is a prime example of this because he is an OC and due to the interconnecting nature of Sielu and Kumo's lore, Sielu is an exclusive. Kumo's lore won't be re-written to allot for new or different teachers.

Kain is also an example of this (Frequencypawn) because Kumo and Kain are engaged and due to the nature of their relationship I will not interact with another version of this muse. Kumo will exclusively interact with Frequencypawn and that's it when it comes to Kain Fuery.

The places of Main and Exclusive are discussed with the mun before writing as such on my carrd / blog.

[shiroi---kumo]

.·:¨༺ ✩★✩ ༻¨:·. She's taking a seat and motioning to the empty chairs for the pair of them to do the same, but instead the prince is moving to pull one chair out and motioning to it so the historian can set down and it's only then that the cloudy prince sets next to him, but his hands are moving as if to tell his bind to face him.

"Alright, put your leg up. You're not putting anymore pressure on that."

"Highness I - "

The man of pure snow is tapping his hands down on his own lap as if to tell the elder just exactly where to put his leg up.

"Highness I couldn't - "

"This isn't an option Tähtien. Put your leg up. You don't need any more weight on it today. You've been limping."

A heavy sigh escapes the elder as he shifts himself in his chair to swing his legs around so he can rest them down on his liege's lap.

"Highness, I really -"

A raised hand with his fingers pinched together dragging through the air in a short line is enough to get the elder to quiet. It's a clear sign that this conversation will go no further and once it's handled, the swordsman is turning his attention back to the woman in question. His sort-of friend.

"Opettaja Valo came to tell me how upset he was but we spoke and he realized -"

"- that I did not have all the information and I made a mistake, I apologize."

"That being said, you're aware of my position now, no doubt and I apologize for not telling you and if this makes things awkward now. If there's anything I can do to make up for it, please let me know."

She jumped a little when she heard his voice behind her, having been reading the book she pulled down, setting it down on the table she had sat herself at. She stood as she turned to face him, nodding.

"Yeah, of course," she said, putting the book back and sitting, gesturing to the empty seats at the table. "You two should sit... Seems like there might be plenty to talk about, isn't there?" she stated. After all, she and Kumo had had their own... rough discussion. It was probably best to clear things up over that as well.

Not to mention with Valo being with him, she could only guess that they would talk about what had just happened between the two of them...

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⋯✧・♪♫♪・✧⋯ The blond is tinkering the minute he has the go ahead to do so. He's careful to take the deep grey braces that live in the man's wrists off of them as the blonde's visor comes down so he can inspect them. He's squishing and tugging and pulling a little causing his patient to groan and hiss at him.

"That hurts." He growls slightly pulling his hands back towards his chest as his nose wrinkles up behind his mask "Sielu already told you they're bad. Do you think I'm wearing braces for no reason?"

Slowly the blond sets up, flipping his visor back up as he sighs.

"I'm sorry, Sinfonia. I didn't mean to hurt you. I just need to understand what happened so I can help you. Did you ever get medical treatment for them in the past?"

"Joo." He nods. "Injections to combat the pain and the inflammation. I hurt my wrists playing viulu."

"Viulu? Can you show me?"

There is a heavy groan that comes out of the orange man as he slightly tilts his head and starts playing an invisible violin in the air.

"Viulu."

It takes a moment for indigo eyes to register and the not-human offers back "You mean a violin?"

"Ugh that sounds so awful." He's pausing "Violin." And another disgusted sound leaves him as he lets his hands fall back down to his lap. "It even feels gross in my mouth to say but joo, I suppose so. "

A frown crosses the blonde's face as he listens, letting out a sigh as he does so.

"Even if it is, so you injured yourself playing your violin. When did it start?"

The Misterican sets for a moment, eyes moving as they look slightly up as if he's counting in his head.

"I was twenty."

"Oh, so how long ago was that?"

"Forty-two years ago."

"Forty-two?! Ah what - no I'm sorry, I just that would mean you're sixty-two?"

"Yeah, and?"

He can see the way the world seems to spinning in indigo eyes and it makes him wish all the more that this was Kummisetä looking back at him and not this child.

He only sets there a few more moment before the man is poking at him again, this time hard enough to cause the musician to yank his wrists back completely. He growls at him, barring his teeth behind his mask.

"That hurts."

"Alright alright, I hear you. Let me think about this and I'll see what I figure out. You can go for now. I want to talk about everything else a little later. For now, you should ice your wrists."

"Ice does nothing." He hisses again.

"Then put a warm cloth over them. But you should rest them regardless."

"They wouldn't hurt if you hadn't been poking and pulling at them."

He's growling another time as he gets up without warning and is storming out of the room and back into the halls. He's too far out to realize what he did in his anger to save himself now. Orange eyes are looking all around as he turns his head.

"Vittu." He doesn't have a damn clue where he is.

She initially planned on staying in the doorway or outside the room until they were done, but upon being invited in by Cid she followed.

"Alright," she responded simply, taking the extra seat in the room once Sinfonia was seated and Cid was getting to work. As she waited, fidgeted with her hair, letting it lay against her shoulder as she played with the ends, thinking about how it probably needed to be trimmed, but it would have to wait for now.

She glanced over towards the two occasionally, before she continued her fidgeting as she waited. She didn't want to leave in case Sinfonia would get lost trying to find his way back.

[shiroi---kumo]

.·:¨༺ ✩★✩ ༻¨:·. He can wait for the prince to be done with his meal before they go amend the misstep he's caused. He's happy to wait and once his Highness is finished it's then that they rise from their places to go find the woman in question.

Pilvi is frowning at him though as he raises and babies the weight on his left leg instead of stepping down in it completely.

"You shouldn't be walking on your leg, Tähtien."

And oh boy how he can't deny the prince in the first place but he surely can't when he's using his first name. Not with the worry and concern that's lacing the boy's voice...and yet it does feel some how to be a double edged sword when he just lectured that woman about calling Pilvi a boy but he, himself, can't help but do it.

Even if the prince is cruising into his mid-thirties and he's known him for three decades that doesn't stop him from seeing the bright eyed little ball of white he was introduced all those long years ago. He never had children of his own but he didn't have to when he had the prince, and somehow he's sure the rest of his co-binds feel exactly the same.

So he just laces their fingers together when the prince takes his hand and Pilvi starts to lead them down the hallways.

"Where was the last place you saw her?"

"In the library. I was looking for the book you had suggested to me."

"Book?"

"The one about that white king."

"Oh. I'll find it for you once we're done talking with Miss Lisa."

And the walk to the library feels like forever. It feels like forever and a day when he just stormed out of that room only moments ago or perhaps it had been a bit longer. Being with Pilvi had the effect of making him not pay attention to the passage of time.

"I've also had a poor encounter with Miss Lisa lately, so it's probably for the best that we both talk to her."

"I see."

They walk in silence but hand in hand as they go until they round the final corner to bring themselves to the room in question and the human they're looking for still remains.

A pale hand clenches down around a paler one as the prince sounds from behind her.

"Miss Lisa do you have a moment?"

Lisa remained in the library, even after the ordeal and when she realized she couldn't keep herself focused on what she had been doing before. It was at least quiet there and made it easier to think, even if that did mean trying to wrap her head around.. well... just about everything. She ended up pacing alongside the shelves of books, unable to keep herself still, thinking about what Valo had said, among other things, although their conversation was certainly the most fresh on her mind right now.

She had never intended to be rude, but thinking back on it, she supposed it was rude just in assuming it wasn't. She didn't know much about them besides what little either of them had informed her of. Making any kind of assumption, in hindsight, probably wasn't going to go very well. And now the thought of trust came into play as well. It was possible she wasn't trusted... She figured that shouldn't be as surprising or have as much bite to it either. Why would he?

They didn't know much about each other and she certainly knew very little about him and the Mistericans as a whole, it would be understandable for him to not trust her. But even understanding that, the thought that he didn't even trust her enough to correct her over his own name definitely stung...

Surely she didn't seem that untrustworthy, did she?

She sighed heavily, pushing her hair from her face and holding it back, closing her eyes as she stopped her movement to just focus for a moment.

Stop it... you're gonna think yourself into a spiral like this... just breathe... Focus on something else for now... doesn't do any good thinking like this...

After taking a moment she tried to think of something else to focus on. Her previous search in the room had led to nothing, or at least nothing helpful to her.

So, instead of that, she opted to grab one of the books she had pulled down previously for Valo. It seemed interesting enough when she had grabbed it, and it would hopefully just let her get her mind off things until it would be easier for her to think more clearly, although she continued to pace as she began reading, keeping her movements to a small area.

[shiroi---kumo]

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ Miss Lisa has been here a few months and the feeling of Revon's hand on his shoulder has the previous anger bubbling right out him. Somehow, just having that man next to him makes his worries melt away. Somehow, having him there so he can hear his frequency is enough to cause the misty prince's entire body to relax with a sigh. He's still upset. He still feels like she invaded his privacy but he doesn't feel the urge to scream bubbling up in the back of his throat. Something about Revon just allows him to find his calm and realize that he knows Miss Lisa was not trying to cause him undue harm.

She's probably just as frustrated as he is, if she's been here for as long as he's assuming. Being stuck out in Wonderland alone for that long had to have been hell. How she survived on her own - he has to commend her for that in all honesty.

"A couple of months?" The knight sounds in question and the prince watches as he can see hidden lips moving to hang into a frown he doesn't need to see to know it's there. "That's some time."

But it's not what they've experienced and he's sure his prime is struggling to find the place in his heart that isn't slightly bitter over the idea of having been here on her own for only a couple months, when it was only a couple of months ago that his binds had finally found a place they could call safe.

Anytime in this hell on one's own is bad enough in his opinion and he's grateful that she wasn't out there longer. At least she can't go sour like his binds can.

"You should speak with Cid then, before Black Wind." He sounds with a pause and the previous aggression faded from his tone. "To make sure you're alright. He'll want a baseline so he can keep track of your health if you plan on staying here much longer. You're welcome as always, Miss Lisa. I apologize for my outburst."

She's watching the two converse, unsure of what they're saying for some parts of the conversation. When Kumo brings up how they met, she can't help but to look away briefly. It wasn't exactly the best of circumstances... Or even good for that matter. Honestly if she tried hard enough she could probably convince herself it was some kind of dream given the chaotic nature of everything that happened, although she'd have to want to do that.

As wild and not-so-great as it all was, she was glad to have met them, glad to have wound up in Wonderland, at least by the end of it all. It was far better than being on her own on Earth, stuck like a puppet on strings doing whatever her father wanted and nothing more.

And now she felt as though she had surely messed things up with Kumo before she could even really befriend him. As the two continued to converse, and Ai and Yu were mentioned, she couldn't help but smile a bit at the confusion around their names.

Yeah, I suppose that's fair...

"I'm not sure exactly how long it's been. I know it's been a while though... A few months at the very least," she answered Revon.

"I wish I had a more exact answer, but I wasn't really focused on how long I was here once I came back to Wonderland. I really only had two goals, and one of them was to get to the Comodeen and help however I could."

She only hoped she'd still be able to help, and that hopefully Kaze was going to be receptive to that rather than try to fight her on it when she would inevitably cross paths with him.

[shiroi---kumo]

.·:¨༺ ✩★✩ ༻¨:·. He's gone before she can say another word and the anger on his face is clearly what is out powering the pain rocketing up the his left leg. Every step feels like fire but he doesn't care because the only thing he can think to do is get away from that woman before he conducts himself in any way that would further be so unbecoming. He's had it far past his limits when dealing with how the people in this place treat the literal King of his people, let alone the boy he raised.

They all are beyond excuse at this point so it's all he can do to drop himself down in a seat in the dining hall when he sees a fluffy head of white setting in that very room.

"Opettaja?" The younger asks as he pauses in his endeavor with the tiny creatures in the bowl that Pilvi seems to love so much only to change the focus on jade eyes directly to him. (teacher)

"Are you alright? You look angry and you were limping. Should you even be out of bed? If you're hungry I can get you something."

"Why do you allow them all to treat you like this?"

"What?"

"That woman and the rest of them. The humans. They treat you so poorly, never use your name, they translate your name and - and none of them ever refer to you by title like they should be."

"Are you really that upset about it? They translate my name because I told them to and they don't use my title because I never gave it to them."

"Why though?"

"Because I didn't want them to treat me any differently. I didn't want them to think I was higher than them or better than them in any way. Human Kings don't bow apparently and apparently they don't even consider Kings and Knights real anymore. They call them a thing of fairy tales and children's stories."

"What?"

"I know it was hard for me to wrap my head around too but that's how it is in their culture, so if I just told them I'm a King and expected them to treat me like one, they would get all uncomfortable around me and be scared of me and I didn't want that. I just wanted them to treat me like everyone else, so I didn't tell them."

"...I see." He pauses as he rolls this information around in his brain for a moment. "I might have made a mistake."

He watches as white brows raise and thin lips fall into a half frown while the prince sounds again.

"What kind of mistake? Which woman?"

"The human with injuries in orange and darkly colored hair. She said her name was -"

"Lisa? You're mad at Lisa?"

"She was so rude, Highness. She made it sound like you were friends and then you are not and she translated your name and called you that other name and she called you a boy. "

"You call me a boy."

"Joo, I do but you're my boy. I raised you. I have those rights."

"You don't get mad when Sielu or Aamunkoitto or Revon -"

"Pilvi you are quite literally our son by soul, we get to call you a boy and baby you. You're an adult, yes, we all acknowledge this but you are our baby. We raised you, so we get those rights by default."

"What about Setä then?" (uncle (sinfonia))

"You really think I'm going to tell him he can't baby you. He is literally your blood. He can do whatever he wants."

"So then you're only mad when people who aren't Misterican do it? Black Wind translates my name."

"I - did you tell him to?"

"Ei, and he speaks our tongue, but he does it any way." (no)

"But you just translated his."

"I know. He doesn't mind, and I don't mind being called White Cloud. It doesn't make me angry and quite frankly I don't want anyone around here to call Valkoinen Pilvi anyway. Kain knows my name and that's all that matters to me. As for 'Kumo' it means Cloud in a language from Earth called Japanese. Two of my friends, a pair of twin children gave it to me. That's where 'Kaze' comes from. It means Wind in their tongue. It's better than being called Makenshi."

"Who calls you Makenshi?"

"The whole of Wonderland thanks to His Excellency and if I had to pick between Makenshi or Kumo, I would very much prefer to be called Kumo."

"So it doesn't bother you then?"

"Ei, it doesn't." (no)

"And you don't want them to address you by title."

"Correct. No titles. I don't need them to think they need to suddenly be formal around me because they think I'm better than them or some other crazy reason."

"And you are not friends with that Lisa woman?"

"We're sort of friends. It's complicated. I was stuck under His Excellency's thumb at the time I met her and we were sort-of enemies for a while. Not by my choice though. When I pulled away from His Excellency and betrayed them to bring Lisa and the Comodeen information they needed, and to protect them, she was one of the first ones to trust me. Everyone here used to exclusively call me Makenshi, but when Cid found out I preferred Kumo and what Makenshi means he corrected everyone as quickly as possible."

"The doctor - Cid - he corrected them for you?"

The prince is nodding in confirmation as he smiles.

"He did, and Miss Lisa hasn't seen me in some time. The last we saw each other wasn't on the best standings thanks to Black Wind but she was one of the first to change how she referred to me. I would like to be friends with her but we've never been in a position to talk much. I got ... injured.... quite severely a few times and both were in her presence. She's seen me come back from the dead, Valo, so it's understandable if she's still a bit rattled and trying to wrap her mind around me.

She's seen me do some very extortionary things in comparison to a human. She's flawed like the rest of us and very obviously gone through plenty of her own trauma since the last I saw her. She didn't have so many scars compared to the last time. You didn't yell at her, did you?"

His shoulders are dropping along with his head the more his liege explains and it seems there's so much that's happened that he doesn't know from the last time he saw this boy. The last time he got to hold him in his arms. Pilvi is his boy and he always will be but he's also a man now even if his face hasn't aged a day.

"You did, didn't you?"

There's a small nod as they both sigh.

"Do you want me to explain for you, or will you do it?"

"I can do it."

"You know you owe her an apology."

"I do."

"Do you want me to come with you?"

"I would like that, honestly. My leg is ... sore."

"You walked on it, I'm not surprised. I'll go with you. Don't worry, I'm sure she'll understand."

"Kiitos minun Pilveni." (thank you my Pilvi)

Lisa frowns as he begins to speak, opening her mouth to speak when she thought he had finished, but quickly just keeping her mouth shut and remaining silent as he continues. She hadn't meant to make excuses, or to apologize as a way to get out of the situation...

"I wasn't trying to do anything, I-" she began to try and explain, hell even apologize again, but she had a feeling it wasn't going to matter. She sighed after she spoke, and just shook her head, deciding it was best to just drop it. She wasn't quite sure what she could say right now that would be the right thing, so she just stopped while she still could...

She gathered the books she had gotten down for him, putting them all back where she found them. She wasn't really sure where she was going wrong. Even apologizing just came across as excuses, and now she had what Valo said to think about...

'Then he doesn't want you to know...'

It wasn't exactly surprising... She hadn't really had time to get to know him before, of course he wouldn't trust her with much. But now it just felt like she had deliberately done something to be deemed untrustworthy, and it definitely seemed her return was going a bit poorly in comparison to what she imagined...

She wasn't even certain how she imagined it going. She had been so focused on getting there and surviving Wonderland that everything else took a backseat... And now she was somewhat kicking herself for not anticipating more changes.

She shook her head again, like she was trying to just get herself together, and she went back to looking for the same thing she had before she and Valo began talking...

[shiroi---kumo]

⋯✧・♪♫♪・✧⋯ She says it's an old wound like Kummisetä does when he talks about isä, so that means even if it is old, the connotations behind it still hurts. Whatever it is and whatever happened isn't his business and he isn't one to press. Not someone he just met any way. Not like someone who needs pressing - like Sielu or Valo.

Neither one of them will just tell you things if they're determined to keep it under wraps enough. Neither one of them will tell you when they're hurting or they need help. They would much rather say in bed and claim to be fine or morph into a small mound blankets turned monster as the creature beneath hisses at all who get too close.

Regardless, he follows her. She is at least kind enough to show him the way and soon they have rounded enough corners to find the blond man who asked for him earlier but also too many that he doesn't know if he'll be able to find his way back to his own room on his own.

The blond turns around, a smile on his lips as indigo eyes that remind him far too much of his bonded Isä and Kummisetä to make him comfortable look back at him with a smile that is as equally bright. He doesn't know how he never noticed before and he blames the sourness and the medication from preventing him to realize his man's eyes look just like Kummisetä and it makes his heart ache a little at the thought.

He - misses him more than ever. He would much rather be taking a seat to speak with him about his health than this stranger.

"Ah - come in - Si - Sinfonia? Like Symphony? I got that right, yes? Please tell me I got it right."

He sighs as he takes a seat, nodding at the man's question. "I told you last time, it means Symphony. "

"Right, right." He's looking over his shoulder for a moment as he fixes his gaze on the woman behind him. "Lisa you can come in, you don't need to linger in the doorway. It won't be long. I just need to check his wrists now that he's more upright."

She froze as he spoke, looking back at him. They weren't far from Cid's office, and she was taken aback by what he had said. It wasn't like it was rude or anything. He seemed concerned- about her. She frowned a bit at what he said, though...

"I-" She looked down at her own hands, scarred both from a gunshot wound and her own fire that had gotten too much for her, not that she had cared in the moment, but it certainly caused her issues when she first got back to Wonderland. She could only assume it was the scarring he was talking about. She wasn't sure what else he could be referring to. "Well, if you mean this, I assure you it's fine... It didn't heal as well as it could have, but it's an old wound, nothing to worry about by any means."

"And no, my home hasn't been destroyed... But it also isn't safe for me to be there anymore... I've been in Wonderland for a few months now, but I haven't been back at the Comodeen long," she explained, just as they came up to Cid's office.

"Hey, Cid, you've got someone who needs to see you," she said, knocking on his door, and smiling as they entered the office..

[shiroi---kumo]

·:¨༺ ✩★✩ ༻¨:·. He's sighing as he listens, arms crossing over his chest as his shoulders tense. Lips pull down into a low frown as she continues going around and around in circles repeating the same phrase over and over again matched with nothing but excuses and ignorance.

Are all humans like this? Someone needs to teach this woman how to speak properly lest he have to do it himself.

"You speak those words like a broken record." He states plainly. "Whether you were aware of the rudeness of an action or not, all your assumptions did for you was poor manners and broken trust no doubt. If the prince hasn't told you anything, then he obviously doesn't want you to know."

He's shifting his weight to one side as he hisses looking the woman up from head to toe and back again before he lets out a deep sigh as if to show how put out he is over the whole ordeal.

"His Highness probably didn't tell any of you his name because he's protecting it. So his lack of correcting you was less about whether or not that you guessed correctly and more about keeping himself safe from people he plainly doesn't trust.

So it's more than obvious that it isn't my forgiveness you should be asking for and spewing the words like that of The Life's Spiral isn't really accomplishing anything except letting their meaning and weight fade by the second.

If you're going to say something like an apology, you should mean it before you let it pass your lips. Only children spout it to get out trouble, and I taught Pilvi better than that when he was five."

He's rolling his around in a complete circle as he groans that he should have to explain this to someone who thought themselves more adult than the actual child he raised.

"I'm sure Pilvi can give me more direction on the book I was looking for. Kiitos for the attempted assistance anyway."

And he's walking out the door with a bit of a limp on left side.

She sees his face wrinkle up and she's already regretting whatever the hell she has said now. It's starting to feel like she just can't get this right.

"I didn't realize it was informal, I just-" Now he's rattling off questions on how well she knows Kumo and informing her that translating his name is rude- Kumo is in his thirties? That feels impossible, but it certainly isn't the main thing to worry about right now.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..," she's putting her hands up slightly as she speaks, hoping to defuse this before she really has too and hoping not to offend him like she seems to have done, "I had no idea that was rude to do, I apologize. And no, I don't think I'd say we're close. He didn't tell me to call him that," she begins.

"The children I mentioned before, Ai and Yu, are the ones who started calling him that and the name stuck, he never corrected them, or anyone else saying the name, I just assumed they either guessed correctly or didn't mind. And where we are from, some names have meanings but they don't have to, and they usually aren't so important that it would be rude to translate... I'm sorry for doing that, I had no idea."

She sighed softly, leaning only slightly on the shelf behind her. "I don't know if he considers us friends quite yet.. I was gone for some time, right around when he came around here more often, so I couldn't tell you about how everyone else acts around him. I'd like to be his friend, though... But no, I haven't been told any large amount about your culture, or that he was, essentially, your king."

She pushed her hair from her face just for it to fall back in place, not that it really mattered right now.

"Forgive me, please, I'll be more respectful now that I know... In all fairness I also only called him a 'boy' because I thought he was about my age if not younger... I'm twenty-four and I thought he couldn't be much older, I'm sorry for that too. I guess it was silly to assume based on the human lifespan when you all aren't human, so I apologize."

[shiroi---kumo]

⋯✧・♪♫♪・✧⋯ There's something about the way she talks that strikes him in a way that tells him even if she had struggles elsewhere she might not have had them here. Has she been in this world long? Why is she here? Did her home get destroyed too? Maybe it was so fresh, it hasn't all set in yet. He used to carry around the naive belief many years ago that Misterica was still in one piece and there would be a way to find something to go back to but he's not so blinded anymore.

He's heard - Silencer's heard - much that would make him think otherwise.

But he almost doesn't know if he should ask. He almost doesn't know if he should bring it up or how and she's offering helping to him but he doesn't quite know in which sense she means it. Help with just basic things or help-help.

He doesn't know if he wants anyone non-Misterican helping him with anything large anyway. Just that yellow human... he thinks Cid was his name. He doesn't understand humans at all.

And this one - she - looks like she's seen better days.

"I - " He starts with an awkward drawl of his voice. "- was going to ask you if you could help me find that doctor's office but it almost looks like you need him more than I do." He makes a comment with an awkward laugh.

"Have you been here long?" His eyes drop as he continues, while hands keep playing with the ring on his finger. He's never away from Sielu long and right now feels even more awkward now that he is. He doesn't like being away from him at all but he was sound asleep and he didn't want to wake him when this wasn't supposed to take long.

"Did - is your world gone too?"

"That... Sounds really lovely... I'm so sorry you two weren't able to do the dance before everything happened... I know it's unlikely, but maybe it could be replicated some day," Lisa stated softly, listening to him explain it all.

She could only imagine how they felt- their home being destroyed, having been separated in Wonderland of all places... The closest she had ever come to that was her father sending for her and bringing her to Russia after her mother's death, which he caused, and it was nowhere near comparable to what the Mistericans had experienced in the downfall of their world.

Not to mention; Despite her journey back to the Comodeen leaving her on her own as well out in Wonderland, it was still of her own accord, even if staying on Earth didn't seem like much of an option, it still was... A terrible option, but an option nonetheless.

"If you ever need help with anything, I'm always here. I know we just met, but the offer stands just the same," she stated, smiling at him.

[shiroi---kumo]

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ He knows full well once Revon has him on his own they will be talking about this later. It's not often the prince of the clouds drops such foul words in their mother tongue. It's not often that he drops foul words at all. But for now he can feel Revon's presence looking over him and it's only extenuated by the feeling of one very large hand coming down to rest both on and over the entirety of his right shoulder.

If there was ever a time in his life where he felt small, this was one of them. If his stature had not been made clear to Miss Lisa before this, it had now, though Black Wind had a similar effect when emphasizing such a thing.

"Tell me about your friend, My Liege. How did you meet?"

"...In worse ways than I like to think about."

He doesn't even need to look at the man to know the flat expression he's getting from him. He doesn't need to make eye contact to know that toxic lips are hanging low as ruby pink practically sighs at this words. There are things that he has not told even Revon of all people in this whole of this cosmos and the things Miss Lisa were prying at were only a few of those things.

"Ah - I see - I - "

"We used to be enemies, Revon. I don't care to think about it because it wasn't my choice. It's only been in recent days that I have got to speak to her of my own will - "

The man is sighing as he explains and shoulders are dropping as the young king makes it clear exactly where they all stand.

"- niin… ei ystäviä?" (so - not friends?)

"Tavallaan." (sort of)

"Näen." (I see)

The man of white sighs as the man of green looks the woman over. It was made plain to his guardian that he didn't know this woman quite as well as originally assumed and he can still hear that wicked little beast in the back of his mind

'You can only run for so long Little Cloud. I'll send them to bring you back to me and this woman might just sell you up the river if it means protecting everyone else. She's an outsider, you can't trust her. She thinks she's owed to know everything about you. About us. About the life you've lived. She thinks she's owed it just like all other humans do. You can't trust them. You can't trust her. She only cares about those children and the Black Wind... and she thinks she can pry whatever information she wants out of you. You won't be able to keep her out forever, my precious little bird. "

Not even Revon knows of the phantoms in his mind and he really doesn't want the man to know anyway. It's not an easy subject to talk about, let alone think about. So he might be calm to the untrained eye but deep within the corridors of the prince's mind he's panicking. Does Miss Lisa even understand the depths of invasion she just in acted? Somehow he doubts it.

"There are is a pair of twin children, Ai and You, who came to Wonderland looking for their parents and Miss Lisa assisted them. I met her through my encounters with them." "I and You?" "No no, Ai and Yu. It means love and courage in their language." The swordsman is pausing for a moment as he sighs. "Rakkautta ja rohkeutta, Revon, en minä ja sinä." (love and courage, revon, not I and you.)

He can see the gears turning in the elder's mind as he struggles to try to make sense of yet another language that is not his own.

"I think I understand... and they are your friends?"

"Joo." (yes)

"I see." The elder is turning his attention back to the woman in orange with a smile on hidden lips. "How long have you been here, Miss?"

The sudden swearing catches her off guard. Of course, she has no idea that he swore, but it was also clear he wasn't happy with her, and she wasn't even quite sure what it was she had said to set him off. She hadn't meant to, and only had the intention of making how she felt clear, although she supposed the opposite had happened.

Normally she could've gotten some idea of what was being said, she had an idea about other languages from Earth she didn't know, but what Kumo had spoken wasn't anything like what she knew from Earth. She only knew he must've been angry based on his tone and body language, and she wanted to try and fix it.

Dammit why couldn't he just tell her what she did wrong? Why couldn't she have just let it be?

Why the hell did I even say anything?!

"Kumo, I didn't-"

It was then that the other Misterican entered. He was a taller man, and his hair was notably bright green. He would've been pretty hard to miss in all honesty.

A soft sigh leaves her as she looked down briefly as the two spoke among themselves, cursing herself in her head for managing to upset Kumo. Then again maybe it was also foolish to have thought things were going to go smoothly.

She wanted to apologize for whatever she had said to upset him, but given what they had been discussing, she couldn't do that in front of Revon without having to come up with a lie on the spot, which meant Kumo would have to go along with it, and that could be sloppy given she didn't know the man well enough.

So, playing along like she wasn't frustrated with herself right now it was.

"It's nice to meet you, too, Revon," she told him, offering a small smile as she tried to relax.

[shiroi---kumo]

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ It's like something short circuits in his brain as he listens because the closer she gets to the end of her lecture the clearer he can feel phantom hands ghosting over his face. A lingering specter just behind him that she would never be none the wiser to ever knowing he was there. His constant companion even if the beast's true body was all the way on the other side of Wonderland right now and as his entire brain fries out into a malfunction it's as if he forgets to speak the proper tongue for a moment when he growls.

"Sinulla on vitun hermoja!" (You have some fucking nerve.)

His eyes narrow to slits as he hisses, his entire posture changing in an instant with arms coming to cross over his chest while his nose wrinkles up behind his mask and it's in that moment that the little beast speaks.

'Ooh listen to her Little Cloud. She thinks she can come between us. Can you believe this woman? She thinks she can take you away from me. She thinks she can just pry herself into your life in every place you don't want her. She thinks she's owed it even. So what will you do, my pet? Will you just tell her? Will you follow orders like the properly trained bird you are? Sing on command for her? Oh go ahead, Little Cloud. I know how much you love to sing.'

And there is every urge is his throat to simply scream at her for even daring to take from him what isn't hers to take. What she can have from him is limited and it's not because of whatever outlandish reason she's come up with in her mind. It's because he is his own person and he's is allowed to have privacy. She wants to know what was going on but doesn't even know his name.

She doesn't even know his name and with the way she's going about things, now he's determined to keep it that way. There is a man of green stepping into the door way at the sound of the prince of the clouds cussing in their native tongue and the tall knight looks over to them with a frown hanging down low on hidden lips.

"Is everything alright, My Liege?" The elder calls out only for a head of white to look back over his shoulder while jade dead locks onto ruby pink. There is a deep inhale into misty lungs as the swordsman takes a moment to compose himself before he answers.

"Joo. Everything is fine, Revon."

"Are you sure? That didn't sound fine."

"It's fine, I just - I'm -"

"Just take a moment to breathe and then introduce me to your - friend?"

Jade is looking back over to dark eyes as he sighs for a second time and a hand raises full of formality as he motions to the woman in orange to his side.

"This is Miss Lisa, Revon. She's a human from a planet called Earth."

The swordsman then switches his stance and his hand now raises to motion to the tall man of green standing in the door way.

"Miss Lisa, this is Revon. He is one of my soul binds. My prime bind. I think you humans would call him my vassal. He's a knight in service to me. Revon -... raised me."

Pink eyes soften as he tries to smile behind his mask.

"Hauska Tavata." He says with the slightest tip of his horns.

The prince is sighing through his nose as his shoulders drop and the anger seems short lived as it fades from his posture.

"He said, Nice to meet you."

She wouldn't pretend the events that separated them previously weren't frustrating... If not for the obvious that she could've been useful, for slightly more selfish reasons. Part of her knew they just didn't want her getting involved, for her own safety, and to potentially avoid the outburst that opened the portal to Wonderland. She understood that...

However, she couldn't shake the frustration that came from the issue as well.

It may have been selfish, no, it was, but she felt it regardless; Trying to make her stay made her feel alone. Alone, with no one to turn to. It wasn't as if she had family to turn to at home, the man she had once loved was dead due to Gaudium's actions, and she had no friends to turn to. She felt as though she was left alone without a chance to clean up the mess she helped make in her anger.

She wouldn't pretend she hadn't been reckless, but it didn't feel fitting regardless. And, while selfish in the grand scheme of things, she still felt she had every right to feel this way. They may have been trying to look out for her, and for the situation at hand, but in doing so they still managed to neglect what they would've been doing had she truly stayed behind.

She couldn't be entirely angry with them, but it was upsetting nonetheless.

Not to mention being somewhat kept in the dark to the true nature of all of this, which she feels is proven in him asking about Kaze. Kaze will either be blunt with her or won't tell her anything at all. It was hard to say which side of him she'd get. The silent, or the sharp tongue, that didn't worry about what was being said or if it sounded too harsh.

"I hope they are... They deserve to be alright and away from any mess here or at home... And yes, I don't really know how long exactly, I suppose I should've tried harder to keep up with how long it has been, but maybe it doesn't matter anyways..."

She thought for a moment before continuing, her gaze shifting to the ground with a sigh, as she closed her eyes to brace herself for her own words.

"No, he and I haven't spoken just yet. I'm sure we will eventually, although I imagine he won't be happy to see me. Even if I think he was wrong before, that doesn't mean his opinion of the situation has changed," she began, finally looking back up at him.

"Kumo, I know things are in disarray. I cannot be kept in the dark about anything if I'm going to help... I want you to be totally honest with me, please. Otherwise it will come to light some other way, and I'd much rather you and Kaze just be honest," she said finally, like the words were forcing themselves out, like she couldn't hold her tongue any longer.

"I don't know if you two are just worried about me, or me being reckless like I was before, but I can help. I will help. However that has to happen," she stated. There was a cracking in her voice, solely at the thought they maybe they wouldn't want her help, or would attempt to keep her from doing so again.

But she wouldn't let that happen. She didn't listen to Kaze before, and she had no intentions to do so now if they tried to refuse her assistance. She wasn't there for no reason, and they couldn't change that.

"I can't make you tell me anything you don't want to, but... I want you to know that regardless if I'm told of the full extent of what's happening or not, I will find out, and I'm here, even if you two don't like it."