a late summer catchall

[edamamepon]

Who: Makoto Edamura + others
What: tdm/event prompts, other TLs
When: summer | august & september
Where: Milton + the wild

[ tws in prompts ]

Comments

[desperate_times_right]

You'd have definitely noticed. They were shooting rockets at me in there.

[Rude as hell, in Chloe’s opinion.]

Though maybe we come from different timelines or something. Do you remember the civil war in Ahmedabad? When I first got there they had half the city blockaded.

[edamamepon]

Was that before or after the helicopter crash?

Oh, I don't know. Well, I'm pretty sure they had some a long time ago, but nothing that recent. You know, before this place I wouldn't have believed you about different timelines. Now I think you're probably right.

[desperate_times_right]

After. The guy took the artifact from me in the temple that blew up, and we crashed the helicopter while we were getting it back.

I think it probably made the news. I had to sneak onto a military truck to even get into that part of the city, and the army was doing honest-to-good bombing runs and stuff.

[edamamepon]

I'm starting to think your kind of trading was a lot more dangerous than mine.

[ He says it as a joke, before tilting his head to ask-- ] Wait, didn't you say it got sold out from under you?

[ There's a moment where he squints and looks like he's trying to think back that far. ]

No, I'm sure I didn't see that on the news. Huh, so I guess we really are from different timelines. Actually, that's not that surprising anymore.

[desperate_times_right]

[Chloe laughs.] I should hope so!

And yeah, it did get sold out from under us. The crash involved the buyer. I don't even know what he thought he was going to do with it.

Yeah, it's weird how normal that seems now.

[edamamepon]

[ Her laugh sparks a brief but genuine one from Makoto in turn. ]

Poor guy. [ He doesn't sound that sympathetic, actually. ] Sometimes people like collecting things for no good reason. Maybe he just thought it was pretty?

Now that you mention it, a lot of stuff feels normal now. More normal than it should, probably.

[desperate_times_right]

He traded a bomb for it so I hope he got his money’s worth in the twenty minutes or so that he had it.

[She kind of doubts it though. Whatever. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.]

Right? Werewolves and stuff.

[edamamepon]

Doesn't sound like he did, if you ask me.

[ Somehow, trading with the yakuza seems safer than what she was up to. ]

Yeah, like that. How many werewolves do you think live around here anyway?

[desperate_times_right]

I think with that last round of powers they were distributed pretty evenly, so like… ten? Twelve?

[edamamepon]

[ His expression says this might've been a spit take if drinks had been involved. ]

That many-- you really think so? Do you know some of them?

[desperate_times_right]

I've seen some around, but you can't really tell who they are unless they change back.

[edamamepon]

That's why I keep my distance from any wolves. But I guess it makes sense most of them don't want to make it obvious.

[desperate_times_right]

Yeah. I think after the way people talked about the runners back in June, people are a little warier about sharing.

[edamamepon]

I can't really blame them, but it's not like anyone really chooses these powers in the first place.

If you ask me, we should be working together to help people manage them.

[ Big words from someone that had a broken nose for a while. ]

[desperate_times_right]

Yeah, I agree, but I get wanting to keep it in a smaller group. You don't know what people might do to you.