IC INBOX {eachdraidh}

[idealistic]

"This is Lloyd. Sorry I couldn't catch you; just leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can."

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[wilder]

[Zelos leaves a message, not sure if Lloyd will even respond. From the background, it sounds like he's outside.]

Hey Lloyd, it's me.

Listen, I'm at the Drabkeeper's Castle...or what's left of it. Don't remember how much I told you, but the place was apparently some neutral turf that recorded the history of this world -- kind of like the Storyteller of Heimdall?

Anyway, it got destroyed somehow, so Flora and I went up to investigate. She said she had some way of viewing the past with her magic so we could see what happened.

[There's a pause]

Well, we saw something alright. There was a man named Fox, and his daughter. I only got a good look at the daughter- pale, intense green eyes, hair almost as red as mine - she'd be pretty cute if she wasn't such bad news.

[He clears his throat; moving on alright] Sounds like they were looking for something - or maybe someones. They were threatening the Drabkeeper to "tell where they were hidden" or they'd take out his eyes. And-

[He hesitates]

I don't know if he told them, the vision got blurry at that point- or rigged, more like. It looks like the daughter had set up some kind of trap just in case someone tried to do what we did. I'm fine, but Flora....

Flora lost her eyesight.

[Another pause]

Sorry, wish I had better news.

[idealistic]

[ he remembers Zelos mentioning something about the castle. it was probably around that time he was getting antsy, though, so it's not by much.

still, the name does ring a bell and Lloyd listens on with interest. it isn't often that Zelos would sound so serious-- usually those moments meant Something Was Up and that he should listen, so despite what he told himself months ago about cutting ties with his friends for their sake, he listens on.

of all the things he expected, though, he didn't expect to hear anything quite like this.

magic was not his field of specialty, that was more Genis's or the Professor's shtick, so he had no idea how Flora would have been able to view the past. as he listens on and he hears what happened at the castle and to Flora, he grows more and more upset and angry until he's holding the locket in a vice grip. his anger, however, is not directed to Zelos or Flora or even the person who set the trap at the castle; it's directed at himself.

dammit... he's such a screw-up. why did he decide to leave Zelos behind again when he didn't have any point to? he could have been there with them, he could have done something — anything — to stop what had happened to her, but instead he chose to turn to solitude. good job, Lloyd Irving: you really do suck.

the feed is quiet for several long minutes until this finally sounds through Zelos's locket: ]

You guys need help?

[wilder]

[Zelos wasn't sure if he had expected a response from Lloyd or not. Not because Lloyd might not care- he knew Lloyd always cared. But simply because well, trying to get anything back from Lloyd lately was so difficult.]

[But sure enough, right before Zelos was about to close up the locket, he hears his friend's voice. Which...makes him feel both relieved to hear his friend and fretful about bothering Lloyd at the same time. Even if he's gotten better about it, Chosens were never great at knowing what to do with offers to help]

[And so, he tries a more joking response.]

Ha-...not unless you've got some magical way to fast travel that you've forgot to mention to me too.

[LIKE FLORA. Jerk fairy]

Right now I've been trying to get her to rest a bit before she tries anymore magic.