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[notsogreedy]

Characters: Ankh and YOU
Date: Feb 4
Location: Around Aifaran
Situation: Scoping out the place
Warnings/Rating: None currently


Ankh has spent the time since he arrived here getting his bearings, scouting his new territory, learning what he can. It's all been disorienting, but the more he gets used to it the more he settles, and given everything that had happened back home, maybe it's good to be away from it all.

Except he isn't, really. Eiji is here. Ankh hasn't run into him yet, but he's sensed him, and Eiji must have sensed him too if he's been doing quite so good a job of staying away. It is still utterly strange to him that Eiji would have taken on enough traits of a Greeed to be able to sense him at all.

You might catch him hopping between rooftops or unexpectedly landing beside you after jumping off of one, with a burst of red feathers and shimmering wings that seem to disappear completely as soon as he lands. Or maybe you find him when he's taking a break from exploring and is perched in a tree munching on a popsicle, or tossing away the empty popsicle stick. He might have been aiming for the nearby trashcan and missed, or more likely just tossed it somewhere without paying attention. He was not in fact trying to hit you in the head with it. Probably.


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[colonelnope]

See, Eve's problem -- she guesses? -- is that she's just not used to people falling out of the sky beside her. It's a personal failing, really. She should be used to all manner of strange things by now.

And yet, the burst of red feathers and the person landing beside her has her flinching into a ready stance, completely prepared to throw down. One fist is drawn back before she processes that he doesn't immediately look hostile.

Eve pauses. Doesn't put her hand down. "Um," she says. "Hi?"

[notsogreedy]

Ankh doesn't particularly bother to notice whether he's likely to freak someone out by landing beside them, either. Unless he's avoiding being seen or something, but clearly right now that is not the case. He looks up dispassionately at whoever it is who's nearby, his lips quirking up into a lopsided smirk as he finds her clearly unsettled and frozen in the middle of what might have been an attempt to punch him.

"Heh."

[colonelnope]

Oh, good, the amused face and laughter is definitely going to make her like him more.

But it's not a threat or an attack, just a matter of chance, so Eve puts her hands down and relaxes, offers a quick tight flash of a smile. "...Right," she says. "Come here often?" With a pointed glance up and down, as though to indicate the transit he'd taken.

[notsogreedy]

It still hardly would qualify as friendly. But she got his attention enough that he didn't just immediately decide she was boring and walk away, which is more than a lot of people could claim.

"Learning the territory," he replies, as if that's a perfectly clear answer to everything.

[colonelnope]

Friendly can wait. For a time when people aren't falling out of the sky on her.

The thing is, Eve wants to be offended, but she understands that motivation. She sighs. Shakes her head at him.

"And let me guess, part of learning the territory involves learning the elevations intimately, and not being subtle."