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wrecked_egg) wrote2015-09-15 06:53 am
wrecked_egg) wrote2015-09-15 06:53 amIC Voicemail:
Shiro's busy right now!
Leave her a message, maybe?
Or just come find Shiro! Bye!
Leave her a message, maybe?
Or just come find Shiro! Bye!
wrecked_egg) wrote2015-09-15 06:53 am
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"Neither are prisons," Credence points out. "Not most of the time. But I'm sorry someone tried to keep you locked up forever."
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Shiro shrugs, feeling self-conscious again. "It's fine. I'm never going back to where I came from, so no one's gonna try again. I just--I know a lot of the people who get brought here don't want to and don't have a choice. I was like that. But--I think it helped me a lot. It can help a lot of people. That's why I stayed. After I graduated, I mean."
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Credence nods, a little uncertain, at the same time not wanting to care if he's causing offence and being worried that he has. Best to just move on.
"...Where's the Enclosure?"
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Moving on sounds like a great idea. Better than the uncertain place they've ended up.
"Up on deck. You want to see?"
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"Yes. Thank you. I'll be back soon," he tells his pets, in the same talking-to-a-human voice he used for both his phoenix chick and his cats during his previous stint here. He straightens up and goes to the door, holding it open for Shiro.
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It's another familiar reminder, the way he talks to the cats, and it takes more effort than she expected to not reach for his hand the way she would have before. Instead, she heads out into the hallway, waiting for him before she leads the way up to the Enclosure hatch, reaching out and opening it. The stairs are dark and fade into nothingness just out of sight, and she hesitates in front of the control panel.
"Want me to show you how it works first?"
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Credence hesitates, then nods.
"Yes. Yes, please."
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Shiro waits for his answer, then turns to the control panel, speaking clearly into the microphone next to the entry pad, asking for a place called Laguna Beach, early morning. There's a faint change in the light at the foot of the stairs and she looks up at Credence, motioning for him to follow. The stairs lead to a different set of stairs, these wooden and weathered, and then down onto a rocky beach front, cliffs all around and nothing but deep blue ocean for miles and miles. Shiro seems more relaxed here, taking a deep breath and letting it out, her bare feet sinking into the sand.
"This is one of my favorite places to come. A friend brought me here once when I first got here. He's not here anymore, but it's a nice place to come and think. Quiet."
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Credence breathes in deeply, pushes it out slow. He's seen the ocean, of course - crossed it, even - but nothing this calm and blue and beautiful.
"...I've never seen anywhere like this."
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"It's in California, south of Los Angeles," she tells him, moving out a little further onto the beach, closer to the water. "I want to go in person someday. I know there's a lot of people there normally, but I think I'd still like to see it, in the early morning, like this." She loves the way the ocean makes her feel.
"I didn't learn how to swim until a lot later, but now I think I wanna learn how to sail a boat and just...spend months out there. Exploring. See how far I can go, you know?"
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"....That would be nice," he says, softly, watching the water. "To go anywhere you want, and just...be free."
He sounds like he's in a bit of a daze.
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"I think so, too," she says, voice quieter, almost wistful. "Spent all my life before I came here in just one place, the same rooms. Now I just want to see everything. Go other places, just to be there. Still going to, one day. When I'm ready to leave. You could come with me, if you want." She doesn't even think about the words before she says them, distracted by the waves, by remembering.
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"I...I don't know," Credence says softly. "Do you want to see where I was? With him? I could show you."
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Right. Right, this isn't that Credence. She shouldn't assume. He doesn't know her. Shiro looks down briefly, fingers fidgeting with the hems of her sleeves. "Sorry. Um, I mean. You don't really know me, I know. But I'd like that. To see, I mean. You just have to tell the room what you wanna see."
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"Alright."
He looks up, as if addressing some unseen spirit.
"...Nurmengard Castle, please?"
The world remakes itself around them. They appear on the balcony of the castle, overlooking the chill drama of the Austrian alps, the huge lakes and valleys deep below them, the pale cloudless sky overhead.
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The sight makes Shiro gasp as the world resolves around them, her eyes immediately locked on the vista below as she moves towards the edge of the balcony, hands wrapping around the cool stone. It's huge and vast and wild, like the ocean but different. A little lonelier, maybe.
"It's beautiful." She can't look away. "You said you were here with someone else?"
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"....Grindelwald, and his friends. And Queenie Goldstein. Not the Goldstein I named my cat after, but her sister."
He comes to the edge too, looking over the cliff, down the vast drop towards the lakes.