008 | OVERFLOW

[godsoffortune]

This is an overflow post for 008 | Sakura 2.0: You Can (Not) Have A Picnic. Please bring any further comments here and link to your threads at the original source.

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[sweetdeath]

A little!

[Tsuzuki's craning his neck and squinting fiercely into the darkness, but the tree branches still hide too much of the grove, even singed and smoking.]

I think we're gonna have an easier time on the ground anyway, though. It's too dark.

[sonofson]

But this place is so big!

[Though, it isn't hard to see Tsuzuki's point. It's still hard to see. Goten frowns a bit but slowly drifts downward until he can place Tsuzuki down on the ground gently.]

It's gonna be hard to find your shinki or Archie...

[sweetdeath]

Yeah, but if we go flying around in the dark with all this smoke and stuff, we'll probably miss them even if we fly right overhead!

[He straightens up, dusting off his coat, and smiles down at the kid.]

That's quite a trick you have, though. Thanks.

[sonofson]

I guess so.... It'd be better if the sun was out. Where do we even start?

[He'll go along with Tsuzuki for now, what he says makes sense. But at the next few words, Goten's smile returns. He grins up at Tsuzuki!]

It's fun huh? We should fly some more sometime! I'll take you anywhere you want to go!

[What's better then flying? Flying with friends!]

[sweetdeath]

You know, I was going to suggest this before you started flying, but here.

[He pulls a slip of paper closely inscribed with ink-brush writing and symbols out of his coat pocket, shielding it with the lapel of his trenchcoat.]

I'll make us a guide!

[He chants a quick invocation, and the slip of paper warps in his hand into a misty-winked white dove. It perches on his finger.]

I've just got one of these left, so -- go find Archie!

[The dove hesitates on his hand, and he holds it out to Goten.]

-- I haven't met Archie, so why don't you tell it about him? It'll be a better guide the more it knows.

[sonofson]

[Goten's eyes light up with pure delight in awe! What magic is this!? He's never seen anything like it.]

That's...so cool! Wow! Tsuzuki, you really can do magic!

[He grins at the dove, leaning from the left and then the right to try and get a good look at it. It's so small and it's just paper, but it seems alive!But--]

Only one? But what about your shinki?

[sweetdeath]

This place isn't all that big! I'll find them. Don't worry.

[He smiles reassuringly.]

[sonofson]

[Goten doesn't seem completely sure about that but he finally nods. Tsuzuki probably knows what he's doing right?]

...Okay! If you say so! Thanks!