Serene Serenes (Sept 10-13)

[om_nom_namur]

Who: The Spades. Any allies that might still be hanging around.
Where: Serenes
When: 9/10-9/13
What: The crew goes to Serenes so their Heron Princess won't die
Warnings: Language?
Style: Action or prose, whatever
Status: Open

After a nasty prolonged battle, the Spades deserve a nice, peaceful retreat.

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[om_nom_namur]

[Ace must have also been falling asleep or spacing out or something because suddenly out of nowhere a bag of food plops down onto the deck in front of him. Namur eased himself a little more slowly down to a sitting position next to Ace; his back, fin, and shoulders still sore as shit.]

How long y' jus' gonna lay in the sun, bro? Even humans'll dry out, y' know.

[hiken]

Hah. C'mon, I'm a 'Fire Man', Namur.

[Ace took a moment to notice what Namur had tossed in front of him, reaching for it only after his brother started talking.]

I won't dry out--I'm already beyond that.

[om_nom_namur]

[Pokes him.]

'S why y' got all these mushy bits, right? Sheheheh!

[Then Namur falls quiet for a few moments, staring down at his hands.]

Hey, Ace? I didn't... I mean, when I was... outta my head. Didn't hurt y' or nothin', did I?

[hiken]

Don't ask me dumb questions like that. Even if you did, it wasn't because you wanted to.

[Ace reached over and picked up one of Namur's hands to keep him from wringing them. He made it into a fist and them bumped knuckles with him.]

Besides-- I'd like to think I'm a good brother from time to time. I'd just lie to make you feel better, y'know.

[om_nom_namur]

Smell y' lyin', dumbass.

[But one side of Namur's mouth lifts in a smirk. He fistbumps back.]

Thanks. Was prob'ly jus' gettin' what I deserved, but...

[He doesn't really know but what, so he lets it drop. A few weeks of captivity won't bring back shattered lives or fix broken families. It wasn't even the beginning of a penance.]

[hiken]

The point in being brothers is that we don't want each other to suffer. You're still Namur.

[And, that was that. Ace didn't care much for consequences--knowing he'd prefer to avoid them if he could. He would always be happy to run away from them and keep being called a criminal by the law.

He lived freely and that was what mattered to him.]

So, no matter what, all of us are gonna fight for you. Got it?

[om_nom_namur]

Hell yeah.

[He does his best to sound energetic. But everything wears him out too damn fast lately.]

Ain't done a rotation for the crew yet... Think I might have t' let it go this month. An' we still got people missin'...

[hiken]

Yeah, we do. [Ace didn't think too hard on it. It was sad to him that he was getting used to 'loss' so easily.]

I really don't wanna recruit, bro. I liked what we were doin'.

[om_nom_namur]

Might have t', if we can't get everyone back in the same pond. Ain't nothin' wrong with recruitin'. Might find someone that needs us.

[Namur himself just can't handle it at the moment. All that work and he can still barely manage to stay up and about for more than a couple hours at a time.]

How's recruitin' people gonna change up what we was doin'?

[hiken]

Mmmm. Well, what I'm doing. I was never the one recruiting. All you guys were the ones to do it, normally.

[Ace had grown to be totally alright with just waking up to new folks for him to chat with and rely on. It was entertaining at times to wonder what new folks he would meet.]