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[eluci]

Name: Noctis Lucis Caelum (un: noctgar)
Date: 1/1
Format: Voice

[Late evening, there's a voice message posted to the network. It's rushed, though the speaker made an effort to try to sound professional. Or possibly just emotionally distant.]

Don't...know who all used them, but...Insomniac Delivery and Argentum Photos' services are suspended until further notice.

That's all. Night.

Comments

voice

[showsnopiety]

Where are you now?

[Ah. Sounds like he's not doing well.]

[eluci]

[He could be doing worse, but he's not entirely sure where Prompto is, just that he hasn't come home, hasn't sent a message saying if/when he'll be home, and for all intents and purposes seems to be missing.]

Home. You can come over if you want.

[He's assuming she was going to ask, whether she was or not.]

[showsnopiety]

Good. I'm on my way.

[Yeah, she's...pretty sure that he could be worse off, but that's neither here nor there. Really, now what she's just thinking is...well, an offer that she should have made awhile back.

But she'll be there pretty quick, and knock politely on the door. No treats today, she came in a hurry.]

[eluci]

[She may have come over quickly, but he's not answering the door right away, leaving her out in the cold for a minute. When he does answer the door, he looks slightly worried...and also slightly sooty.]

Hey. You weren't kidding.

[He'll step aside so she can come in. He's awful at entertaining, so he's not offering anything but a small fire he's built in the living room fireplace.]

[showsnopiety]

[Goodness, he's looking a little mussed. She made a soft noise, shaking her feet off.]

My jokes tend to be dry.

[That...puts it lightly. Hey, at least he's got a fire. Even if, well, she doesn't really need it. But...she looked at him, her tail twitching.]

Noctis...I know you and Prompto weren't living together, but...how attached are you? This this residence.

[eluci]

[Not all of us have ridiculous amounts of floof on them, Caren. Not that he's complaining, mind you; he'd rather be on the less furry side than the more furry side any day. He'd also like to be a Witch, but that's not how things worked out.]

We were. Are. [Despite the ache that tells him no, his second Bond had dissolved the same way the first one did, he's free to just consider Prompto temporarily missing.] It's not my dream place, but I wasn't going to move anytime soon. Why?

[showsnopiety]

[It's true. He likely wouldn't enjoy needing weekly brushings due to fur density. But hey, she'll take it then feeling overly delicate any day! She can do things now.]

I had a thought. I'm aware that we don't know each other well, and this offer is more or less impulsive but...

We could move in together. Here, or back at the manse.

[eluci]

[Well hm. He wasn't expecting that, so it throws him off a little bit.]

Well uh...I don't see why we couldn't? [He considers this for several seconds, the tip of his tail twitching back and forth.]
You're not a complete stranger, and I don't really want to stay here by myself...

[He's not going to outright admit that he's Bad At Adulting. Caren probably knows anyway. But at least when he lived in an apartment of his own he had Ignis to cook things for him and Prompto to come by and be his obnoxious self once in a while.]

How attached are you to your mansion?

[showsnopiety]

We'd still need to get to know each other but...I can at least assure you that I'd take care of the domestic side of things.

[It's reflex by now. She's not going to complain if he's a Bad Adult or not. She's met plenty in her time.

The question had her tail swish briefly as she considered.]

Not the mansion itself. Just...the garden. And I can always bring food to Ozymandias' place at any time.

Are you attached to this place at all?

[eluci]

I'm not.

[It wasn't his house to begin with, and Prompto only really seemed attached to it because of the stable.

Speaking of...]

I'm willing to move in over there...if I'm allowed to bring the stuff Prompto left behind. [Just in case.] That includes Prim and the car.

[showsnopiety]

[Oh, is that it? Her ear twitched briefly, before she offered a thoughtful nod.]

That's completely fine. There's more then enough room for everything- in fact, if they came back, they'd be able to move in quite comfortably.

We'd just need to wash the sheets.

[voice]

[hippocarnival]

Those were... Promto's, weren't they? [Oh no.]

[eluci]

Mhm.

[Yuya can probably feel the worry and sadness through the Bond. Noctis can feel an ache on his side, similar to when Ignis disappeared a month back.]

Thought I'd let people know not to rely on them for a while.

[hippocarnival]

Noctis... [A pause.] I'm sorry.

[eluci]

Thanks...at least you got to meet him. Still hoping he's just lost and will turn up in a couple days.

It's not outside the realm of possibility for him, really.

voice;

[battlebound]

Did something happen?

[ Steak, clueless as always to the greater meaning behind this post. ]

[eluci]

A friend of mine disappeared. He owned a couple businesses here.

i'm... sorry...

[battlebound]

[ H...uh. ]

Ah. I see.

[ Steak never was the kind of person to dwell too much on losses, though, and certainly wasn't the kind of person who would offer heartfelt commiseration to a person, even a stranger.

He is, however, the kind of person to be unflinchingly blunt. ]

Disappeared into the Wilde?

[ Or what? ]