[Thread, Closed] The Red Rose is getting full

[captain-rusty.livejournal.com]

Characters: Steiner, Terra, Blank, Celes, maybe other passengers on the Red Rose
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: After this thread, the Red Rose moves on to Daguerreo to pick up some more lost souls.
Location: Daguerreo
Date: November, 1803
Warnings: None

Steiner wanted to fly straight back to Alexandria. However, he had promised to pick up Blank in Daguerreo, and Terra had also told him that a friend of hers was trapped there too. So off they went to make a quick stop in Daguerreo.

"We shall make haste!" Steiner instructed his passengers. "Be ready to depart as soon as I return. Terra, come with me. The rest of you stay here."

Hopefully, his orders would actually be listened to. It didn't really matter as long as they found Blank and Celes. Steiner strode out of the airship and towards Daguerreo, keeping his eyes peeled for any sign of life.

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[alittlebitesper.livejournal.com]

Terra smiled faintly in embarrassment at Celes smile, then turned to Steiner, taking a couple steps back from her friend. "If he is not here, we may just have to look for him." She said, and there was an almost amused smile on her face. Because she really wanted a chance to look around the library, and having to hunt for their missing passenger would certainly provided a chance to do so.

[captain-rusty.livejournal.com]

"You must be a formidable knight yourself to impress Beatrix," Steiner replied. This was entirely sincere; he wasn't exaggerating to compliment her or anything like that. Lying to impress the ladies was more Zidane's forte.

Steiner turned to Terra. "He should be here. I sent him a message."

Yes, he was slightly worried. But then it would be just like Blank to turn up late.

[magitekrune.livejournal.com]

"We could look for him," Celes agreed, shifting uncomfortably at Steiner's words. Whether that was from uncertainty as to how to accept such praise or a remembrance of days gone by when such words as "formidable knight" meant she was someone to be feared, she wasn't sure.

"Someone should stay at the entrance, though, in case he turns up after we've gone in."

[alittlebitesper.livejournal.com]

"Well, Steiner doesn't wish to explode, so he can wait for Blank, right?" Terra actually grinned at her statement, seemingly managing to find the humor in it before she turned and headed off into the library. She wasn't exactly 'searching' very well, if only because she kept getting distracted by all the books!

[captain-rusty.livejournal.com]

Steiner had no idea what Terra meant by 'explode', but he nodded. "I will stay. Do not be long!"

He stationed himself at the library entrance rather like a guard, waiting.

[xredthespianx.livejournal.com]

Blank had only just received the text message, and as soon as he had he got up and began to jog in the direction he was sure it would be in. He was carrying some very old books under his arm, most prepared to take them home with him.

"He~ey! Rusty!!!" He called out, grinning as he ran up to Steiner. "Hey! Hope you're not planning on leaving without me. I have to get back to my lady, ya know!" Of course, by lady, he meant his beloved Prima Vista.

♥

[magitekrune.livejournal.com]

Celes nodded at Terra's reply and headed off with her, showing the other girl the various places she'd been exploring while trapped there for so long. "This place is so large, I keep forgetting exactly where I am within it. Every time I turn around, there's something new to see or do."

[captain-rusty.livejournal.com]

Steiner's face broke into a smile when Blank ran up to him. He did genuinely like the thief.

"Blank! Good to see that you are as well as ever."

Being pleased to see Blank, however, did not stop Steiner from immediately frowning when he noticed the books Blank carried.

"I hope you obtained permission to borrow those books!" Unlikely, he knew.

[alittlebitesper.livejournal.com]

"I think I am a little jealous," Terra said to Celes with a faint smile as the General showed her around. "I woke up in Mysidia, and just had to walk back to Alexandria. It was easy, but..." A little shrug of her shoulders as she stopped to peer at a book. "It wasn't as exciting as what everyone else seems to have done."

Terra didn't begrudge their excitement, but a bit of her own might've been nice...

[xredthespianx.livejournal.com]

Blank gave Steiner a sheepish grin, his arm instinctively tightening around the books. "Of course! I wouldn't just take them without asking, what kinda guy do you think I am?" A thief, of course. And once a thief, always a thief.

"Besides, it's not like anyone else was using them... they were just sat there collecting dust," he stated, passing by the knight "So, when we leaving?"

[captain-rusty.livejournal.com]

"Hmph!" Steiner didn't believe him for a second, but there wasn't much use arguing.

"Wait a moment!" he said, as Blank seemed about to pass by. "Terra and Celes are somewhere in the library, searching for you. We must wait for them. Did you not pass them on your way?"

[magitekrune.livejournal.com]

Celes glanced at Terra. She would gladly have traded any number of "exciting events" that had happened in her lifetime. "Next time something exciting happens, I'll be sure to drag you with me," she offered, in the closest thing that she'd come to joking in a long, long time.

"Not like waking up in a library is all that adventurous." Wrought with knowledge, yes, but not adventure.

[alittlebitesper.livejournal.com]

Terra smiled at her friends joke, though the fact that she made it at all surprised the green haired woman. Celes seemed so serious most of the time. "I...would not have it any other way, is the expression I think?" She said before turning back to the books.

"I woke up in Mysidia. I'd already been there, even. An entire planet of places I've never been, and I wake up in one of the four I have..." She shook her head. "I guess I should be grateful I was not in danger, it's just hard."