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[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

[Layla's in one of the main lounge rooms today. She's curled up on a couch, well and truly burying herself among cushions, with a notebook in her hands.
She's happily scribbling away, muttering to herself as she does so. Someone's had her head in the magical girl comics, it seems.]

Let's see...

..."You silly girl! The Heart Kingdom will be mine! I will bring chaos through all its worlds!"
"Never!!" she yelled, holding a hand in the air and posing. "I am the Twilight Heart Defender! And I am here to stop you!"
"Do you really think you can?" He gave a crazy laugh.

Um...

[Hum, hum, write, write...]

Comments

You looked lonely D=

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

[Suddenly, some crazy laughter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubm5ciPiIN0). Which just as suddenly stops.]

Like that? [Roxas walks in from around a corner. He's wearing a short-sleeved shirt today, his metal arm quite obvious.]

Aww. ^^

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

[Eep! She jumps in her seat for a moment, then settles back a little embarrassed.]

You made me drop my book.

[She laughs a bit. Not really angry at him.]

/hugs

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Sorry. [He is, he's just in a bit of an apathetic mood, and doesn't wholly sound it.]

Aren't you a little young to be an author?

*hugback*

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

[A bit of a shrug-] Well, I won't be good at it when I'm older if I don't practice now!

/runs off to eat

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

[A tiny amount of surprise shows on his face, before it turns into a warm smile.]

I guess that's true. Who knows, maybe one day you'll be a prodigy novelist.

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Never know!

[She laughs.]

Anyway. It's fun, right?

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

I guess. I'd rather read 'em than write 'em. [He stretches his arms out in front of him, the metal one clinking slightly. He frowns at it.]

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Well, I like reading them too, but - hey, is something up?

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

[He starts moving the arm into different positions, listening.]

Nah, I'll just need a tune-up sometime. My mechanic isn't here, so I might have to do it myself.

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Oh. [A little bit of a frown.] Does that hurt?

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Hm? Oh, no, not at all! Takes a little getting used to, but perfectly harmless. [Well, currently at least. He won't tell a little girl how painful it is to attach - or detatch, as often happens with him.]

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

[She's not that little! ... Little enough, though, in comparison to some. She does just give a relieved smile.]

Alright. That's good. It just sounds kind of - complicated to fix.

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not broken right now. It's just general wear and tear, y'know, bolts sticking and rust, stuff like that.

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. [She nods, getting the picture.]

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, what's your name?

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

I'm Layla. [Smile.] And you're...?

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

I'm Roxas Elric. You have alchemists where you're from?

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

[She shakes her head.] I've never met one before. I think. If they were, they didn't tell me.

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Well, in some places alchemists aren't thought of fondly.

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well... I grew up here. So with how things are around here, I'd ... think it wouldn't be any worse than other things?
[Says the Heartless kid.]

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Here? Seriously?

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Yeah. [She nods.] Would I make that up?

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Well, no, I guess not... it's just I haven't been here long so it's kinda... weird to think about.

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Huh. How long have you been here?

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Aaaabout three weeks?

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Whee. [She laughs a bit.] I guess you've still got a lot to get used to.

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

You're tellin' me. If I didn't know better I'd say I'd become my own breed.

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

I've kind of seen a lot of people who look like you around, yeah. ... They don't usually have metal bits, though.

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

True. Guess it makes me a little easier to find, if someone were to look for me.

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Makes you stand out from the crowd!

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Heh, sure does! [He grins.] You wanna see something cool?

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Hey, yeah...?

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[Takes a step back and claps his hands together, before running his left hand over the top of his metal arm. As he does so, a metal blade extends from his wrist, above his hand.]

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

[She smiles widely, and giggles.] Oh, neat. Can you do anything else with it?

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's more fun to do something like this. [Claps and places his hands on a nearby empty vase, which changes shape until it's a small statue of Layla.]

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

[That? That gets a massive grin off her.]

That's amazing! I don't think I've seen anything like that before. Not just with - any old stuff.

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Well, this is alchemy. If you've never seen it before, I guess there's not many people around who can do it.

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Guess not. There's a lot of people with magic, like my family have it, but not this alchemy thing.

[whoyoucallin.livejournal.com]

Magic, huh? [He looks a little disbelieving.]

[heartofthesands.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Really. [She gives him a look back.]