Yeets the Babey

[bloodboxes]

[Goro doesn't know how he got here with the weird man with the big nose who seems weirdly worried for a stranger, and he mostly just knows that he really needs to Get Home, because that's what he was doing before he was here. 

So he heads out of the door that feels like it should go where home is, and... promptly feels overwhelmingly lost. Tokyo is BIG, after all! And there's so, so many people...

But Goro is Strong and Brave and he didn't like the blue room so instead he can currently be found wandering around Shibuya and trying to find somewhere familiar.]

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[pheasantboy]

[Akechi is fine. He's always fine. There's not even a smidgeon of irony around how fine he is—at least in his mind. He's just feeling a little under the weather. And he misses his friends. He's worried about them—

Then he sees a child alone, and all other thoughts are conveniently removed from his head. How pleasant. He offers a little smile.]

Hello there. Are you lost?

[Okay, so the kid looks a little... grey. And has fangs. That's no reason not to be polite.]

[bloodboxes]

[Goro's first thought is somewhere along the line of "big human adult" and "looks like Mama?" and ends somewhere around how adults who seem nice aren't always actually nice.

He should probably stop biting his lip, but he can't put his teeth away.]

I'm trying to go home.

[pheasantboy]

[Oh, that's a pity. Like when he was a child, after his mother died. He doesn't think of it any more deeply than that.

He drops down into a crouch, tilting his head as he considers the kid's face. Grey skin and fangs, hm? That's so interesting. He doesn't seem unkind—or at all afraid.] I'm afraid you may be a little more lost than you realise. But you'll be all right. There are other children here.

Do you remember the blue room? The Velvet Room?

[bloodboxes]

[It kind of helps that the big boy isn't scared of him, but then, most people who aren't at all scared are either like him or they're bigger and stronger, so that doesn't do more than make him kind of nervous.]

...I don't want to go back there. I just want to go home.

[pheasantboy]

...I know the feeling. [His smile fades. It's so... lonely, here. Everyone is so strange. It hurts his head to talk to them.] I want to go home too. But for now, we have to wait.

It's an adventure, right? [Blurry memories of his child self, playing at being alone in the world. Nothing but games, of course.]

[bloodboxes]

['It's an adventure' sounds sort of like what his mama would say when they had to go somewhere new. It wasn't always fun, though, so he focuses on something else.]

Wait for what?

[pheasantboy]

[But Akechi doesn't remember anything like that about his mother. He remembers her saying it, was in fact inspired by that to say it himself, but he doesn't recall the hair-trigger sense of alarm that had come with it.]

Did the man in the Velvet Room—Igor—did he tell you you'll go home again, eventually?