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singularityderp2011-08-10 09:15 am
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the song drabble meme
It's pretty simple and fun, folks. This is how this works!
( 01 ) Have a playlist ready! Don't use all your songs--try and narrow it down a little.
( 02 ) Let everyone know how many songs you're working with. Also, which characters you would be willing to write about.
( 03 ) Others tag your post, picking a character or pairing or friendship or familial relationship or whatever, and then choose a number from your list.
( 04 ) Write a drabble related to that song, using that/those character(s)!
Take as long as you need; there's no time limits here!
And here's some helpful HTML to make it pretty!
JIN AND LADON, 114, seriously itunes?
sad boy, you stare up at the sky
when no one's looking back at you
All of this had answered the question of whether dragons in other universes would treat Jin the same as the ones in his own universe. Jin had been wondering it before Ladon had shown up. Conrit didn't really count, or at least Jin told himself he didn't. He was a hatchling, not even fledged yet. They were all innocence then, big eyes and belief in ideals. A sun dragon hatchling would have seen Jin's mind but still wouldn't have understood all the dark details. This was part of the reason the Sol dragons had explicitly told Jin that they would kill him if he ever got too close to a hatchling. Because they wouldn't understand. Just as Conrit hadn't understood.
Then again, Jin had never gotten a chance to really tell Conrit.
So the question was answered. No matter what else happened, dragons would always hate him. That was as it should be. Especially since this time around, he had lost a hatchling, one he'd told himself he would protect with his life.
He needed some time away from his homemade scanner. A watched scanner sees nothing interesting, or something like that. So he was out in Garden Zone 1, lying on his back and staring into the sky. The fake sky. Stars, how long had it been since he'd seen a real, blue sky? Was Conrit back under a sky like that, a real one? He desperately hoped so, yet Jin couldn't shake images of Conrit floating in space or stranded on some distant moon.
Things had gone so wrong lately. He hoped his scanner would pick up something soon, so there could be some good news in all this.
Jin suddenly smelled cigarettes.
"Sleeping on the job?"
He bolted to his feet and ducked automatically into a bow.
"Ladon, Mr. Ceto sir, I wasn't--"
"Sit down, you damn jumping bean," Ladon snapped, eyes glittering under the shadow of his hat brim. "I told you to knock off the bowing and scraping. Not gonna get anyone nowhere, yeah?"
"Y-Yes, sorry sir, I just, I need to clear my head...the, the scanner's still running of course, and, and I get the information fed to my wearable, I promise I'm still working, I really..."
"Shut up for once in your life, will ya?" Jin thought he saw a tuft of smoke roll out from Ladon's nose, darker than cigarette smoke. "Look. Didn't come here to hear you cryin' like a dame at me, and didn't come to chew the fat either. But I..." Ladon grumbled. "Need to ask you something."
"S-Sure, anything..."
Ladon seemed to mull it over for a second. "The kid's hat. You said he lost it. Did he manage to get it back?"
Jin blinked at him and tried to remember. "I think...I think he did, yeah...I helped him look for it, b-but I think he f-found it on his own..."
"Good. Kid'll need it 'f I'm not there." Ladon groaned and rubbed the back of his neck, looking away for awhile. "You really think he went home?"
"I...honestly, I don't know for sure, but. But I hope he did. I think he did. Th-That's where people say they go, when, when teleporters do that. Um..." Jin wondered if he wanted to risk a question, but Ladon was being talkative for once. And Jin wanted to know.
"Will...will he be okay if he went home? H-He's not alone there, right...?"
Ladon stared at him for a moment, but Jin couldn't tell what he was thinking. He never could.
"I got a family'll look after him. Till I get there."
Relief flooded him. "Oh. Oh, thank goodness."
Ladon was still staring at him with that weird expression. "So. You did care 'bout him."
"Yeah! Yeah, of course, I mean...I mean, he's a hatchling."
Ladon sighed, shook his head and sat down. Jin sat as well, knowing better than to stay standing.
They sat in silence. It occurred to Jin that Ladon wasn't yelling at him anymore.