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Time to Get Our Hands Dirty

Characters: Yuri Lowell, Members of Brave Vesperia, and anyone else!
Date: August 11 and beyond
Location: Central
Situation: Cleaning up the fire damage.
Warnings/Rating: None that I know of. List any in the headers.

The first had left quite a mess. Yuri didn't know what had happened to Erskine, but he didn't think it was anything to worry about. Surely his friends had taken care of the matter. What was left was seeing to the community and cleaning things up. There was definitely a lot of work to be done, and Brave Vesperia was stepping up to the plate. Whether they got paid or not didn't matter. This was something that needed to be done. One of the other foreigners had done this, and it was kinda their responsibility to help.

Thus the morning after the incident found a meeting in the lobby of the Midnight Hotel. All available members of Brave Vesperia gathering there as Yuri explained the situation and what they would be doing. Since there was no guarantee of pay, anyone could opt out of they wanted to, but Yuri was going to lead the charge out there. Even if he went by himself.

Once things were explained and decided, the group headed out to the destruction zone. Each person being assigned tasks according to their talents and abilities. And if anyone that wasn't a member of Brave Vesperia joined in, that was fine, the more the merrier. Yuri himself would be putting his sword aside today, only bringing it just in case it was needed as a tool. Despite the fact that weapons weren't allowed in Central. His hair pulled back and his sleeves pushed up as he helped to move the rubble. The man pausing now and then to give an encouraging pat on the back to any forlorn Kedan who viewed their wasted businesses. They would get through this, and Brave Vesperia was here to help.

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At the very least, Yuri won't be alone at the site. Duke's there, helping shift anything that looks like it ought to be shifted. When had he joined the group? Not very long ago. Why didn't anyone notice him approaching, long white hair and all? That isn't terribly important, right?

He actually just walked up when he spotted Yuri. He had thought about Yuri's comment of 'here to help with work' or something of the like when he went to ask for help that once, decided it a good idea, and well. Here he is.

Duke might not look particularly ready for work shifting and clearing away rubble, as his hair is still loose and everywhere as usual, but he doesn't seem to care.

Yuri was admittedly a bit surprised when Duke suddenly showed up out of nowhere. The man being in the middle of picking up some charred merchandise from a burned shop, and placing anything that was ruined into a pile. Which was... most everything he'd found so far.

"Hey," Yuri called out in greeting. "Didn't expect to see you here. Guess life isn't as exciting when there's no apatheia to destroy, huh?"

Not that Yuri was objecting or anything. The more the merrier as far as he was concerned.

That sure sounded like objecting to Duke, Yuri. Or at the very least trying to needle him into leaving. Duke continues to shift rubble in silence, but maybe the near-charcoal he's working with are a bit fragile, because there's a nice amount of crunching when he lifts them. Totally not his irritation making his grip stronger than it needed to be.

"Did I mistake what you remember last?" It's almost a conversational tone, except Duke is never conversational, and his words are a bit clipped. Angry, but not enough to actually leave.

"I thought you knew of their origins." He wouldn't use 'understood' with Yuri - after all, he'd already thrown that back in the young man's face once.

Okay yeah that was probably a really bad choice of words. But if Yuri had truly not wanted Duke there it would have been more clear. But the guy still put him on edge and Yuri's mood was a bit unstable lately.

"The last thing I remember is you trying to fix the worlds problems by killing an innocent girl. Who was guarding one of those things with her life."

Yuri then stood up and dusted his hands.

"Look, I'm sorry alright? Things have been pretty crazy."

This conversation is going to take a while to gain anything resembling flow. Duke is about ready to ask if that's all Yuri can ever think about, but. That wouldn't help anything. He could potentially wait until the end of this shop, or block, enough that it could definitely be said he helped, before continuing this.

Then Yuri surprises him, and he blinks over. He's silent for a long moment, before he releases his half-held breath in an annoyed sigh.

"I would have killed Alexei, if I could have managed it." Rather quietly, as he returns to shifting rubble with a bit more care. "He was the one causing her powers to go out of control." ... Of course, that does imply that if Estelle had been the one fully in control and still massively misusing her powers, he would have been aiming for her completely. It's totally not his fault they make assumptions!

To Yuri's credit, a recent nightmare had brought his friends roaring back to the forefront of his mind. He kinda missed them. Even though nothing might have changed for Duke since they last spoke, things certainly had for Yuri.

But now it's time for him to be surprised. Yuri stared at Duke in a stunned silence for a few moments. It hadn't even occurred to him that Duke might have tried to kill Alexei first. Yuri had been so consumed with his own desperation to save Estelle that he had completely villainized the other man for even suggesting that everything was Estelle's fault.

Now he really felt like an ass.

"Damn..." He muttered and went back to picking up debris.

Yuri you are an ass. Just usually a more tolerable one, or so Duke would assume by the fact that Yuri has friends who are willing to fly to odd places and climb massive tower cities crawling with monsters with him.

Duke shifts rubble and debris in silence for a while longer.

"It does have its roots in your greeting." His voice is back to the usual neutral flat. He's back to calm. "Alexei had been hunting entelexeia down." Except for a little venom in that bit. Dead for who knows how long now, and Duke still probably would stab him on sight.

Yeah okay he deserves that assessment, especially right now, and he knows it.

"Heh, and the thing he was obsessed over ended up destroying him. It's kinda poetic."

That was one of the last things he saw after all, before coming here. Alexei being crushed by Zaude's apatheia. The punishment certainly had fit the crime in the end. Justice had been well served. Even if Alexei's actions had left them with a much bigger problem.

"Or perhaps a physical representation of it." Duke had understood Alexei's actions as a grab for more power, from what he had learned from Khroma.

This silence for working is much more comfortable.

Yeah well, Duke should know by now that being around Yuri doesn't guarantee silence.

"Some of the people here kinda remind me of him," Yuri thought bitterly, not mentioning names. "And Asti is kinda like one of the Entelexeia. There's gotta be a way we can help him somehow."

It does mostly guarantee that the silence will be broken.

... Ah, an good reason for him to be keeping out of the general city politics as best as he can.

"I had noticed the last." Nothing else, in terms of creatures of Terca Lumireis, could reach minds of other beings. Even if they were the wrong sort to hear anything that way. Unfortunately, searching ocean for where it seemed like he had been in that vision, on the off chance that there would be a fragment of Asti or a clue to restoring him there seemed a bit... difficult, when most of this place was ocean. (As far as Duke knew.)

... Hmn, Entelexeia.... ".... Although we would have greater problems if his equivalent of an aer krene was at the ocean's floor..." What if he needed to dive?

"Yeah that wouldn't be so great for us," Yuri said as he continued sorting, apparently on a similar train of thought as Duke.

"But he can't even move anyway, and he's sinking. Nobody will be able to do anything soon at this rate. I think I heard that there used to be a barrier around him. I know how you feel about them, but a barrier blastia would be pretty handy right now."

Ah, so it wasn't a helpful dive, but slow sinking. Hmn.

Yeah, he doesn't particularly like barrier blastia. And even then, Duke is aware that it would have to be built for something like keeping out salt water, rather than monsters.

Duke pauses in mid sorting, eyes focusing on something else. Wait, they had already combined foreigner magics into a spell. If another of the mages here had a way to make a stable power source, or perhaps just a container that others could charge - like Duke and Yuri with their Dein Nomoses (... is it supposed to be Dein Nomi? Duke shoves that thought away, it wouldn't matter on Terca Lumireis, and honestly wasn't what he was focusing on-) Part of the problem with salt water - or perhaps ocean water - was that it wasn't just water and salt mixed to the right levels, but there was other things in it... If he could allow for the change in water...

Sorry Yuri, Duke is lost in thought now.

It didn't take Yuri long to notice the silence. Had he said something wrong again? But when he looked up he saw the kind of distant look on Duke's face. ... Well that's not really unusual. The guy always seemed to be thinking about something.

"You alright over there?"

Duke blinks and it sort of seems like he focuses back on the real world. Right, he had been shifting rubble. He sets back to that before he realized that wasn't what Yuri had said anything about.

"There are more possibilities open than simply using a core." There is his cryptic reply, because he's still working out if it could or couldn't work. He might have to find another way to define the power that runs the formula, or leave it as a blank space that they would put the power in for? Possibly.

He's still shifting rubble, but it's slower. Still thinking.

Yuri blinks too. Something other than a core?

"Oh yeah? Like what?"

Estelle could use artes without a blastia, so anything was possible right? But then he wasn't a mage. Man, what he'd give to have Rita here right about now. She could make sense of this stuff a hell of a lot better than he could.

"We already combined several different types of magics into one. What is there to say that a formula with-" He pauses, and then starts again. Yuri isn't a mage at all.

"If I set the barrier formula up right, it might be able to take in any sort of magic aimed at it for power." That would make sense to him, right?

He looks a little less distant, talking about magic.

Yeah, it did make sense. So Duke was wanting to do another thing like with Zatanna. Except this time using everyone's magic to power a formula and create a barrier. It seemed like a long shot, but Yuri was willing to try if Duke was.

"If you think you can pull that off, I'll do what I can to make it happen."

There was definitely a lot of magic users and most of them would likely be willing to help. Yuri could round them up.

Duke blinks once at Yuri, a little confused by him going and offering to get it to work. Is this more feeling bad for how he talks? Or is it a rather accurate realization that Duke might not manage to get all of their attention or hold conversations long enough for it to come up.

.... Either way, Yuri probably is the better people-person. If he can keep his mouth in check-

... Duke will ask on his own too. To have it all weighing on whether Yuri can keep civil is a bit much.

"Theory is simple enough. Small scale barriers of its type ought to be simple as well." He's modifying an existing spell, mages do this in combat all the time. "Fueling it is the only worry I have."

... He's not arrogant about his abilities with making spells, honest.

It was actually a bit of both, plus his desire to actually help the turtle they were living on. Nobody else seemed to be really doing anything to help it at the moment.

"Right... Well, let me know when you're ready to set this up."

Then dusting his hands off again, Yuri stepped towards Duke. The raven haired man stretching out his arm to offer his hand.

Duke makes an agreeing noise and continue with the rubble, but then Yuri does something and..

He blinks blankly at the offered hand for a moment, his hair unhelpfully in his face. Right. Okay.

Duke straightens and dusts his own hands off, before reaching over for a short handshake.

"I'll find some way to do so." 'I'll find you' sounded perhaps a bit too knowing of Yuri's habits, but there were other methods and he might as well leave wandering up to him as an option.

There was meaning to that handshake, whether Duke picked it up or not. Yuri wasn't a man of many words, especially when it came to his feelings. But he knew he had been kinda a pain, and Duke had been nothing but helpful since they'd gotten here. Thus the gesture was a suggested truce, a promise that Yuri would put aside any lingering animosity. Their goal here was the same after all.

Once the handshake was done, Yuri put his hand on his hip and nodded. "Right."

Duke mostly read it as 'lets work together', so he'll be pleasantly surprised later. Maybe.

Duke's hand just goes back to his side, as usual. "It might be a week or so before I'm comfortable testing at... sector size?" He could get an idea of the cost then, if he tests it at that size after making sure it does what he wants. "... so do not expect much before then." He's going to be very thorough.

"Sure, no problem."

That'll give them some time to get this mess cleaned up anyway. Just as long as it happened before those Chihuleans get here.

Duke blinks once, a little startled, but just nods a little and goes back to dealing with rubble.

If he's a little slower than he was at the start, it's because he's multitasking.

Yuri goes back to his own work too, leaving the quiet guy to his quietness.

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