Sky Sector Catch-All: May

[wrathfulkhan]

Characters: Everyone!
Date: Throughout May
Location: The brand spanking new Sky Sector
Situation: Moving in, getting settled...housewarming parties?
Warnings/Rating: None anticipated. Please don't blow the new houses up. We just built them!

The Palace of Landed Sky has been largely demolished, and a good section of the land has been repurposed as Foreigner housing, should they choose to move into the new dwellings. But there's not just housing - there are shops and artisans and a space that may become part of the university. The new sector of the city is abuzz with possibilities.

Comments

[anewangle]

[Tadashi really hasn't had all that much exposure to the different families. Just enough to know that he doesn't really want to get on anyone's bad side... which he's fairly good at, being who he is.

He's not looking at Robert when he answers, instead focused on the stowing the welding supplies safely away, but he shrugs anyway.]

Ah... nothing in particular, no. I think Hiro's got some projects he's been working on, though.

[Not that he knows what those projects are. The Hamadas haven't really been communicating well recently.]

[pushtheboundaries]

[Tadashi may not be looking at Robert, but Robert's sure looking at him. which approach to take...]

I'd have thought it a little more difficult to lose track of him, here. Didn't you two work on projects together, back in San Fransokyo?

[anewangle]

It's just as easy, actually. [He laughs a little, but the sound dies quickly.]

We did. More so before I started school, but whenever there was time...

[pushtheboundaries]

So what's changed? [his tone remains light, but Tadashi can probably catch the hint of I-know-something-is-going-on in it.]

[anewangle]

[Noooo, he doesn't want to talk about this. He could try to deflect, turn the conversation in a different direction, but that tone doesn't leave much wiggle room... and really, he probably should talk to someone. That is, if he can figure out how to even do it. Even when Hiro confronted him directly, he still couldn't manage to put his feelings into words.

He's stalled partway through his cleaning, shoulders tightening a bit as he stares down at the tool in his hands.]

... Hiro told me about the fire.

[pushtheboundaries]

...did he.

[it's telling in itself that Callaghan seems only so surprised- both at the admission, and mention of the fire itself. he leans back, regarding Tadashi seriously as he mulls all of it over]

...it's a bit to take in, isn't it?

[anewangle]

[Tadashi nods. Of course Callaghan's not that surprised. Not when he already knew about the fire. Part of Tadashi wants to be mad angry about the information that was withheld from him, but he can't manage it with Callaghan any more than he could with Hiro. Who would want to break that news to someone obviously better off not knowing anyway? And Callaghan... he's been living with that knowledge this entire time. Knowing about the fire and Tadashi and even his own end in the flames.

Tadashi never would've guessed...]

... "A bit" might be understating it.

[pushtheboundaries]

Well.

[...well what? what do you say to someone you thought dead, who's only now learned about such? whom you were hoping to let believe all was well, and perhaps try and change things in hopes of avoiding your own fate, and yet...

...

after a moment, he reaches out - slowly - to place a hand on Tadashi's shoulder, and squeeze lightly.]

...you're here now, for what it's worth.

[it hasn't happened yet

at least, by Tadashi's perspective]

[anewangle]

[He looks up at Callaghan after a moment and tries for a smile. He's not particularly successful, but the attempt is there.]

I guess I should be grateful...

[Better alive on an other-worldly turtle than dead at home, right? He doesn't have any memories of the fire, so why is this bothering him so much? Why can't he just carry on as normal like he want to?]

[pushtheboundaries]

For what? By your point of view, it hasn't happened yet. And honestly, if there was a way to change things so it didn't...

[he gives the shoulder another squeeze, then drops his hand. but he still remains close, all told; looking in to Tadashi's eyes with some attempt at comfort, but also...a seriousness.]

...where I'm from, it's done with. There's nothing that can be done. But if there was a way I could warn you about that, you know I would.

And I would never have wanted you to come in after me in the first place. You know that, right?