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Calleo Crowe ([personal profile] perfectsymmetry) wrote2011-06-15 01:50 pm

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[1] It's not a fun day to wake up and find two of your housemates droned. Crowe leaves the house, not wanting to deal with them, only to find out later that 3 of his friends - Aaron, Kakyoin and Flay - are also droned.

To add insult to injury, he finds something in the mailbox with his name on it. It's a small manila envelope. There is only a photo inside, and he stares at it for a long while. It's a mugshot of him when he was 15, when he was caught trying to burglarize a museum in Italy. Considering his infamous last name in the crime world of his homeland, he was quickly booked and thrown in jail until his uncle helped get him out and cleared his name.

To anyone who approaches him, his expression is completely unreadable, blank. Crowe wasn't quite sure what Mayfield was trying to tell him with this one.

--

[2] Later, there's a motorcycle zipping through town at an unsafe speed. To anyone who knows Crowe, the bike is recognizable. To anyone else, the helmet covers his telltale hair color, and the sunglasses might make it harder to tell who's driving. But you better look out if you're crossing the street, or waiting in your car at that intersection - there's a Ducati coming up fast. A bit later, he'll be driving on the highway, looping through over and over and over again, getting as much speed as he can handle.

Eventually, he runs out of gas, and he simply hops off the bike and walks it back into town, towards home. Approach?

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Crowefinally takes the helmet off.] Ah, sorry.

[identity profile] mute-mystic.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Silence smiles in recognition when he sees who it is. He steps aside, out of Crowe's way, and makes a fairly easily read gesture; he's clearly offering to walk with Crowe back to town. It isn't as though his wings don't need a break.]

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[He starts pushing his bike along again.] I'm surprised to see anyone out here. But I guess you were out and about for a, um, fly?

[identity profile] mute-mystic.livejournal.com 2011-06-17 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Silence's shoulders shake from a mute chuckle as he nods, walking alongside Crowe and his bike. Now seems an appropriate time to pull out his notebook in order to communicate some less vague concepts.]

NOT THE STRONGEST WINGS, BUT TRY TO KEEP THEM EXERCISED TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THEM.

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-06-17 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be a shame to let them go to waste, yeah?

[identity profile] mute-mystic.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Silence smiles and nods. It's actually something of a marvel they can lift him at all, given their size and fragility, but he's always treasured even the limited flight they allow him. It's more than most get, after all, even other mystics.

After a moment's pause, he gestures curiously to the expanse of highway behind them.]
DIDN'T THINK IT WENT FAR ENOUGH TO RUN OUT OF GAS...? [Or, rather, he thought it looped back to Mayfield eventually.]

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-06-21 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
O-Oh, it doesn't. I've just been out here all day. I-I guess I didn't have a full tank when I started, and I wasn't paying attention...

[identity profile] mute-mystic.livejournal.com 2011-06-27 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[This earns a raised eyebrow. All day? Depending on how much gas he started with, that suggests...quite possibly a long time, to Silence. And not just spent at the diner, either, since the bike wouldn't have been running while he was in there...]

WHAT WERE YOU DOING?

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-06-28 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Um, just riding about. Around the highway. For awhile.

[identity profile] mute-mystic.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Silence glances sidelong at Crowe, an eyebrow lifting slightly. Just driving around on the highway for who knows how long, until he runs out of gas...he's more than able to recognize such an obvious symptom of a troubled mind.

He reaches out to lightly touch Crowe's shoulder, though it's forced to be brief in order for him to write down his next message.]
SOMETHING IS BOTHERING YOU?

[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Crowe forces a small smile.] A-Ah, just Mayfield stuff, you know how it is. This is a good way of clearing your head.