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Out-Takes: At The Crossroads
(2012-12-20 - 2012-12-20)
RETCONNED! This scene was aborted for narrative reasons! THE DRAMATIC CONFRONTATION WILL HAPPEN LATER
Mercade Alexander Footsteps.

There was a time where the detective found this winding crossroad fascinating. The way it twisted and meandered. The way it moved on, turning, the land seemingly crafting itself to guide one in one way or another.

As he passes, he hears a tearing, a hiss of frustration. Again. And again.

Mercade turns himself, stepping quietly up a hill. He looks down at the fluttering pages, and picks one up, staring at it for a bit. He holds it in his hand as he gets closer, and looks into the little out-of-the way place.

He frowns. "You seem a little distraught." Mercade says, sitting down on the side of the hill as he overlooks Riku.
Mercade Alexander Mercade Alexander doesn't move. Riku looks around, looking for a way to escape. "There's no point running." Mercade says. "We keep running into each other. Clearly we're meant for... something. I don't know what." Mercade sighs, and looks down at the paper again, before offering it back to Riku. "So...." Mercade says, and then scratches his head... And then looks up. "I did want to say one thing. I forgot to, last time I saw you."
Riku Tearing notepaper. A sound of frustration.

The flutter of paper.

Tear. Pause. Frustration. Tear. Pause. Flutter.

Riku sits with armored jacket folded up and used as a pillow. He is surrounded by sketches. Some of them are detailed while others are fast sketches of landscape, of characters, of movement. There is a camera next to his foot, a little disposable thing with a plastic casing.

The teenager stares for a long time at a picture, gaze distant with intense concentration. He grabs the papers, shifting through them, shifting through them. Eventually his shoulders sag, his grip collapses and he lets the collection lay limp in his fingers.

The long and winding road behind and before him is a daunting one, and he's hidden himself away in this alcove without thought to the consequences of being seen. Something has consumed his attention so much that he really isn't paying attention to the world outside. Besides-- it was far enough away from the towns and the cities for traffic to be sparse. He was even partially shielded from the road. Riku flips through the notepad, sighing heavily as he continues the interrupted sketch on this page.
Riku "Something--" Riku murmurs and looks down at the paper, taking it back and neatly folding it several times until he places it with the others. "Go ahead." he sighs, looking chagrined but wary. "..I need a little reality after being talked at by Reize."

The teenager crosses his arms, trying not to look disturbed.

The questions running around in his head need answers, but Mercade was not the person to answer them. He already knows the answers. Riku knows this. This is why the detective is so angry.
Mercade Alexander "Reize is a good kid." Mercade says. "Maybe a little too good, if you know what I mean. But I hope he's doing all right."

The Detective looks down, at the ground as he leans back on the hill. "I was able to get from Mica who was responsible for what happened in her casino. She kept me there until it was too late for me to intervene in what was happening in Manhattan."

He pauses, and Riku can see Mercade's hands clench, twisting as they grab onto the grass... But they don't tear it out. Well, not much. The hands relax... Some wounds are not yet healed. "I wanted to... thank you."
Riku Riku stares at Mercade in confusion, his shoulders sagging slightly as if the detective had struck him. Although in that case he would have understood this and not looked so confused. "He's fine." he says in a hollow voice as if somehow disappointed.

"I couldn't beat sense into him if I had a hundred years." he sighs, waving off the conversation. "Stirring up trouble in Cornelia. Just being pulled along while other people pull the strings." he shakes his head at that, frowning.

 
This scene contained 6 poses. The players who were present were: Riku, Mercade Alexander