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Kain     Heavy snoring was coming from the designated sleeping quarters, which was only odd because it was already past noon. A young-ish guy, probably no older than 19, was sleeping rather 'sound'ly, tucked away inside a sleeping bag on top of a Gym Mat. He was using what looked like a coat as his pillow, and to his side appeared to be a single crutch...

    There's only so many people that would recognize the face of Kain, at least the face that looked very similiar to a young boy by that name from another world from another time... but again, very few would recognize the face... also near him seemed to be a customized NervGear, designed differently than the manufactured model... but it looked to be more homemade adjustments rather than manufacturing.

    The snoring was rather loud... and thankfully, hopefully, noone else was sleeping in the same area that would be woken up by it.
Kirito The old castle-fortress is starting to get somewhere! Stockpiles of food, gear, treasure are on the rise - however slowly - and Kirito's been working hard to get full wireless networking installed running cables through the walls and running all kinds of experiments in a small workshop. Turns out that thick stone actually does a pretty good job of blocking radio signals, so this has involved lots of drilling and wiring and mounting things in odd places. At least the living spaces and other important things have wired networking...

    For FullDive purposes.

    Kirito, in his Spriggan avatar's just finishing up dumping some things into the treasury and passing back through the personal quarters when he hears the snoring. At first he makes a face, imagining Klein came to crash and didn't shut his door properly... but he risks a peek into the room and spots...

    "Huh?" Who is that? He's not seen that face in... ever. It takes him a good ten seconds of staring to make the connection and his eyes go wide.

    Kirito sucks in a breath rather tightly, as worry after worry once again assaults him. Are they doing the right thing by setting up this base? Is it REALLY more secure? Safer? "No...." It's not safer. It does, however, protect their families... probably... PROBABLY... unless a sea monster rises up out of the ocean to attack Tokyo when they're not there...

    Kirito rapidly shakes his head to clear it of the wild thoughts yet again, and sighs wearily. But he soon shuffles his way into the quarters and quietly sits down across the room, folding his arms. For the moment, deep in thought...
Kain     The proverbial snot bubble blows in and out as he continues to snore. And at the moment the time hits 1 PM, his nearby NervGear gives a beeping noise. Not loud, per se... but it being near his head would be loud enough to wake him up, as the bubble pops and his eyes blearily open up, a groan escaping his lips as he's starting to wake up, oblivious to anyone else in the room.

    Kain gives a yawn while the gear is still beeping, moving a hand to it and pressing a button to turn off the alarm. He stretches his arms out a bit, wiggling his upper body out of the sleeping bag. He was sleeping in what looked to be sweat clothes. He mmumbles something about "Good morning, world" as he reaches for the crutch at his side, using it as a brace, pulling himself up and out of the sleeping bag... and likely, Kirito's suspicions would be well founded: what was missing was definitely the kid's left leg, all the way up to the pelvic bone. He used the crutch as a replacement leg, walking with it rather well, almost as if it were just a replacement leg for him.

    He then took the time to look around a bit at his surroundings. "Right... I came here... after-" He gasps and turns around quickly to look around everywhere, looking a bit scared. Once he spotted Kirito, his eyes widened, but then a moment later, they relaxed somewhat... still a little stunned. "Uhh... hey! H-how's it going?"
Tomoe Tomoe has been helping Kirito with supplies given tht's where part of her pay from the Neo Arcadian job went help fund for this and Kirito was not alone. Tomoe as her Salamander self and she's tacking down the. She thinks in the ned the castle is going to need a warp gate s she wanders about the castle folloing the sounds of talking and calls out.

"Hey did you finally get your lazy hide logged on Kirito?"
Kirito beep beep beep? Kirito's shaken out of his deep thoughts by the noise. Not because it was unexpected... but he knows that beep. He knows it incredibly well. It's the thing that woke him up for years...

    The black-haired boy unfolds his arms and looks up up Kain's way, but can't help but stare at the adept use of crutches... and the reason for them. He quickly clamps down that look of his though, in an effort to not be pointlessly rude. His awkwardness is on clear display though!

    "Y-... yo! ... you're... Kain...?" Kirito rises, showing an uncertain but friendly smile as he tries to make sense of this sudden development. But then...

    In comes Tomoe. The Spriggan makes a face. "The lazy part was totally unnecessary..." Grumble grumble.

    Kirito's front pocket fidgets and Yui floats out, straightening her petal dress. "Greetings, Miss Tomoe! Papa just finished the rounds!" Once that's said, the little pixie hovers a few feet towards Kain. "Good morning. Did you rest well?"
Kain     And suddenly, in comes Tomoe! Oh dear... well! Cat was out of the bag now! Both of them knew what he looked like from SAO days... well, at least Kirito figured it out... maybe Tomoe would be oblivious! Nah, can't count on that... nope, he was got... "I-I can explain... I-"

    Suddenly, Kirito's pocket fidgets and out pops a tiny little fairy... wait, what? And then it suddenly addressed him. "Wh... umm... y-yeah, I... guess..."

    Suddenly, a cell phone started ringing with a default ringtone. Kain pulled it out of his pocket, looking at the number and giving a small grump face before sending it to voicemail and putting it away. He then turns his attention to Kirito again. "Well... umm... I-I suppose I..." He didn't even know WHAT to say... in ALO, he'd portrayed himself as this big, tough Salamander as best he could, portraying his speed proudly... and here he was now, a hobbled cripple relying on a crutch for movement...
Tomoe Tomoe is very amused here, so very amused at this state of affairs she looks to Kirito some more nd seems very much amused then Kain shows his face and seems to be here in he flesh.

"Morning Yui seems that your pretty chipper as ever then again you never sleep do you?"

She looks to Kain for a moment laughing "Look you know how many people outside the assault team know what I actually look like? You should stop being so skitish Kain and really given how your with the GU? We should meet up at Diceys at some point even if Angil's got to lock up the booze."
Kirito What you see is pretty much what you get with Kirito! he's just as lean and soft-featured as a Spriggan as he is in reality. A face that's a bit too girly for his own tastes, but what's he going to do about it exactly?

    "... Explain?" He blinks a few times. What on Earth would Kain need to explain? This does not compute. "Are you doing alright getting around like that in here? This old castle wasn't built with ramps or anything." His tone softens quickly as he finally figures out something considerate to say.

    Yui looks over her shoulder at Tomoe, then brightly and matter-of-factly declares, "Not quite the way humans do, but I do enter a similar state when there is nothing else to do. My inputs shut down and I focus on sorting out and analyzing memories and experiences. Good morning. We are ready for duty!" The little pixie even goes so far as to snap a cute little salute to show it!

    "What a project we've got in the works here, huh?" Kirito asides to Kain, in the meanwhile.
Kain     Kain actually gives a small grump towards Kirito. "Just because I'm missing a leg doesn't mean I'm helpless! I can get around here just fine!" He demonstrates by moving around the room rather easily, as if the crutch was just his leg. "See? Perfectly fi-" And his crutch gets caught on his sleeping bag Aaaaaaand down he goes, flailing as he realizes he's going down, faceplanting on the gym mat. "... Owww..."
Tomoe Tomoe says, "looks tp Kain and nos for a moment. "Hey you got here on your own like this I'm going to ... call that fit." She'll lean down to offer a hand up. "I didn't know you were lioke this Kain. You should have said something sooner, we have connectiuons that could get you help if you want it." She's not trying to be condesending she's looking legitly concerned here and she also looks over ot Kirito and Yui for a moment "So you do sleep more or less.""
Kirito "Reker's already looking into going all cyborg on us. US Marines... are seriously hardcore." Kirito comments in a vague tone that's caught between admiration and exasperation.

    He bites his tongue on trying to figure out something to say in response to Kain's indignation, but IMMEDIATELY flinches when he goes down. Both Kirito and Yui swoop over to Kain... although only Kirito's big enough to lend a hand up as well with Tomoe.
Kain     Kain isn't as vain as to ignore help from friends, at least. He does accept their help up, taking a hand from each of them and pulling himself into a standing position. "Ugh... hate embarassing myself like that..." He dusted himself off, still just standing on one foot. He then squats down on that leg, scoops up his fallen crutch and plants it back under his left arm. "Ah. There we are. Thanks for the help."

    Stretching his body a bit, he sighs a bit. "So... as long as I PAY ATTENTION, I'm just fine..."

    He looks to Tomoe. "Nothing to help, really... I mean, I spend most of my time in FullDive anyway. It's why my dad bought it in the first place for me. And since I get to have two legs when I'm a Salamander, I'm perfectly fine."

    He then looks at Kirito. "You're assuming I lost my leg in the middle of my life and not when I was born..." His voice was slightly somber as he spoke about it.
Tomoe Tomoe says "All right, its your choice I was simply making an offer." She doesn't try to patronize Kain it's his shoice and she will heolp him as he needs it but once she's usre he's good to go she'll let gone. "Oh I see, still you damn well had me not knowing it."
Kirito "Er..." Did Kirito assume something? He makes a weird face, once again unsure whether clarifying or denying would somehow be rude. Terribly rude. A grunty-snort noise of pure consternation rises in his throat as he struggles on this idea...

    And eventually settles on, "... give me a break... we're making a new home for everyone here so we can look out for each other."
Kain     Kain nods. "It's fine. You didn't know... just... I haven't really told anyone about it outside doctors and family... well... I suppose you two are as close to family as I've got right now..." He sits down, and you'd swear he'd be sitting cross-legged if he had two legs, the way he was sitting.

    "This story... I don't know it firsthand. I only know what I was told by my mom and the doctor that she was seeing when I was born... but when I was born, I was declared healthy and whole. But less than a week in the hospital revealed that wasn't the case... suddenly, my left leg was being eaten by some sort of necrosis. Docs were stunned as to the cause, but they were able to discern I had about a couple of days before the necrosis reached a part of my body where it couldn't be properly taken care of... and the only option to save me was to amputate my leg... of course, my parents took as long as possible to make a decision... and it was ultimately my dad who made the decision to amputate... by the time the decision was made though, it was already pretty far into the necrosis. It had gone 3 quarters of my calf upward, and my lower leg was completely dead. So... they lopped off my leg at the pelvic joint."

    He takes a moment to breathe. "Since then, I was taught how to do everything with one leg. And I'm mostly able to do what anyone is able to do. Unless the 'anyone' also refers to SAO and ALO avatars... then there's things you guys can do that noone can do." He chuckles a bit.
Tomoe Tomoe listens at the tale is played out by Kain, grimachesing wonding how the odds of that were happening, with Kain getting stuck in SAO? That only made her boggle at Kain's lucky but he's alive an seemingly happy for a moment. "I'm happy you consider us like that Kain and ... that must not have been an easy choice for your parents to make. I see why you keep going into VRMMORPGs. Then again for the three of us? We don't fit back in reality anymore. I think I'm more afraid to be an Office Lady than I am of something trying to kill me."
Kirito It's a story that Kirito can't help but frown through. An emotion that Yui mostly mirrors as she flutters over and seats herself in polite fashion on Kain's left shoulder to listen. Kirito follows suit, taking a seat near Kain himself...

    "It's just lots of time and practice." Kirito asserts modestly. It's what he believes, at least the part of it that he's willing to admit to the world... and consciously to himself.

    "You, Reker, and Yuuki... the Multiverse situation gave new freedom to all of us, but I can only try to imagine how this is for you three..."
Kain     Kain finishes his story and hears the encouraging words from both Kirito and Tomoe. Even has the little Fairy on his shoulder to comfort him, which... he didn't know why, but she looked so familiar... he pushed it aside for now. Not really important. What WAS important was... "Yeah... practice practice practice. I've been practicing... well... 19 years, minus our time in SAO. Like I said, I can do much of what others can do if they're not a VRMMO avatar." He chuckles at that again.

    There was one part of that he was curious about that Kirito mentioned... "Wait... what do you mean, how this is for us three... you mentioned Yuuki... I think she was with us when we were exploring CCO, wasn't she? What's wrong with her?" He looked genuinely concerned at the news that something was wrong with Yuuki... she looked like she had it more together than him, so to know there was something wrong with her... it boggled his mind, and had him slightly distraught. Even though they didn't communicate often, he liked to think she was his friend... and hoped she considered him the same...
Kirito Hmmmm. How much to reveal... Yuuki hasn't hidden her condition from the others, not since she became a member of the group and it was exposed from some other shenanigans... but still... Kirito furrows his brow while pondering a good answer. "You can ask her for the details, but... she's got a serious medical condition that keeps her from leaving the hospital, so FullDive is freedom from that." He answers, rather deliberately leaving out some pretty big details.

    "Reker, he lost a leg and an eye. Military troubles. But now, between FullDive and the strange Multiverse physics, all of us can go places we never imagined."
Tomoe Tomoe says "That's how we got soo good it's true but honestly and there are otghers who have problems that being able to do what we do have let them change their lives. Reker gave a lot for his country it's true. He's a retired US Marine."
Kain     Kain nods to both of them. "Yeah... I'll ask her when I see her, I guess..." He takes a breath. "Anyway... I'm gonna hop into FullDive and get into what I consider to be my real body..." He set back down into the Sleeping Bag, doing this weird shimmy shammy into it before looking as comfortable as he was going to get, grabbing the helmet and placing it on his head. It seemed to elevate his head up somewhat more than the coat he was lying on. And as soon as he put it on and got comfortable, he uttered the words that both Kirito and Tomoe would be very intimately familiar with: "Link Start."

    The lights popped up on the helmet and buzzed to life. A few moments later, in flies a familiar Salamander in red clothing, sporting a Rapier on his hip. "Ahh. Much better."