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Nida | FF8 ([personal profile] skyward_eyes) wrote in [community profile] aterat2021-04-03 02:53 pm

There's No Piercing This Fog

Who; Nida, Open
What; Investigating the Maiden's Mercy
Where; The Harbor, The Maiden's Mercy
When; Early April
Warnings; Possible encounters with anything referenced in Event Information or mistaken combat in the fog

1. The Harbor Master's Office
The Captain hadn't exactly given him an okay on what Nida resolved to do that day, but he also hadn't been deliberately waved off. And clearly things weren't going to get better if Nida just ignored them and basked in the wonder of his life right now. No, this was up to them to solve, and with their mystery team now gone, Nida supposed it fell to those of them more confident in a fight and familiar with the harbor to deal with it.

This wasn't the first time he had come into the office. In fact, this time he wasn't breaking in. He just waltzed right in through the door and took a deep, sad breath. Caelan was gone. Nida sighed and mvoed through the room, moving through it in a thorough search. Perhaps something had changed with the return of the ship. So he started a search with the shelves in the room.

2. Battles To Be Fought
Well, he supposed he had just been delaying in what he needed to really do. Which was get to the boat. This was something he probably should have told someone he was off to do, like he had with the bear. But... But he didn't want other people getting involved in the mess that this might be.

"Forgive me, Ignis," he whispered to himself as he unslung one of the two polearms from his back and headed for the docks themselves. He took the partisan in hand as he called to Siren, stirring up her power. With it came a brief swirling of the fog that consumed the harbor, settling as she wrapped her awareness around his. Her power could not let him see through the darkness, but it did heighten his hearing quite a bit. He'd need it, to take on whatever might haunt the chill, lingering fog.

Fear starts to whisper at the edges of his mind, but Nida tries to shrug it off. He's a SeeD, one of the best. He helped kill a giant evil fear bear. He can handle this.

But when he heard movement off to the side he whirled on the balls of his feet, his weapon lowered below him, pointing into the encroaching mist.

"Come out," he barked out with all the biting authority he had learned when working with the guard.