[IC: post-dark!Zero]

[thekingsgambit]

[following his encounter with cornelia, one ill-fated prince who really has had better weeks is in route to the sewers to seek assistance from the only person he can really ask right now]


((OOC Notes: Because I screwed up my timing, the top and bottom threads are about a week apart. We are assuming after talk with C.C., Lelouch chilled in the sewers for a while and later ran into Suzaku while the knight was Zero-hunting. Just go with me here. o/))

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[pizzapathy]

[buuut the sewer witch is heading elsewhere to do... something, who knows!]

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

[then it's a good thing that someone took the long way to avoid notice and might happen to be passing by her vantage point]

[pizzapathy]

[but of course!]

Oh, it's you.

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

[startled at first to hear a voice but relaxes as soon as he realizes it's her]

... So you figured out what happened the other day.

[oneknightstands.livejournal.com]

[ITT: Time and space are our bitches, and Lelouch has already had his Serious Discussion with pizzawitch. Therefore--]

[. . . well there's a face that he hasn't seen recently]

-- Lelouch!

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

[--!! now see i really didn't expect to run into you just yet...]

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

[aaand scrambling to regain that composure]

Ahh... Suzaku, I wasn't aware you frequented this area as well.

[oneknightstands.livejournal.com]

I don't. . . I was only taking a walk. I usually stay closer to the cabins.

[staring at him, with a conflicted expression]

It's -- it's been awhile.

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

[trying to not let stare linger on suzaku's bandages but also knowing better than to completely look away]

My absence from the cabin you mean? I apologize. I've had trouble recalling what's happened over the past few days. I think it has something to do with this headache I noticed only recently.

[pizzapathy]

It wasn't too difficult.

[oneknightstands.livejournal.com]

[holding his eyes]

A headache. . .? So you remember nothing at all?

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

[it's a good thing i'm a good liar]

Unfortunately... You seem surprised. It's not that unusual an occurrence in this place. Though I can't say I don't wish to know what caused it in particular.

[oneknightstands.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're right. It's only that. . .

[shakes his head slightly]

What's the last thing that you can clearly remember doing?

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

[notices that head shake and is a bit perplexed...]

Before the headache? I believe I was having a conversation with Euphie.

[oneknightstands.livejournal.com]

Ah -- I see.

While you were gone. . . there were some things that you missed.

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

This place is out to make a fool out of me by any means possible, going so far as to have me confront both Suzaku and Euphemia in that state.

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

Probably ones that I should consider myself fortunate to have avoided.

[oneknightstands.livejournal.com]

-- Yes.

Zero showed up in the main camp.

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

Zero? I wouldn't have expected him to get caught like the rest of us. Are you certain it wasn't one of camp's typical tricks?

[pizzapathy]

Quite unfortunate.

[oneknightstands.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure. He was behaving strangely, but otherwise. . . he seemed like the real thing. But I haven't seen him since the night that he appeared.

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

Unfortunate? The last thing I need is for him to use this incident to turn the camp against Zero before I even have a chance to meet with them. As I said, some of them may prove very useful once a means of escape is discovered. But I question whether they will follow a lunatic who was raving on about insects.

[thekingsgambit.livejournal.com]

Behaving strangely?

[oneknightstands.livejournal.com]

He announced that he was going to destroy all of the bees in the camp.

[pizzapathy]

He can be dealt with.

It seems most people here have been affected by curses before, so it may not be too difficult for them to understand that Zero was cursed. Especially if he can prove it to them with another, more sane act.