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That was the sound of a possum riffling through the trash cans of Torensten. With deft little paws, she searched for scraps of food - crusts of bread, eggshells still with a bit of yolk on them, fish bones, ends of fat... oh? what was this? A leaf of lettuce sticking out of a mound of trash? Not knowing what it was, she began pulling it and munching on it.
"Ow! Hey! Stop that!" It turned out it wasn't lettuce, but hair. Hair that belonged to a certain feral child who, it seemed, had strayed too far from the woods. He sat up, shook himself off, and pulled a tranquilizer dart out of his side. "Pebble, when you gon' stop eating Gau's hair?"
The possum, Pebble, chittered at Gau as if to say she was sorry.
"'S okay!" He gave his possum pal a scritch between the ears. "Now... where are we?"
The last thing Gau remembered, he and Pebble were searching for sticks in the Wanderwood. He'd come to call that place his home, so he thought he might as well build himself a little shelter. The forest was oddly quiet... above the crickets and night-birds, he could hear the voices of other people.
"There he is! There's the Devil of the Veldt!"
"If we get our hands on him, we're going to be rich!"
"Easy, boy. Easy. We ain't gonna hurt you none..."
There was a stinging pain in Gau's side, then complete darkness... and then he woke up here.
Here. Where was here?
It sure wasn't the Wanderwood, this much he knew. It was missing the deciduous trees, the familiar birds, the lush green of home. There were too many people here, and too many buildings. It almost gave him claustrophobia, seeing all these strangers wandering through the streets, trying to make out the tangle of chatter that filled the air. So many sights and smells and sounds filled the air, mingling with each other in a way that filled his senses almost to bursting. So this was being human... he didn't like it, but if that was he had to do to fit in, very well. With Pebble at his side, he set off through the streets, searching, searching for a friendly face...
[attr=class,lyric1]infinite in mystery is the gift of
[attr=class,lyric2]the goddess
[attr=class,bulk] Had Genesis left his apartment purely to escape Angeal and Sephiroth? He would have denied it if anyone had suggested it. He wasn’t afraid of anything and certainly not of staring at Angeal’s face and wondering what to say to him. It wasn’t awkward to meet a friend who’d been dead for four years. Of course not.
Maybe if Genesis repeated that enough then he’d almost start to believe it.
The problem was that he didn’t particularly have anywhere to be this early in the morning. Sure, there were plenty of cafes and bookstores along the strip near where they lived. Genesis had sat outside one with an open book plenty of times before. Unfortunately he didn’t think even Loveless was enough to distract him today, which was a dire fate. Maybe if the bars had been open, he could have drunk away his sorrows with a bottle of red wine, but it was still too early for that.
Genesis was at a loss, to say the least.
He wasn’t entirely sure how long he had been dejectedly wandering the sidewalk when he noticed the muttering. There were people in front of him crossing the street to avoid something, and others seemed to be averting their gazes. Genesis knew the looks. Society never did like things that made them uncomfortable. Someone homeless or injured was Genesis’ guess. Those people were the most invisible of all in the middle of a crowded street.
Glancing ahead of him to check out the spectacle, Genesis raised his eyebrows as he took in the strange kid’s appearance. His green hair was the most normal thing about him. He seemed to be covered in dirt and trash, his clothing was in tatters, and the way he walked was almost feral. Not to mention that the animal trotting along at his heels seemed to be a trained possum. Was that even a thing? Apparently it was a thing.
Genesis immediately turned his back. “No. Absolutely not. Not my problem,” he stated firmly as he started to walk in the opposite direction. Only to slow to a stop as he noticed a scandalized-looking woman talking to a man in a uniform. It was difficult to make out from this distance, but he thought he noticed a sigil on the back of the man’s clothes identifying him as a Torensten city guard.
“Oh, for the love of the goddess!” Genesis touched his forehead for a moment, cursing to himself with Loveless. “All that awaits you is a somber morrow, no matter where the winds may blow.” Whirling around, Genesis marched back towards the kid, shoving aside a few startled people as he went in order to catch up with the green-haired boy.
“You. Smelly kid. Are you trying to get arrested?”
[attr="class","wensday"] People were staring at him. Talking about him.
Trying his hardest not to make any eye contact, Gau kept his eyes close to the ground. Occasionally he'd let them drift along the path of the wandering possum. When she strayed too far from his side, all he had to do was make a little clicking noise, and she'd gaily come trotting back to him.
He should have known they were judging him. The people of Torensten were so clean-cut, so proud of their own appearance. Of course they'd notice. Still sheepish, he kept his eyes on the ground. Stand up straight, he told himself. Shoulders back. Eyes down, eyes down, eyes...
It was then that he found himself a few feet or so away from a stranger in a red trench coat.
“You. Smelly kid. Are you trying to get arrested?”
With a startled squeak, Gau looked up at the man, then back down at Pebble. The possum gave a wary chitter, as if she didn't fully trust this new face. But that was no reason not to talk to him. Perhaps he was a friend... "Get rested?" Gau cocked his head, confused. "B-but Gau... Gau jus' woke up! Why go back to sleep?"
Before he could get an answer, he began to assault the stranger with a barrage of questions. "Who're you? What those funny words you say mean? Why people lookin' at Gau like dat?"
Pebble, on the other hand, bared her fangs at the man in red, prompting Gau to scoop her up by the front end as if she were a cat and give her a quiet command of "Pebble. No. Be nice."
"Anyway. Dis Pebble. Pebble is Gau's friend. Say hi, Pebble!"
Pebble screeched and wriggled about, obviously none too pleased with the stranger.
Getting used to society was going to take a while...
[attr=class,lyric1]infinite in mystery is the gift of
[attr=class,lyric2]the goddess
[attr=class,bulk] The green-haired boy gave a startled squeak when Genesis roughly addressed him, and the sound was immediately echoed by the possum down at his feet. Genesis squinted at the creature, not fully trusting that it wasn’t infested with rabies, but then he wouldn’t put it past the kid to have some form of disease either. They both looked equally likely to bite him.
"Get rested? B-but Gau... Gau jus' woke up! Why go back to sleep?"
Genesis stared at the feral child in front of him, deciding that he had made a horrific mistake even before he started being pelted with questions that he had absolutely no room to answer. The possum didn’t seem to like him either as it bared its teeth at him. If it actually tried to bite him, then so help him, Genesis was going to kick the animal down the street, but the boy picked it up and told the marsupial off before it came to that.
The possum’s name was apparently Pebble. Pebble. This was shaping up to be the longest of days.
“My friend, the fates are cruel. There are no dreams, no honor remains,” he bemoaned to himself before looking over the pair critically again. “Genesis,” he offered by way of introduction. “And I’m going to assume you’re Gau. Didn’t anyone ever teach you to speak in the first person?” It was a bit of a rhetorical question since clearly the answer was no but he had to at least complain about it.
Gau was currently wrestling with Pebble to stop Genesis from being bitten, and the red-haired man strongly considered just walking away. Instead, he sighed deeply through his nose before offering the most reluctant help he’d ever given. “...Are you hungry? Assuming I don’t need to chuck you and your possum in a bath before a cafe agrees to take us.” He might before the day was out anyway.
[attr="class","wensday"] "You Genesis, huh? Gau like that name! Very fun to say!"
This Genesis fellow seemed nice enough. He wasn't angry at Gau or actively trying to kill him, just... mildly annoyed.
"Genesissssss..." the feral child muttered to himself. His name felt like a snake's hiss on his tongue. Smooth, slippery, side-winding. "Gessisissss... nisissss... sssss... nyehe..." He looked back down at the possum in his arms, who was thankfully wriggling a lot less. Her screaming had died down to a nervous chattering.
“And I’m going to assume you’re Gau. Didn’t anyone ever teach you to speak in the first person?”
Gau stopped for a while to scratch the back of his neck. "Sorry, Mr. Genesis... Gau not dat smart. Gau not know how to human."
By the looks of him, it seemed Genesis was clearly unimpressed with this feral ragamuffin and his marsupial who had stumbled into Torensten. And frankly, neither did any of the other townspeople who kept stopping to stare at the flea-ridden outcast. But that didn't stop Gau from trying to reason with him.
“...Are you hungry? Assuming I don’t need to chuck you and your possum in a bath before a cafe agrees to take us.” "B-Bath?" The word alone startled the poor lad. He jumped back, dropping Pebble, who landed on her feet and scurried away. "Uh... no thanks! But yeah, food seems nice!"
Something told Gau that he was probably going to either be kicked out of the cafe or dragged into the sanitized prison of human society. Or both. But was that really worth losing a connection to a species he'd only had tenuous ties to? With a sigh, he called Pebble back to his side and decided to follow Genesis wherever he may lead.
[attr=class,lyric1]infinite in mystery is the gift of
[attr=class,lyric2]the goddess
[attr=class,bulk] “Stop that.”
The boy tried out his name by hissing it like a snake, and even though Genesis rolled his eyes, it was actually slightly endearing. If only slightly. Genesis could remember sounding out his name similarly as a kid when he’d been learning to read, and that mental comparison softened him up just enough for the boy’s next comment to twist the knife.
Gau claimed he didn’t know how to human.
Genesis just stared at him for a moment, glancing between the green hair and the pointy teeth as he wondered if Gau meant that literally. He wanted to ask, but the middle of the sidewalk was neither the time nor the place for that sort of conversation. The ex-SOLDIER wasn’t sure he was quite human himself since Shinra considered him little more than a science experiment. As he thought about it, the wing that protruded from his left shoulder-blade suddenly felt exposed even though it was still quite hidden under his red leather coat. The current topic of conversation was just getting to him.
“Well. Humans are overrated anyway,” he finally said, smoothing back a strand of his own red hair before confiding “I’m something of a monster myself.” Probably not the most comforting thing to tell a kid, but he meant it to be friendly. At least as friendly as Genesis got.
The prospect of a bath seemed to frighten Gau so much that he dropped his possum, and Genesis lightly touched one gloved hand to his forehead as that course of action was ruled out. “The wind sails over the water’s surface, quietly but surely,” he quoted from Loveless before glancing down the street. “Outdoor seating it is then.” That was probably for the best anyway as Pebble came trotting back near Gau’s heels. It was going to be a stretch for a restaurant to allow the marsupial even in their outdoor seating areas, but somehow he didn’t think Gau would react kindly to leaving his friend behind. Go figure.
Thankfully, there was a cafe around the corner that had outdoor seating with a sign at the hostess table declaring ‘Please seat yourself.’ That was the best that they were likely to find, so Genesis hurried the strange pair over to a corner table in the hope that whatever waitress they wound up with was in a good mood.
“I suppose the least I can do is buy you breakfast,” Genesis said with a sigh as he handed over a menu from the pile on the table. “Can you read?” If not, it wasn’t the end of the world since it had a few pictures here and there.
Still, Genesis wasn’t sure what he’d gotten himself into. He was inclined to blame Angeal and Sephiroth though.
[attr="class","wensday"] "I'm something of a monster myself."
The phrase echoed through Gau's mind all the way to the cafe. This Genesis fellow didn't much appear to be a monster. No teeth, no claws, no venom, just those cryptic words that he kept whispering under his breath. He didn't understand why, but something about them haunted him... rhythmic, enigmatic. Like the singing of birds at dawn's first light. Was Genesis a bird in the body of a man?
A wolf, a possum and a red bird... hmm...
It was a nice little cafe, kind of like the one Gau and his two dads had visited back in Nikeah. There was a certain charm about it, a certain welcome coziness. Perhaps it was the promise of food. From what little of civilization he knew, he knew that these places definitely had food. And food was good.
He was just about to follow Genesis to the open table when Pebble began nudging at his side. "No, Pebble. This place for humans."
Nudge nudge.
"There's lots of food over there! In the trash!"
Grrrr. Nudge.
Gau sighed as he bent down to give the opossum a scritch between the ears. "Fine. Just keep out of sight, okay?"
The possum nodded and scampered away, curling up in a furry gray ball under a faraway table as her friend scouted out a seat.
There was no doubt about it. Genesis probably thought him as an annoyance at best and absolutely hated him at worst. But that wouldn't stop the wild child from trying to befriend him.
Soon enough, Gau joined his new maybe-sort-of-friend at the table. He perched himself on one of the seats, only to right his posture soon after. Humans do not sit like that. Sit up tall, like Mr. Genesis is doing. Good, good. He fidgeted a bit, eyes darting around. The townsfolk were still looking at him funny. All he could do was pick up the menu and pretend to read it- no, stop nibbling on it. Not for eat. "Uh... yeah! Yeah! Gau can read... a little..." he said, his voice faltering near the end of the sentence as he perused the pictures.
"Anyway, Mr. Genesis, why you say such funny words? Somethin' bout dreams n' honor?"
[attr=class,lyric1]infinite in mystery is the gift of
[attr=class,lyric2]the goddess
[attr=class,bulk] Gau stopped to have some sort of argument with his possum near the host stand. Genesis glanced around, shrugging at a few people and giving threatening looks to anyone who seemed a little too scandalized. If they had something to say about eating near a big rat-creature, then they had better say it to his face. Eventually though, the possum went skittering under a nearby table as Gau came over to join Genesis in the corner instead.
“Trouble in paradise?” He asked, though he wasn’t sure the kid would get the sarcasm. That was okay though. It was mostly for his own benefit.
Gau had slouched at the table at first, but after glancing furtively in his direction, he seemed to be doing his best to keep his back straight. He really needed to stop being so endearing. He even nibbled on the menu a bit, which wasn’t the most sanitary thing to chew on, but he doubted the kid really cared about germs. He did at least confirm that he could read a little, even if Genesis doubted his word when the boy’s eyes darted to the pictures instead.
“Well, get whatever you want,” he said with a sigh as he laced his fingers under his chin. He should probably choose something for himself, but Gau surprised him by asking why he talked in a certain way. When he realized that what the boy was actually asking about was poetry, Genesis quickly lowered his menu with a snap. He needed no excuses to talk about Loveless.
“Have you ever been to a play?” He asked seriously. It was probably a ridiculous question when Gau seemed like he’d lived in the wilderness forever, but it was a good starting point. “Loveless is an ancient piece of poetry that was turned into the greatest five-act play that’s ever been written.” In his entirely unbiased point of view at least.
Since they were on the subject, he wasn’t able to resist reciting the opening lines. “When the war of the beasts brings about the world’s end, the goddess descends from the sky. Wings of light and dark spread afar, she guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting.”
If they didn’t already stand out, then they definitely did now.
