noitatnacni | 003 | Action + Voice

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003 | Action + Voice

[It's pretty easy to spot the differences. The apartment Zatanna shares with Artemis suddenly goes from full to half-empty overnight. Everything, from clothing to weaponry to the tools she'd left in a pile on the table are just gone.

She's heard about it happening before. But like they say, hearing about it and going through it? Two completely different things.

Zatanna tries to find her: message over the journal, a locator spell she's been working on, just walking around and looking around the village. Things don't get any better, however. It's even worse by mid-day, when Zatanna pulls out her journal again.]

Uh, hey. [Zatanna's trying to smile--or rather, she's trying not to cry. There's a reason she's not using video for this, but all that emotion is still pretty evident in her voice.] I know some of you know Artemis and Static. They went home, but it's a good thing. They've got to help save the world and all. Teenage superheroes. The job's never done, right?

[She hesitates, wondering if she should say anything else. In the end though, there's only more silence before she closes the journal. She's going to answer the people who reply, eventually. For now, with the book set aside, Zatanna draws her knees up to her chest and just hides. She probably won't be that hard to find if people know where to look: the rooftop of Community Housing 5. But since she's alone--really alone--she lets some of those tears fall. She just can't keep it in anymore.]

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[Robin doesn't reply after Zatanna makes her message. It's not the sort of thing words can fix. There was an ally for her here, a companion that fit from her world in a way nobody else could. You can't just say 'hey that sucks' and move on.

And so Robin will be beside her on that rooftop. Not announced, not bearing greetings. He's just there, tugging her body out of its contraction, offering a hug.]

...Believe me, I know how that is. Same thing happened to Sora, after all.

[Going back to the worlds he left behind to deal with... whatever it is Xehanort had planned. It's easy to brush it off, say it's for the best, but Riku knows it's not always that simple. You can make a million excuses to try and dull the pain, but how often does it work?]

But if you need some kind of distraction, let me know. Sometimes it's good to just blow off some steam for a while.

[He bites his lip for a moment at this message. A friend gone from Luceti and probably the first time it's left an impact on him.

She was one of his friends and now she was gone. Damn it. He just wants to ask Zatanna to make sure that Artemis was still around. The thought instantly becomes stupid because of course, if these two were such close friends either of them would continue to look for the other until it was fruitless.

He wants to cry himself, but doing so would just be a selfish act right now. Right now, Zatanna probably needed the comfort.

Going on voice he makes his voice even:]

Zatanna...? Do you need anything right now?

[Normally, he'd be all for providing company, but he's sure Dick's already got that covered, so he's not sure how much good it would do. Besides, he knew that sometimes, you needed some time to yourself, so he doesn't want to be pushy or anything.

It feels kind of cheap to just offer condolences, but he can't not say anything, either.]

I'm sorry, Zee. Bet you've heard it a hundred times by now, but we're here for you. We've gotta stick together, you know?

Oh...I'm sorry to hear that. Even if it's good that they're not stuck here anymore.

[She'd just been getting to know them, but she'd considered them friends.]

I'm sorry.

[He's not really an especially empathetic person but Zatanna was a good person and he could recognize the strain of grief and loneliness in her voice better than he should've been able to.

After all, he'd been lucky enough to have Clove since he arrived here. But he'd seen this happen before - Katniss sticks out in his mind - but Peeta wasn't just a friend to her so....

he really didn't know much about being sympathetic.]

Maybe you'll get out of here next.

[First she had heard Zatanna's voice on the broadcast and having talked to her a few times before, the pain she was going through in missing her father during her birthday, that sound of pain isn't hard to miss the second time.

Though instead of answering on the broadcast, she leaves her house and begins walking down the street. She hadn't even gotten past 'They went home-' before she was slipping on shoes and the door was shutting behind her.

Since she had delivered cookies to Zatanna personally, she knows where to go. She knows where to look because when Kushina wanted to hide and think and let some tears fall, this was where she goes. That time had lessened as she got older, learned to be strong but she still remembers the rooftops of a building in a place that wasn't home.

There's the soft sound of feet beside her as she lands a few feet away.

Zatanna.

[She hadn't expected this. But maybe that was entirely naive of her. Zevran had disappeared while she had been gone. In someways, it made some sick sort of sense that more than one of her friends had been sent home. She should be happy for them. Any good person would be.

But all she could really feel was a sense of despair. Odds weren't in her favor. And this was a stark reminder that she'd only be losing more people she loved someday. A bitter, sobering thought.

Crying would be too good for the Malnosso. Exactly what they probably wanted. And yet, she could feel the pinprick of tears play at her eyes.]

...oh.

[He remembers her voice faintly, even if it has been a while. The difference between that first time and now was vast, and he doesn't like what he hears in it.]

Sometimes teenagers need a break, too...

I'm...I'm sorry to hear that Zatanna. [ He might not be as close as some of the others here, but after that shift a month ago Helios still has remaining memories and feelings about Rei and Zatanna. Adopted or not in that life he was still a parent to her, maybe not now but he still...wanted to try and help. ]

If you want to t-talk I'm told that I'm a rather good listener. But only if you wish to.

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