[Basic assumptions that are indeed almost creepily accurate!! Or just a testament to how clockwork some of Jack’s habits actually are…but yes, indeed, he’d been traveling across rooftops around the time the sudden shift in reality had happened. Not exactly one of the best transitions ever, all things considered…]
[Jack doesn’t note the odd parallels here the same way Zelos might, however, as Zelos doesn’t elaborate it himself and Jack finds no particular reason to make the connection anyway at the moment; he really hasn’t spent too much time in the residential building, and hardly really knew who his roommates were, let alone who he might share a floor with…woes of being a weather spirit forever inclined to the outdoors, alas.]
[Anyway.]
[It all ends up being beside the point, in the end, as Jack’s frown towards the feed only intensifies the further Zelos goes on with his explanation of the situation on his end.]
Well--if that's what you guys figure, then. Promise you're gonna at least try to be careful while you're clearing out things on your end, won't you? [Jack shifts to fold a free arm around his knees, in substitute for the arm-crossing that would be happening otherwise if he were actually standing up.] …Guess I shouldn't be talking, though. If stuff goes over the same way in all these areas, then I guess that’s probably what I'll be doing too. Clearing things. I'm not--too great, with technical stuff. [He grimaces a bit, then glances off the camera again to the crowd milling in the actual lounge area on the other side of the feed for a moment.] Pretty sure Isaac's working on something though, yeah. Getting people together…there’s an elevator over here, I think everyone's mostly talking about how to get it open right now?
[Man, but just verbalizing it really emphasizes just how out of his element he feels, both in the figurative and literal sense--alongside how out of the loop he’s been up to now, with all this, preoccupied as he’s been with his own personal problems right now. It’d been a niggling thought anyway, even before Zelos had dropped in his call, a sort of guilt that he should be sitting against a wall like this trying not to feel too nauseous while everyone else around him seems to be picking themselves up just fine--]
[It all parses through as a bit of a pause, and a somewhat chagrined tilt in the way Jack thins his lips a bit, before turning his attention back to the feed properly.]
…I really should be chipping in to help too…
is promptly smacked in the face and falls over!! Alice why do our subjects always end up like this
[It's suddenly solid and attention seeking after all of his quiet listening to Jack. For once he doesn't interrupt for a word in edgewise, no, he waits until the end there at that chipping in comment. But he sees the glances, the shifts in posture, he hears the choice of words, and at a point like this, as easy as it would be to push it aside and focus on current worries, he knows that's the exact reason he should speak up on it.]
No one knows for sure what's going on around here. Not even that Isaac guy, from the sound of things. But we've just got to bring out what we're good at pitching in when things get rough, right? And I'd be willing to bet there are a few sad, worried faces over there you can get to cheer up even before you freeze some enemies in place.
[A verbal nudge of comfort, if you will. The seriousness fades to be less overwhelming, at least, as he smiles with one of his playful, signature Zelos winks.] Come on, I'll be careful, but only if you do the same. Deal? I can call to check up with you later.
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yes good /chucks another tag at your face while you aren't looking...!!!
[Jack doesn’t note the odd parallels here the same way Zelos might, however, as Zelos doesn’t elaborate it himself and Jack finds no particular reason to make the connection anyway at the moment; he really hasn’t spent too much time in the residential building, and hardly really knew who his roommates were, let alone who he might share a floor with…woes of being a weather spirit forever inclined to the outdoors, alas.]
[Anyway.]
[It all ends up being beside the point, in the end, as Jack’s frown towards the feed only intensifies the further Zelos goes on with his explanation of the situation on his end.]
Well--if that's what you guys figure, then. Promise you're gonna at least try to be careful while you're clearing out things on your end, won't you? [Jack shifts to fold a free arm around his knees, in substitute for the arm-crossing that would be happening otherwise if he were actually standing up.] …Guess I shouldn't be talking, though. If stuff goes over the same way in all these areas, then I guess that’s probably what I'll be doing too. Clearing things. I'm not--too great, with technical stuff. [He grimaces a bit, then glances off the camera again to the crowd milling in the actual lounge area on the other side of the feed for a moment.] Pretty sure Isaac's working on something though, yeah. Getting people together…there’s an elevator over here, I think everyone's mostly talking about how to get it open right now?
[Man, but just verbalizing it really emphasizes just how out of his element he feels, both in the figurative and literal sense--alongside how out of the loop he’s been up to now, with all this, preoccupied as he’s been with his own personal problems right now. It’d been a niggling thought anyway, even before Zelos had dropped in his call, a sort of guilt that he should be sitting against a wall like this trying not to feel too nauseous while everyone else around him seems to be picking themselves up just fine--]
[It all parses through as a bit of a pause, and a somewhat chagrined tilt in the way Jack thins his lips a bit, before turning his attention back to the feed properly.]
…I really should be chipping in to help too…
is promptly smacked in the face and falls over!! Alice why do our subjects always end up like this
[It's suddenly solid and attention seeking after all of his quiet listening to Jack. For once he doesn't interrupt for a word in edgewise, no, he waits until the end there at that chipping in comment. But he sees the glances, the shifts in posture, he hears the choice of words, and at a point like this, as easy as it would be to push it aside and focus on current worries, he knows that's the exact reason he should speak up on it.]
No one knows for sure what's going on around here. Not even that Isaac guy, from the sound of things. But we've just got to bring out what we're good at pitching in when things get rough, right? And I'd be willing to bet there are a few sad, worried faces over there you can get to cheer up even before you freeze some enemies in place.
[A verbal nudge of comfort, if you will. The seriousness fades to be less overwhelming, at least, as he smiles with one of his playful, signature Zelos winks.] Come on, I'll be careful, but only if you do the same. Deal? I can call to check up with you later.