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WHO: Makoto, OTA
WHAT: THE BOY IS BACK! And is feeling super confused and guilty.
WHERE: The Village in the Marsh.
WHEN: Sometime before the sleepover
WARNINGS Guilt, bad memories, attempted abduction

Hope of Morning

[Waving goodbye to the Ferryman before entering the village, Makoto's small and tired smile falls as he looks around at the huts. He tried to not show it to the Ferryman but he feels awful for getting lost and leaving the group. After all, he had chewed out Nagito for doing so and he hadn't been lost for as long as Makoto was! How did he even get lost so thoroughly?! He swears he just went out for a quick look!

Sighing to himself, he shakes his head before moving deeper into the village, looking around for anyone he knows. As he looks, he calls in a small and hesitant voice to anyone who might hear him.]

Komeda-kun? Frieda-san? Anyone here? It's me. I-I'm back.

[Oh he hopes the others have been okay without him. He hopes they didn't worry too much about him. Especially Nagito and Sunny. He had promised them that he'd never leave them. Another promise broken Makoto. He shakes off that whisper that threatens to drown him in memories as he waits for a response.]

100 bad days

[Makoto opens his eyes groggily as he feels the ground sway, grumpily grumbling to himself about what has woken him. He was having a good rest unlike usual! No nightmares or anything! Tempted to forget about it, he closes his eyes again when the ground moved again. What is it this time? Forcing himself up, he looks around the hut and sleepily watches as the shadows on the wall continue swaying. Why was it swaying?

Turning to look out the door, his eyes widens as he sees the outside slowly move past the door. What?! Now wide awake, he scrambles to get to his feet as he feels the sways increase in length and speed. Rushing to the door, he looks outside and gasps when he sees the village slowly getting farther away from him.]

What the?! H-Help!

Aftermath

[After his rather stressful wake up call, Makoto can be found looking at the small huttlets fondly if exasperatedly as he watches them play together. Chuckling when he sees two roughhouse and then squabble amongst themselves, he hums in amusement as he hears someone approach him.]

They're much cuter when they're not trying to abduct me.

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[Makoto pushes himself up as he stares at the huge pigeon from inside the hut. Now the dove is in front of the door. How was he going to escape? ...He didn't think this through, did he? The dove isn't going to peck my eyes out or anything like that, right? ...Though, with it's size, it could jut skip my eyes and go for my whole head instead. Gulping down his apprehension, he inches closer to the dove and hesitantly speaks to it.]

Um...Hello? ...Are you-WOAH!

[The hut swivels again, trying to shake off it's unwanted passenger and Makoto falls into Sakuya's plumage with a yelp. Gripping onto Sakuya's feathers tightly, he prays he hasn't pulled any feathers out. He didn't need an angry giant bird against him too.]

Tch. Yes, yes-

[the hut doesn't appreciate Sakuya being here insulting (does it understand it's insulted?) and scratching at it! He's not as cute as a human, it's not gonna put up with that! He makes an outraged coo-grunt sound when Makoto knocks into him, the first obviously birdlike noise he's made.]

The nerve!

[flapflap flap poor Makoto might get slapped a couple times in the process as Sakuya gets himself up onto the unmade bed, wings half open for balance.]

-it's warm, that is disgusting.

[Makoto clings to the bird, his face buried in the soft plumage of the dove's chest. ...It's soft... But before he could truly enjoy the sensation, he finds himself losing his grip as the bird moves inside the room. As he tries to re-balance himself, he feels soft but strong wings batter against his unsteady self, causing him to fall onto his but with a yell.

Wincing, he opens his eyes to look around once the flapping of wings stops. Hesitantly looking around, he sees the giant dove on the bed he had rested on. Still dazed, he registers the birds words and blinks in confusion.]

...A warm bed is disgusting?

[Is that something that pidgeons do not like or something? Or is this bird a completely different kind of species not from any world he'd know?]

[Sakuya really doesn't like being grabbed, but he's able to squirm free before it gets too upsetting. Getting smacked by him doesn't hurt, exactly. Nothing does here. It's jarring and unpleasant to get hit though.

He shakes himself off, feathers fluffing pinecone-like and sending some bits of down into the air before he starts laying flat again.]

It is warm from your body. Do you really not comprehend how - rrrgh, this is nonsense. [He stands straighter, prouder, some aspect of his neck and body seeming to inflate.]

You! It's ridiculous, but some of these houses have legs and wander off! Flightless creature that you are, you'll have to check each time!

[Makoto watches Sakuya straighten and inflate with a sense of nostalgia and deja vu. He didn't know why but he couldn't help but compare the proud bird to his dear friend Byakuya. He would huff and puff just like this dove is doing. But with more insults and reprimanding. Luckily, he hadn't gotten too much of that from the bird yet.

Rubbing the back of this head, he kept his head down as he mumbled in embarrassment.]

...I didn't know.

[He had just returned recently. How was he supposed to know that hutts now move here?!]

[he's managing to keep the vitriol down but there's definitely a sense of irritated condescension.]

Hence why I'm telling you, so you may understand what has happened and learn from it. This absurd hodgepodge will make a circuit and perhaps settle elsewhere for a period, but each of them returns to the village, having wasted everyone's time!

[As a bird his 'facial expressions' are very subtle and obscure by human standards, all in feather positions and how he holds his head, but his voice does suggest a lofty glare.]

As you are Japanese, my name would be ordered Shirogane Le Bel Sakuya. [wait he could have left out 'le Bel' - too late now.] You will address me as Shirogane-san!

[He's French-Japanese and raised in France but is fluent and has just a trace of accent, so even though there's universal translation he's switched over to it. Sakuya accepted some of his classmates using his name without a suffix and other people at his school using -kun but Makoto is not involved in St. Pigeonations.]

[Makoto lowers his head even more in embarrassment as he listens to Sakuya talk. He has a feeling the giant dove is glaring at him. In a very, I am superior way. ...Just like Byakuya would do whenever Makoto got in trouble.]

...I see. Then, Shirogane-san...

[He hesitates for a moment before asking.]

How are we going to get off? Should we wait for the hutt to return to the village?

[He doesn't like the idea but if there is no danger to it, he can wait.]

...If so, could you please send a message to the others that I'm fine? I don't want Sunny-kun and Komaeda-kun to worry.

[Especially after just getting him back.]

[When no name is forthcoming Sakuya pauses pointedly before coolly prompting him.] And you are...?

Certainly waiting is a possibility for you, given you are only human. I, on the other hand, can fly. Be honored I haven't already and, in fact, may have an alternative. [I just don't want this comment to be too long, so he doesn't say it immediately. Sakuya opens his wings slightly just to refold them, his head high.]

As for messages, you do have either a linked book or a phone of some sort, are you not? Assuming you are literate that's something you can take care of yourself.

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