When he...what? Blue is taken aback by the casual way Yuri speaks of the most incredible, absurd things. It means he hesitates in place for a moment, at risk of being left in the proverbial dust before he can move to try and catch up. It's hard, because without an arm to hang onto, he's got to try and keep his balance.
...Which...isn't as hard as it was earlier, somehow. He's caught up sooner than he expects to, so he needs a few seconds more to consider the question Yuri poses.
"I don't," Blue admits. "I...I haven't been able to clear that fog for myself. Though...I know there is something there.
"Only...something in me is afraid to know it, I think."
After a few steps, he realizes something further.
"But...it may be similar to something in your experience. If what I'm feeling is true."
"Maybe my stopovers with the pirates and the crabs were good for something. Brain fog cleared ages ago," Yuri slows down just a little to let him catch up.
"It was pretty weird. I don't blame you for being scared of thinking about it, but I'm pretty sure it's true. At least, it was for me. Pretty weird, being a squid."
He glances over at Blue, considering him for a moment. "What did you experience?"
Admittedly, part of him is apprehensive to think too much on it - that perhaps, in trying, he may be drawn back to Yuri's thoughts simply by the merit of having a thread of shared experience.
But what good will that do?
Blue exhales, taking some time to quietly think on it as they walk, slowing to a stop as they get too close to the boardwalk. The background noise of the minds drawing near is getting a bit distracting.
"...Fire," he replies at last. "Fire...and then water. I don't know how, but...it went from one, and then the other."
"Oh yeah? Huh," Yuri looks at him, and doesn't elaborate. He doesn't have much to add. That's pretty different than what he experienced, aside from the water part. And the fire part, he guesses, but that was later.
It's easier to be quiet, to let Blue sort out his own thoughts. Yuri doesn't have much to add anyway, and the quiet companionship is nice after the day he's had. "Then... you wound up on the beach?"
The painful awakening from peaceful waters - pain different from the heat haze of Meggido. Pain different from--
"How--" The realization hits almost as fast as the memory, and Blue draws a sharp breath through his teeth, bringing a hand over his right eye. "The bullet--"
It pierced his barrier. It...
"...My eye...it should be gone. Pierced." He withdraws his hand to stare at it in bewilderment.
"How is it whole again? How did I...survive? Everything disintegrated. I..."
I disintegrated...Meggido...
Blue shakes his head a little, utterly baffled.
"There was no time for a ship... A teleport? How?"
"I have no idea," Yuri shakes his head, watching Blue for a moment before he looks away. He's not great with feelings, not great with other people feeling feelings in front of him, but...
"You know, like I said, I thought I died once. Then someone saved me. He didn't really have a good reason to, but he did it. Maybe the same thing happened to you. Trust me, it's not worth dwelling on, because it makes no damn sense. Better to be glad you're alive and make the best of it."
Blue lifts his gaze back over to Yuri, still looking rather lost even in the face of that advice. How does one find their way to the means of marching forward with such ease? It's not as if he is without burden - that glimmer of memory's proof enough of that, even if Blue hasn't wholly parsed it yet.
Youth has a lot of benefits, doesn't it? Stronger legs and hearts, sometimes less to carry...
He makes a faint, understanding sound, lowering his hand, moving forward once again.
"That's the spirit," Yuri moves with him, setting back off toward the boardwalk.
Even if it's strange, confusing, if he shared memories perhaps he didn't want to share, if he saw things that might flicker in the back of his mind, make him wonder what happened to his kid, at least in this moment, they're okay. They're okay and together, and that feels nice, walking at someone's side.
He's really grown used to it, over the last few years.
The assurance that company provides can only last so long, because Blue's stamina doesn't last, and he has to relent by the time there's a place to sit. He can't ask Yuri to idle at his side for however long it may take to recover, either, so the Mu insists he carry on with what exploration he means to get up to himself.
Even once the man's receded into the crowd of peculiar people and structures, Blue can still glean sense of him, as such a distinct connection has been made. It's like a soft beacon of light he can perceive with his eyes closed, and knowing there's no spike or sudden change in its state means there's less to fear for now.
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...Which...isn't as hard as it was earlier, somehow. He's caught up sooner than he expects to, so he needs a few seconds more to consider the question Yuri poses.
"I don't," Blue admits. "I...I haven't been able to clear that fog for myself. Though...I know there is something there.
"Only...something in me is afraid to know it, I think."
After a few steps, he realizes something further.
"But...it may be similar to something in your experience. If what I'm feeling is true."
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"It was pretty weird. I don't blame you for being scared of thinking about it, but I'm pretty sure it's true. At least, it was for me. Pretty weird, being a squid."
He glances over at Blue, considering him for a moment. "What did you experience?"
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Admittedly, part of him is apprehensive to think too much on it - that perhaps, in trying, he may be drawn back to Yuri's thoughts simply by the merit of having a thread of shared experience.
But what good will that do?
Blue exhales, taking some time to quietly think on it as they walk, slowing to a stop as they get too close to the boardwalk. The background noise of the minds drawing near is getting a bit distracting.
"...Fire," he replies at last. "Fire...and then water. I don't know how, but...it went from one, and then the other."
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It's easier to be quiet, to let Blue sort out his own thoughts. Yuri doesn't have much to add anyway, and the quiet companionship is nice after the day he's had. "Then... you wound up on the beach?"
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The painful awakening from peaceful waters - pain different from the heat haze of Meggido. Pain different from--
"How--" The realization hits almost as fast as the memory, and Blue draws a sharp breath through his teeth, bringing a hand over his right eye. "The bullet--"
It pierced his barrier. It...
"...My eye...it should be gone. Pierced." He withdraws his hand to stare at it in bewilderment.
"How is it whole again? How did I...survive? Everything disintegrated. I..."
I disintegrated...Meggido...
Blue shakes his head a little, utterly baffled.
"There was no time for a ship... A teleport? How?"
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"You know, like I said, I thought I died once. Then someone saved me. He didn't really have a good reason to, but he did it. Maybe the same thing happened to you. Trust me, it's not worth dwelling on, because it makes no damn sense. Better to be glad you're alive and make the best of it."
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Youth has a lot of benefits, doesn't it? Stronger legs and hearts, sometimes less to carry...
He makes a faint, understanding sound, lowering his hand, moving forward once again.
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Even if it's strange, confusing, if he shared memories perhaps he didn't want to share, if he saw things that might flicker in the back of his mind, make him wonder what happened to his kid, at least in this moment, they're okay. They're okay and together, and that feels nice, walking at someone's side.
He's really grown used to it, over the last few years.
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Even once the man's receded into the crowd of peculiar people and structures, Blue can still glean sense of him, as such a distinct connection has been made. It's like a soft beacon of light he can perceive with his eyes closed, and knowing there's no spike or sudden change in its state means there's less to fear for now.
Perhaps they'll meet again.