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[Okay! The hard part is done! Now comes the other hard part. Oh god he should have written a script.]

Yes, of course. It's just-- I just wanted to wish you a good night, is all.

[Also it's fine, Kratos is fiddling with his medallion too.]

[.....Uhhhh?? Like he's smiling but also like. Audible confusion in that silence. Are you.... okay?????]

Yeah.... okay. [like thanks but. wh...y??] Thanks. You... have a good night too?

[ANOTHER PAUSE.]

Are you okay?

[Oh no oh fuck OH FUCK IT'S ALL COMING APART ABORT ABORT--

Okay maybe don't abort but BOY DOES HE FEEL LIKE HE FUCKED UP???]

Of course.

Do I not sound okay?

[NO don't ask that just play it cool!!!???]

Well, no... Or-- yes? You sound fine, I mean. Man, I never know which one to use to respond to that 'do I not' stuff...

[Always the weird late night conversations with Kratos. Like back in Triet asking about Noishe and getting stared at and then told he sucks with swords. Maybe he's just. Lonely??? Bored at night since everyone else is asleep?]

I was just surprised, I guess.

[Or maybe Lloyd just sucks with swords ~~lmao no he is quite good~~

Lonely, yes. Bored, also yes. But that's not why he called.]

I'm fine, though I suppose I should have given you a heads up. My apologies.

[--Okay, the idea of that is actually hilarious, and he can't help the small laugh.]

What? You mean like... call me an hour ago to say you're gonna call me later just to wish me a good night?

[KRATOS GET IT TOGETHER]

[Ah fuck.

I mean Lloyd laughing is probably a good sign??]

Ah-- now that you say it out loud, it does sound rather foolish, doesn't it.

[HE'S TRYING SO HARD MAN]

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Yeah, a little.

[And man, it's still! Weird!! To be like emotionally open?? With your dad who was also a big enemy and everything else?? But when has a little weirdness ever stopped him from trying.]

But it's kinda nice, too. You know, just... Being thought of, I guess. [Yeah, he definitely sounds kinda embarrassed saying it, but. you know, whatever. he can't always look or sound cool. And it's just a magic call so its FINE no one has to look at him.]

Hm.

[Lloyd is the only one that's allowed to call out his stupidity.

and wait AH HAH THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT ZELOS SAID. Maybe just letting Lloyd know that Kratos is thinking of him WILL totally help their awkward as fuck relationship! Y'know a little.]

I was worried that I'd called at a bad time, but you are always on my mind.

[when even lloyd can call out your stupidity it deserves to be called out sorry to say. and how much does it hurt to realize that zelos was correct about a thing.]

Nah, I wasn't doing much of anything. Making sure I didn't leave the lamp on in the other room, but that's about it.

[It's. Basically an old oil lamp but whatever he's used to it. Thank god for being raised without technology and knowing how to work this shit.]

Though-- what do you usually do all night? It's gotta get old, not having anything to do or people around or anything.

[Look Zelos may be a fucking idiot but he's also very intelligent HOW DOES IT WORK IDK]

I spend a lot of time reading. Some nights I just study the stars. ...It's a bit unnerving, to be honest. None of them are in the right place.

Oh, you noticed, too?

[lloyd, you need to assume that if you noticed something, fucking everyone else in the world noticed probably like days before.]

Yeah, they're all weird. Even in Sylvarant and Tethe'all they were a little different but-- kind of the same? [S'what happens when you dimensionally shift things to each other.] When I first got here, I was checking it out, and...

[A bit of a trail off. Weird nostalgia happening. Yet another occurrence of a conversation that didn't happen in his playthrough and gets to happen now.]

Did.... we do that? Watch the stars, I mean?

I'd been looking at the same sky for over four thousand years. It was among the first thing I noticed after my arrival.

[He only noticed because he has no life, don't feel bad lloyd.

This call to wish Lloyd a good night is starting to get a lot deeper than Kratos had expected. Not that he doesn't want to talk, he just wasn't expecting questions like this.]

...Yes, most nights. When you were a baby, you would get fussy around bed time, so we started taking you for walks at night until you fell asleep. When you got a little older, you liked to sit on my shoulders and we'd watch the stars together.

[Surprise, they just kind of happened. Lloyd doesn't have much of a filter, so any conversation can go either really stupid or really heartfelt. Sometimes both. Still, there's something... warm about that sort of halfway false-memory, trying to build a scene around the half-remembered feelings. And so he's quiet for a moment, letting it happen.]

Heh... That must have been really nice. I bet you know all the constellations and when they show up.

[Maybe he'd taught Lloyd and his mom? Or maybe they'd just have one of those nice, peaceful evenings. Not saying things but also not needing to.]

Well... if I ever have trouble sleeping, I'll give you a call. We can climb on a roof someplace and check them out here.

[Kid you have no idea how relieved Kratos is right now that Lloyd isn't just completely weirded out by all this. I mean maybe he's still a little weirded out? But this is fine, it's going way better than Kratos had expected.]

Heh. I knew them all back home, of course. I'll have to get used to this world's stars.

[As nice as this is, the nostalgia is maybe just a bit... not quite painful? But it's definitely stirring some deeply buried feelings of the emotional variety that Kratos isn't entirely prepared to deal with right now. Sooo he'll just try to push past that and soldier on.]

That sounds nice, I think I'd like that. Not that I want you to have trouble sleeping, of course.

[Wait did you say "we", don't take the dog on the roof, Lloyd.]

[ok for one lloyds capacity for weirdness is PRETTY HUGE. he's been shrunken and wandered into mouse holes. he's ridden a sky plane through dimensions. he's solved puzzles in zero gravity and saw a unicorn die and went to space to rescue a posessed friend and get a tree seed so lIKE KRATOS BEING WEIRD IS NOTHING HE CANNOT DEAL WITH.

but sure it's probably still a big relief.]

You'll have to let me know what constellations they have here. I'm sure someone in Coatepec has it written down.

[wow we as in YOU and ME but yes the dog is invited he might just be spooked by heights.]

Nah, usually I don't have any trouble. Just if I get stuck thinking too hard on something.

Of course, I'll be sure to look into it.

[Honestly Noishe has probably been in some pretty weird places over the centuries. A roof is probably nothing he can't handle. Besides, he used to be a bird!]

Right, makes sense. I'm sure I've given you no shortage of things to think about.

[he's totally got this, PUPPY ON THE ROOF]

I mean-- back home, yeah. I couldn't figure you out at all. [At least he can just casually admit that.] But not as much any more. I think I got a pretty good idea of things. And if I don't, I can just.... ask sometime.

[And then, teasing:] Besides, you're not the only thing going on in my life.

[No way that'll end poorly RIGHT

Also YES GOOD please feel free to ask ANYTHING. Kratos will answer even if he's feeling all stupid and awkward about it again.]

Heh. Sounds like you've been keeping yourself pretty busy. You never were the type to just sit around and let life pass you by.

[Like obviously he didn't get to know Lloyd while he was growing up, but three year old Lloyd was probably a bit of a tornado let's be real.]

[IT'LL BE FINE, TOTALLY FINE he's a jrpg pupper, he can probably just jump two stories up if the plot demands it.]

Well-- Yeah. It helps that there's always a whole lot that needs doing. Especially here, since we didn't really show up with much and there's already a lot of crazy stuff going on.

It feels weird to see something you could do and not do it, you know?

[no, he doesn't know, LLOYD]

[No he doesn't KNOW but it is something he's LEARNING? Trying to anyway]

Right, of course. Just be sure you don't overdo it.

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