Library, [12/12]

[furnaceface]

To say that Jono was tired after a night and a day in the Labyrinth was a bit of an understatement. In fact, to say that he was still slightly dishevelled as he made his way into the library today was also way too understated to be remotely accurate.

He looked like crap. More than usual, even. But he had... obligations. To come in and clean up the results of a week of hectic research. And so, while he succeeded in at least wrapping his bandages straight this morning, he managed, still, to look like somebody who had been beaten up by a minotaur after sleeping on the ground outside in December.

Good times. Good times.

Really, it wouldn't be so bad if his hair wasn't sticking up in odd directions like that. He found himself looking a little bit like Wolverine.

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Re: Talk to Jono!

[angelo_wings]

Okay, breathing again.

"Three." She nodded. "I guess that's stupid, to think that no one else would have noticed. But how horrible, if we had."

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

//And there were more of us than there were them,// Jono agreed, stuffing his hands into his jacket pockets. //If anybody hadn't been noticed, I would've had to throttle somebody for not trying, I think.//

And he'd been cranky enough at that point, he would have.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[angelo_wings]

"I know you wouldn't have let them leave anyone behind," Rinoa said, calmly. "I was more worried about ... if those three were in an oubliette, who else might have been somewhere else?"

She lifted her shoulders in a shrug. "Everyone's home, and so I guess that's that."

She couldn't really say everything was okay again. Some of the psychological scars might last. They'd have to see what the aftermath was, for all of them.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

//Everyone's home,// Jono agreed, //and that's a start.//

If they were here, then they weren't lost forever, in the strictest sense. A start was an excellent thing to have, at this point.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[angelo_wings]

"Can I ask you something?" Rinoa didn't wait for an answer before asking, either. "You've mentioned ... that is, you've talked about your powers, too."

And how he was also scared of losing control.

"Have you ever gone to Professor Skywalker about them? Is that how you knew?"

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

Oh. Wow. And now Jono felt like the world's largest hypocrite.

//Not me,// he said, after a moment taken to scuff his toe across the floor. //People I know, though. Raven swears by him, for a start... And he's Ben's granddad.//

Maybe if he kept namedropping, he'd sound less like an idiot.