Staring beside him at Aciel, Dmitri couldn’t fully figure out what he meant by calling him a pirate. Either way whatever it meant he wasn’t sure he wanted to be considered one, although he felt like if he had said anything out of line it would only add to the slight tension between them.

``Lets both just be fish`` he sighed, falling onto his back so he could see the sky once more.

Thinking back to how his fellow had described the place they were, it sounded about right aside from the aspect of people. Dmitri wasn’t exactly trusting of the people, despite however nice they may have seemed. Pushing himself up, Dmitri started cautiously over to the edge of the water. Staring out he watched a boat drive close to the shoreline, one of the men on it having even waved to him. Motioning a wave back, Dmitri’s orbs followed the same boat for a while. It seemed to be heading back out farther into the ocean, seeing as it was almost midday the people on it had probably stopped to get something for lunch. He himself was starving, although knowing they didn’t have much money Dmitri failed to say anything about it. Peering over his shoulder as Aciel at last said something, he drew his eyes temporarily away from the boat.

``Yeah, I’d make a better fish than you any day`` he joked with a smile sparking across his face.

Having not returned his gaze back out to the boats he couldn’t see the exact one he had been staring at, seeing as many of them didn’t get too unique in appearance. Nodding in agreement back to his fellow, Dmitri hesitated to go after Aciel. The male seemed to get into the water quicker than Dmitri had expected, although soon after he himself followed after. The day was much too warm to spend it on the beach, plus his face was already somewhat red from the sun glaring down on him. The water stung against his skin, and now having tasted the salt he wasn’t exactly thrilled about it. The water was heavy and at times hard to move through, Aciel was a ways ahead of him in the water and despite wanting to hold onto his fellow Dmitri just silently tried keeping up. At last when his fellow had stopped he felt almost relieved, standing now he felt sticky as the salted water washed over his knees. Gently clinging to the edge of Aciel's shirt he tried to almost hide behind him, seeing as his fellow seemed to stop the waves from hitting him. Standing there Dmitri felt odd as his body tried balancing each time a wave would come. Following after Aciel the water seemed to be getting deeper and deeper, until the entire bottom half of his body was soaked in the salted water of the ocean.

Letting go of the edge of Aciel's shirt, Dmitri lifted his hand to grasp it around his fellow’s shoulder. Using his friend for a sort of leverage he still watched out at the boats when possible, now being closer to them they all looked much different from where he stood. Oddly enough he felt so light now, as if he weighed only a few pounds. It was an odd sensation, but one he was quickly growing to enjoy all the same.

``It’s so nice out here`` Dmitri whispered, seeing as he was so close to Aciel he didn’t want to talk loudly.

Following Aciel’s line of sight he peered down at the fish beneath them, they looked so content and left Dmitri feeling almost envious. The fish acted so natural, living quiet lives beneath the glaring sun. Even if they were free, Dmitri felt as if he would never truly be. Every one of Dmitri’s memories were from inside the lab, his “family” was nothing more than false hope for him and this fact was one that often tore him apart. He hadn’t heard many, but the stories the others used to tell about their families gave him the slightest bit of happiness. Was he serious? Dmitri hadn’t yet let the question out of his mind, he had never considered it of himself but if others did then that was proof enough. Still he didn’t feel serious, at least not then, the happiness which was racing through his body was one he longed to keep. The happiness he felt was a feeling he would never dream of forgetting, one he would chase after for the rest of his life.

[Yeah that would work fine, or depending on what job you were thinking they could meet someone new other than the waiter. Like if we wanted them to work on a boat catching fish all day, we can make it so they meet someone who introduces this job. I was thinking maybe if they are on a boat they do something like spearfishing(?) sense that would have them being in the water a lot more, or they could just do something like bring up nets and such every so often. Or of course they could even just work in the cafe, it's up to you.]

(yeah that makes sense! maybe they can meet a fisherman when the boats come back after it starts to rain or something?)

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"yeah it really is" he smiled lowering his voice, turning his head to look at Dmitri, glancing at his hand then back at the horizon "who knows, maybe one day we can go even further than this" the only reason he didn't go deeper is because past this he couldn't see the bottom and didn't trust himself to keep them both above water if a wave hit, so he would rather not risk their lives for the simple sake of curiosity.....maybe he would go deeper if Dmitri wasn't with him because judging by the way his friend was holding onto his shoulder he guessed he wasn't completely relaxed in this situation and Aciel figured making him anxious was a bad idea so he stayed but, planting his feet in the sand to steady himself, looking over at the other again "hey you okay? do you want to head back closer to the shore or is this fine" he wanted to make sure he wasn't causing stress, hearing the answer he nodded and acted accordingly, looking down at the water where he was for a while in silence, he liked the quiet....if you could call this quiet, it was more of a mess of white noise, the wind, the waves and the occasional bird crying out above them, he looked up and tilted his head, the sky had gotten darker and the clouds were gathering, the wind had picked up too and it sent shivers down his spine as it lashed sea spray at them "Dmitri.....maybe we should get out of the water" he suggested getting a little nervous, it was clearly a storm headed here

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he turned and bolted out towards the sand, barely avoiding being toppled by the increasingly choppy waves, making it onto the beach he pulled his shoes on and waited until he was sure his friend was ready to go before taking his hand and starting to walk towards the dock where it looked like they could find shelter in the lighthouse or small building made out of planks next to the wooden platforms that stretched over the water, it had already started to rain slightly and while the water didn't bother an already soggy Aciel the loud crashing in the distance did, it took him several moments before identifying it as thunder, the light that came with it was lighting and that was dangerous as far as he could remember so getting under a roof was his top priority now, he was keeping his pace even so he stayed beside Dmitri, he wasn't entirely sure how the other would react to thunder or lighting considering he didn't really know if he had ever been exposed to it and he had never bothered to ask and Aciel was too focused on getting off the beach to check at this point because the closer those clouds came the colder the air got, the wind didn't help either

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Aciel watched the ocean and boats were starting to come back, he guessed it was because the storm made the ocean violent and a little scary, the waves were a lot bigger and came farther up the shore, the water seemed deeper too, so that where they were standing before would be deep enough to drown them at this point, he had a faint memory of the words high and low tide and assumed they were linked to how high the water was but the weather was making it worse

[Okay]

Leaning more of his weight against his friend, Dmitri’s eyes seemed preoccupied staring at the boats to take in how odd he was being by doing this. Still a questioned look bounced across his face at Aciel’s words. Couldn’t they go out farther right then? Deciding not to question his friend’s motives, he loosened the grip on Aciel’s shoulder just slightly. Still he was rather glad they didn’t go farther than they had, as the drifting smell that only ever came when it rained floated into the salty air, the only reason he even knew what the smell was because when it had on the occasion rained event he inside of the lab smelled this way. Although being outside the smell was much more noticeable and strong, though Dmitri held back saying anything until the storm had gotten closer.

``I’m fine,`` he shot back to Aciel in response, ``we can stay here if you’d like.``

Briefly dropping his weight back down to the sand ocean floor, he reassured himself they were not in too deep just yet. As standing there kicked up the sand which clouded the water, it was making him somewhat anxious as it played into his fear of heights. Ever so often he would repeat this action by making sure he could still feel the ocean floor below him, just so long as he felt it Dmitri would deal with not actually seeing it. Peering now back to the boats, he was using Aciel as nothing more than a boost to see the boats from higher up. As Aciel’s voice at last got to his distracted mind, he offered a glance just sideways to his fellow. Peeking his head just over his fellows shoulder, Dmitri tensed as the soft rumble shook throughout the sky. Nodding in agreement his grip on Aciel’s shoulder got progressively stronger as he looked to his fellow for an explanation. What the hell was that? His mind shot with millions of different explanations, but having had utterly no experience with the sound and having it be ten times louder to him than normal people wasn’t helping the concern on his face. Exiting the water, he looked briefly back over at it, as a few boats that had been idle all day were moving towards either the shore or to the docks as much as he wanted to stay he knew he couldn’t. His feet were instantly gripped by sand, and to avoid getting his shoes sandy he hurriedly stuffed his socks into the shoes and bolted towards Aciel who was waiting for him. It was hard to go fast seeing as the sand was so uneven and constantly shifted beneath him, but he went as fast as he possibly could.

By then the smell that always came before rain was increased and fought the salty air. Just as the soft rain drizzled down on him, it wasn’t anything he had ever experienced and quite literally he wasn’t sure if he wanted to ever experience it again. He wasn’t completely soaked as the top half of his body was almost fully dry, but still he felt weighed down by the water on him. Suddenly as another boom rang out through the area, which made Dmitri stop dead in his tracks. Feeling the yank from his hand, he looked dead at Aciel as if expecting something.

``W-What the hell is that..`` he stammered with a look of genuine concern across his face, looking around for what was producing the ear wrenching sound.

Tightening the grip of his hand against Aciel’s he felt the violent pull once more against it, at last letting up he followed after his fellow once more. The air had acquired a chill within it now, as the wispy heft of the wind bounced against his now drying skin. It dried him off rather fast, as it felt each step he took he became a little bit lighter. Shaking slightly he shut his eyes in a brief moment to try and drown out the adrenaline that seemed to have heightened his senses even more. The air now painfully stung his nostrils, and more than anything he tried to stay as close to his fellow as possible. His mentality was now more of ‘if we die we die together’ than anything else, even if the chances of them dying were low Dmitri was yet to realize this. For him everything was new, and this wasn’t helped by how irrational Aciel seemed to be acting as well.

Dmitri had caught up to Aciel, and was now dragging his fellow more than his fellow was dragging him. Biting his lip in an angst, his hand didn’t seem to budge from Aciel's. Slowly down some he looked sideways now as they stood directly by the dock. Up until this point he had been carrying his shoes, so Dmitri wasn’t going to take a chance by standing on the wooden planks. Ducking under one of the sheds, Dmitri tried now with a single hand to slip his shoes on although soon he would have to release Aciel’s hand temporarily so he could get both his socks and shoes on. He was now just trying to calm down, and that he was. Slowly the smell turned more bearable although still being not pleasant, slipping his shoe on he rose back to his feet. Standing idly for a few seconds, he looked back at Aciel unsure if he should have taken back his fellows hand... just in case.

"That...was thunder" Aciel finally answered after they had come to a halt, the last bit he had barely been able to keep up between tripping up and being dragged by Dmitri so he was happy to stop under shelter "and it can't hurt you, I know its really loud but other than that it cant harm you, It's the light that comes before it that's the threat, it's lightning and it can kill you if it strikes you, so for now we should stay inside" he added, sliding to the floor with his back against the wall, arms wrapped around his knees he was forcing himself not to shiver, the wind and his soaked clothes hadn't done him any favours so now his teeth were chattering as his brain caught up with his nerves and reminded him he was freezing "I hope this blows over soon...." Ace doubted it would because it was drifting towards land and not away or along the coast so it would be here for a while as it crossed over the town, this meant it would be while before he could change or warm up, after a few moments Aciel pulled off his shirt and started to wring it out, hoping that if his clothes were at least dry then he wouldn't be so cold, not that it worked, the wind was just lashing against his bare skin now making the shivering a lot worse and a lot more noticable "sorry" he said laughing shakily "that was a stupid plan" he admitted getting dressed again, the shirt was still damp so now it was plastered against his thin frame, Aciel huddled up in a corner trying to heat himself up "how about you? you not too cold?" he asked realizing Dmitri could have it just as bad as he did

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Ciel motioned for the other to sit with him once he had answered, it wouldn't really do anything but no point in standing if they could be trapped in here for an hour or more, he leaned his head back and closed his eyes to rest, his head ached, rain did that to him, looking out at the sheets of water forced his eyes to focus on all those droplets and the way they moved, add the sea spray and terrible light, yeah no fun, it strained his vision so rather go blind for a bit and rely on hearing than his sight for once, he didn't say much after closing his eyes, it felt awkward to not use his ability to see, especially given how much he used it normally

(sorry its so short, not sure where to take it from here lol)

Thunder? He remembered hearing the word before, but now with a sound to match what thunder was he could connect the two. It was loud, and despite believing Aciel the lingering thoughts that it might still hurt them clouded his mind. Dmitri tensed not soon after hearing that there was a chance they could die, however so far the sound was all that truly sent a shiver down his spine. Thunder and Lighting, he felt dumb having not known what they where before ; but truthfully Dmitri was just glad to know what they where at all.

``Okay…`` he murmured, allowing his orbs off back towards the ocean where the boats were starting to crowd.

Panting slightly he backed away briefly from the door as to look back at Aciel, who had by that point sat on the ground. The rain had started to pick up and with only an unsturdy shed to protect them Dmitri was feeling less and less hopeful by the minute. The violent weaving of the boats as people hurried to unload them only furthered this sense of hopelessness, and he wasn't hesitant to say anything either.

``We’re going to die aren’t we?``he whined in a voice that showed just how fragile he was at that moment.

Looking around with a weary gaze, he looked back and forth outside the shed and then back to his fellow. Nodding in agreement, he hoped as well the storm blew over faster than his mind presumed. Dmitri was unsure of what to do with himself, and each rumble from the sky set him more and more on edge. Gripping his hands into a fist, he fought himself to try and release some of the balled up emotions that were crowding his mind and body. Stepping back away from the door, he went over to stand towards Aciel. For the time being he wasn’t going to sit, crossing his arms around his own torso he tried to calm himself down. He wasn’t really paying attention to what Aciel was doing, as his nervous glances fidgeted around the shed at a rapid pace. Still when his fellow tried to pull the odd stunt of taking his shirt off, it lightened Dmitri up if only a little. It wasn’t exactly the smartest thing to do in that scenario, but it brought a faint smile to his face so for him it.

``I’m not that cold,`` he started glancing back at Aciel who no looked visibly freezing, ``not as cold as you at least.``

Keeping his eyes briefly on Aciel, he nodded hesitantly starting to slide down to the ground. Just as he body reached the ground, the large squeak of the door swinging open made him immediately jerk back to his feet. Dmitri gripped his teeth together, staring with an unfocused gaze at the figure now standing just in the doorway. His hands slightly shook as they gripped even harder together, observing the figure with an angstful leer. The figure, a male of the sort stood significantly taller than even him and this only added to how intimidated he was already feeling. As the male stepped in, his eyes seemed to be looking between both Dmitri and Aciel.

``Oy’ watcha boys doin’ in ‘ere?`` The booming voice of a man shot out, which made Dmitri jolt upon hearing the loud voice.

Hesitating he wasn’t sure how to answer, and looked to Aciel for reassurance. The man now visible had large nets sprawled over his shoulder, which not too far after he put down. He wore a see-through poncho atop what looked to be soft teal button-up ; he surely wasn’t dressed to impress anyone. Dmitri’s eyes bolted around although he was yet to even speak, the man still looked at him while now also messing around with the nets. He seemed to be untangling them from each other, though he wasn’t doing much of a good job with it either.

``Storms bad ‘aye`` the man asked, glancing over briefly at them.

Nodding in response, the man nodded back to him as if signifying he saw it. For the most part the man didn’t seem all that bad, however the entrance he made Dmitri question this. Looking back at Aciel, he finally started to slide back to the ground. Briefly their skin touched, he had known his fellow was cold but even his skin felt cold. Looking over with concern now he wasn’t sure what he could even do to help, he himself was cold but nothing compared to that of which Aciel seemed to be. Scooting somewhat closer, he was trying to figure out how on earth he could help his friend. His clothes were yet to be fully dry, but compared to Aciel’s he was living the high life. Slowly Dmitri was starting to calm himself down. The man was still messing around with the nets, and truthfully he had made decent progress on them. Having set aside one of the nets from the tangled munch, it looked like there were only three nets and he was close to untangling the last two from each other. It was hard for Dmitri not to look at the man, as the apparent lack of trust he had was visible across his face. Still every time he felt the fidgety shake of his friend he looked beside him towards Aciel with a look of genuine concern. The harsh pounding of rain against the shed was still bothering him, but the smells around him seemed to be washed away from the rain which made him doubtful. With sight not an option for seeing, and the lack of smells which the rain had forced upon them was making him nervous. For as long as Dmitri could remember he relied on his senses, and now without that he felt almost lost.

"We aren't going to die! we're going to be fine we just have to hold out until this is over, it wont last forever" he assured, pointing his head in Dmitri's direction while still keeping his eyes closed "you dont have to be scared, nothing from the storm can really reach us in here" Aciel added trying to get away from any doubts of them living through this, the biggest threat right now was probably the cold, and even that probably wouldn't result in anything too bad, and from what he heard Dmitri wasn't too cold so he would be fine too "that's good, dont need you turning into an icicle, then I'll have no one to talk to" he grinned jokingly through his chattering teeth, he turned to face the wall again still not focusing on anything but the back of his eyelids when he felt it suddenly get colder as the door creaked open, Dmitri jumping up didn't give him any sign that it wasn't a threat so he was tense and backed deeper into the corner away from the painfully loud voice of whoever had found them "Dmitri?" he asked "who is it?" Aciel was trying to find out where his friend was without looking so he needed to hear his voice, although it may be difficult to pinpoint anything through the rain, wind and rusting of ropes...nets? he couldn't be sure without opening his eyes and that wasn't on his list of things to do at this very moment since the door could still be open

hearing the loud voice again he didn't jump as much knowing it was already there, he nodded to answer even "yeah, Its so cold" he noted, using the wall as a guide for his hand so he could stand up and move closer to Dmitri, where he sat down again because standing made him feel dizzy

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he sighed when his friend sat down too, when their arms touched Aciel wanted to lean on him considering how much warmer he was but decided against it, and just leaned against the wall, listening to the other person shuffling around what he guessed to be nets and Dmitri's breathing, which got slower and slower, so he was calming down, that was good it meant this man wasn't any danger to them at the moment so Aciel let himself relax too "so, are you a fisherman? if your working with nets then Im guessing you've been on a boat" he wasn't sure if speaking was a good idea but the silence was awkward "if you are, could you explain how it works? we were watching the boats before the storm hit and my friend really wants to get out on one, or at least thats what I get from the way he looks at them" he chuckled, trying to lift the mood, Aciel waited for an answer hoping Dmitri wasn't mad at him for dragging him into the conversation that he probably hadn't wanted to be a part of, Aciel opened his eyes briefly to glance at Dmitri and the man before shutting them again, by the looks of it Dmitri was worried...he didn't have a clue as to why but chose not to ask, the man on the other hand seemed focused on his nets that were badly tangled, that explained all the noises he had heard earlier and confirmed that this person did in fact work on a boat, great, he hadn't been a total idiot when making assumptions and had succesfully started a conversation with a stranger. Aciel paused to think a little more about Dmitri and sighed again, he didn't seem to trust the man yet, he moved his hand over to his friend's shoulder trying to be reassuring or supportive

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"hey! if you have any spots on your boat could we work with you?" the idea had sprung into his mind and it made sense, they both liked the water and it would be a source of money so they could feed themselves and find a place to live too

Who is it? Dmitri didn’t know himself who the person one, but one thing that was for sure they smelled heavily of fish. The smell broke through the wispy pounding of the wind and rain that carried most of the smells away, but this one..this one was much too strong to simply be blown away by a little wind and rain. It was a strong pungent smell, yet smelled so close to how the salty ocean breeze had smelt it by that point wasn’t bothering him as much as it should have.

``I don’t know`` he at last whispered, trying to be as quiet as possible to avoid the man hearing then talking of him.

He wasn’t keen on speaking to the man either, but oddly Aciel seemed to act the opposite than he had. Dmitri was visibly concerned and rightfully so, his fellow was starting to look almost sickly and it was edging at him each time he looked over. With nerves running high every small sound made his flinch if only a little, so when the loud booming voice of the man came out he jolted in surprise.

``Ye- Storms ‘ere aren’t always ‘dis bad.`` the man stated glancing back over to see which one of them had spoken to him.

So it was a bad storm then, Dmitri had hopes so because having storms like this one regularly would get exhausting rather quickly. At last his back was grasped by the wall, as the uneven woods moved against his skin when he went to sit down. He decided to stay quiet for a while, truthfully he wasn’t sure what to even do with himself. From looking towards the man then back to Aciel, the heavy mix of emotions was hard to properly deal with.

``Are you o-`` he was cut off by the man’s voice once,

``Yes-s spent ma d‘ay on de boat.. Real nice out there ‘ya know.``

Dmitri looked almost embarrassed briefly, seeing as his fellow had basically put him on the spot but saying he was watching the boats, a part of him just wanted to bury his head away like an ostrich but he held back the instinct. He didn’t particularly have any trust in the man, but if he was going to kill them he would have done it by then..right?

``Ye’ there are lots o’ different types of fishin’ ya’ know`` the man started, ``I’m just happy doin’ it de old fashion way wit a rod, to old to do anything to active``

It was actually interesting to him, Dmitri could have only imagined one type of fishing and that was with a rod so hearing about more types was intriguing. He was quickly brought back to a worried state when his shoulder was grasped by his fellow he jolted as he had at the many other things around him that were startling. Looking over he shakily lifted his own hand, gently touching his shoulder where Aciel’s hand was. Upon touching it, the hand was cold and made the bubble in his stomach churn with a worried angst. Picking the hand in his own, it seemed to only get colder the more he held it.

``So- whatcha' boys doin’ in ‘ere?`` it was the second time he had asked this, but seeing as he hadn’t acquired an answer the first time it was rightfully so.

At last he had made up his mind, he would finally say something. Hesitating he wasn’t sure even how to go about answering this question.

``We were just waiting out the storm`` Dmitri at last spoke, it was a long time coming and even got the man to glance over at the new voice that had spoken to him.

The man nodded, it looked like he wanted to say something more but as it seemed like he was making a breakthrough with untangling the nets his mind was preoccupied. The nets seemed just about untangled, and the more time that went on the more hopeful they seemed at becoming separate. Somehow he was plenty entertained just watching the nets getting fiddled with, it looked almost impossible the first time he had seen the nets and now they were just about untangled. Looking over at Aciel who had just suddenly started speaking, his mind seemed to be working slower as it took a few seconds to register what his friend had asked. It barely took the man anytime however, as his answer came out just as quickly as it was spoken to him.

``Eh- it's hard out there you know-.. Hey Hey!`` the man's voice rejoiced as he held up the two separate nets, ``Ah right..as I was saying, I’ll have to teach ya but if yer up for learning some good ol’ fishin then of course.``

The man seemed to fumble over his words, although seeing how he was now very happy with himself about the nets being untangled Dmitri didn’t think twice about it.

Sorry for taking so long to reply, I've had a bit of a writer's block, I'll try get one in soon though))

(thank you, I'll try get back to writing long replies soon!)

the last thing Aciel could really remember was when Dmitri took his hand, after that it was all pretty blury and he was really tired all of a sudden, his head hung to one side as he decided to stop moving, well at least he thought he had stopped moving, he was actually shivering a lot and this whole drowsiness that was pulling his eyes shut by force was his systems shutting down so he wouldn't freeze to death, it wasn't that bad but turns out one of the sensory advancements they had made with Ace was with his nerves, he felt heat as well as cold to extreme points and while it served zero purpose it was busy turning him into a human popsicle stick