number one apprentice !

All these little humans around with no adults! After how coddled she was as a child, with her disability, she can hardly imagine how it is that children around here wander around without supervision so often.

After the last one scolded her for condescending, she tries not to seem like she’s talking down to him.

“Hi.” Oh. What now. Well, fuck. She hadn’t thought this one through. “Are you lost?”

Luke hesitates. That was… a good question. He knows where he’s going, for the most part, though the definition of this ‘where’ is rather up in the air. He doesn’t have a destination in mind, per se, though on the other hand he knows where he is. … for the most part.

“Well, ah, I—” and he breaks into a nervous smile, looking up at the girl with a sheepish expression. “Not really. I suppose I was just walking around… to nowhere in particular, I suppose you could say.”

@misthallleries

✯ Okay, so far, the Steel Samurai is going pretty well with this whole heroism thing, but truth be told, it’s pretty tiring to be on it on his own. Back in the show, he had a whole supporting cast to help him fight evildoers, but here he hasn’t found anyone willing to help him.

✯ Now, there is a person behind the hero’s mask and that person knows a few contacts. Maybe… the samurai can make use of said friends, hehehe.

✯ [FROM]: Maya Fey ✯ [TO]: Luke mah boy

TO: Maya FROM: Luke

[1/?] Maya? [2/?] Kick…? [3/?] Um [4/4] Okay! I’ll be right there.

He does as he promises— arrives even just a couple minutes earlier, with twenty-seven minutes instead of thirty, just in case. He doesn’t have a hero costume, per se, but he supposes that the definition of ‘hero costume’ can be stretched to accommodate, and so Luke’s wearing the closest thing he can get to the Professor’s own usual garb (which, admittedly, is only a top hat). Anyone can say what they want, but the Professor will always be a hero in Luke’s eyes.

Now. For the host of this… whatever it was. Bad guy’s… butt kicking, if he recalls?

“Love is just words of affection and sticking it up your partner’s asshole. That’s literally all it is.”

Of course, it’s possible that this is how this place’s currency works. He has no idea of where he is, after all. It feels just like Hive City, in the sense that his magic is completely blocked here, but the streets aren’t nearly as, how to put it, modern compared to the metropolis.

Is he being moved around different Fragments? It’d explain how he ended up both at the Golden Land and Stephen’s place. If so, the fact that his home was the first place he ended at was nothing short of a cruel irony. Ahhh, if only he had someone here he could discuss these hypotheses with-

“Oh man, are you okay, kid?!” He asks to the boy who suddenly bumped him. He even dropped his satchel, how troublesome! Battler quickly crouched down to get it for Luke…

…Then froze when he heard the boy’s question.

“Sorry for bumping into you,” he says sheepishly, a hand coming up to rub at the back of his neck, “but I couldn’t think of another way to get your attention without looking too suspicious. I had sneak out of where I was supposed to be anyway. But, anyway...”

Luke looks around. “But this is London, England, and I’m from here, too— and I’ve been here. To this time, anyway. I personally don’t understand what’s going on, but not too long ago I found myself in the States with a friend of mine, so I can’t say this was a one time thing...”

✯ “….Ah, I remember it now!” Fortunately, it seems this was enough to calm Pearl down. “Mystic Maya talked a lot about this gen-ty-man with the top hat and his smart assistant that she met during her and Mr. Nick’s romantic trip! She-”

✯ “P-Pearly, it wasn’t a romantic trip! Nick and I were on a case, just that! Sorry, Luke, she has this… thing of saying that Nick is my-” She makes quotes with her fingers. “-‘special someone’.”

✯ “That: because you are made for each other! You must have seen the loving way they looked at each other when you met them, Mr. Luke, didn’t you? …Mr. Nick did give attention only to Mystic Maya there, didn’t he?”

What? Luke turns to Maya, sees the exasperation and the embarrassment, and can’t help but feel at least a little bad for her. Well-- okay, maybe he’d faintly thought that the possibility was there, the way Maya and Mr Wright treated each other in Labrynthia, but to see her distressed like this about it... 

But he can’t dismiss a young lady, and he can’t  help but admit the little use of ‘Mr Luke’ was rather endearing. He smiles at her (or-- at least tries to), and chews at his lip.

Sans had raided the cabinets for anything eat or drink, before coming to the realization that nobody on the surface– was this the surface? He still wasn’t sure– would have monster food. He glowered, long, dark, and lightless at the selection, before swiping a bottle of ketchup off an unblackened table and sat in a huff on a barstool. 

He jammed the nozzle in the corner of his mouth, squeezing– all he really wanted was the flavor, not the mess. One free mess with every reckless, gutless squeeze of condiment! It was like the lottery.

Eh, who washes clothes, anyway? At least finally, it was quiet.

Well, it was. There was a tiny voice behind him. He turned to peek over his shoulder– it was a little kid, all in blue. His immediate instinct was to turn tail and run, but the kid didn’t seem immediately dangerous. He could always blink out if things got hairy– just stay guarded.

“heeey shortstack,” Hypocrite. He glanced down at the floor at the remark, a wide grimace on his face– didn’t realize the puddle was that big. “yeesh, yeah. it happens when you don’t have all them fancy organs you humans got,”

“Then,” Luke begins, uncertainly, attempting to piece together the logic aloud— “then why would you drink it in the first place…? I mean— without organs, then would you be even able to taste things? Isn’t the tongue an organ, or…?”

Leave it to him, to try and apply logic to a walking, talking skeleton. He cringes, a little, and offers a bit of a tentative, cheeky smile.

“Sorry if I’ve offended you or anything, Mr Skeleton! I was just— roaming around. I— I’ve never been in this city before, and I was a little lost, and I was wondering…”