[Accidental Audio/In Person] *-My childhood, diluted-*

[stalking_horse]

[Over the feed, there's the sound of a door being shut as carefully as a currently slightly panicky eight year old can; he's trying to be quiet, really he is!]

[It's still audible, especially with a very small whine when the manor creaks and a noticeable jump.]

[He's practically whispering to himself in a continuation of the whine; he's ... pretty upset.]

Tousan's gonna kill mee ...


Not even my fault this time...

[For those in the hallway where his room is? There's currently a little amber-eyed blonde eight year old flattened against the wall, slinking down the hall and being ... incredibly jumpy and obviously a little terrified. He's actually dressed slightly normally for his age, if a bit bundled up in a slightly too-big jacket.]

[OOC: He's been reverted to eight years old, and ... well, it's just before he got sent to London. I'm also so not going to go hunting icons for him as a bitty. ._.; ]

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[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

[Apollo's smiling a little at that and just leaning against the doorframe. Sadly the derp is no act.]

[stalking_horse]

[....He may be slinking out from under the table. And watching you very suspiciously for a minute.]

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

[Apollo's just glancing over and smiling encouragingly at Saguru before going to take off his bracelet and polish it a bit.]

[stalking_horse]

[...Aaand slinking over to sit closer.]

[Still watching you pretty warily.]

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

[Still polishing that bracelet and rubbing at his wrist where it sits before putting it back on.]

[stalking_horse]

[Watching. Watching.]

So who're you?

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

My name's Apollo Justice. I'm a defense attorney, but you already knew that.

[stalking_horse]

[....]

Saguru Hakuba. [And on that note, he's freezing, and tensed to bolt back for his hiding-place.]

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

...no way.

[lhdfsakhsd That is a very very SPECIAL look he's giving you.]

[stalking_horse]

[And that is about .5 seconds to being back in the hiding place, and back to being very prickly/pointy/terrified.]

How do you know who I am?

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

..."Saguru Hakuba" is the name of the person who told me everything I know about this place.

[stalking_horse]

[...You haven't exactly defused the new panic attack, but you have confused him.]

Wasn't me, I just got here. [Protip: How crazy do you want him to think you are?]

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

...[Face in hands orz why is my life so strange.]

No, no, it probably wasn't "you". [It was probably your older self and oh god this just seals it, THIS PLACE IS WEIRD.]

[stalking_horse]

[He heard those air quotes.]

[But he's going to test something.]

Then ... you don't know who I am?

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

I know who you might end up being- sort of. You want to be a detective, don't you?

[stalking_horse]

[............That's a weird way of putting it.]

Yes......

[Though he's really not supposed to, not after what happened.]

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

I'm... I'm just going to go with the weird thing being what happened, because... seriously, there's no way else any of this even remotely makes sense.

And at least this seems to have some sort of internal logic that matches up with everything else I've heard about this weird place.

[stalking_horse]

[..............]

[He's waiting.]

[And sort of confused.]

[And still pretty high-strung/suspicious.]

[Although there might've been some kind of nerve hit there.]

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

I don't really know who you are- if what I think happened, happened, then you are the younger version of the person who introduced me to this place, a detective named Saguru Hakuba. All I really know is that you're British and... Japanese? [That sounds sort of like a guess.] But the first part is because of the accent on your English, the second part is a guess. And that you're sort of a genius detective; you seemed to be doing better at some point in your teenaged years than I seem to be doing now. [Sheepish little laugh goes here.]

[stalking_horse]

[He sorta looks at you a little funny that you're questioning the Japanese part. The name's a bit of a giveway, and while he's got sentence structure and grammar down fine - he reads a lot - his pronunciation's a TEENY BIT HORRIBLE.]

.................[Yeah there's definitely some kind of a nerve there, but you're getting the suspicious look again; he's not sure if he should be trusting this or not.]

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

...I have evidence.

[Present -> Audio Recording of Older Saguru.]

[stalking_horse]

[.........]

[And now he is very bewildered.]

[But...]

Then I do get to -

[He's slinking out again, and sorta staring dumbfounded at the Blackberry.]

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

Then you do get to...? [Bawwwwww poor kid. D:]

[stalking_horse]

[.....]

[He kinda looks away at the ground; he IS sitting near Apollo again.]

'm not supposed to -

I was trying to help, and -

[.....]

Got in trouble, bad... 'n they're sending me to London... [The chibi is kinda wilting.]

[cantapollygize.livejournal.com]

...Is that why you're so nervous? [...Oh god poor bitty. D: URGE TO CUDDLE IS OVER 9000 but that might scare him and .______.]