forum Glitches // OxO // Closed

Started November 27, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Nyx shrugged. "Nothing you could do. I can reboot and that would probably help." He replied slowly, closing his eyes. "Or I can simply wait it out." He shrugged again, running a hand through his black hair.

"Whatever's best for you." Jude nodded, finally pulling onto the highway. It was plain, with dying grass and a few trees to separate lanes, but the sun was blazing– pouring down directly at the sea of cars, casting a shine against all the automobile metallic finishes, and Nyx's. Thankfully, no one would be able to see them or notice anything irregular, they had places to go and people to be. "This highway connects to all the states– you can go anywhere from here."

Nyx nodded a little, opening his eyes and looking around. "I'm going to restart." He said after a moment. "It might take a minute." He closed his eyes and leaned against the seat. Systems shutting down. He limbs went slack, body relaxing as if in sleep.
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Systems rebooting. His fingers twitched, and he opened his eyes again after a moment.

Jude's eyes studied Nyx in brief glances as he drove along the long road. He's fine, he's going to wake up. His worries had invaded his thinking, and though he knew it would be fine, his mind wandered across the possibilities of this happening in public. "Welcome back." Jude joked, sighing quietly in relief.

Nyx gave a quick smile. "Hi." He greeted after a moment, blinking and getting his bearings again. "I wasn't out for too long, was I?" He asked, raising his eyebrows at Jude with another happy smile.

"No," Jude chirped, "Just for a minute." He was awfully smiley today, they both were. He reckoned it was because of the weather, and Nyx was just excited, which made him excited.
"We're almost there," Jude said, pointing to the far tapering of a highway rest stop blurred by the heat dancing off the asphalt, and a cover of forest nearby.

Nyx smiled, and leaned forward in his seat to peek out the windows. His blue eyes glowed happily as he looked around at the view. "Thank you." he said suddenly, glancing at Jude. "For…for bringing me out here."

Jude pulled into the rough gravel patch growing closer, his car's tires crunching the dirt and rocks, clouding dust. "…Of course." He replied, tucking a strand of golden hair away, "I want you to see everything. You deserve to."

Nyx smiled at him again, eyes alight and happy. "I…thank you." he said again. He ran a hand through his black hair, smiling still and unable to stop.

Jude shook his head, trying to shake away his shy smile, "Just…thank me later, instead. After you see." And with that, he unclipped his seatbelt and nearly leaped out the car door, almost tripping. "Let's go, yeah?"

Nyx nodded a little. He undid his own seatbelt and got out, staring around in wonder. "Wow…it's beautiful." he said in a soft voice.

"Oh, this isn't even half of it," Jude laughed, locking his car and nodding to the trees ahead, beyond the metal fencing of the roads. The sun was more muted now, still just as warm, but not as bright. The leaves of the trees moved, swaying, inviting them to come. "I'll tell you when we get there." Jude breathed, nodding.

Nyx have a quick smile, and nodded. He followed Jude through the woods, looking around with wide blue eyes. He looked almost like a child on Christmas; he didn't know what to do first, and his eyes were big with wonder and excitement.

Jude lead Nyx through the sheltered forest, not much wildlife around, but everything else a lush and bright shade of green. Moss covered tree roots like carpets, and a million years' worth of pine needles cushioning their steps.
"Oh…look at that." He stopped, staring at a great deer in the sunny distance, its nose searching absentmindedly in the cool air.

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Nyx went still, eyes going wider as he looked at the deer. "Oh. That's a…that's a deer. Right?" He asked, not taking those blue eyes away from the animal. He took a deep breath, eyes still wide and awed.

"Yeah, a buck," Jude said, almost a whisper creeping forward to the antlered beast in the sunlight, small, winged insects drifting peacefully through the golden light. "Don't scare it." He chuckled, taking a cautious step closer, peeking at it from around a tree.

Nyx blinked, and nodded a little. "Alright." He replied softly. He stuck near Jude, watching the deer carefully. He could hardly believe how beautiful it was.

The deer raised its head and lengthy antlers in a moment of swiftness, though the forest around hadn't moved a bit. It turned, looking at something hidden in the air, freezing in place before sprinting away, the gentle brush of leaves following its leaps. Jude smiled, "C'mon, let's keep going." Stepping over fallen branches and groups of fungi, Jude moved through the forest, already seeing the brighter green light of the fields through the slits of emptiness between the trees. "We're nearly there." He said, pushing hair back out of his face.

Nyx kept following Jude with a wide smile, looking around the woods. "Thank you." He said again. "For bringing me here." He looked around the woods, keeping up with Jude.

"Just wait," Jude said, looking back to Nyx, "Thank me later instead." They were at the edge of the woods know, Jude could already see the light glinting off of the silky tallgrass in the distance. "We're so close."

"Okay." Nyx replied slowly. He kept walking beside Jude, eyes staring around them still. He hadn't ever been anywhere like this before. He hadn't. And he loved every bit of it.

Jude sprang into a fast walk through the beginning of the field, feeling the long green strands tickle the tips of his palms whenever he looked back at Nyx, grinning, motioning for him to catch up as he moved. The highway was in the distance now, and the cars were like coloured shapes on a slate gray line. The sun– greeting new clouds, had cast an early golden light on the rolling fields and shadowed the path they left behind them.
"Just over that hill," Jude said, pointing to the closing rise of earth and grass.

Nyx nodded a little. "Alright." he replied. He caught up with Jude, a smile on his face. He looked around again, loving the landscape. It had been…well, never, since he had left those grey walls of the facility. He wasn't counting the parking lot right now.

Finally, they reached the hill, the highest of the rolling plains, overlooking the sights below. They faced east where the sun was slowly drifting to, still daylight, but a new coolness greeted them now. Along this side of the field, the longest grass grew, slender, golden and dancing softly in the wind, faintly rippling in silken tides. Farther to the horizon the train station sat, nearly vacant, save for the occasional passerby's. The rusty train tracks swirled from the far boundaries of the field towards them before tapering off next to the highway, awaiting the crunching and rattling of the heavy trains as they passed. The meadow was quiet now, a dreamlike hue of light whirling through the sunshine as it touched the grass. "Here." Jude nodded, eyes bright and sighing happily. He sat down on the grass, watching as the wind stirred it in quiet gusts.