[Locked: April, Bakura/Malik] Dominion Trip!

[twinpharaohs]

Yugi is sitting in a couch in the Nexus, holding up a hand-written sign reading "April! :)", in a weird sort of homage to the way private drivers guide their customers to them at the airport. Yami's currently nowhere in sight, by virtue of the fact that he's pretty much still asleep, though he's aware that Yugi intended to try to take April to Dominion today. He'll likely wake himself up when April shows up.

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[twinviziers]

Bakura takes in a sharp breath. Yugi-kun... Otosan... He closes his eyes. They're looking for me, aren't they? They want me to come home. He shakes his head. ...I can't. I just... I can't.

Malik simply snorts, by way of commentary.

Meanwhile, Yami inhales and exhales slowly, then touches April's shoulder. "Tell him about what the Crawler said," he tells her quietly. "'The Shadow Games have already exacted Their revenge against my Vizier'. Malik might know what the Crawler was talking about."

[slayers-desire.livejournal.com]

"They are not here to force you to return. They are concerned. Yami took me into the Shadow Realms. We met a crawler. It said the Games have exacted their revenge against his Vizier."

"They had feared Malik had been attacked."

[twinviziers]

Bakura's eyes widen. And thus thought I had been attacked too.

Malik is shocked into silence for several moments, which is saying something. It's difficult to pull something like that off with him. ...There was a moment, he says quietly, during the ritual. It felt like something had done the mystical equivalent of bumping me on the shoulder, trying to send me off balance in the middle of casting.

Bakura frowns. I think I remember that happening. You had an odd look on your face at the time... Did it work?

Obviously not, Nekhnet, or the ritual wouldn't have worked, Malik shoots back to Bakura. All I know is, afterwards, I was awake for 5,000 years. Unlike Tepeysa and the other Spirits.