[closed] Maes' Special Day

[dadandgone]

Who: Maes Hughes & Shiro (LATER) Maes Hughes & Alphonse Elric
Where: Race track (LATER) library
When: super backdated A day or so after Maes asked for help and before the tunnels are discovered.
Rating PG? Will change as needed
What:Maes Hughes asked for help and he got it. This is a catchall for his day where he spent the morning on the race track with Shiro (to supposedly take a break) and then finished his afternoon at the library among too many books with Alphonse.


A Day at the Races - w/ Shiro
If you had told someone back home that Maes Hughes was working too hard, they probably would have laughed at you. Maes Hughes had perfected the art of taking it easy, or at the very least, making what he did look easy. However, there was less a need to put up appearances here and Maes Hughes was the kind of guy who kept digging until he found the answers he was looking for. One might even argue it had led him to dig his own grave, but he tried not to let his thoughts wander into the morbid. It was easy to spiral and the whole point of leaving the library at this juncture was to avoid just that. No spiraling. No overworking. No overthinking things. A break. He needed to take a break and let all of the information he'd been reading for (Good Lord was it really days now?) so long sink in.

This also seemed like an ample time to investigate more of this world he'd found himself in, but he was trying to let his mind take a break. It wasn't going to be easy given that the race track was FILLED with more curious sights. He thought he'd taken in the city as a whole, but he hadn't really seen the need to check this place out. That had clearly been a mistake as there was so much different about, well, everything to this part of Struxta. But, Maes is focused on his current mission which is finding out where the heck Keith and Shiro have been spending their time. At least it's pretty easy to get that information since Shiro has some pretty distinct characteristics and Maes has their location pretty quickly. Still, even if Shiro invited him it feels rude to just barge in. Maes, instead, chooses to knock.


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(LATER) An Evening at the Library - w/ Alphonse
Maes is more or less refreshed when he returns to the library. While it's true that his time at the race track has given him something to think about, it was a different kind of investigation. No books were involved and he'd given his eyes (and his brain) a much needed break. He feels like he can get back to the work he had started with and this time not only will he be refreshed by he'll have a fresh pair of eyes as well. Inviting Alphonse to help him with research had seemed like the perfect idea at the time, although now as Maes makes his way back to the area he'd more or less settled on as his own work space he realized he hadn't exactly worked with Alphonse before on a project like this. It wasn't that he doubted Alphonse's ability, it was more that he wasn't sure how awkward this might get between the two of them. Sure, they'd interacted a little since the initial arrival at the Circle, but Maes found it a lot less stressful to interact with the Circle members who DIDN'T see him as a man back from the dead.

Of course you worry about this now. Come on Maes, you're here to work. You just need to stay focused on that.

He sighs as he steps up to the desk that has turned into a mini-fort made of books and printed stacks of paper. "I think it got bigger while I was gone," he mutters.

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The door to the garage slides open and Shiro sticks his head out, grinning brightly. "Hey. Glad you could make it." He slips back inside and motions for Hughes to follow him into the well-lit interior. Parts are laid out or in boxes near two bikes at the center. They don't look like light bikes anymore.

Two wings spread out from the body with circular holes in the wings. Shiro shoves his safety goggles back down over his eyes and pats a wing. "We've been slowly converting the bikes they gave us."

[sonofgold]

Alphonse is also feeling awkward as he goes to meet Hughes- though he'd been overjoyed to see his friend alive again, been able to apologize and let him know how things had gone, there was still a tiny part of him that felt a visceral "this is wrong" reaction to the idea of a dead person having been resurrected. Even if it was someone he deeply cared about.

But he shoves that out of the way as he goes to the library. Al's been doing a lot of running to earn some cash, and he's paying for it now; his walk is slow, and he's supported by a crutch on his right arm. However, he still smiles and waves when he sees his friend.