[At first, the various writing implements strewn about the ship aren't anything more than annoying, as far as Emet-Selch is concerned. And that largely because it's not something that has happened prior. Which is perhaps not a surprise - life on the ship does have a way of being unusual at best - but the fact that Navi is allowing the clutter suggests that there's more to it than a simple moment of untidiness.
It's only later on, when he finds himself inexplicably possessed of an urge to chase, to hunt, that he picks one up, almost without thinking about it. He wonders, too, if this is how Zenos feels before managing to shake the thought off. Regardless of whether it is or isn't there's no way for him to tell, and it's certainly not the first time that he's had to deal with something urging him onwards since his arrival.
(It is not, he thinks, time for who they're mentally linked to to be shuffled. But at the same time it's easier to see the urge through than suffer the annoyance of ignoring it, and so he lets it take him where it will.)
It's only when he finds himself crossing paths with someone that he's more than familiar with that he pauses, ignoring the urge to 'mark' his target for a moment.]
Ah. Gaius.
[He doesn't ask if the man has only recently arrived. He doesn't need to - if Gaius had been present on the ship prior, he would have known. Although it's clear even from what he can already see that Gaius' life has taken a somewhat different trajectory than what he might have suspected, shortly before his "death" as Solus.]
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It's only later on, when he finds himself inexplicably possessed of an urge to chase, to hunt, that he picks one up, almost without thinking about it. He wonders, too, if this is how Zenos feels before managing to shake the thought off. Regardless of whether it is or isn't there's no way for him to tell, and it's certainly not the first time that he's had to deal with something urging him onwards since his arrival.
(It is not, he thinks, time for who they're mentally linked to to be shuffled. But at the same time it's easier to see the urge through than suffer the annoyance of ignoring it, and so he lets it take him where it will.)
It's only when he finds himself crossing paths with someone that he's more than familiar with that he pauses, ignoring the urge to 'mark' his target for a moment.]
Ah. Gaius.
[He doesn't ask if the man has only recently arrived. He doesn't need to - if Gaius had been present on the ship prior, he would have known. Although it's clear even from what he can already see that Gaius' life has taken a somewhat different trajectory than what he might have suspected, shortly before his "death" as Solus.]