Hands in Mah Pockets, Thinkin' About Stuff [Open!]

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You know, I don't think I've sat through an election before, Roy thinks, pacing slowly down the hallway from the Sensoriums.

His tie is loose, though he's forgotten that he had loosened it while sparring. His sleeves are also rolled up, and though he is aware of this alteration to his proper dress, the heat of this level of the ship has gotten to him. The choice to leave them as they are seems odd to him, and he's worrying about them rather abstractedly. Of course, he's still thinking about the election, as well as a myriad other bothersome, minuscule things, so don't mind him if he doesn't notice you coming around the corner.

It probably doesn't help that his eyes are, oddly enough, trained on the ceiling.

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Nanashi had been wandering the city, however it was day out over there, so she had taken to wandering the rest of the halls. At least the rest of the ship wasn't nearly as bright, even if she kept on her sunglasses.

She was not one to pace. No, Kano was one to pace. She took things far slower, calmer. However strategic puzzles she had no answer to tended to make her more agitated, getting her to move so that at least she was doing something. She was still fighting with possible reasons for the Ohm to leave. She had it narrowed down, but the options still seemed off.

This, along with studying Alchemy, had been distracting her from her own campaign. Well, it was not like she honestly expected to win this one. She just wanted her name to be in the minds of the public. It would make the next election far easier to win.

She was absorbed in all these thoughts when she realised she could hear the sound of feet- and they were a bit too close. She snapped to attention, jumping back in time to avoid collision.

Wait a moment. She recognised this man. He was the one who had been using the flames against the Worm. She smiled, and put out her hand, "Ahh, it is you. We did not have time to introduce ourselves last we met. I am Queen Nanashi of Kuninoryu. You are that fire alchemist, yes?"

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Roy blinks, eyes dropping to the dark-haired woman. He hadn't heard her coming, which surprises him. It takes him only a blink or two to recover, and he takes the proffered hand with a faint smile.

"The Flame Alchemist, yes. I am Colonel Roy Mustang. It's a pleasure."

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She returned the smile. Her voice raised a bit in surprised, even if it did still sound like she was making pillow-talk, "A Colonel? Well, that most certainly explains your skill."

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He arches an eyebrow, slipping his hand back into his pocket.

"It doesn't explain it at all. The skill was mine before I attained my rank." The smugness in his tone is very lightly veiled.

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Nanashi's lips peeled into a smile. She liked him. It was refreshing to meet someone as self-confident as she was. "I like your confidence, Colonel Mustang- Or," she smiled and leaned in a bit, "may I call you Roy?"

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That eyebrow lifts higher, and a faint smirk grows.

"I'm afraid I only let a very closed group of people use my first name." A closed group that includes girlfriends and his close acquaintances, neither of which include Queen Nanashi, unfortunately.

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Well, while his answer was disappointing, the smirk was encouraging. "Well, then I am afraid I would appreciate if you addressed me properly as well."

She looked around, orienting herself, and noticing that they were near the sensorums, "So, Colonel, were you using the Sensoriums?"

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"I wouldn't dream of doing anything but," he says. He knows damn well that people in positions of power like their titles used in public.

"I was. One has to keep oneself at top performance, after all. You're on your way there, I assume?"

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And not nearly enough people had been willing to call her by her proper title. The one other who had... well she currently had a disastrously confusing relationship him.

Nanashi laughed lightly, "Actually, I was just wandering, lost in thought. I practice every evening after I finish teaching. I was considering some information I realized about the Ohm, though I really ought to be off campaigning."

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Roy has always been a gentleman--he will call a lady whatever she pleases, as long as it doesn't in some way demean him.

"Ah," he says, looking down the hallway from which it seems she came, noting that, indeed, there wasn't much of anything in that direction. The perfect wandering territory. "You are running, then? Ah, no, I remember--you're running for Captain. Quite an endeavor, that."

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Nanashi laughed it off softly, "I am not one to sit idle when I believe that my guidance will help us destroy the Ohm. I am not lacking in experience either- quite the opposite, really. Aside from my experience, I am just like others here. I have lost what I love to the Ohm."

She smiled brightly, but there was something unnerving about it, especially combined with her tone, "You never want to hurt a mother's children. Not when that mother is able to step back and able to calculate the most effective way to get rid of you."