Eleventh Flight. [glitched audio/brief video/action at Mahogany Inn.]

[newberktown]

▒▒or Almighty... Where d▒▒ ▒▒is storm come from all of ▒ ▒udden...?

[That sure is a familiar voice to some people in Johto, even as distorted as it is...

The speaker pauses, unsure not only of the weather, but the strength of his network connection as well. After gathering a breath, he continues on with the reason he started this recording in the first place.]

Er, hey guys? H▒▒▒▒ang stole my leg and took off a ▒▒▒▒▒ ago.

[There's another pause as a loud crack of thunder rolls by, followed by a bout of static.]

▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ink anyone should be outside, but if you can keep an eye out for ▒ ▒▒owlithe carrying something that looks like a foot, I'd appre▒▒▒▒▒ it. I thought h▒▒ ▒ome back, since it's raining, but I hav▒▒▒ seen him...

[Hiccup's face appears briefly as the feed freaks out one last time, looking just as it had three weeks ago when he had vanished without a trace. There's concern there over his current predicament, but he doesn't seem to be aware of his time away from Johto.]

Thanks anyway... I'll be in my room here if anyone in Mahogany finds him.

[ooc note: HEY WHAT'S UP, I'M BACK! Tags might be slow yet for a little while! Also (maybe?) posted early because I don't know what I'll all be doing today.]

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[tapestodiane]

<sub>[... c:]

[Coop has no idea why exactly Hiccup is back in Mahogany when all past experience dictates he should be back in New Bark, but he's not going to complain, exactly. He'll dig for details later, as well - for now, which is some time but not a while after that little gear message, he'll just go up to his room and knock on the door to greet him back.]</sub>

[newberktown]

[Even with his hobbling, it doesn't take too long for Hiccup to answer the door. He's been gone for three weeks, he figures. Why should he make people wait even more? He's fairly soaked by this point, having been on quite the scavenger hunt, and he leans against the door as he looks up to see just who his visitor is. The leg, while recovered, is not exactly at its most stable.]

Hello, Cooper.

[The greeting, while friendly, doesn't have its usual gusto--the combination of dealing with how his disappearance may have affected the others and running out in a storm to look for a mischievous dog had taken his mood down a notch or two. But he's happy to see the agent.]

[tapestodiane]

Hi there, Hiccup.

_{[He does take note of the general state of the boy, but you know what, soaked and kind of tired is better than not there at all. So he smiles, even if in a slightly subdued way as well.]}

I take it you're up to speed by now?

[newberktown]

[He nods, moving away from the door as a wordless invitation.]

Carmen told me. [Frown.] It's still hard to believe, though.

[He'd checked the date on the 'gear many times, once he had been left to his own devices. There was no doubt in what his friend had told him, but it was an awful lot of time unaccounted for, and he was just as baffled as everyone else.]

I'm sorry if I worried you, too.

[tapestodiane]

_{[He enters the room and remembers the cold from two months back. It's nice to see the change, even if he's no doubt seen it once or twice before - and that the physical mutations on all of them are fading is a comfort as well, even if they're not quite gone.]}

No need to apologise. It's hardly your fault.

_{[Which it isn't. Honestly, Johto has whims, and they sure don't know how to control them.]}

We're glad to have you back.

[newberktown]

[While that's true, it doesn't keep Hiccup from feeling...not guilty, exactly, but something very similar.] I'm glad to be back. [Even if he hadn't known he was gone in the first place.]

Carmen said that you guys were planning to go to Cianwood City, when I was gone. [He pushes his hair back in an attempt to get rid of some of the moisture, and for a moment it's incredibly similar to Cooper's. Then he ruffles it back to normal.] I'd like to go there soon with you all. I haven't been there, yet.

[Plus he really likes traveling with you and Carmen. And Albert was okay, so far. Though that reminds him...]

Hey, someone else you know arrived, right?