(Disclosure: This is full-on Elseworlds OOC for me.)
Warren sat unmoving in the pool. He wasn't even sure what he was doing in Bronze Lake and his mind flushed when he tried to remember. He'd been identified correctly by the smiling miqo'te girl while on patrol and listened to her plea.
"You've won, Mr. Castille!"
"...But I didn't enter anything."
"You didn't have to! Lotsa' people have won for other people. It's the way the world works!"
A gift. A lucky raffle ticket. For him. The whole scheme sounded like a set-up, and he'd arrived thinking it was one. The first several bells were checking up on histories, running profiles on the folks who were allegedly running it. Everything turned up clean.
Warren grumbled and sank up to his nose in the hot spring. Some luck, sequestered half-way across Eorzea by himself.
Warren sat unmoving in the pool. He wasn't even sure what he was doing in Bronze Lake and his mind flushed when he tried to remember. He'd been identified correctly by the smiling miqo'te girl while on patrol and listened to her plea.
"You've won, Mr. Castille!"
"...But I didn't enter anything."
"You didn't have to! Lotsa' people have won for other people. It's the way the world works!"
A gift. A lucky raffle ticket. For him. The whole scheme sounded like a set-up, and he'd arrived thinking it was one. The first several bells were checking up on histories, running profiles on the folks who were allegedly running it. Everything turned up clean.
Warren grumbled and sank up to his nose in the hot spring. Some luck, sequestered half-way across Eorzea by himself.
![[Image: yEROfKO.png]](http://i.imgur.com/yEROfKO.png)
