James
Looking amidst the rubble, Hanzir rolled his shoulders. Slowly moving rubble and wreckage aside. Moving each bit further and further from the center and trying to move it to a place where it wouldn't impede on people trying to walk around. A futile task almost in his mind. There wasn't anyone else around here for him to actually spend this time with, and the fountain didn't even work yet. Something to do with the waterflow he surmised as he stared at the empty faucets.

There was a giant waterfall on the city limits which might've had something to do with it, and who knows how long its been since things had been maintained at wherever they put their water originally. He rubbed his forehead and plopped down on one of the rocks that he'd moved. Throwing his haori to the side and leaning over. Taking a few deep breaths and looking at the still water in the fountain and letting his head hang low.

"There's no point in all of this, I think, but I guess it gives me something to do. I'd go crazy without this," He paused for a moment to process the fact he was talking to himself again, "Though maybe I went crazy a long time ago". 

He lifted a hand in front of his eyes and thought to the strange blade that had wormed its way into his life and though the whole reason he had lived was hidden away inside it - he would much rather not have it at all. It just ate away at him to think that normal was so far away, despite it all being right here.
Robert
Stepping through this abandoned part of the world, Solaris admires the strange sense of ease it brings him to be alone in a place like this. A dome covered his face to keep it from the world, A truth that isn't ready to revealed. As he walks around the now abandoned fountain, He would note that it had no water in it. Not even from rain. It seemed as if everything on this world had forgotten it existed entirely. What a pitiful fate to be forgotten is.. Those thoughts flowed through his head as Solaris would hear another voice, Drawing his attention. 

He'd step out from behind the old fountain to see another person sitting just a few feet away from him on some rubble. Solaris would step onto the rim of the fountain. His arms would cross as his gazed fixated onto the person. Solaris had seen a few different people in the center of this town.. But he decided not to interact with them upon his arrival. The only person he has ever truly held a conversation with was.. Comet. How horrid.. 

"You." 

A sinister voice calls out towards the person on the rubble as Solaris tries to get their attention. Whomever this is, They may be fun to.. Mess with for the time being.

"Is crazy not just another word for insane? Or mad? If one is to go crazy, Does that mean they've already fallen victim to.. The Darkness?" 

He was attempting to hold back a laugh while speaking. Mostly it was due to the irony of him, A being of pure Darkness, asking another if they've fell victim to it. Though the question still remains unanswered, Solaris wondered what the human would say.
James
So lost in thought the young adult was that when a voice broke through the awful silence that had pervaded the area and made him feel like the lone survivor in a movie about an apocalypse, that it caused him a start. 

His head shot up from looking at his hands to scanning the horizon, before then ultimately laying his eyes upon the strange dome headed... Man? Creature? Thing that stood in front of him. His golden eyes locked onto the dome as he scratched the back of his head in confusion and then looked around once more. 

"Me?", he finally asked as one of his own fingers pressed against his chest and then he let out a deflated sigh. There was no one else around. It was definitely him that was being talked to and asked... Weird question. People could go crazy without darkness. There had been plenty before him that had gone crazy without ever experiencing the things he'd experienced. Though _darkness_ was such a foreign concept to him. 

Darkness was the absence of light and as he stood up from his rock a dusted off the bottom of his outfit his head tilted at the other person. 

"You say, 'the darkness' like it's some kind of entity," He started as he began moving some more rocks. His mind now trying to connect dots, "I wouldn't say being in the darkness drove me crazy. I'd say being alone would do it much faster. Though now that you're here, I'm not alone so..." 

His sentence trailed off as he dropped another rock out of the way of where folks would walk. 

"Being crazy, insane or mad wouldn't change anything whether it was light or dark out. For falling victim to it, last night I tripped over a rock while it was particularly dark out. Does that count?" He asked. Knowing full well that wasn't the idea at all. 

Whoever this was knew about the other place. The one filled with nothing but darkness and the hostile creatures. 

But Hanzir wasn't going to give that away yet. He wanted to know more, and maybe he _was_ a little lonely.