poooossibly looking for games. canon is hyouka!

[conserve]

[ there are several things wrong with this situation. if he wanted to, houtarou can count them all off his fingers without needing to pause for breath, but he doesn't, and so he won't, because he's been around chitanda long enough to know that, sometimes (read: all of the time), he just can't win.

(though let it be known that he's already thought of twelve.) ]

No.

[ and still, he tries! if you can call that trying, because he knows his mun, and he knows the terrible, awful, no good places she could bring him to, and he should fight for his salvation, shouldn't he? or something.

Where's the line between fighting and begging for mercy?

quickly--! what would chitanda do? ]

Please.

[ Damn, I crossed it. ]

Comments

[conserve]

And rain.

[ his sense of smell isn't as freakishly good as chitanda's... but he can detect a hint of it. ]

[consumptive]

Rain?

[Have you been sniffing him...]

[conserve]

--or maybe someone left a window open...

[ wow, no, that's creepy. shut up. ]

[consumptive]

[He looks around. No windows.]

... Well. I'll take your word for it.

[conserve]

[ Damn, no windows! ]

...in any case. The point is you're alive now, right? Why not take it as a second chance?

[consumptive]

Where I am now isn't exactly the same as where I came from. I wouldn't change much from here.

[conserve]

So make a new life.

[consumptive]

Good advice. Is that what you would do?

1/2

[conserve]

[ it was good advice, wasn't it? but hmmm.. is it something he'd do? ]

[conserve]

--no.

[ that sounds like a lot of work, after all. ]

[consumptive]

Giving up again, huh.

[Sighs.]

[conserve]

More like I don't think I'd have any unfinished business.

[ since he doesn't really do much to... leave unfinished in the first place. ]

[consumptive]

Hmm. If you died now, you would have no regrets?

[conserve]

[ huh. ]

...I don't know. Probably not.

[ it's not like there's something he's really, really wanted to do but hasn't.

...

he thinks. ]

[consumptive]

We ought to switch places.

[conserve]

You have many?

[consumptive]

More than you. [Which really isn't saying much.]

[conserve]

And you're sure you can't do anything about any of them here?

[consumptive]

It's all right.

[conserve]

[ welp. it's no skin off houtarou's nose. but, ]

It'd be a shame if that winds up being another regret, that's all.

[consumptive]

Oh? Worried?

[conserve]

Just saying.

[consumptive]

I do appreciate it.

Ah, we've been talking for a while, I'll let you go.

[conserve]

[ houtarou nods. his hands slip into his pockets, and he shifts to walk away before something seems to occur to him. ]

If you need someone to talk to...

[ No good, it's no good. ]

...there are usually a lot of people around here.

[consumptive]

I'll be sure to look for the least motivated of them all.

See you later. [Gives a little wave.]