homeless, mulling options | voice-testingggg

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Well, well. Well?

. . . how'd these go again? 'This isn't the right time for us' -- 'I'm not ready to handle this much commitment' -- 'sorry, but I'm not feeling a connection' -- 'you're great and I'm flattered but trust me, it isn't you, this is all me' --

[ ahem. ]

What? I'm just saying. You dangle a word like 'vacation' around, anybody's bound to picture something more -- relaxing. You know, walking tours, a freshly-organised library, maybe some fine dining or -- a real big bed?

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Come, come, that is completely relaxing.

What hour'd you call this anyhow? It's gotta be too early for this kinda talk! Somewhere.

Comments

[kanda]

Drunk.

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Thought you stayed up later than that, though!

[kanda]

How the hell do you know how late I stay up?

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Correction! Didn't know if you ever slept, man.

[kanda]

Right, like I have the time to.

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Exactly! Why let your guard down when you could be doing something useful.

[kanda]

Some of us have responsibilities.

1/2

[extend]

Too true—and y'know, daresay I can't blame you for saying that.

Re: 1/2

[kanda]

Then shut up.

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'Cause I think I heard some beansprout say the same thing.

[kanda]

And what of it?

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. . .







See, it's a lot easier to answer when I'm not getting Those Faces from you.

[kanda]

Even when I'm complacent I'm considering murdering you in your sleep.

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And here we are at three years and counting, with me still alive and whole! That is touching. I'm all touched.

[kanda]

As I've said, I'm busy.

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Sixty seconds a minute, sixty minutes an hour, twenty-four/seven, right?

[kanda]

Yes. Exactly that.

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But did they give you any specific directions for those?

[kanda]

Who knows. I don't particularly care.

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Sure that you still know what you're doing?

[kanda]

Does it matter? I'm not dead.

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. . . Sounding almost hopeful there, Yuu.

[kanda]

Choke on your words now.

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Just the words? Now I know you're going easy on me.

[kanda]

Along with your hammer.

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Now, now, you know the higher-ups'd come after me for that. Inappropriate Damages To Innocence, and all. It'd be a real shame to put 'em out!

[kanda]

They're a bunch of bastards anyways.

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A new and worrying thought, isn't it.

[kanda]

You don't have worries, Bookman. You aren't affiliated, you're neutral.

1/2

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I'd rather call it positive.

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Think the Akuma'll listen if I yell it at 'em?

[kanda]

Why don't you go find out?

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I like my neck in its current shape, you know!

[kanda]

Then it's a rhetorical question, isn't it?

[extend]

All questions want some kinda answer, though. Don't they, Yuu?

[kanda]

Not idiotic questions.