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[lostontheroadoflife]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 40, later-morning
Where: Common Area
What: Long awaited meeting...

[cleared up from the events of last night and whatever earlier moments of the day, the Common Area's now sporting some tables pushed against a wall with food and drink spread out for those who would want something to munch on. opposite of this would be the masked ninja that advertised said meeting, standing in front of the windows, posture in its usual slump and seemingly lazy eye distracted by the views outside. somewhere nearby will also be that blonde people may remember as advertising the police force, pointedly standing with arms crossed, making a point to keep a CLOSE EYE on the people who attend the meeting]

Mingle | Discussion: Governing System | Discussion: Rules | Discussion: Murderers/Punishment+Enforcement | Discussion: Anything Else? | Final Things

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Comments

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

Well yes. I was counting on it, in fact.

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

Well. Youth and all that.

[Starting towards the door. Happily Nin and Sparkles is hardly much of a walk between]

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

[Following along absentmindedly]

I just wonder if any of them will manage to agree long enough to put an actual system together.

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

Agree? No... probably not, but they'll form their own... They're already there, from Sabra, from their homes, from classes and books, a potpourri of what they know or think they do... eventually habit will push it all together.

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

[... And hesitates at the door of their apartment.]

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

[Nearly bumping into him when he hesitates, still lost in thought]

... ?

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

[There's a moment... and he shakes his head, continuing through the threshhold a bit of a quiet expression himself before speaking up.]

[You know, when you were at Sabra, you never really thought about it. It was so second nature, everyone spoke it, you never thought about understanding it... but it is a startling language swap next to Thusian. Soft vowels and sharp consonants lends a bit of natural cadence to the words.]

I assume that the plans you were making, are long term ones, correct?

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

[Yeah, that's. That's not what he expected at all.]

...What?

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

You've had a certain look particular to you since a certain subject.

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

[He looks confused for another moment before- it suddenly seems to click, and the guilt is instant.]

I didn't mean...

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

... [On the mark, it looks like...]

I'm at least 95 percent sure you wouldn't right now, anyway.

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

[Several long moments pass in silence before he ducks his head, looking away]

No, I wouldn't.

... I'm sorry...

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

There's precious little you could be apologizing for that actually warrants it.

[Normally the words would be light and airy... now they're just quiet, a little neutral, as he settles on the couch.]

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

It's the precious little that's the problem.

[He doesn't join him on the couch, just stands in front of him quietly]

... I don't make promises I don't intend to keep.

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

[He nods, and the smile is a brighter one, grateful.]

I find myself a little torn on the subject between understanding and selfishness. It's a unique and rather unenviable bit of emotions at the moment. I'll get it sorted out... but I did have to ask.

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

I'm doing something wrong if you had to ask that at all. There's a reason I chose not to say anything.

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

[He tilts his head.]

I've never read minds, nor, as good as I am at what's said and not said... it's a subject that's never come up, other than the lingering taste that life as it continues, is a regret.

I understand it, quite dearly... But as long as there is a question... it's better to get an answer than to suppose one.

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

... Three weeks ago, I would have told you no. But things have changed.

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

[Just reaches over, snags the corner of your sleeve and tugs you towards the couch.]

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

[Goes along without resisting, suddenly exhausted]

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

[Tug, pull, lean.]

I will say then, I'm glad we did not hear it three weeks ago. I'm rather fond of right now.

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

[He sighs, leaning his head against the back of the couch, eyes closed]

Then that's enough for me to be glad, too.

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

[You hear a thoughtful, content sound.]

It hasn't been a bad time, somehow.

Re: Final Announcement

[overclocking]

Much better than the afterlife I was expecting, to be sure. I feel like I somehow cheated my way out of something.

Re: Final Announcement

[over_the_fop]

I never really thought of an afterlife, really.

... And that is the trick, isn't it? There are times, I wonder if Veiled is pulling some unimaginable cruelty and I'll wake up for real eventually.