'Cause God knows that everything is breakable [OtG]

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((OOC: for my own purposes, just pretend this came before the bank robbery and mayoral assassination. THANK YOU!))

There are people in the world. Many, many people. And they are doing many, many things.

For example, Will Tippin is sitting in the empty library in the wing of the Kashtta that he and Syd are currently occupying, reading a book he

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((OOC: I have too many dead characters to be able to resist an OTG. It's hardest to resist Brando, but he's going to KNOW he's dead so I figure I'll wait on that even though I guess Will will be like wtf is a kid doing here, BUT. alas.))

There is a little boy, technically a ghost (not that the kid realizes it), watching Will. Joshua's behind a table, just kind of poking his head over the top. He's been in this library for a very long time.

Most of the time it's been empty so when someone does come in, he's just lonely enough to watch from a distance. But not quite brave enough to actually ever say anything to them. So he'll just watch. Quietly.

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Will doesn't notice the kid at first, but after a little while he does, and smiles at him. "Well, hey there."

He likes kids! And he's pretty non-threatening! Look at that GRIN!

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Joshua gives a tiny, "Eep!" and ducks, at first.

Hey, the last non-threatening (at least in his eyes) person he met had him eaten by a werewolf. Not that he remembers, but it leaves his spirit vaguely on edge, nonetheless.

After a second, he pokes his head back up, again, and his loneliness takes over any shyness he may have initially had.

"Hi," he says and even smiles, a little, unsure, but definetly a smile. "What're you reading?"

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Will likes not being scary to little kids. "Pride and Prejudice. Which is a totally girly book, but it's the only thing we had lying around, apparently."

God knows why.

"I'm Will," he says.

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"Totally girly like with kissing and stuff?" He makes a face. "Yick."

And then he crawls under the table so that he's closer.

"I'm Joshua," he says, vaguely remembering a woman (his mother) telling him how to properly introduce himself. "Not alotta people come here. Kinda empty."

And lonely.

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"Really?" Will purses his lips and looks around. Well, this room's pretty empty, at least. And he doubts there are other kids running around. "Yeah, I guess it would be. Don't have anybody to play with, huh?"

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"Yeah. Nobody. I just sit on the floor. Sometimes I leave, but I don't like to."

In other words, the rest of the tower is kind of scary. Mostly it's cause memories flash back to him when he leaves the library of gnashing teeth and pain and blood and a woman with a pretty smile.

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"Yeah, it gets kinda creepy out there, huh? I don't like it much, either." Confiding a great secret, of course. "But, they have bunk beds here. Which is just cool. I'm sharing with my best friend."

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"Bunk beds? Really? I knew somebody that had a bunk bed before. Just so's kids could spend the night."

Joshua tilts his head to the side.

"What's your best friend like?"

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"Sydney? Well, she's a girl, if you'll believe that," Will laughs a little. "And she's really smart. Even smarter than me. And we've been friends for a few years now. And she... she works for a bank."

Okay, she's a covert agent of some sort, but he can't tell the kid that.

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"Your best friend's a girl? That's kinda weird."

Says the kid who adopted Calisto as his new mother.

"What do you do?" Cause bank work is only exciting if there had been a heist involved. Otherwise, it's about as exciting as a game of Monopoly to this kid. So not much.

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"I am a reporter for a newspaper," Will says with a grin. That's cooler, right? Right?

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"Wow! Really? That's cool!" And now he'll walk up and sit on top of Will's table, cause tables are meant to be sit on by little boys. "What do you write about?"

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Will sits forward and grins. "Well, mostly whatever my editor makes me write, but I've been working on a murder case recently."

He looks a little sad. "Well... I was before I came here, anyway. Now I can't."

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"A MURDER case? No way!"

Joshua says 'No way!' in one of those kid-type-ways that basically translates to 'Awesooome!'

"Oh. Cause there's no going back, right?" He looks sad, too, but after a moment he reaches over and pats Will on the shoulder, comfortingly. As comforting as a little kid can be at any rate.