Array 131 // Video

[bloodseal_soul]

[The sun's setting on the crumbling stones of a graveyard, and Al strolls through the graves, slow and steady, before crouching before one. He reaches out with gloved fingers, his breath puffing past his face in a soft, visible cloud, before he shuts his eyes as he touches the surface of the stone

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[Video]

[willdateforyen]

...Did those people die here or...?

[Video]

[bloodseal_soul]

No, they're not dead. They've gone home.

[It doesn't seem to cause him any pain to talk about it. Instead, he sounds wistful.]

[Video]

[willdateforyen]

That's not so bad depending on their circumstances.

[Video]

[bloodseal_soul]

Some of them, yeah.

Certain people probably aren't quite as lucky.

[Video]

[willdateforyen]

[Grins.]

I'm not going home until every single last one of my friends does.

[Video]

[bloodseal_soul]

[He smiles. It's the sort of smile that's not quite there, the kind you'd give a child with a pretty, but far-fetched wish.]

I really hope you can stay here that long.

[Video]

[willdateforyen]

[A shrug of her shoulders before she winks. Ai-Ai is the optimistic type.]

'Course if I stay here that long, I'll be an old granny in no time. If I know anything, it doesn't do any good regretting what you can't change. So I ain't gonna.

[Video]

[bloodseal_soul]

You know, if we don't grow any older here, we might stay here forever.

[Video]

[willdateforyen]

Yeah, but the thing about not growing any older? None of the rest of me grows either--and I swear to God if I get pat on the head one more time I might snap. Ohh, how about I just age a few years and than I can stop. That'd be nice.

[Video]

[bloodseal_soul]

I grew for a while before I stopped... you might still grow a bit.

[Video]

[willdateforyen]

Certain things are changing.

Re: [Video]

[bloodseal_soul]

Eh?