[Open Post] "The only horrible thing in the world is ennui..."

[death_kl0wn]

Ryuk is bored, again. Still. Even chandelier surfing has lost its sparkle and he hasn't found a real replacement vuvuzela for the one that got a bit cut up on the night of the mad midnight serenade

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[justiceis_red]

Someone to talk to? What?

Light is...okay. Light is restless, and bored, and constantly verging on depressed, but he's okay. L is still here, which is still frustrating. There is still a running list in his head of the names and faces he would write down if he could. He wishes. But it seems, sometimes, like a dream. Like it never actually happened, and he just...

Wasted his life, somehow.

His mother, his sister. He still thinks of them.

His mood is dark today, and that's probably why he's gone looking for Ryuk. Or out of whim, possibly. Hands in his pockets, perfectly composed, as untouchable (at least in appearance) as he's ever been.

[death_kl0wn]

It's been a while since he saw Light and when Ryuk sees him, the reaction is a bit like a dog (or at the least, like a friendly cat) which hasn't seen its master for a long time. His head pops up and he hovers up off the mantelshelf, approaching Light. "Hiya, Light: how's it going?" he says, grinning. "You heard about the murders??"

[justiceis_red]

Light is almost surprised by that reaction. Perhaps slightly gratified, though. He doesn't show it, at least not until Ryuk mentions the murders, because, "I hadn't," he says, ears pricking slightly. "What murders?"

[death_kl0wn]

"That crazy bitch Aramat got killed: think she got stabbed or something; there's been a big investigation. That wussy shinigami with the violet eyes an' his buddy with the green eyes are runnin' it," he says. "Then some skinny kid with a weird last name disappeared an' they found out someone ganked him in the woods."

[justiceis_red]

Aramat. Light's nails abruptly bite into his palm. "Aramat's dead?" His voice has gone tight and tense, quite suddenly. He wanted to kill her. He wanted her dead, for what she's done. For what she did to him. "And another. You don't remember his name? Who did it?"

[death_kl0wn]

"Somethin' emo: Titus Somethin'. Moan? Groan? Mope? Somethin' like that," he says. "And yeah, th' crazy lady bit it. Or got bit by it, I think. Didn't see it happen, but I bugged the guy doin' the autopsy: kind of a grumpy bastard."

[justiceis_red]

Light steeples his fingers and rests his chin on them. "Interesting," he says. "That is...interesting. Hm. What do you think of it, Ryuk?"

So much for peaceful utopia. Not that he ever believed it.

[death_kl0wn]

"Well, I think the lady mighta had it comin': she was crazy enough and she had that thing about pointy things," he says. "But the kid, dunno what to make about that. Got himself cut up: shoulda fought a little harder, maybe."

[justiceis_red]

"Perhaps he didn't get the chance. So often people don't even see it coming. People here are too trusting. It's what I've always believed. Waiting for someone to take advantage of it." He rolls his shoulders back. "No, I am not sorry about Aramat, though."

[death_kl0wn]

"There's some kinda detective agency that got started: had a wanted poster an' everything, lookin' for information about what happened," he says. "Yah wanna work with 'em?" he asks, insinuatingly.

[justiceis_red]

"Mmm," says Light, after a moment, thoughtfully. "Maybe. Probably not. I think I'd prefer to work alone, though talking to someone might well be worthwhile..."

He looks at Ryuk, eyebrow up. "Why, you thinking about trying your hand at detecting?"

He wonders if L is involved.

[death_kl0wn]

"Thought about it: I'm good at sneaking around looking for clues," he says. "Except I'd have to work with those pretty-boy shinigami," he adds, a bit derisively. "The kid ain't so bad: it's the goofy one yah find in the kitchen that gets on my nerves."

[justiceis_red]

"You could probably show them up if you wanted to," Light says, easily, flipping idly through his book as though he's not really thinking about it. "Wouldn't that be satisfying?"

[death_kl0wn]

"Heh-heh-heh, yah think I could pull that off? There's a bunch of 'em an' one of me, but I can go places they can't: none of 'em can go through walls," he says, with a hint of pride.

[justiceis_red]

"And not everyone can see you," Light points out, "So you have that on your side too. I think you might be able to."

Don't ask us what's ticking around in Light's brain, he hasn't informed the typist yet.

[death_kl0wn]

Ryuk's typist is wondering what Light has in mind, with a certain sadomasochistic glee. Ryuk is also twigged.

"Guess that makes me a super-spy," Ryuk says, grinning with a certain amount of something like pride. "Dubble-Oh-Six ain't got nuthin' on me."