[That done, and all else looked after, there is time enough for a final cup of tea out in what was once the cave's front lawn, and now serves instead as the barn's yard.]
[there is RUCKUS IN THE BARN (probably from someone entering from a window or some other entrance that isn't the front nor the door. A few minutes later, and Ikki actually skates out the FRONT door, kind of. Confused]
Zexion, did you clean in there or something? My laundry pile's huddled in the corner with the fear of God in its eye. . . . eyes.
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Zexion, did you clean in there or something? My laundry pile's huddled in the corner with the fear of God in its eye. . . . eyes.
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Buttons?
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[Pours a second cup of tea. A bit of black-ash, perhaps, or a scrap of thread-lifts off from his hand as he moves, disappearing on the wind.]
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[goes to sit down but pauses to watch that . . . then sits down across from]
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It is not beyond reason to hope. Your memory is not always the best.
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Oi, I have a great memory.
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[Another little black something drifts off.]
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[pauses, frowns a little curiously] Is your jacket falling apart?
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[gestures to his sleeve]
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