002 || dream; action

[cruciverbal]

There's a hazy sort of half-light that filters in through the palm trees lined against the road - twilight, or perhaps dawn. The sky overhead is darker, unobstructed, but not quite clear; the pervasive smog in this city makes it difficult to call any day (or night, for that matter) truly clearB walks for another few steps, then stops, looks up at

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[petalsofdeath]

Boy, you shouldn't wait here.
[Marluxia slipped around the graves, his tread light as if worried about awakening the dead. Crouching beside him, he looked around hesitantly, his cloak pooling about them.]
This is their world. We'd all best not disturb it...
[He walked across the grass, trying to reach the younger boy, to take him by the arm gently.]
Let us make haste.

[cruciverbal]

[The boy doesn't move, doesn't acknowledge Marluxia. B doesn't look over at them, but he does speak:]

He's not ready to leave yet.

[petalsofdeath]

What's he waiting for?

[Marluxia looked up from the boy over to B, curious.]

[cruciverbal]

[B rests his chin on his knees, glances up.]

I don't think he knows. For the heavy feeling in his heart to dissipate, perhaps.

[petalsofdeath]

I see. And you?

[cruciverbal]

[It's the boy who speaks this time:]

We're supposed to be here.

[petalsofdeath]

To what end?

[his head snaps around to look at the child appraisingly.]

Playing at death?

[cruciverbal]

[He stares back, eyes wide and serious.]

Death isn't a game.

[petalsofdeath]

Of course not.

[cruciverbal]

[B speaks up again, head tilted to the side, cheek resting against his knee.]

We're waiting to join them.

[petalsofdeath]

I see. They are coming for you, then?

[he chuckled as if he didn't believe.[

[cruciverbal]

[The boy glances up at him, deadpan:] They won't be doing anything except decomposing, now.

[petalsofdeath]

Then you intend upon dying.

[His tone is frank. He does not try to convince them to do otherwise.]

[cruciverbal]

[B's the one who speaks this time:]

It's inevitable.

[petalsofdeath]

True, but one does not need to wait in the graveyard for it.

[cruciverbal]

We've been here before.