[private] she pulls me down just as i'm trying to hide, grabs me by the hair and drags me outside

[curtainwizard]

[It's the fish room. Light is sitting on one of the floating couches, his face shadowed - well, more shadowed than usual - and still. The tiny, colourful fish are swimming in front of him and behind him, but he isn't paying attention to them

Comments

[cipherhood]

-Light enters on silent feet, not announcing his presence, coming to a halt a few steps into the room and regarding the back of his double's head.

It's a minute or so before he finally speaks.-

You know, I wanted to become a marine biologist, once, when I was seven or so.

[curtainwizard]

[He doesn't jump. He's too preoccupied with everything else to jump. Though he does turn round, to make sure it's the same alternate he thinks it is.]

Marine biology? Really?

[cipherhood]

-He shrugs.-

I was seven. Fishes and sea urchins and anemones and coral all seemed very fascinating. -He comes around the couch as he speaks, and takes a seat next to his double.- You never had any off-the-wall career ambitions when you were a child?

[curtainwizard]

[Straightening from where his head had been resting on one hand, pulling it all back into place, he watches the fish fly between the bookshelves and lamps.]

My mother brought me some fish, once. They died. As fish do.

[Sayu had eaten at least one of them, but he doesn't bring that up.]

I never went in for marine biology, but I remember wanting to be a helicopter. I think I would have been... three? Or four, perhaps. I always knew what I was supposed to do.

[Actually, he remembers wondering if he'd be a god one day from the moment he learned the meaning of his name.]