Nightshift 56: Bill's Hardware

[she_is_ruin]

[from here]After dashing over to the hardware store, it was Yomi’s turn to shatter the lock, allowing them access inside. Here, she took out her flashlight and used it to light the aisles, aimed in such a way as to minimize how much showed through the windows. If the noise didn’t draw something, the light probably would. Nightshifts were no place

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[purpletaint]

"Maybe not near enough."

The words spoken said something else, something possibly further from her meaning. He followed her to her errand, watched her break the lock and continued to stare. This building he had not been in, from his memory. He glanced it over, wondered if he should add more to his collection. Something smaller and more close at hand....

However, it existed as something solid. Not near enough. Not here, in any standpoint; things existed as restricted in much and many, not the least of which his rate of regeneration. Oh, it was still complete, of that there was no question. No scars or injuries marred him, bandages only an inconvenience for hours until he healed enough to be rid of them. There existed flaws, however. Extreme ones, enough to threaten a being whose only previous threats came as matters of the heart.

He glanced after her, watched her move carefully and with purpose. "I have before."

[she_is_ruin]

Her senses didn’t lie--when she felt something less than human about these fellow prisoners of hers, she had to assume that they were also capable of feats that were both in her realm of experience, and without. But there was one constant that didn’t vary no matter how strange of territory she found herself in: human appearances were at minimum misleading, and at the most shells concealing one’s form. She had no need to ask why a young boy could repair himself to such a degree, because no regular boy could do that

[purpletaint]

He wandered idly after her, glancing the shelves. His attention was finally caught by something practically medieval; a small sharpening tool far out of date. However... The entirety of the place was the same, and as he was in position of a sword, he'd likely do well to take it. He snagged it and slid it into his bag in one motion, pulling it tight again

[she_is_ruin]

"So..." she said, looking up and down the shelves until she found a long-handled axe, which she then picked up and examined, "something exists beyond the body, you would say. Is that not so?"

Yomi didn't broach a reply about how Damned may or may not have changed them. Twisted them. Brought Yomi closer to life, while Albedo closer to death, perhaps. There was nothing to talk about there. The ability to heal had never been a secret to Yomi, or something to remark greatly upon in others, but in regards to herself it was a topic that sat as a part of a much larger story--her story, of how she had come into such powers in the first place. And all of the rest