[Week 15] [Day 2] [Accidental Video] [Backdated again!]
[When the Hitomi turns on, it revels a young teenager, wearing shabby robes and a even shabbier expression: his hair has grown to where it goes past his ears, unkempt and filled tangles that can pass for rats nest. There are hints of circles developing underneath his eyes, and the light in his eyes look flat. If it wasn't for the fact that all of
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Dude. Don't push 'em. They haven't just decided we're the devil or whatever, there's propaganda going around.
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Yeah, well, pretty soon we might have to follow our own little version of Jim Crow.
How is Yomisato working out?
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[Though really? Matt doesn't actually care. He plans to be well out of the way before the locals start trying to translate a convenient scapegoat into an actual target. And if any of his friends get in trouble, he'll... No. No more dragon-y shit.]
Yomisato's kinda wrecked, man. But J's here, and Elfangor.
[He won't say that they, along with Mello, are the last threads holding him to this place. Now that he knows Marco's actually alive, it helps a little.]
What happened to you? Are you-- You're gonna be okay, right?
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[Matt can't hang onto many thoughts, but he remembers this one.]
Rin was worried about you.
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[Marco has a far-away look to his face, a frown appearing. Looking back at his death, it just seems odd, in a weird fate kind of way.]
Though I don't think getting murdered in a safe zone is something anyone would have expected.
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What even happened, man?
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[Just yesterday, when he came back, he felt that he might not talk about it at all. But here he is, talking about it. He suppose its because Matt is already dead in his world somehow, morbidly, makes it easier. Of course, he still has to tell Elfangor and Rin . . . though he's kinda hoping that Matt will tell Elfangor about it to lessen the load, but that's too selfish for even Marco to consider.]
One minute I was going to get something to eat in Raisato, the next minute one of the natives stabbed me a bunch of times. The last thing I remembered was him putting the knife his throat and killed himself.
I guess he was one of the people who drank the blood water by accident, but man, it was seriously random.
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[Matt frowns. Maybe nowhere was safe, by the end, but 'random'? That sort of makes his... okay, he totally thinks of it as spidey sense, though it's more of an attuned paranoia. Whichever, it's tingling at that. Matt doesn't believe in true randomness. But he can't think why J. Random Local would target Marco.]
Wait, blood water?
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[Marco frowns at Matt's unsettled expression. While Marco admits that the way Marco died was weird, the fact the matter is that it's pretty obvious that the guy who killed Marco was sick. All Marco can see out of the whole thing was that it was just rotten luck, pure and simple.]
Haven't you heard? Nearly all of the water supply turn into blood that week. Maybe you haven't seen it, but there was a broadcast of some guy actually stupid enough to drink it. Thinking that a little weird color in the water wouldn't hurt, or whatever his reason is. Anyway, he went - [Marco makes a twirling gesture with a finger aiming at the side of his forehead.] - and tried to attack a friend.
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[It's the only way Matt can make sense of it right now, anyway. He also thinks, fleetingly, that they could have been rounding up all the sick people for the totally opposite reason. Is death even permanent for the locals? Are they even real people?
He's spacing again, and shakes himself out of it.]
You're gonna go home and-- [get cleaned up?] --get some rest, right? You're lookin' pretty out of it.
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[And speaking of which . . . ]
How's Elfangor?
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Doing okay. Or okay enough to fake it. [Which is kinda what they're all doing, Matt figures, but he still worries a little, and tries not to.] Heh, now that J's decided she doesn't have to kill him, jesus fuck.
[That might be funny someday. A hundred years or so from now.]
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Dude, if that chick even touches Elfangor -
[Marco cuts himself off, jaw grinding to the side. What would he do? Kill her? What a joke.]
Just make sure she doesn't do anything.
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