20th Scroll

[kirinofen]

:: [accidental audio || action for any apartment mates if they want] ::

[The sound cuts in with silence. Abruptly it's shattered with an earsplitting crash of something breaking against the floor.

Yokuhi's voice cuts in, sounding startled and faraway.]

"Taiho?!"

[Her voice is followed by silence. There's a faint noise of movement and Yokuhi

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audio; /will be action

[reginagloriae]

I worry about it. What's going on?

audio; kk~

[kirinofen]

Why was this thing even on...?

It's nothing... I just broke a glass. Sorry.

audio;

[reginagloriae]

I'll believe that if I didn't figure out there's a curse today thanks to Rin.

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[kirinofen]

....

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[kirinofen]

It's no big deal. Forget about it.

ACTION;

[reginagloriae]

[As if Youko would buy that, she's looking for Enki as soon as she hears his answer.]

ACTION;

[kirinofen]

[ohsnap. Well, he's hanging out in the kitchen trying to clean up the mess he had by dropping that glass. And it's taking him forever because he's trying not to cut himself. He's also staring very determinedly at the floor at all times.]

ACTION;

[reginagloriae]

Rokuta-kun.

[Youko walks to him and kneels to help.]

I'll clean.

ACTION;

[kirinofen]

[He hesitates briefly. He kinda wants to if only because it helps him ignore the curse. But this is Youko and so he doesn't argue. Instead he just shuffles away from the mess.]

All right... Sorry.

ACTION;

[reginagloriae]

What is he doing?

[She asks after she picks up the shards of glass. After a look in the Network and into Rin's room, she figured out what was coming on.]

ACTION;

[kirinofen]

... Nothing.

[He figures at that point it's pointless denying it from her but he's still going to be stubborn about it.]

He's just... there. [And possibly attempting to speak, but Rokuta refuses to listen.]

ACTION;

[reginagloriae]

Rokuta...

[She finished cleaning up and approached the Kirin. She had decided against it in he own case, but Enki might choose differently.]

Are you sure you don't want to know what happened? Don't you want to tell him that you lived well for a long time?

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[kirinofen]

[He shakes his head quickly, gaze still refusing to look up from his feet.]

I came to terms with this a long time ago. I already know why I was abandoned. I know.

[Or so he would tell himself because he couldn't believe anything else. He had already convinced himself to one truth five centuries ago. He clenches his hands into tight fists at his side.]

He's dead. What I'm seeing can't really be him. It doesn't matter what I say or what he says because it isn't really him. So I just... want this curse to end as soon as possible.

ACTION;

[reginagloriae]

In this place?

[Youko asks cryptically. She means that death and life didn't exist in a place like the City. She reached for his shoulder.]

We are your family now. All Kings and all Kirins.

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[kirinofen]

Yes... Even here. [He knew the boundaries of life and death were strange in this place. Truthfully that fact made him very uncomfortable. It was so unnatural and it bothered him, but he had learned to live with it. But this... He refused to believe what he was seeing was anything more than his memory.

He chuckles at Youko's words, but is also comforted by them.] I guess... that's true. The oracles of Mt. Hou told Taiki once that the closest thing to family a kirin has is each other. But I guess our rulers become our family, too.

ACTION;

[reginagloriae]

At least you can think of me as an older sister... [She chuckled amused.] or a little one. [She knew how hard was to adjust to the idea of the City, but she was growing more used to due to her recent cultural shock experience.

Babies who grow on trees. The dead that don't die. Really, both fly over her head.]