77 [Voice]

[law_of_reason]

Pointless. When you know it's an event, the effect-

[Silence, apart from the sound of breathing. When he finally continues, it's terse, each word bitten off.]

-the effect is nothing. None of it means anything.

[Silence. A small hiss, as the feed is abruptly cut.]

Comments

[neverquitedies]

Be careful. It's dangerous out there.

[law_of_reason]

It's not- dangerous.

[neverquitedies]

For your mental health, it may be.

[A pause.]

Come inside. I'll put on tea.

[law_of_reason]

Just slightly.

...I'm heading back.

[neverquitedies]

Good. I'll have a pot of [Awful, soggy, disgusting] tea waiting.

[law_of_reason]

[...as long as it's hot.]

Right- [Constantly distracted. Constantly trying to ignore it and press on.

So it's not immediately that he makes it back, getting inside and closing the door behind him, and immediately leaning against it. He was caught between strong irritability and moroseness. But at least he was out of it.]

[neverquitedies]

[Yuca pokes his head around the corner at the sound of the door closing, before bringing out a little tray of tea.]

Kurotsuchi- have a seat. It's over.

[law_of_reason]

[Opens an eye as Yuca appears, but it takes him a few moments to otherwise move, finding a place to rather uncomfortably settle.]

I know. Yet it isn't.

[offline]

[neverquitedies]

True.

[He sets the tray down on the table, serving them both up tea.]

How did you die?

[offline]

[law_of_reason]

By Hyourinmaru, though that was nothing new.

[Stares at the cup, frowning, without really seeing it.]

Different ways of being stabbed. Explosion, poisoning, some test going wrong- fire, suffocation... and so on.

[offline]

[neverquitedies]

[Yuca moves to sit next to him, their shoulders brushing.]

Well, if it's within my power, I won't let you die any time soon.

[offline]

[law_of_reason]

[That shouldn't have been at all reassuring; he shouldn't at all have wanted reassurance. Kurotsuchi pauses, then leans slightly more into him.]

...I don't think it would've been a problem before. Dying is still an inevitability, but the timing never mattered.

[offline]

[neverquitedies]

It can be horrific to some. The end of existence is a scary thought, I suppose.

[He doesn't know why he's reassuring him.]

[offline]

[law_of_reason]

It's not that. It's a natural state, whatever the method.

[Not that it made it pleasant to see.]

...I can't kill you if I'm dead. Such a bother.

[offline]

[neverquitedies]

Is it really so upsetting?

[A little confused.]

[offline]

[law_of_reason]

Apparently.

[Sort of confused himself.]