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tantric_slacker March 7 2011, 21:16:49 UTC
Maybe Matt's just paranoid, but there's something ... sort of ... off ... about this guy. And he doesn't mean the purple hair.

After all, it's a free multiverse. We make our own tonsorial choices.

For now: one witch-slash-maybe-mage-slash-maybe-wizard is keeping half an eye on Xelloss, as he makes absent notes on a piece of paper about herb combinations and incantations and what kind of candle to light.

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nazo_no March 7 2011, 21:20:10 UTC
Oh, someone's watching him? Well, far be it from Xelloss not to acknowledge his watcher!

"Hello! Is there something on my face?"

Perfectly harmless, him! Really. Don't trust the evil vibes. They're probably coming from... something else.

Yeah.

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tantric_slacker March 7 2011, 21:44:29 UTC
Oh snap. Matt looks a little guilty.

"Huh?" he says.

A sheepish grin.

"Uhhh. No. Sorry, was I--"

Kind of off, yeah. Matt usually follows his gut when it comes to stuff like this, even when he's distracted with the issue of how to handle his incorporeal and property-destroying housemates.

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nazo_no March 7 2011, 21:47:00 UTC
"Hmm? Yes, you were...?"

Smiiiiile? Nothing more than a little polite inquisition here.

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tantric_slacker March 7 2011, 21:52:56 UTC
"Sorry," Matt says, shaking his head.

Even if the guy's evil or preternatural or whatever, there's no call to be impolite. Matt jabs his pen down towards his paper, indicatively. "I'm trying to figure something out. I think my brain's rebelling."

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nazo_no March 7 2011, 21:58:56 UTC
"Ahhh. Well then, maybe a break would do you some good!" he replies cheerfully. "Have you ever spent much time looking outside?"

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tantric_slacker March 7 2011, 22:02:44 UTC
Matt nods his head towards the window.

"Outside like there?"

He is always a fan of study breaks.

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nazo_no March 7 2011, 22:06:55 UTC
"Yes, it's fascinating, isn't it?" Xelloss asks.

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tantric_slacker March 7 2011, 22:18:18 UTC
Matt turns a thoughtful expression to the end of the universe.

"I've been told it's what the last hurrah looks like."

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nazo_no March 7 2011, 22:21:25 UTC
Xelloss nods.

"The end of the Universe. Of every Universe, in fact. Something I always hoped I'd get the chance to see, myself. Amazing, isn't it? We can come here and watch it over and over again, at any time! And so many people will never know..."

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tantric_slacker March 7 2011, 23:02:06 UTC
Matt watches a star implode-- or at least, that's what he assumes it is. It looks to him sort of like what would happen if you tried to smother a lava lamp.

"Yeah," he says curiously.

"They never will."

This kind of knowledge feels like a physical object he can carry with him.

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nazo_no March 7 2011, 23:11:17 UTC
"How does that make you feel?" he asks, curious.

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tantric_slacker March 7 2011, 23:27:25 UTC
Matt turns to purple-haired guy, quirking a smile.

"You sound a little like a psychiatrist."

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nazo_no March 7 2011, 23:30:40 UTC
"Really? Well, that's the first time I've heard tha~t!" It makes him laugh a little, actually.

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tantric_slacker March 7 2011, 23:34:23 UTC
"Maybe I'm culture-bound," Matt says, still smiling-- and maybe he should be more creeped out by the laughter, but it sounds pretty innocuous. "But I can't think of anybody else who'd ask how something made me feel."

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nazo_no March 7 2011, 23:44:34 UTC
"Well, in my case, I'm just curious!" he replies. "It seems to affect everyone differently. For example, it gives me as sense of reassurance!"

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