13. HAPPY SUNDAY MAYFIELD

[no_indoor_voice]

[While some people are heading out to the highway and others are desperately warning not to, Tybalt's discovered something far more interesting

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What a perfect opportunity for them to meet in person D:

[istheatmosphere]

[This can only end badly. Mokuren's on her way home from work and she hears the loud noises coming, curiously, from somewhere not near the Dairy. She makes her way to the park, and OH SARJALIM WHY THE DEAD BIRDS? Why would anyone do such a thing? She's standing between a dead duck and the pond, looking visibly distressed. She hasn't actually seen Tybalt yet.]

Re: What a perfect opportunity for them to meet in person D:

[no_indoor_voice]

[WELL BETTER BIRDS THAN PEOPLE RIGHT

But then again, at the sight of a distressed-looking lady, he stands and respectfully lowers the gun.

And his head.

Respectfully? More like abashedly.]

Re: What a perfect opportunity for them to meet in person D:

[istheatmosphere]

[BIRDS PRACTICALLY ARE PEOPLE AS FAR AS MOKUREN'S CONCERNED. :| She's looking around sort of aimlessly, and now she spots Tybalt with the gun. She stomps up to him angrily.]

What did the ducks ever do to you?!

Re: What a perfect opportunity for them to meet in person D:

[no_indoor_voice]

[dully]

Would you rather it be people?

[istheatmosphere]

I would rather it be no one! Hunting for sport is cruel and wasteful. [She crosses her arms. She's not one to harrangue people but in this case? Entirely justified.]

[no_indoor_voice]

It's not sport. It's not having anything else to do.

...And the ducks will probably regenerate.

[istheatmosphere]

You have nothing to do, so you kill things? [Son she is disappoint. She used to be so fond of humans.]

There is literally nothing else to do?

[no_indoor_voice]

They're probably drone ducks anyway-

[It's becoming painfully easy to picture him squirming under censure as a child.]

[istheatmosphere]

Drone ducks? [Have an incredulous look. Would the town's curse really extend to the fowls? Well, if the events of last Thanksgiving were any indication, probably. But recent made her wonder if perhaps there weren't sentient people buried within the drones. But nope, killing drones, even duck ones is not acceptable.]

They're still innocent beasts. Why don't you read a book or do, I don't know, something else that's not destructive.

[no_indoor_voice]

Not destructive?

[He actually laughs at that.

It's not a happy laugh.]

[istheatmosphere]

[Oh dear.] Dare I even suggest something constructive?

[no_indoor_voice]

[distantly]

I wasn't created to be constructive...

[istheatmosphere]

Are you not a human being? [confused Mokuren is confused]

[no_indoor_voice]

What?

[istheatmosphere]

Human beings aren't created, they're born. [Srs-face. She was the moon-base's expert on biology. She should know.]

[no_indoor_voice]

And sometimes we're shaped. Leave me alone.