09 [voice]

[palmtoptaiga]

[her voice sounds raspy, like she’s been crying all night- yeah, she has been]

You’ve really outdone yourselves this time, hyenas. I won’t even say I hate you anymore, even though I do- I won’t give you the satisfaction.

Every one of us is a monkey here, capital C Comedian. There’s your cosmic joke.

Shiki…

I’d never-

[she breaks down here-

Comments

[child_radical]

These...dieties deserve the name you've given them...

[palmtoptaiga]

I've only ever called them what they are.

[child_radical]

Are you okay...no that's stupid of me.

...after what yesterday brought who could've bounced back to normality so fast...

[palmtoptaiga]

Normality? There isn't any 'normality' here.

[child_radical]

I only meant to the point where we're questioning ourselves and drawn into...despair like today.

Look, I don't want to argue today...we've both been through something awful due to these idiots and their sense of humor.

[palmtoptaiga]

I wasn't arguing, Huey. Just stating a fact.

[child_radical]

Okay.

[palmtoptaiga]

You too, huh?

[child_radical]

There's not much enjoyment when regrets you've pushed away to the far corner of your mind come out right when you're about to die.

[palmtoptaiga]

So you remember it. Shiki doesn't.

[child_radical]

I'm wishing that I didn't. Then I wouldn't have this lingering pain of seeing her...their faces in my mind before I died.

[palmtoptaiga]

...it sounds personal, so I won't ask.

[child_radical]

I'll find a way to deal with it eventually.

If only there was way to make those jerks experience the pain and misery and frustration we've all had to deal with.

[palmtoptaiga]

There is.

But we'd all have to leave at the same time.

[child_radical]

There's always a catch.

[palmtoptaiga]

Always a catch.