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[slighted_stains]

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voice;

[icingkills]

...Good for you.

Did something in particular call for this?

voice;

[slighted_stains]

[fumbling with the device forever to get the setting right]

Technology never liked me ---

[ah yes, he has it, now >>!]

For cigarettes?

voice;

[icingkills]

More for speaking of death, but it does seem a shame to tempt yourself when you've quit.

voice;

[slighted_stains]

Today celebrates death, after a fashion.

voice;

[icingkills]

I hadn't heard.

How do you commemorate such a day in a place where death is a bad joke?

voice;

[slighted_stains]

It's easy, when your dead aren't here.

voice;

[icingkills]

I see. My condolences.

[Still not offering a cigarette, though.]

voice;

[slighted_stains]

It's a ritual, not a preference. It won't change anything.

[Bastard.]

voice;

[icingkills]

Would you do it if they were here?

voice;

[slighted_stains]

[pause; creeper.]

Would you?

voice;

[icingkills]

[He only does it for pauses like that, and such reactions.]

I don't know. I have no dead to honor.

voice;

[slighted_stains]

And I have no answer.

[creeper and troll; sigh]

May I have your name?

voice;

[icingkills]

Fair enough.

[...no, actually; you may not--]

Jack Simon.

voice;

[slighted_stains]

[tsk, an onmyouji do such pretty things with names, too.]

Mr. Simon, I don't suppose you smoke?

voice;

[icingkills]

I detest the habit.

[Which is not technically a lie.]

voice;

[slighted_stains]

I apologize for bringing it up.