twenty-four ► video (accidental)
[Nataku opens the communicator and sets it on the nearest flat surface. Returns to his seat next to Tres as they are waiting between their shifts in Watch HQ.]
That SOS before was a false alarm. [Looks to his companion.] It seems as though we will not be needed until our shifts. [Stares. He gets up and walks off-screen to pick up a brush to return so that he can fix Tres's hair.]
[ Tres sits there, deadpan as usual. It wasn't that he disliked not having to do anything - maybe a bit, considering he's never usually free and when he is, he's still doing something. But it was certainly - how would he put it - annoying that anyone would press the SOS button without any emergency behind it.
It was something like Father Nightroad would do on a random day. ]
The action was a complete violation of the rules of Shibusen. The individual should be apprehended.
[Nataku nods once, still fixing Tres's hair before finally finishing with the brushing. He pats the top of the other's head, just as deadpan as his companion. Merely going through a memory that he had in his head, but it did not feel particularly right. Setting the brush down by the communicator, he lets that issue go to comment on what he has said.]
It is, yes. [Blink.] We could go and do so. We are supposed to apprehend criminals, are we not?
Affirmative. That is one of our duties.
[ Tres watches as the brush is placed down. It is a tool he's not unfamiliar with; he can clearly define it, if needed. But it's a tool that he rarely - if not, never - used. That kind of maintenance is not part of his duties, even back at the Vatican.
Besides, vanity is frowned upon at the Church, one of the seven deadly sins even. ]
Requesting reason behind the use of this grooming tool on my hair. [ Was his hair standing on its end, maybe? ]
I was reenacting a memory. However, the end result was not the one that I was searching for. [A beat.] In the end, I do not have enough information on how to act toward you. At least, in a manner that corresponds to my feelings. [Nataku sets his hand over his chest before taking the same one to pick up the communicator.]
But let us go and retrieve the criminal, then, Tres.
[ Tres nods.
If he's confused, then it doesn't show. At all. Nothing unusual with that. ]
The results of one situation may not apply to all with similar circumstances.
[ He stands from his seat as well. ] Affirmative.
That SOS before was a false alarm. [Looks to his companion.] It seems as though we will not be needed until our shifts. [Stares. He gets up and walks off-screen to pick up a brush to return so that he can fix Tres's hair.]
[ Tres sits there, deadpan as usual. It wasn't that he disliked not having to do anything - maybe a bit, considering he's never usually free and when he is, he's still doing something. But it was certainly - how would he put it - annoying that anyone would press the SOS button without any emergency behind it.
It was something like Father Nightroad would do on a random day. ]
The action was a complete violation of the rules of Shibusen. The individual should be apprehended.
[Nataku nods once, still fixing Tres's hair before finally finishing with the brushing. He pats the top of the other's head, just as deadpan as his companion. Merely going through a memory that he had in his head, but it did not feel particularly right. Setting the brush down by the communicator, he lets that issue go to comment on what he has said.]
It is, yes. [Blink.] We could go and do so. We are supposed to apprehend criminals, are we not?
Affirmative. That is one of our duties.
[ Tres watches as the brush is placed down. It is a tool he's not unfamiliar with; he can clearly define it, if needed. But it's a tool that he rarely - if not, never - used. That kind of maintenance is not part of his duties, even back at the Vatican.
Besides, vanity is frowned upon at the Church, one of the seven deadly sins even. ]
Requesting reason behind the use of this grooming tool on my hair. [ Was his hair standing on its end, maybe? ]
I was reenacting a memory. However, the end result was not the one that I was searching for. [A beat.] In the end, I do not have enough information on how to act toward you. At least, in a manner that corresponds to my feelings. [Nataku sets his hand over his chest before taking the same one to pick up the communicator.]
But let us go and retrieve the criminal, then, Tres.
[ Tres nods.
If he's confused, then it doesn't show. At all. Nothing unusual with that. ]
The results of one situation may not apply to all with similar circumstances.
[ He stands from his seat as well. ] Affirmative.