Dreams 008 | Video

[foreseen_future]

[the video flashes on, showing a seated Nura, dressed in baggy, swoop-neck creme long-sleeve shirt, tight jeans, flip-flops, with a colorful scarf in her hair, patterned with daisies and butterflies. there is an untouched cup of tea sitting warm on the end-table beside her.]

You know...sometimes I think that we're all a little irrational. I know, I

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[Voice]

[claim_my_place]

[Have a snort.]

[Really, this woman talks too much... preaching to people about death and fear. And does she really think that kid's literally the son of "death"? That's ridiculous.]

[Yeah, Asch missed the memo. Or maybe he's just being a skeptic.]

Are you done?

video.

[foreseen_future]

I judge by your tone, that, no, I am not.

Do you have any concerns that you'd like to speak?

voice

[claim_my_place]

[There's an aggravated silence.]

...No.

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[foreseen_future]

I see that you've made a nice little house in Egypt already.

voice

[claim_my_place]

[What in the universe is she going on about? He's never heard of Egypt before, and he hasn't made a house anywhere. Asch's confusion causes him to hesitate for a second.]

Is that supposed to mean something?

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[foreseen_future]

How is that river you've been floating upon?

voice

[claim_my_place]

[His patience is starting to wear at the corners. Asch's expecting something halfway logical as a response, not random sentences that don't even mean anything!]

Enough...

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[foreseen_future]

What? I thought that, if I were floating upon De Nile, I'd want to talk about the beauty of the snapping reptiles, and the lovely rimmed set lines of dhramah.

voice

[claim_my_place]

[Yeah, yeah. He gets it! ...At least to an extent. Denial, drama, snapping... Why this woman couldn't just come out and say what she wanted to say, is completely beyond him however.]

[He sucks in a breath and lets it out slowly.]

Everyone has 'concerns'. Mine are hardly any of your business and I have no intention of discussing them with you or anyone else.

[He doesn't want to talk about it. Really.]

What's an "Endless"?

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[foreseen_future]

If you have no intention, then why did you respond?

[she won't even anwer the other question.]

voice

[claim_my_place]

[Because there are things he fears. Because he's stood on the edge of life and death. Because he's going to die, and even though he tells himself he's fine with it, he really isn't. Dying means giving up, and it means breaking a promise. He's not fine with either of those things.]

[And hearing about all these familiar acts and emotions is not something he wants to deal with. He'd hoped to shut her up, but the attempt has obviously backfired on him.]

Why do you care?

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[foreseen_future]

Because you are a living, breathing, sentient being, with a heart, soul, and rights.

voice

[claim_my_place]

[People could really stand to save these sorts of replies for idiots like Luke. They're too sentimental for Asch, and he's not buying into it so easily.]

Such as a right to privacy.

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[foreseen_future]

Then why did you respond?

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[claim_my_place]

Because I felt like it. [Not going there, nope.]

Are you going to answer my question or not?

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[foreseen_future]

Are you going to answer mine?