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It's nothing... [open]

Feb 12, 2011 17:17

Characters: Kaoru and you!
Content: I promised an open log with this social failget over here months ago, and, well, there's no time like the present. Kaoru's all over the ship, trying to sort out her thoughts.
Setting: Around Serenity
Time: After the boxes have been opened
Warnings: Existentialism, nihilism, moral questions, and a very strange ( Read more... )

hisoka kurosaki, shi ryuuki, malcolm reynolds, kiryuu kaoru

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son_of_the_lake February 13 2011, 20:31:25 UTC

Hisoka was standing on the deck, peering up at the bridge structure, thinking of how it might be possible to mount one of the new style machine guns at the rail on top of the bridgehouse. He hadn't yet asked the Captain if he even wanted one of those things up there, or was willing to spend the money for it. But he was planning what he would say.

"Hello," he said to Kaoru, quietly in case she was absorbed in her own thoughts, or busy.

windsofdaytime February 13 2011, 20:44:43 UTC

Kaoru raised her eyebrow and walked over, following Hisoka's eyes up to the bridge.

"What's so important up there?"

son_of_the_lake February 13 2011, 22:54:14 UTC

Hisoka replied, "I was thinking of a good place to mount some new hardware. Sometimes when one ship is pursuing another, the pursuer will try to come up alongside and crowd the other, try to panic the helmsman or helmswoman into making a wrong move while over rough terrain. I once saw a ship collide with a mountainside in the Badlands, that way."

He explained further, "When another ship's that close, a gunner can't aim fast enough with regular cannon to hit them. But one of those new guns, they're smaller, lighter, very easy to swing from side to side. Not powerful enough to punch a hole in the other ship's engine compartment, but perfectly fine for shooting out their bridge windows and hitting their captain or bridge officers."

"Sorry, today I'm pleased by thoughts of destruction." He leaned on the railing. "How's the work going?"

windsofdaytime February 13 2011, 23:07:19 UTC

Destruction. That was a word Kaoru had heard a lot these past few days. It almost reminded her of the facility.

"All right," she said flatly. "Who are you planning to fight? You must have a reason to be thinking about more guns for the ship."

son_of_the_lake February 14 2011, 00:02:39 UTC

Well, she had him dead to rights. He gave her a glance that acknowledged this. Still, he let a few moments go by in silence.

"Something is not right," he said, finally. "I can't define it. It's in the atmosphere. Do you feel anything like that?"

windsofdaytime February 14 2011, 00:15:37 UTC

Kaoru thought about this for a second and shrugged. "No." She shook her head. "I don't understand people when they say things like that. Having bad feelings about things for no good reason, I mean."

son_of_the_lake February 14 2011, 01:21:16 UTC

"What would you consider a good reason?" Hisoka asked, curiously.

windsofdaytime February 14 2011, 01:34:53 UTC

Kaoru tilted her head. "I don't know. I've never thought about it. Do you have feelings like that often?"

son_of_the_lake February 14 2011, 02:00:29 UTC

"No. I've never had any kind of premonition before, not even when a disaster was about to occur. But then, I've never thought much about my personal fate."

windsofdaytime February 14 2011, 02:08:13 UTC

"Fate." Kaoru looked straight at Hisoka, her constantly dilated eyes unblinking. "Fate is important. Why wouldn't you think of it? Because it's inevitable?"

son_of_the_lake February 14 2011, 21:36:03 UTC

"Because it's chance." Hisoka smiled into the wind. "A tightrope walk, actually. I am good at that. But one day, every tightrope walker suddenly has no balance."

He turned to meet that strange gaze. "What's your idea of fate?"

windsofdaytime February 15 2011, 00:22:57 UTC

Kaoru frowned. "Fate is something inevitable. Inescapable. Unchangeable. Something that can't be defied and that directs your life." She raised a hand slowly to feel the wind moving over the ship. "A lot of people seem to be thinking about fate lately. Maybe it's just me."

son_of_the_lake February 15 2011, 04:33:01 UTC

"I don't think it's just you," said Hisoka. That wind was blowing from the west, moving up through the Nihl Valley, river by river. Serenity was crossing the broad, winding Nihl itself, even as Kaoru and Hisoka spoke. "Do you know your own fate?" he asked.

windsofdaytime February 16 2011, 03:42:28 UTC

"I do." She looked away. "Do you?"

son_of_the_lake February 16 2011, 10:36:20 UTC

"Mine I can guess," said Hisoka.

He, too, had broken eye contact as he spoke. Thus it was a second before he registered Kaoru's changed posture. "How do you know yours?" he asked.

windsofdaytime February 17 2011, 02:36:54 UTC

"It's just how it is." Kaoru barely remembered not to tell him the whole story. She'd already let the network know she'd come from a lab, although nobody but Jenka and that stranger who'd hijacked the conversation seemed to have been listening in, at least judging from responses. They knew she'd killed people and she didn't know how many. She'd let the phrase 'Dark Fall' slip to Ryuuki, and he hadn't asked her about it. But then, Ryuuki also thought she was dead and haunting the ship, so there was that.

Bright usually kept her in line. Bright wasn't here.

"Usually, it's what people tell you. Isn't that how you know yours?"

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