十八 · a selfish dream · accidental video post / action post

[to_turn_away]

[The video comes on with a jolt, obviously having fallen from a height.]

[The sound of rain is loud, and the haze about the camera parts to show a man in a teal kimono standing somewhere in Xanadu, under the shade of a covered bridge spanning a creek. He is staring out into the rain, his eyes pensive, brooding. In one hand is his axe, and in the

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[revengeisalie]

Isn't it a bit cold out there?

[to_turn_away]

Quite, but nothing intolerable.

[revengeisalie]

What are you doing out there, anyway?

[to_turn_away]

Thinking. Of the past. The future. Where I am now.

The rain came without warning.

[revengeisalie]

About?

It's been raining all day. You tell me you've been out at night?

[to_turn_away]

Life. My path. How to leave this place.

Indeed. You are indoors, I presume?

[revengeisalie]

Always a good topic to think about.

Presuming right.

[to_turn_away]

I'm growing tired of the City. I have business in Edo. Tetanus had not stopped me, and this will not. Though that was with your help, wasn't it? . . .

I see. And your bodyguard?

[revengeisalie]

... yeah.

He's with me when he's not out doing something else.

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[to_turn_away]

Mmm.

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[to_turn_away]

I see.

There is not much for us to do here.

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[revengeisalie]

What, seriously? But there's so many strange things to learn!

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[revengeisalie]

... ah.

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[to_turn_away]

Heh. You do seem the curious type.

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[to_turn_away]

I too would take advantage of all the data I can gather here . . . I suppose at this time, I am just impatient. After being reminded with dreams of what I face, what I have faced, and what I have yet to accomplish . . .

I am more desirous to see to the end of that which I have to do.

[revengeisalie]

Oh, right.

You do seem the... ambitious type.