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TAKASUGI 11ady August 15 2011, 04:36:46 UTC
Truth or dare? It's a rather juvenile distraction but humor me.

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Re: TAKASUGI themothdies August 16 2011, 02:20:14 UTC
...Can't say I care either way. Choose for me.

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Re: TAKASUGI 11ady August 16 2011, 02:30:14 UTC
Dare then.

[and she draws a small scrap of paper from her jacket; a sheet of ruled notepad]

Teach me. My apologies but it's not a perfect square and it's rather...woebegone.

[true enough, there's an assortment of idle scribbling on it:]

Do laundry.
Budgeting.
Call housekeeping to transfer last of belongings from 6-2a to 8-9.

[things of no consequence; besides the Babelfish didn't translate the written word and, considering his disdain for foreigners, she highly doubted he could read any of it; still it was an indirect message of sorts; he had shown that he could read numerals at least]

[one wonders if the paper folding truly was what the dare entailed]

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Re: TAKASUGI themothdies August 16 2011, 02:41:48 UTC
[there's something like an honest blink that flickers on one eye, sword-hard fingers taking the pathetic piece of paper]

[he doesn't recognize the foreign symbols and doesn't care to (with the exception of numbers, what he realizes are rooms). he doesn't ask questions; instead, makes a fold and licks its spine to tear it off into a neater square]

Half, then four triangles triangles.

[three smooth folds]

Close it up, and outward triangles. Then to a diamond.

[it's almost falling apart, miserable in his grip]

Another perfect triangle, then open it up. Flip a leaf over, lay it flat, do the other side. Fold in the flaps. Fold the middle piece over.

[he's not slowing down for her comprehension, movements smooth and sharp and confident]

Bring all the points to the top. Flip a leaf over. Flip the top half down. Bring this angle down here and tuck it in to make the head. The other tip goes back into the tail.

[--a pause, and he offers his palms out to her as though he might catch water, with the bird still looking shrunken in and ( ... )

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Re: TAKASUGI 11ady August 16 2011, 02:58:05 UTC
[her eyes follow his hands as best they can though it's proving rather futile; perhaps she'd read up on it later; besides, the crane wasn't really the point of this]

[doing as she's told, she uses both hands to delicately tug each wing out from the body; it still looked rather pitiful though; her writing was unrecognizable now, green scrawl marring the bird's body all over]

Still woebegone but looking better.

[herself or the crane?]

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Re: TAKASUGI themothdies August 16 2011, 03:02:54 UTC
Ones does the best with the materials they have.

[he drops his hands away as the bird's wings remain on her fingertips]

[smoke is tended to once again]

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Re: TAKASUGI 11ady August 16 2011, 03:07:24 UTC
[tucking the crane into her jacket, she tilts her head ever so slightly in order to avoid getting a direct hit of secondhand smoke]

Lack does foster creativity.

[smirking slightly]

That was a rather dull distraction but I suppose you won.

[she'll concede defeat; after all, she merely asked him to teach, not make her learn; there was a difference]

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Re: TAKASUGI themothdies August 16 2011, 03:11:21 UTC
Should I apologize for being a poor distraction? To entertain was not the dare, after all.

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Re: TAKASUGI 11ady August 16 2011, 03:12:25 UTC
Do you ever apologize for anything?

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Re: TAKASUGI themothdies August 20 2011, 19:27:07 UTC
No. Certainly not to a woman.

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Re: TAKASUGI 11ady August 20 2011, 19:32:59 UTC
[going to ignore that inflammatory comment with a shrug; lose your cool and you lose it all; she wasn't petty]

Unrepentant sinners are doubly damned. However, you don't strike me as the sort to do things in half-measures anyway.

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Re: TAKASUGI themothdies August 20 2011, 19:38:38 UTC
No? I thought repentant and repeat sinners were always far worse crimes. Apologise, only to turn around it doing the very next day, claiming Sunday will wash you of your sins.

If one is going to sin, sin with pride. Sin with hedonism.

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Re: TAKASUGI 11ady August 20 2011, 19:39:52 UTC
With sincerity?

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Re: TAKASUGI themothdies August 20 2011, 19:42:59 UTC
If that be a sin, too.

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Re: TAKASUGI 11ady August 20 2011, 19:46:50 UTC
You can't spell sincerity without sin. At least in my vernacular.

The truth often brings pain.

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Re: TAKASUGI themothdies August 20 2011, 19:52:07 UTC
Everything brings pain, no matter how good it seems.

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