[Thread] Who knows where the sidewalk ends

[never_stay_home]

Characters: Rose Tyler (OU), OPEN
Where: The Park
When: A little before sunset
Summary: Skipping stones is a decent way to occupy one's hands when one has thinking to do. Unfortunately, Rose isn't really very good at it.
Warnings: Probably not!

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[steelninja]

Kurogane was dressed in his usual black, hood pulled up over his head as a clear sign of 'leave me alone'. If that wasn't enough he was reading a thick medical book as he stalked along through the park. Odd reading material but he was in the middle of learning all he could about what Fay possible had. This book seemed to enjoy words that took five minutes to read each. Idiot doctors. They should never be allowed to write books.

The tall man was horribly distracted with his reading as he walked along. A horribly distracted ninja didn't mean that he would run into things, his senses were too sharp for that. Flying things may get to him though. Usually being horribly distracted just meant he would mumble whatever popped into his head without noticing. So as he walked by the woman on the bridge, glancing up at her briefly, Kurogane muttered, "Need smoother stones." And then kept walking on behind her.

[steelninja]

His eye twitched at the start of that answer. This whole meeting had been a bit ridiculous to begin with thought, so he guessed the answer fit in. "Hn," Kurogane should have guessed boredom came into this, 'killing time' being one of the few things to do here. Unless there was some crisis going around. Though, Kurogane would never sit in one place long enough to think about skipping stones. To each his own.

The offered stone got a weary look before Kurogane took it. What the hell, he already climbs trees. He flipped the stone in his palm and gave the water a slightly skeptical look before throwing it. It skipped three times, traveling far before it sunk like... a rock. "Tch," Kurogane remembered it being easier then that.

[never_stay_home]

Her smile went a little flat as she noticed his reaction, but being disinclined to share with this taciturn stranger much of her true reasoning behind sitting out there, alone, playing with rocks she just shrugged. Her gaze turned to track his go at the game, measuring the distance as roughly twice what she'd managed. "You've beat my record," she remarked easily. Of course, given how unpracticed she was with the stones, that wasn't exactly a world-shaking feat.

[steelninja]

Kurogane watched the ripples for a moment, blinking in surprise as a memory of his father hit him. He smirked ever so slightly and briefly, "Always blame it on the stone." Kurogane turned his head to look at Rose, now looking far too serious for this topic, "Though you do need better stones."