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You have hands of raining water // And that earring in your ear

Aug 17, 2011 14:19

Characters: Rosalind (blindedmewith) and Kagerou (weaver_girl)
Date/Time: 17 August 2011, early evening
Location: The hot springs, Wellspring Island
Rating: PG for bathtime nakedness
Summary: The Sphere goes to war. Two roommates go to the hot springs. Girl talk may ensue.

( The wisdom on your face // Denies the number of your years )

bleach: orihime (kagerou), ace attorney: ema (rosalind), !complete

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blindedmewith August 20 2011, 03:23:22 UTC

It made no sense, but this visit was both strange and normal at the same time. Normal because...well, it was something they did together sometimes, and Rosalind enjoyed it-both the soaking and the one-on-one girl talk. But it was strange that they could have such a normal thing when everything else was absolutely, positively abnormal.

She frowned and sank down in the water when Kagerou finally asked her question, deep enough that her chin touched the surface. "I don't like it," she admitted. "Not that everyone always agrees with each other, and we aren't all even friends, but to split people up and make them wear colors and everything-it's not right."

There was something in the air. Nothing she could measure, but it was still there. "I think something bad is going to happen," she said. "Um. Something worse." After all, plenty of bad things had already happened.

weaver_girl August 20 2011, 21:39:00 UTC

"Mm-hm." Kagerou bobbed her head in immediate agreement. "I can't help feeling like we're being... manipulated again, and really blatantly this time, too. It would actually be a little funny if it wasn't so awful already."

Deciding that she couldn't find a good spot to sit where she was, she swam the length of a stroke to the right, trying her luck a little farther from the edge of the water. "I don't want to say it, but I think you're right. Things have been getting crazier for months, but this is something different again." She bit her lip. "I hope we'll all be all right."

blindedmewith August 21 2011, 16:15:17 UTC

Rosalind didn't know whether it was the search for a comfier spot or simple restlessness that prompted her friend to move, but she could relate to the latter. She stayed where she was, though. She didn't think anywhere else in the spring would be any better.

"What if we're not?" she asked, almost to the water-and to herself-more than to Kagerou. "Whatever makes things work the way they do here is so much bigger than us. And I don't know how to stop it."

Friends, killed. Family, disappeared. And for what? "I don't know how to help, even with science," she admitted. "I try to help with crimes, but I'm only any good after they've already happened. And sometimes not even then."

weaver_girl August 21 2011, 19:54:01 UTC

Finding a shallow rock that jutted out of the water, Kagerou folded her arms on it, letting the rest of her body float, her feet occasionally breaking the surface with a small splash.

I know something of what does all those things. But I don't know how to stop it, either. There was a lot she had found out that she hadn't shared with Rosalind. It was almost as if there needed to be a nook in her life that wasn't full of mystery and enigma and conundrum. She did wonder if she should tell her friend, and quite often. Was it more selfish to keep things back?

"And if Mr. Vimes didn't have you to run tests?" she said. "The Watch is wonderful, but they seem to have more fighters than deep thinkers. Of course it's good to prevent crimes, but what you do brings criminals to justice!"

She smiled, for all that it wasn't a wide one. "But please don't put yourself down like that. Everyone helps in their way. You can't just take a scale and say, 'this bit of help weighs more than that one'."

blindedmewith August 21 2011, 21:12:05 UTC

"I suppose." She couldn't hide the small smile that Kagerou's words prompted. Bringing wrongdoers to justice through science-there really wasn't anything she wanted to do more. Maybe not even if she had all her memories. It was true that that mattered.

It mattered more that she had a friend who cared enough to remind her of this. "Thanks," she said, and smiled a little wider. "You're right-it's important that I remember these things! After all, when things get all strange, it's more important than ever to keep a clear head!"