thirty-first breath ✧ voice/action

[ingrate]

Saggitarius
• The body under the couch is starting to smell.
• Quit whining about the pain, it only makes it worse for everyone else.
• Stop smoking. Or start. Whichever you're not doing.

[Isamu is sitting outside the house, a cigarette in one hand. Every so often he tilts his head to the side, as though hearing a voice that only he can hear.

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[mistyarc]

[Hubert emerges from the house in a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, his casual attire that he's taken to wearing since the moment he started getting strange urges.

He picks up on the smell of smoke quickly and turns to the cause. It's a rather terrible smell.]

Sir Isamu?

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[ingrate]

Yeah?

[Isamu gives him a rather dispassionate glance.]

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[mistyarc]

What are you doing?

[Hubert knows that it's smoking, but he questions what would drive Isamu to do it.]

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[ingrate]

Pondering the meaning of life. It wasn't obvious?

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[mistyarc]

Life in Luceti?

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[ingrate]

Life in general. Does there need to be specifics?

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[mistyarc]

It seems sudden.

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[ingrate]

Maybe. Maybe not soon enough.

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[mistyarc]

Not soon enough?

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[ingrate]

It's going on two years since I've been here. You'd think I would have cracked sooner.

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[mistyarc]

. . . No, Sir Isamu. I would not think you would have cracked sooner.

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[ingrate]

Haha, really?

[He blows a bit of smoke off to the side.]

And how long have you known me?

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[mistyarc]

Long enough to know that you did not, in fact, crack after those two years. As such, I have no reason to believe that you could have been so when you have not.

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[ingrate]

Not true. I've had some minor cracks here and there, if nothing worth being sent to the loony bin for.

The Malnosso are pretty good at giving shoves in that direction, you know.

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[mistyarc]

Minor. [Keyword, keyword.] . . . And I do understand that much.

[Especially given recent events.]

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[ingrate]

So is this part of the reach-out program? Are you here to pull a poor soul back on track?