[Week 31, Day 3, Afternoon] And Then You Were Older

[nec_metu]

[Though Gau and Raikou’s departure weighs heavily on her mind, Lenalee starts the video with a small smile. She isn’t sure where to begin, with so many thoughts tumbling through her head, but having deliberated for a few hours she is convinced that things are never going to get any clearer. So Lenalee starts speaking without quite knowing where it

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[revengeisalie]

[This post hits home so very much for Rin. It's things she's been mulling about, too. Even more so with the most recent departure.]

They're leaving one by one...

[Catches self. Not quite what she wanted to say.]

Ah... sorry!

But, uhm, hey. Maybe it'll be our turn soon, then.

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[nec_metu]

It certainly seems that way.

[Lenalee smiles, a little more tiredly than she meant to. Pieces of her world dropping away, one by one. She isn't sure when it stopped mattering that they didn't belong in the same place together; it felt like loss when they left. And they were part of her world.]

It's fine. Do you think that would be a good thing?

[Lenalee means it as an honest question, but once the words are out it sounds a bit like an accusation.]

I'm not sure anymore.

[Video]

[infiniillusion]

[Right. Maybe they should have thrown her a birthday party or something. But Kanda's never been too good with remembering dates. And, well, why make something special about some certain day when you can treat someone well all the time? Whatever.]

It's a bit difficult to keep a track of time here.

[Excuse Kanda that he doesn't quite catch the solemnly sad mood of your monologue, Lenalee. Then again maybe he does and figures that it isn't at all what you need right now. After all, he's him.]

[Sudden slightly shocked expression. HE'S FINALLY INTO TWO-DIGIT AGE EVEN MENTALLY.]

...wait. Does that make, what, twenty or something.

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[nec_metu]

Oh, it might.

[She smiles-- it's odd to think of Kanda as that old.]

That is a big one, we should do something to celebrate it.

[Video]

[infiniillusion]

[Is it less odd to think of him as ten years old?]

[He shrugs a bit, although looks eased up by that smile a little.]

No need. It's passed.

[Video]

[nec_metu]

[... nope.]

That doesn't matter, we should still celebrate! Even if it's a little late.

[Video]

[redeyeslasher]

[Well well. Seems the little lady has been doing some reflecting. That's nothing he can criticize. In a way she reminds him of Sharon just a bit at the moment.]

Ever helpful as always. I certainly hope your kindness will not be abused.

[Video]

[nec_metu]

[She can't imagine how an offer like this could be abused.]

I don't think there's anyone who would do such a thing here.

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[redeyeslasher]

[He can. Quite easily. That probably makes him a bad man inside but it's the truth about people.]

Not yet and not ever, I hope.

[One is enough after all.]

[Video]

[nec_metu]

Mm, not that everyone that's ever been here has been kind, but... I think that the majority are.

[Video]

[can_you_eat_it]

[Out of all of that, there's only one thing that really catches Alice's attention - and that's because it's something she's been thinking about more and more lately.

Ever since she saw Sunshine's dream, as a matter of fact.

And now here's another person mentioning it... maybe it's something contagious? his explanation wasn't very clear. Or maybe it's just not clear because she doesn't know how people are born to begin with.

Either way...]

Did you have a, um... what'd he call it? A birthday? The day where everyone is supposed to bring you food?

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[nec_metu]

Oh, yes. Everyone does.

[What a strange question.]

People don't necessarily bring food, but at home we always had a big party on people's birthdays. It's harder to keep track of here, but I had a celebration for one of my friends a long time ago. It can be something small, like making a cake together.

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[can_you_eat_it]

Oh... I don't think I like parties. People always die a lot at those.

[Elliot died at one of those.]

But I like food and cake so... if everyone has one, how do you know where it is? Do you have to find it, or does it find you?

[Video]

[nec_metu]

Ah... That doesn't happen at most parties. Birthday parties are a time to have fun with your friends.

[Lenalee has no idea what sort of parties Alice has been to, but it doesn't seem like something to pry into.]

What day were you born? That's your birthday.

[video]

[mightstealyrcar]

Dude--miss--I dunno. It's weird, huh? I'm nineteen, or maybe twenty. I don't feel any older.

[But a lot has happened to him, some bad, some amazingly good. Matt spins his cigarette around between his fingers as he thinks this over.]

But I guess I'm kind of a old-timer here, too. First thing I remember was about six months ago, by the way the days go here, and it seems longer, doesn't it?

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[nec_metu]

["Dude"? Lenalee is never going to get used to that.]

It is weird. I've started keeping track of time by the seasons-- it moves differently that at home, but somehow even that feels normal now. It does make it hard to keep track of things like birthdays, though.

[She pauses a second before giving into curiosity.]

What do you mean, when you say that you don't feel any older?

[Lenalee certainly does.]

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[mightstealyrcar]

I'm dead, y'know. I'm not sure I'm getting older. But it's too soon to tell. Maybe in five years, I will be.

I feel different, just. Not older.

[video]

[nec_metu]

[Ah, right. It isn't so difficult for Lenalee to wrap her mind around someone being dead at home yet alive here anymore, but it is still strange to talk about it.]

It's hard to say yet. I think that... even with that, we're probably all growing.

[She doesn't like the idea of remaining static. How could they, with all that happened?]