a dustland fairytale beginning

[exanimatus]

Who: Asuka & Zelman
What: a not!date.
When: some weird hour sometime todayish.
Where: in town.
Rating: PG-13 (probably)

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[hatesdolls]

"Some of them left this morning on another trip," she says, stirring around the contents of her own shake. Strawberry, naturally. After a few seconds, she tacks on an "I guess," because she doesn't like admitting to paying that much attention to the rest of the world. They're not worth her time.

"If anything, I'm sure we'll get some panicked reports of an attack out there. Oh, big surprise."

She rolls her eyes, like she has hundreds and hundreds of times in this same place.

[exanimatus]

He hums a note of recollection--yeah, the trip started today. He knows all about it, of course, but can't bring himself to care very much.

"I hope it's big." It's an offhanded comment, in that way that means his mind is busy running on two different tracks, "Like something out of a Japanese monster movie. Though, given where it is, the undead are more likely."

[hatesdolls]

Asuka shrugs. She really doesn't care--the point behind going out into the world is to learn more about it, and the reason most want to learn about it is to unravel it and find a way to leave. That's something she has no interest in at all.

"If they all got eaten, I bet no one would ever go out there again. Not for a while, at least." She takes a sip of her shake, thoughtfully. "Or maybe the rest of the morons would run out there after them. They've been going out there for how long? Nothing's really come from it."

[exanimatus]

"They find new people, but no one has anything helpful to say..."

Which is something that bothers him. He kind of wants to go out there himself, sometime--he must be more competent than whatever group keeps bringing back empty observations. But he never would, not without his powers.

He gets quiet for a moment, pardoned initially by his eating a french fry but quickly without obvious cause or reason.

"We've been here a while now, haven't we?"