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[letsplaysurgeon]

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[showbizpanache]

[Whoa so much white.] You know, monochrome is making a comeback, but I don't quite think you've nailed it.

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[letsplaysurgeon]

[What. Just happened to him.

No seriously. What did he just hear? Did he just get schooled in fashion by some random kid on the network? Just give Muraki a second, Kurt.]

[letsplaysurgeon]

[Then he starts to laugh. It bubbles up from deep inside his chest and seems to shake his shoulders.] I'm terribly sorry.

How should I be wearing my clothes, then?

[showbizpanache]

Vary up the tones a little, at least. Unless you're trying to look like a creepy Albino doctor. In that case you're fine.

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[swordandbells]

(ooc: omg! You finally brought him in! :D)

[Sabriel stares, transfixed, at all that white. Of course, it isn't what the man's wearing that's got her attention; it's that *wing*. How on earth was that possible? She's dying to know.]

How is it that you have a wing, if you don't mind my asking?

[She bites her tongue almost as soon as the words pop out. Goodness, Sabriel, where are you manners?]

Um...Excuse me. I meant to introduce myself. I'm Sabriel.

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[letsplaysurgeon]

[He lifts an eyebrow.] This? [Then Muraki adjusts his body so that his left wing is visible again, even more so than before. His smile becomes a little bit wider.] A little souvenir from the clever scientists that pulled me from my original world. ['Clever' having a hidden, double meaning, because he didn't mean it to be flattering at all.]

A pleasure to meet you, my dear. I'm Muraki Kazutaka.

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[swordandbells]

[Wow...what? He got his wings from scientists? Now Sabriel is extra-curious. She'd expect to see something like that on a Free Magic being, but not on a human.]

It's a pleasure as well. [She pauses for a second, looking torn about asking another question and whether it would be proper to start probing about this man's business after having just met him. Curiosity overrides her brief struggle with etiquette, however, and she ventures ahead.]

How...How do you mean "souvenir"?

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[letsplaysurgeon]

[Sitting back against the couch again, chin propped up by the heel of his hand, he smiles. The questions were not too invasive for him to mind.]

Exactly as it sounds. A little something they gave me that apparently was too precious to lose. But I suppose it could be worse.

[stillhaslegs]

So you've been snatched from your own dimension by a semi-sentient... thing before? Should probably make a note about that, actually.

...Now, did you have the wings before or after this?

[letsplaysurgeon]

[A snort.] Make note that there is more than one thief, no better than a child lifting rocks and taking the insects it finds for its collection. [His smile becomes a bit wry.] Though I'm not sure whom that note will serve.

Afterwards. It's a bit of a sick joke, I'm afraid.

[stillhaslegs]

Me. But if there's multiple pocket universes that multiple people have fallen into, there's a much bigger problem than just kidnapping.

[ a pause. ]

And how did who... whatever manage that? Genetic manipulation? Perception filter? No, if it were a perception filter, then it wouldn't work now. Definitely genetic manipulation, then.

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[letsplaysurgeon]

Oh, I'm sure there is a problem. But we are prisoners trapped in a glass box--ergo, there is not a lot you can do to warn those who should be warned, is there?

...Not that it seems very likely that one can do anything to stop these forces from taking them.

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[payback]

Am I to take it you passed through another world like this one before?

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[letsplaysurgeon]

Not quite like this, but I have been subject to kidnapping before, yes.

[payback]

What was it like?

[letsplaysurgeon]

Quiet. And peaceful, for the most part. It was quite like living inside a snow globe. [Other people from Luceti would be swift to correct him, but Muraki was never drafted, and he wasn't going to discuss the experiments with someone he just met.]

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[sequincy]

[Sudden shock grips him when he sees the man, surprisingly intense. It lasts for all of a moment, but in that moment -

Ryuuken.

Then it passes. No. Wait. There's - the voice is wrong. And the eyes. There's no cold detachment. No judgement. And the mouth - Ryuuken wouldn't smile.

...And there's the wing, of course.]

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[sequincy]

[if there's anything shaken left in his expression when he flicks on his video, it's quickly smoothed away. Uryuu adjusts his glasses; composed. Removed.]

You'll find atheism is difficult to maintain here.

It's obvious that while you're new, you've been here long enough to build a general understanding of your predicament. [he tilts his chin, playing at a clinical air.] How does Siren's Port compare to the world you were taken to before? Have you noticed any similarities?

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[letsplaysurgeon]

[Muraki does notice a brief flicker of something when the young man appears, but then it's gone before he has the chance to interpret what it is. However, it still catches his interest.]

Is that so?

...It compares in circumstances, alone. I had believed that my previous prison had been the only one. Now I stand corrected, and quite surprised.

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[sequincy]

[there's an unfinished dress on his desk - what he'd been doing before he caught sight of Muraki's post. Uryuu takes the opportunity for distraction, re-threading his needle and casually avoiding eye-contact.]

Irritating. [to the second; someone else can pursue religion with Muraki.] But that's been the response from a few others who've experienced the same.

...I can only assume how well your Greeter informed you about the city, but you should know there are probably resources for you with regards to your wings. [a brief glance.] In the event that they've been an issue for you in the past. I believe there are even tailors who specialize in clothing accommodations for mutations.

[a pause in his stitching.] Ah, not that they're necessarily - I should have said "uncommon" features.