video & filtered. :( filtered away from yoite yukimi & shijima.

[torporheart]

[ It's dark. At this hour, of course it would be. It's dark, and he should be home, but he isn't. He's at the SERO docks sitting under a semi-large damp wooden crate. Tiny legs have to be pulled in close, but there's plenty of head space. He hardly fills it up

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[eyes_unopened]

My, my. It's bad to stay up late, you know~

You'll get wrinkles under your eyes.

[torporheart]

Koumyou-san.

[beat]

Grandma says it's easier to do in your youth.

[eyes_unopened]

[ Pause while he lights a cigarette, wandering from where he's been in his bed to lean on the windowsill. ]

It won't be your youth for long if you carry on like that, Miharu.

[torporheart]

Mn. I'm not worried about that right now.

How long have you been doing that for? [Smoking, he means.]

Voice; private to.

[tipofatlas]

[ he has a sharp answer for that, but it's the dull, concerned route that's taken. the fingers-- ]

Have you been cooking new things, Miharu?

Voice; private to.

[torporheart]

Some; yeah.

Voice; private to.

[tipofatlas]

Do you taste them yourself?

Voice; private to.

[torporheart]

Umm. [ N- no. He throws them away. ] I guess, Grandma might taste them if she was here.

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[daddydaioh]

Those are very serious questions, you know! People might have a difficult time in answering them, because there's a lot to consider. But, let's see...

[Thinking thinking thinking...]

Saying what needs to be said depends on what it is that needs to be said! Sometimes it's difficult because you're scared, or because you don't know how the other person will answer. Sometimes it's difficult because the other person doesn't want to hear what you have to say, and you don't want to upset them. And sometimes it's difficult because it doesn't need to be said, and you're trying to attach words to it

[video] 2/2

[daddydaioh]

W-Wait--are you outside?

[video]

[torporheart]

Oh. [ Tilting. ] It depends on a lot, doesn't it? Um, what if the cat acts like it wants to come in and out? What if you can't understand what the cat wants at all and it won't tell you?

[video]

[daddydaioh]

Well... Cats are notoirous for acting mysterious, of course! But if it's coming in and out, over and over again, then maybe that means it's indecisive. It can't make up its mind, because--well, if I were a cat, I would want to be outside playing and making friends. But I would also want to be inside where it was warm and where people were paying attention to me and feeding me tuna fish. Because there's good and bad things about both!

But if you have to know, then maybe you can think like the cat! I tried that once, and it worked pretty well!

Er, so--are you outside?

[sniperkingftw]

[ ...yup. Pinged. Usopp is of the opinion that people don't go out in the dark unless they can. This guy is obviously badass. ]

Ah; i-it hurts to hold onto things and to let them go. Sometimes. But it doesn't- it gets easier after a while, though.

And...waiting is the worst part.

[torporheart]

[ Ohh, Usopp! I'm sorry he really isn't a bad ass. Just a teeny fifteen-year-old kid who believes he can do whatever he likes, whenever he feels like it. ]

So, then. You think it's all right to erase them?

[sniperkingftw]

[ Damn. ]

It's not erasing if you don't forget.

[torporheart]

What if you could, though? You have two options. Waiting for them to die or making it so they were never there in the first place- I don't mean killing, I mean wiping out their existence as though it never even began. If you could do something like that, instead of waiting, would you?

[deservesabone]

- Miharu, where are you?

[torporheart]

What? Under a box.

[deservesabone]

That's not what I - where is the box? [yeah he heard that growl, and yeah he's worried as hell]

[torporheart]

The docks.