十八 · a selfish dream · accidental video post / action post

[to_turn_away]

[The video comes on with a jolt, obviously having fallen from a height.]

[The sound of rain is loud, and the haze about the camera parts to show a man in a teal kimono standing somewhere in Xanadu, under the shade of a covered bridge spanning a creek. He is staring out into the rain, his eyes pensive, brooding. In one hand is his axe, and in the

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voice;

[reginagloriae]

You'll catch a cold if you keep standing under the pouring rain.

voice;

[to_turn_away]

There is shelter here.

What do you want?

voice;

[reginagloriae]

It'll be cold at night, you should return to your apartment.

...I'm not sure.

voice;

[to_turn_away]

Hmm.

[ioncewascool]

Better be careful with that thing. Computers don't generally take well to being dropped. Or wet.

[to_turn_away]

Is that so? I think that those within the City have extraordinary resilience, based on what I see and hear.

[ioncewascool]

Really? Well, I'm new here. Back where I'm from, computers are a lot more delicate.

[to_turn_away]

Whence I came, computers have not been created.

[revengeisalie]

Isn't it a bit cold out there?

[to_turn_away]

Quite, but nothing intolerable.

[revengeisalie]

What are you doing out there, anyway?

[to_turn_away]

Thinking. Of the past. The future. Where I am now.

The rain came without warning.