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"Oi, it's me. Leave something here, would ya?"
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"Oi, it's me. Leave something here, would ya?"
Text | Audio | Video | Action
"Oi, it's me. Leave something here, would ya?"
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Yeah?
[Not a 'tell me' or a demand. Just keeping it casual and letting it come out if Tetsuo wants. He turns the onigiri over and lets the soy sauce fry, brushing the other side quickly.]
She told you?
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[His eyes trace the contours of the doorway opposite him, unable to look at Kaneda anymore. The words stick in his throat. It's hard enough to say them, and when he speaks, it's in an odd, quiet monotone.]
She's been dead this whole time.
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[Kaneda tries to find Tetsuo's eyes, but they deftly avoid his in return.]
But nothing stays dead here...
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[Yeah. Something. She'd told him the whole story, but... he hesitates too much to tell that part. Not his place.]
- made her alive again there. She's the same way here.
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Sabriel said something like that. That there's people out there who bring the dead back.
[It explains the unspoken hostility between them.]
So she's stuck inbetween both.
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...you can't tell anyone else about this, okay?
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I won't tell.
[And if Kaneda's track record's anything to go by, he'd die before he'd tell anyone a secret that shouldn't come out.]
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[He makes a helpless gesture with one hand, letting it drop. It feels like he should say more here, but he's got nothing. That's all his news was, beyond 'this bothers the living fuck out of me'.]
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Kaneda's hand reaches up, running through that hair softly. He can tell Tetsuo's upset by this, he never was good at hiding his emotions.]
"It's not fair."
That's what's going on in your mind, isn't it.
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[He agrees instantly. Tetsuo finally pushes off of the doorframe, reaching out for one of the fried ones. If he didn't like it? There's anko ones and he won't have to care.]
It's not like that for - for anyone else! It shouldn't be that way for her, either! This is stupid!
[If anyone told him he'd be genuinely upset about someone else's problems, beyond 'not being here', before it happened, he wouldn't have really believed it. But, now...]
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It's shit.
[And the worst part is, he doesn't know what to do.]
This place is known for its damn loopholes.
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America could fix this, couldn't it?! They throw a whole convention, just for us.... but they won't even try to do anything about this!
[With that, he takes an angry bite into the ... admittedly, extremely good yakionigiri. It's savory, but not too much; just the right touch to it. There's some mild insult to how good this thing is when he's ready to find extra things to be mad at, and yet it helps to at least have ONE good thing around here.
Of course, it's not anything this place typically offered.]
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Maybe.
[Could they? Probably. Just like they could fix Tetsuo. They're both having the same problem, aren't they. Constantly stuck between alive and healthy and death.]
But the American Government picks and cho-
[His voice stops, mulling over his last thought. Remembering something that Hazel had told him.]
It's cause it's her power.
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[That stops his rant dead in the water. His chewing slows, the food suddenly not tasting quite as appetizing as it had a second ago. Almost, but.. not quite. Tetsuo swallows.]
Her power?
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But...
If THIS was what her power was...I can see why she'd say that.
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[People can have more than one power here, though. Doesn't Kaneda? Doesn't Tetsuo? That argument holds nothing; he drops it pretty quickly.]
That's a bullshit power.
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[He gently moves Tetsuo to come sit down at the table.]
I won't say it's Hazel.
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Why her?
[Tetsuo, for his part, barely knows a thing about Sabriel. She showed up at Nonah 05 once in the middle of the night. He fought her, and then tangentially in the same battles she did, and she dealt with Pan in ways he didn't really like (ie, not agreeing Pan ought to face the same fate Tetsuo had). He's lucky he can put a face to the name, and that's only after having discussed her for a while beforehand.
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She's not also a walking corpse, is she? Is that a common thing? Is that just something people get?]
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[He'll be brief about Sabriel's own past, too, what little he knows about it.]
She can bring people back too, but she doesn't.
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I don't care if she can do that!
[He's not really letting what Kaneda's saying sink in beyond the words themselves, then.]
She didn't do it, probably... and it already happened. There's nothing to stop anymore!
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[He rubs his neck, trying to put this in a way Tetsuo can understand.]
It means she knows the rules!! If anyone would know how these rules work, it's someone who can make it happen.
And maybe she'd know what to do.
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But he's still not sold.]
Fine, I get it... So how you gonna ask her something like that without spilling?
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[That takes some thought, reaching over to break a piece off of one of those onigiri. Nothing too big, but he's starving.]
It's her job back home...and she just got back from a trip back there.
She sounded like she wanted to talk to me about it.