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20th metal . open . spam & video
Aug. 18th, 2013 07:44 pm[ spam ]
[ Find Zane on a meadow in the CES, his rabbit leashed and on a little harness next to him. He sits against a tree and eats an apple and she noses around in the grass.
He makes the transmission from there. Leaves rustle softly in the background. ]
[ voice ]
[ For a moment, there's just the sound of wind and leaves.
There are a lot of questions he wishes he could ask. Has anyone ever defeated the need to kill? - foremost, among them, but he can't just ask that. He can't say it publicly. Nor about the peculiar relationship between pain and control.
Finally, he speaks. ]
I withdrew from the school. I think it's best.
[ Which isn't anything he intended to tell people. Let them find out on their own.
He isn't asking to be convinced otherwise. But maybe he wants to reassure Touko, say that it's safe there. Not that her other self seems to care much. ]
I'm sorry.
[ The last words are quiet, almost inaudible, and he cuts the transmission on the heels of them, like ducking out of a hostile room. He doesn't know what he expects from it. ]
[ Find Zane on a meadow in the CES, his rabbit leashed and on a little harness next to him. He sits against a tree and eats an apple and she noses around in the grass.
He makes the transmission from there. Leaves rustle softly in the background. ]
[ voice ]
[ For a moment, there's just the sound of wind and leaves.
There are a lot of questions he wishes he could ask. Has anyone ever defeated the need to kill? - foremost, among them, but he can't just ask that. He can't say it publicly. Nor about the peculiar relationship between pain and control.
Finally, he speaks. ]
I withdrew from the school. I think it's best.
[ Which isn't anything he intended to tell people. Let them find out on their own.
He isn't asking to be convinced otherwise. But maybe he wants to reassure Touko, say that it's safe there. Not that her other self seems to care much. ]
I'm sorry.
[ The last words are quiet, almost inaudible, and he cuts the transmission on the heels of them, like ducking out of a hostile room. He doesn't know what he expects from it. ]
