text, @HTKRIZO 10:31PM

[hitokiller]

( it comes as video at first. the image of someone kicking a chair over in the cafeteria, the sound of "THE HELL?!!!" being screeched at a pitch even dogs can hear. there's a bottle and a half-filled glass on a flat table nearby.

maybe he didn't mean to send that. maybe he did. either way, there's a text immediately after. )

whaddya mean we can't
TASTE A DRINK NEITHER???
how long is this gonna last?
th... a week? a whole 'nother month?
where's that damn cure, huh?
how long's that gonna take?

( let the panic begin. )

... how're the rest of ya coping
with not bein' able to eat real food, or drink, or

( a pause. )

and don't say anything stupid
like i shoulda just not gotten bit

Comments

[atonality]

Take it easy. Wouldn’t want to overtax yourself when liquor is so hard come by.

[hitokiller]

... fair enough
but good drink and good food are important
not bein' able to taste is like
... not bein' alive, almost

( like you're a walking corpse. something he'd rather not dwell on. )

[atonality]

[ Little does Okada know how very close to home that is. ]

Better dead than empty, is it?

[hitokiller]

better neither, in fact
now that i'm alive again...
i wanna keep it that way

[atonality]

Admirable.
I suppose we must keep you fed and watered to maintain that life.

[hitokiller]

HOLD IT

if i drink water



am i gonna die?????
just
forget it

1/2

[atonality]

So you don’t want this, I take it?

[atonality]

[ Don’t look, but there’s a guy in the cafeteria entryway, holding a semi-opaque plastic cup filled with what can only be tap water. ]

[hitokiller]

( there's a legitimate, audible gasp from izou when he peers across the hall,

and sees what he knows is that gotdamn glass of water and a certain assassin!! )

G... Go dump that shit somewhere!

[atonality]

[ Inexplicably, he holds the glass Out and Aloft. Can an offering of a drink be so threatening? ]

Now why could this be? Could it be that you... are not thirsty?

[hitokiller]

I...

( he is. HE IS,

though his throat says it's for something else entirely, and it stings. it stings not being able to blow this all over with a drink. )

I don't wanna down that and turn into dust or whatever the hell happens.