001. [text] | CW: talk of death

[saudadist]

@KIJYO

So who else was supposed to be dead?

Not expecting honest answers if you don't feel like it.

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[saudadist]

[ "Demons." Something about the way he says that, even if only in text, makes her skin crawl. For a moment, she can only wonder if she'd be counted among them in any other instance. That is, if they're anything like her species to begin with. ]

at least you're not doing it alone

[the_fourteenth]

You're right. I'm not used to working with others. It's not that I didn't have anyone back home, but it was much different than this. But I wonder, now. Was a hinderance to them, or them a hinderance to me? Would it have been better off if I worked alone?

Have you experienced anything like this place before?

[saudadist]

better off not thinking about that stuff
if they cared about you, they wouldn't think of you as a burden

for me, this kind of place is the stuff you'd see on television in the afternoon

[the_fourteenth]

I hope you're right. I don't think of them that way. But if I wasn't there, perhaps less danger would be brought into their lives.

I don't know exactly what you mean. But I'm taking it that it's a no.

[saudadist]

[ Yeah, she's got nothing for that first part. She doesn't want to say she feels the same way. For everyone's sake in that house, it's best if she never returns. ]

a television show? kids watch lighthearted versions in the morning and afternoons

[the_fourteenth]

Sorry, I don't follow.

[This is happening to him a lot.]

It's fine, really. I'm a little out of place here.

[saudadist]

[ The physical ability to have question marks floating around her head would be real helpful right now. ]

where are you from

if you want to answer

[the_fourteenth]

I suppose it will only make sense if you're from a place similar to mine, yes? Earth, I suppose? Japan, the Capital, Taishou 20.

[Fun fact: the Taishou era was only 14 years long elsewhere. He's from a weird place. But, the 1920s or thereabouts.]

[saudadist]

[ Okay that does narrow her frame of reference considerably. However... ]

I'm from Japan
not familiar with Taishou but
is that a year?

history wasn't something they taught me

[the_fourteenth]

It's okay. The idea of any of us being from the same Japan is probably pretty slim.

[He actually has some experience with this weird interdimensional travel business.
Not a fan.]

It would be 1922, if that helps.

[saudadist]

[ Oh. Yeah. Wow, that is easily a good 80 years or so earlier than her section of the timeline. ]

I'd say you've been missing out on TV but honestly
probably better off without it