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[Misaki, in sweats with a massive punching bag. She has gloves on and is whaling away at it, and from the coating of sweat shining on her face it looks like she's been at it a while. Her hair is damp and starting to come loose from her ponytail. She strikes the bag once more, setting it swinging, and then pauses to shed the gloves and stretch a bit. She takes a drink from the water bottle near the bag's base, tugs the gloves back on and resumes.]

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[Steps away again.] That's something, at least.

Yeah... [Watches her for a moment and collects himself before trying again.]

I...what you said last time. It's...not that the world stopped turning with Heaven's Gate. It's not...really like that.

Edited 2008-07-07 07:43 (UTC)

[She waits, watching him impassively.]

[Ffffff. He rubs the back of his neck. This is hard, and he doesn't really know how to put it into words.]

Everything I did was for Bai. She was nine...only nine. They weren't going to let me come with her. They didn't need me; I was...[long pause] human. Useless. But I couldn't let her go on her own. Who would protect her? But the only way I could follow her was if I...

[Long pause.] Five years later she was gone, but it wasn't really like that. She...my sister really disappeared when she became a Contractor. Maybe all that time I was just waiting for her to change back. [Soft, bitter laugh.] You were right. I'm an idiot.

[Ow, headache. She stands there for a second, massaging the bridge of her nose with one hand. She furrows her brow, trying to home in on the little bit of sense she feels floating under all the other stuff that is, at the moment, a bit too much to sort out.]

No. That isn't... Hope isn't idiotic. Giving up on it--acting like everything good in the world disappeared when she did, acting like you disappeared when she did. That, that is stupid.