035: Getting In Touch With Your Inner Child

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[Hei is hiding in the forest. Something seems different about him...for starters, HE'S TWELVE. He's also rather furious and pacing among the trees, kicking at things.]

Damn it, damn it, why hasn't it faded yet?

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[lamb_of_gold]

[Stalker Mu is a stalker]I would like very much to know that myself.

[contract_star]

[Folds his arms and glares at the ground. Yes. Hei WHO DOES NOT POUT is pouting.] This is so ridiculous.

[lamb_of_gold]

To put it mildly.

[contract_star]

[Draws one of his knives, which hangs heavily in his hand. He stares at it contemplatively.] It took me a whole year to build up the arm strength to use these. Now I'm back to the point where I can barely even hold them.

[lamb_of_gold]

[Stares at his own hands - no scars or calluses, and the skin on his face is smooth and soft, not dried out by years of windburn] It's strange, isn't it? At least we've our minds.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

...S....Signore....?

[contract_star]

[Looks away.] Definitely a plus.

[contract_star]

[Sighs.] Hi, Henrietta. Yes, it's me.

[lamb_of_gold]

The alternative might be problematic.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[plz excuse, is brainbroken]

[contract_star]

[Doesn't respond, frowning and thinking of how ridiculously awful it would be if he really was twelve again.]

[contract_star]

I don't really get it either. It's something Dino brought to the Plane--have you met him? It made me like this.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

[Headtilt] Hi, Shan. You grew backwards.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Dino.] Signore Cavallone did this to you? ['Must protect' instinct/conditioning kicking in]

[contract_star]

[Fuckshit.] No, no, not intentionally. It was an accident. ...I was careless.

[contract_star]

Thanks for pointing that out.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

Well you did.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

...are you sure?

[contract_star]

Yes. [Tiny smile to prove it.]

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[Grumbles.]

[lamb_of_gold]

[Don't even get Mu started.] Tch. Even if I wanted to go home now, I'd be as old as Kiki and thoroughly unable to do my job.

[contract_star]

[Fidgets.] Mu, what if...what if our realities have changed too? What if we go back and it's ten years in the past? I haven't gone back to check, but... [Mu is probably picking up on Hei's worry.]

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Well. All right then. She subsides a little.] Are you going to go back to being an adult?

[lamb_of_gold]

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[back!] They're not. I nearly got flattened by my own cloth.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

You don't like being small? You can fit places.