contract_star: (maybe I'll see them tonight)
BK-201 ([personal profile] contract_star) wrote in [community profile] realityshifted2008-10-03 12:25 am

039: You're Only Going Through the Motions, Baby

[Hei is here with a small patch of grass and his telescope. The telescope is propped up nearby and he's lying on his back in the grass, staring up at the Astral Sky. He has an unreadable expression.]

Hard to believe. They're really real there...

[He sighs.] The servants and the...concentration camp kind of put a damper on things, though...

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Just watches him for a moment before making a "go on" motion with his hand]

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm not. But you didn't need me to confirm that.

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I don't hide it. I'm just not going to come out and tell everyone. If they want it, they can dig a little for it.

[Absent pause.]

Define something else.

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
I know.

And that's what you're looking for then. What you don't know.

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Thinks on this, taking a few steps away.]

Some things are secret for a reason, you know.

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-04 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
So you also know that what you don't know won't kill you, right?

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-05 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Nods, then crouches and stares at Li] That's one way of putting it.

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-05 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Pauses, then decides to take a peak at the sky above too.] Information is risky merchandise. What you have, what you don't have, it could kill you either way, every way. It's about picking and choosing. What you need to know and what you don't.

[Absent pause, longer than the last one]

This is one of those things you don't need to know.

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-05 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Stares for a bit more] What about you? How many different secrets are you hiding?

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-05 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
And if someone were to find out?

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-05 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Now he's smirking] Secrets. Now that's the funny thing. How often have secrets decided who lives and who dies?

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-05 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Silence for a moment] You've got secrets. I've got mine. They're secrets for a reason.

[identity profile] stronguponme.livejournal.com 2008-10-05 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Smirk fades, and now it's his turn to be distant.] That depends on the secret.