053 - The haze I wish to never break, and to never contemplate

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Tanned, hair braided, in her good ole blue pjs with the little ducks, there is a Misaki. She's curled up on her old, red couch from her old, plain flat in Tokyo. Haruki is asleep with his head on her feet while she reads Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. She gives the dog's head an absentminded pat.]




[[Experiment end]]

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[exserpens.livejournal.com]

[Have a demon, standing a ways away because lol dog. He's grinning, though.]

Nice pyjamas.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

They're comfortable.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

They look it. The ducks were a nice touch.

Finally back from your Italian holiday, I take it?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

So it would seem. I'm taking a little time off to adjust. Readjust, rather.

[exserpens.livejournal.com]

And how's the world been faring in your absence?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Contrary to my expectations it has in fact continued to rotate.

[mercwamouth]

Back from Italy already?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

'Already'? What's it been, almost two weeks?

[mercwamouth]

...Has it? Jeez, time is wonky in this place. A day hasn't even passed in my reality.

[Mostly because a certain writer won't get off his ass and buy my latest comic]

[Hey, if you wanna pay for it, be my guest]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

That's the funny thing. No time passed in mine, either. It was like I never left.

Of course that made getting some time off a lot easier.

[mercwamouth]

Hm. How deus ex machina-y.

Good to be back?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

It is. I missed everyone. And my city. [Sigh]

[mercwamouth]

My city screams...

Sorry, reflex.

I'm sure you've got a boatload of work waiting for you?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

...right. [She stretches and sits up straight.] Probably. I'll deal with it when I go back to the office. Nothing's happened in a day that I can't deal with.

[mercwamouth]

Shouldn't have said that. Now you're just asking for it.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

If something's coming, then there's nothing I can do to change that. I can deal with it as it happens, that's all.

[mercwamouth]

Just sayin', you're jynxin' it.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

And you're paranoid.

[mercwamouth]

[Song cue!]

Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind.

People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time.

[GUITAR NOISES] Broooooow doooow noow...

[contract_star]

...It's over?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

The experiment? Yes. [Haruki sits up and grins at Hei, tail wagging.]

[contract_star]

[Faint smile at the dog.] Hello, Haruki.

[To Misaki,] How's Japan?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

It's fine. Unchanged. [A little laugh] It's only been about a day for them.

[contract_star]

It was the same for me. The others hadn't even noticed I'd gone.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's a good thing, though, isn't it?

[contract_star]

Definitely. Yin is getting used to all of the strange stuff, but Azure and Verde would have taken it badly. They barely trust me as it is.