mizuki. 🐰 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adorabrawler) wrote2023-06-10 02:57 pm
adorabrawler) wrote2023-06-10 02:57 pm
Yep, back and forth. You're trying to make the other person miss the ball so they lose the round, but it can be fun to see how long you're able to keep it up too.
[after execution, where's mizuki? ylfa is around anywhere, so they can just run into each other.]
...Hey. How're you holding up?
...Hey. How're you holding up?
[ just walkin' around town, but she does stop when Ylfa comes by. ]
Well. I won't pretend that wasn't totally messed up, but—I'll be okay. ... What about you?
Well. I won't pretend that wasn't totally messed up, but—I'll be okay. ... What about you?
[this is honestly a very refreshing answer.]
Very much the same, yeah.
Very much the same, yeah.
Good. The others haven't been pestering you all day about it, have they?
Of course... It was starting to get annoying.
...Yeah. I mean, I think everyone just wants to - they don't know who is experiencing things like this for the first time, and who isn't.
And because I'm—we're just kids.
[ or was that just her. oh well. ]
... But that's probably true, too.
[ or was that just her. oh well. ]
... But that's probably true, too.
I think both things are true. They think it's especially likely we haven't experienced it before, and that's not exactly right.
[ tmw she's complaining and Ylfa's being way more reasonable about this.........
Mizuki pauses briefly, then exhales softly. ]
Yeah... Yeah. You're right. It's not exactly normal.
Mizuki pauses briefly, then exhales softly. ]
Yeah... Yeah. You're right. It's not exactly normal.
No, it's not. And there are people here who are having a hard time with it, but...I don't know. I'm used to going through horrible things? And I guess so are you.
It's not really my first time seeing a body. Or... seeing someone getting killed.
[ may as well lay it out there ]
[ may as well lay it out there ]
Well. I can't say this is how I expected to relate to anyone here—especially someone closer to my age.
Being young doesn't exactly prevent bad things from happening to you...
Naaah.
[ she gestures with a hand ]
I didn't mean it like that. But—like I said, it's not normal, even for me.
[ she gestures with a hand ]
I didn't mean it like that. But—like I said, it's not normal, even for me.
Things were more normal for you until...recent events?
Mmhm. Usually it's just—wake up, go to school, hang out with my friends after, come home... you know, typical stuff.
...Yeah, same. Wake up, help with the chores, go into the woods to visit grandma, hang out with my best friend, grandma, and stay up until 8 PM baking cookies if we're in a naughty mood, come home after. Normal stuff.
Edited 2023-06-21 00:08 (UTC)
[ In one of the more isolated pathways around the canals, Mizuki turns a corner, and— ]
—Oh. Ylfa?
—Oh. Ylfa?
[she's sitting there by the water, in a tunnel, but when she sees mizuki she backs away a little and bares her teeth, ears flat.]
You shouldn't be here.
You shouldn't be here.
[ —oh.
She pauses, hesitant to land on any one decision in the moment, but eventually opts for: ]
Why? Are you all right?
She pauses, hesitant to land on any one decision in the moment, but eventually opts for: ]
Why? Are you all right?
Not...not really, no.
[she's very tense, staying back and keeping her distance. she doesn't have the body language of someone planning to either attack or to run, though, just a creature warning you to keep a safe distance.]
[she's very tense, staying back and keeping her distance. she doesn't have the body language of someone planning to either attack or to run, though, just a creature warning you to keep a safe distance.]
...
[ Another moment of silence follows. ]
I can turn around and go, if you want—but if you just want a little bit of company... We don't have to say much.
[ Another moment of silence follows. ]
I can turn around and go, if you want—but if you just want a little bit of company... We don't have to say much.
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