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maskormenace2014-10-03 04:16 am
glowsferatu) wrote in maskormenace2014-10-03 04:16 am
004 ♍ video ♍ mid-morning
[ kanaya, wearing a brown leather apron, sits on a stool in her garage, full of tools and some boxes in absence of a car. on the bench next to her, she has two long gloves, a wielding mask, and a grinder. she seems to be finished with them already, working a rag over a metal stave. the outline of a fist, middle finger extended, is carved on its head. the smiths can be heard droning on in the background. ]
I suppose two weeks is long enough.
You can all remove your earplugs now. Whatever concerns you had over an emotional outburst ending with your lightbulbs burst are no longer needed.
Jenny Quantum has returned home.
[ she pauses, dropping the rag and just focusing on the stave for a few moments, meditating on its dull, yet polished, surface. she sets it on the table, but the writing along its face isn't readable at that angle. replacing it in her hand is a green box of menthols, and she gives the camera a humorless smile as she pulls one out. ]
Smoke 'em if you've got 'em.
[ she lights her cigarette, maybe the only better memorial she could give jenny than the grave marker, as the feed cuts. ]
I suppose two weeks is long enough.
You can all remove your earplugs now. Whatever concerns you had over an emotional outburst ending with your lightbulbs burst are no longer needed.
Jenny Quantum has returned home.
[ she pauses, dropping the rag and just focusing on the stave for a few moments, meditating on its dull, yet polished, surface. she sets it on the table, but the writing along its face isn't readable at that angle. replacing it in her hand is a green box of menthols, and she gives the camera a humorless smile as she pulls one out. ]
Smoke 'em if you've got 'em.
[ she lights her cigarette, maybe the only better memorial she could give jenny than the grave marker, as the feed cuts. ]
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[ A reminder he needs to hear, though it's often difficult for him to accept. He's always afraid of losing another precious person.
He clears his throat awkwardly, trying to broach the other subject: ]
... you shouldn't be doing that.
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Mourning? [ she pauses to take a drag because she entirely missed the point. ]
Maybe not. It's meant to be a somewhat alien concept, but I'm afraid I just can't help it.
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Sorry, I mean that. [ And he tries to point on the screen to indicate her cigarette. ] It's no good for you.
[ ... says the chain smoker. ]
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Even if I lacked regenerative abilities, I highly doubt I'll live long enough for it to matter.
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[ ... again, says the chain smoker. ]
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Hazardous as it may be to humans, it doesn't really apply the same way to me. Health is for the living, and I'm three years dead already.
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Gil is wide-eyed at first and he quickly shuts his mouth before the surprise is replaced with guilt. ]
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[ He bites his bottom lip uneasily, avoiding Kanaya's gaze. ]
... sorry.
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The only thing you're guilty of is the same that most humans are, underestimating me. That you wouldn't know me as well as I do is inevitable.
But that will be the case with most imPorts, I think.
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... I'm sorry.
[ He honestly has to wonder how it is he keeps meeting dead women after dead women. ]
It doesn't affect you at all?
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[ The more he talks about it, the more he's tempted for his own cigarette. ]
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You get used to it after a time. As long as it can be discouraged from lingering, and there's always perfume for that.