maskormenace | 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. ]

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[ she doesn't quite catch on to what he might be assuming. it's not uncommon that the dead are revived on arrival, she's known enough people that was true for. she hasn't said anything to clarify her resurrection as happening before that. ]

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.

You're right. I shouldn't have. That was rude of me, wasn't it?

... 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?

Of course it does, what would be the point if it didn't? But the adverse effects, like any physical damage, doesn't remain. Every wound heals, that's how it works.

Well, it still... it has an unpleasant smell, doesn't it?

[ The more he talks about it, the more he's tempted for his own cigarette. ]

[ join her, gilbert. do it for jenny! ]

You get used to it after a time. As long as it can be discouraged from lingering, and there's always perfume for that.