Capsule 005 💊 (Video)

[rassera]

[The video feed pops on, showing Kaneda on his bed with...what looks to be the remains of something electronic. Something...pretty familiar. So familiar that it may match what you're holding in your hand to watch this said video. Wires are spilling out of it, some not even attached anymore, and the casing looks like it got bent like a spoon.]

So.

Anyone know how to fix a busted comm?


[A hand reaches up to rub the back of his neck as the other gingerly picks up the device between two fingers, wires dangling.]


I'd say technical difficulties is understating a biiiit~ but I guess it depends on your point of view.

[It's for a friend, okay.]

Comments

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[rassera]

What? I didn't do anything to it!


This is Tetsuo's!

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[rideme]

Then, what did he do to it?

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[rassera]

What do you think he did to it? Tore it to pieces!

[A huff.]

I didn't see him do it, I just found it. And you know how...OPEN he is about this stuff.


Didn't tell me a word.

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[rideme]

Well that's... new.

Hey. Since you have the thing... see if someone can check the messages while you're at it.

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[rassera]

[Kaneda doesn't say anything at first, getting up to close the door to his room softly.

Hopefully Tetsuo was doing that mediation thing or whatever. Hopefully.]

Ken told me the same thing.


I...miiight have did some sneaking of my own. You know...before.

[He was going to tell you but comm-murder showed up.]

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[rideme]

[Smart move.]

Ken's sharp.

... you find anything out?

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[rassera]

That guy...the one you pulled me from?



It's not him.

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[rideme]

... All right. Good to know.

One less person to keep tabs on.

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[rassera]

Yeah, just now we're back with nothing.

[Bull can't see it, but he runs a hand through his hair in frustration.]

This place could give me a break, that'd be GREAT.

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[rideme]

Not completely nothing.

I've got some lines out.

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[rassera]

...Quill? Kasumi?

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[rideme]

Yeah.

They know this technology better than I do. They don't know all the details... just enough to point a finger where it needs to go.

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[rassera]

Let me know if they tell you anything, alright?

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[rideme]

Yeah.

Why the hell wouldn't I?

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[rassera]

[It was true, Bull never had given him the impression that he was being shoved out of this conversation...or decision.]

Habit back home, I guess.

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[rideme]

Fair enough.

... But I want you to know something. [And his tone changes. Suddenly a lot more serious.]

I will never keep something you need to know from you. I will be honest with you. It doesn't do anyone any good to have things sugarcoated, or kept from them. Doesn't help me, sure as hell doesn't help you.

All right?

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[rassera]

....





[For a moment, it almost feels like Kaneda hung up, the only sign that he's still there is faint breathing.]

What if it would destroy me, huh? Would you keep it then?


[Because this is very personal. And he needs to know.]

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[rideme]

...

No.

[He wouldn't like it. He'd probably figure out a way to do it gently. Or somehow fix it... But, he wouldn't hide it.]

[He's tired of keeping shit secret.]

Couldn't do that to you.

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[rassera]

[More silence behind the feed. Congrats, Bull, you've made him actually think for a moment.]

Everyone says that until it happens.

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[rideme]

Yeah, they do.

Until it happens.

[Read: I know from experience.]