Reno of the Turks (
raspberryturk) wrote2009-08-20 07:43 pm
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Edge, Thursday Evening
"I'm friggin' bored," Reno announced, possibly to nobody in particular, possibly to the bowl of beans that he'd picked. "Bored bored bored."
The beans said nothing.
"You know how bored I am?"
The beans waited patiently for a reply.
"I'm so friggin' bored, I'm talkin' to string beans."
This was what happened when Reno got himself suspended from duty for two weeks.
Fear.
[NFB for distance, as usual, but totally open for phone calls!]
The beans said nothing.
"You know how bored I am?"
The beans waited patiently for a reply.
"I'm so friggin' bored, I'm talkin' to string beans."
This was what happened when Reno got himself suspended from duty for two weeks.
Fear.
[NFB for distance, as usual, but totally open for phone calls!]
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"Why do you have to forgive yourself? Feel bad 'bout it?"
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Ino tugged at her hair.
"But I'm just a stupid little Rookie, so who knows?"
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He'd totally do it, too.
"We're from different worlds, is all. It ain't that people ain't happy to be alive. It's that they're damn tired. This has been goin' on for years, now."
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"What 'bout the kids?" Ino asked. "There's gotta be some, people'd be sleeping 'round no matter what. Those kids ain't going to be tired. They're going to look 'round and go 'hey, I wanna live'."
Even in the ashes, embers burned. Closest thing to a religion that Ino got. Will of Fire. Her village's creed.
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So far as Reno was concerned, that much said it all.
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It was an interesting answer, at least.
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Mmmm. Beany.
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"Sure," Ino said dryly, "good. If you count the fact that I've talked to more people tonight than I have since I got back."
Sure, she could have lied, but that would... sort of defeat the purpose. Somehow.
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It was about as close as he could get to a chiding 'Rookie.' He understood the whole shock of the first kill. He'd seen it way too damn many times.
"Gets pretty boring, when you gotta call freaks like me just to have a conversation, yoto."
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A tug of her hair and a dip over the side of the roof. "I'm on the roof right now, of the dorms. Not my fault of people don't find me."
None of which really answered the question!
"And if you're a freak, then I like your freakitude."
That wasn't a real word, Ino.
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"You're gonna work on that," Reno decided. See? It was almost like an order, this way. Reno was so very kind.
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She sighed. "I guess." Suggestions that were really orders were still, well, orders. When had she started listening to his? "It's just... weird. It's not so important, what they're all talking 'bout 'cause none of it seems--clicky."
Clicky?
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Yes, even Reno had to ask.
"If it ain't sittin' well with you, then find a different topic. Easy enough. That's another important part of the job. Knowin' how to manipulate the conversation, yo. Gets you information. Keeps you from slippin' with any of your own."
And it was fun!
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"It's... like... none of it's sticking in my head," Ino said finally. "Like, it don't really matter, so I don't really care. Whatever whatever whatever. All like that. None of it is clicky."
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Yes. This was really how Reno's brain worked.
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