raspberryturk: (Up there omg)
Reno of the Turks ([personal profile] raspberryturk) wrote2009-08-20 07:43 pm

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!]
intraspective: (blah)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ino gave that a long pause.

"Why do you have to forgive yourself? Feel bad 'bout it?"
intraspective: (secrets)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
"I saw it." Had been there, wanted to go back and explore. Thought Edge was sort of brokenly awesome. "But, you know--the world ain't always, don't seem like, it'd be all upright if it never fell. No one would know the difference. Falling makes it matter more."
intraspective: (glance down)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe?" She shrugged. "I mean--I don't even get those numbers. But, it don't sound hard to look 'round and see that maybe there's bodies everywhere, but there's still some people standing. 'Cause saying that it's hard to 'ppreciate what's good... kinda sounds like those that didn't make it are more important than those that did."

Ino tugged at her hair.

"But I'm just a stupid little Rookie, so who knows?"
intraspective: (slip past defense)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
"You just want the excuse to come back to Fandom," she teased, skipping around what he'd actually said.

"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.
intraspective: (stars and head turned)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Think you managed?" she questioned, kicking her feet idly over the edge of the roof and glad enough for this topic over the other one.
intraspective: (side glance)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Mmm," she hummed. "Good enough, I guess."

It was an interesting answer, at least.
intraspective: (wistful in big and small)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
"And that's what matters most," Ino sighed. "Good then. I--don't even know how we got on that. I just wanted to call and say I was still alive."
intraspective: (are you REALLY sure?)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
She made a face at the sky.

"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.
intraspective: (ah ha I have an idea!)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I taught class with Anemone," she defended herself. "And went to work and everything. I'm not--hiding."

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.
intraspective: (at attention!)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
...point.

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?
intraspective: (sit down it's a talk)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Chewing on her lower lip she tried to find actual real and shiny words to explain it.

"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."
intraspective: (charming)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-08-21 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Awesome has got to be shared?" she gave that a soft laugh. "I guess I got some stored up. Maybe that'll help."