thirteenth dazzle | July 29, after dark | video

[tauborn]

[Takuto doesn't look sad for this appearance on the network, but he doesn't look characteristically happy, either. He just looks... tired. Maybe it's just that the only light is the glow from the communicator's screen itself, but he looks far more tired than a seventeen year old boy obsessed with singing out his youth and being a source of metaphorical radiance has a right to look.

He sighs, turning the video feed away from himself, into what appears to be total blackness.]

...Some of them are missing. [The darkness of the image focuses in and out of a blurry gray before slowly resolving into tiny pinpricks of light. Stars. There's the sound of a heavy sigh once again.]

I know it's not a thing that's particular to this city or this world or the situation we're all in. People can leave for reasons much worse than a magical device's whim. But all this leaving is exhausting me. People coming and going and coming and going.

[He pauses, recollecting his thoughts as the images blurs, refocuses. The stars twinkle, distantly, silently.]

I think life is a string of people coming and going no matter who or where you are, but… but here, this… I’m getting tired of it.

BREW sent Yuugi away.


[text | private to Yako]

I'm on my roof and I would like some company.

Comments

[morecowbell]

I do close my curtains at night but it's still unnerving when it's hanging around leering while I'm trying to relax in the hot tub after a hard days work.

[Sadly Nanami doesn't really feel at home in either place at this point but at least here she doesn't have to face certain people or disappointments anymore.]

[tauborn]

He's not really so bad....

[Though Takuto will always prefer the stars. Still, his gaze turns towards the Moon, who is slowly rising with his usual creepy grin.]

[morecowbell]

Let me check. [Nanami glances over at the moon from where she is patrolling] No, still creepy as heck.

[tauborn]

He probably can't help looking that creepy, though. I mean, he doesn't have hands, let alone a toothbrush.

[morecowbell]

... that is just the tip of the iceberg of what is wrong with the celestial bodies around here.

[tauborn]

I would really like to go meet the other stars, though. They can't all be like the Sun.

[morecowbell]

But they could always be worse.

[tauborn]

That's just your pessimism speaking. They can't all be worse, either.

[morecowbell]

I'd rather not find out either way. I'd simply rather have the sun and moon back that I'm used to.

[tauborn]

And I'd rather have some of my stars back.

[But obviously wishing for it isn't going to make it happen.]

[morecowbell]

[Nanami hums a little in reply while glancing up at the stars. She generally avoids this due to the moon and well Akio was a star person and he kind of ruined the night sky for her.]

Well, you still have someone special here you can share the stars with, right?

[tauborn]

I do.

[And she's on her way over, in fact.] So that's something.

[morecowbell]

Well, good for you.

[Now that he has perked up a little bit, she's done here.]

I better get back to work.

[tauborn]

[He almost ends the feed right there, but....]

Nanami?

...Thanks for talking with me.

[Yes, now he can hang up.]

[morecowbell]

[She averts here eyes and with a slightly huffy, stern voice:]

I was just bored, that's all.

Goodnight, Takuto.