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

Voice

[gonext]

I can totally sympathize. A lot of people close to me went away not too long ago. It's pretty exhausting to try to make friends and build partnerships only to see them suddenly go just like that.

Text

[shiromadoushi]

Better this way for him

[Audio]

[hedgehogsdilemma]

[When it rains, it pours, doesn't it? Not that Shinji had ever really gotten the chance to meet Yuugi, but he could gather well enough that the two of them had a pretty important bond. Between this, Sugata, and Kaworu... he can sympathize fully with the situation at hand, despite not being familiar with most of the parties involved.]

That's... [A small noise of uncertainty here before he tries again.] Would you like some company?

[Takuto had been there for him the other day, and while he might not be well equipped to handle comforting others, he knows he should at least try.]

video;

[i_am_not_eleven]

So what? You want a pat on the head or something?

[Video]

[vintage_magic]

[This isn't exactly news she's expecting after getting back from Oregon. Lily frowns and there's a touch of concern in her Texas-accented voice.]

Yuugi's gone? You're sure of this?

[morecowbell]

[Nanami has an indifferent expression when she bothers to move far enough in screen to see it.

Clearly those two were meant to be partners because the Pharaoh has also been sent home.

[video; ] I will be nice and not tag Takuto with someone who'd try to harrass him. ;3

[blue_wayfinder]

[Oh dear.]

Takuto... [She doesn't ask, 'are you all right?' because, having been in his shoes she knows he probably isn't.] I'm sorry.

[dead_black_eyes]

[L is horribly ambivalent to Yuugi, but he knows that Takuto was close to him.

This kid has not been able to catch a break lately.]

Are... you holding up OK?

text

[ferroustigmata]

[Sasha's message opens with an address for a hookah lounge in Las Vegas with a date and time.]

On me. Don't be late.

[deadlydelicacy]

Life is loss.

[She's good at meaningless inanities. And also used to to growing particularly close to people if she can help it.]

If they are important to you, you will find them again someday.

private text;

[itaidakimasu]

I'm on my way.

Should I bring Kerberos?