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[adropofjupiter]

[Action in the Residential Neighborhoods - Very Early Morning]

[It's way, way too early in the morning for anyone to be knocking on your door - especially when that person happens to be a teenage girl that looks half-asleep. The sun's just peeking over the horizon and yet, here she is knocking on your door. Will you answer?]



[Phone - Afternoon]

The Outside World's weird.

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[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Like those zombies? [jerks a thumb at a drone mowing the lawn down the street.]

No thanks, ze. I can't be like that. You know that.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

Either choose to keep to yourself or face becoming one of them by being brainwashed.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Alice, no one can brainwash me. I'm too... me.

[O Marisa...]

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

Can't you take anything seriously!?

*Oh yeah, she mad. She forgot how irritating you are to deal with sometimes.*

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

[She holds her hands up defensively infront of her.]

Okay, okay... I'll try to blend in. Try.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

*Alice is still suspicious but...*

Fine. I might regret this later but here's my address. *She hands over a slip of paper.* I don't expect you to knock but don't antagonize Shiki.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Is that loser really your boyfriend?

[said AFTER pocketing the address.]

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

H-He talked to you!?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He felt like arguing with me over whether the Outside World was weird or not.

Then he told me he was your boyfriend. Then I laughed at him.

[Now she gets a bit more serious and picks her beer up again.]

So... is he?

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

He will argue over anything if you give him the chance. And yes, he really is.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Huh.

[That gets Alice a long contemplative look while the witch finishes the can and picks up the one Alice abandoned. Her expression is really hard to read.]

I guess I'll stop calling him a loser then. So how'd that happen? You aren't exactly the dating type. Hell, you aren't even the tolerating the presence of other people type.

I get that I'm a special case, but... really? A boyfriend?

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

I told you that a lot has changed within two years. I have changed for the worse and for the better. I still do not find most people to be very tolerable but he is special to me.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...do you still talk to your dolls and pretend they talk back?

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...alright.

[leaning against Alice now.]

I'll try to be nice to him. For you. Though warn him he better not threaten me again. I only have so much tolerance, ze.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

*Alice leans into Marisa. Ngl she missed her a lot.*

Just do not kill him. You can rough him up a bit, he is sturdier than he looks.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

[And Marisa's using the contact to steady herself. She's not handling all this nearly as well as she looks like she is.

She snorts.]

What am I gonna do to him? I can't throw a star at him much less Spark him. I feel so...

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

... Hm? Feel? What do you feel?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...naked. I feel naked.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

You usually don't get drunk that easily.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...

[glare]

I'm not drunk! I'm talking about not having my magic. Makes me feel naked!

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I understand...

... There is something else you should know. Will you listen?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

Only after you answer my question, ze.

...where's Patchy? I know she's here somewhere.

[hangedhourai.livejournal.com]

I'm not telling you that until you listen to what I have to say. It has relevance.

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

...whatever. [Marisa uses pout. It's not effective.]

I'm listening.