Appointment Post

[neverplaysfair]

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[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

It was back in July.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

How? You kept something like that to yourself??

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

I wasn't about to spread something like that around.

You saw my scars. Some things just get worse and worse until they kill you.

Re: [Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

[...]

Hypocrite.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

I held it off as long as I could. I knew what would delay it, but Neku had gone home and Shiki has been here too long.

Unless you would have preferred she'd died along with me. I nearly killed Neku the last time I needed help. I could have tried to save myself using her. I'm sure that would have gone well.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

I don't understand. Why would you need to hurt them to save yourself?

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

Because I'm separated from Shibuya, and humans aren't designed to be able to replace a whole city.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

So that's it? You just die because you're not home?

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

It's the fate of a Composer.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

How many times has this happened? When will it happen again?

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

This was the first time it got bad enough that I died.

I don't know when it will happen again. I was supposed to get sick in January, but that didn't happen. So your guess is as good as mine at this point.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

...I'm sorry. You didn't deserve it.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

Few people deserve death, but it claims everyone eventually anyway. That's the nature of it.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

You've already died. You don't need a second one.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

Plenty of people in my world get a second death. That's what erasure is.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

And you earned your right to skip it. [Barbaric as that right might be.]

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

... Not entirely. I Ascended here, but I gave that up. Back in Shibuya I'm not out of the line of fire just yet.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

That doesn't mean you should deal with it here. That game of yous doesn't apply.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

That Game is a part of me, Hisoka. What happens here is that I'm essentially starving to death. There's something I need that I can't get.

Unlike you, who hasn't even tried looking yet.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

Fine. I'll ask for help. You don't have to lecture me.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

Good.

And you're not going to the library, either.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

What?

Of course I am. I can make it there just fine.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

Because you made it here without any problems.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[cynicism]

And I rested and I'll rest again before I head home.

[Action, February 2nd.]

[neverplaysfair]

I don't think the people there will appreciate you coughing your lungs out or sleeping.