Game 050 [Voice/Action]

[neverplaysfair]

[ While leaving out a mug of coffee, mostly-filled, might seem to be a weird thing to do in remembrance, regardless it's what Joshua does as he goes about cleaning the downstairs floor of his house, the space previously known as Kat's Kradle.

Without any real reason to keep more than the cooking area clean, he hadn't. Dust coats many of the tables and forms sometimes-impressive piles in the corners. Today, despite the rain, Joshua has the front door of House 38 wide open, and he can occasionally be seen sweeping piles of dirt outside.

It's rather cold, but Joshua doesn't seem to mind it. At least it's keeping him from working up a sweat. It's a bit late for a new year cleaning, but at least he's getting around to it at all, right?

Every so often he takes breaks to check on his journal, which he left the following question on earlier in the day: ]

How many of you learned things here that you're not looking forward to having to learn again when you go back to your own worlds? Your own death might be the obvious one, but I mean things like, say, some truth about your world, or friends, or family as well. Anything you'll need to find out again if you forget this place.

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[fierybluebird]

What to do about my Pops' islands. Or who they fall to more specifically.

[neverplaysfair]

Did someone here tell you?

[fierybluebird]

Someone here is from the most important place so it's pretty important to her, yes.

[neverplaysfair]

Most important place?

[novelist]

It'll be an enriching experience all over again.

[neverplaysfair]

Even the unpleasant things?

[novelist]

Even unpleasant things turn out to be an enriching experience. However, for ignorant Child of Man, that might not be the case. Heheh....

[neverplaysfair]

Hee hee, you don't think things can simply be unpleasant?

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[soundfrequency]

[Well since that door is wide open Neku just lets himself right in. Not that he normally doesn't, but.

He'd been meaning to talk to Joshua for a few days now, and he remembered today was Mr. H's birthday, so maybe now was a good time. ...hopefully. He doesn't know what type of mood Joshua will be in today.

But he steps inside, happening upon Joshua while he's cleaning. H-huh.]

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[neverplaysfair]

[ Joshua is not, in fact, as cheerful as one would expect if they've been following along at home. His grin is gone, and he's absorbed enough in his task that he doesn't look up from sweeping until a good several seconds after Neku's walked in.

And then he's grinning like nothing's wrong. ]

Are you feeling better now?

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[soundfrequency]

...yeah. Now a bad time?

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[neverplaysfair]

Only if you dislike Oosouji. [ He giggles. Yes, he's aware that he's a good two months late. ]

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[oftheyin]

[Wow. It's like he knows.]

Yes. I have. I wish there was a way around it.

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[neverplaysfair]

Care to share it?

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[oftheyin]

There's nothing to share.

But I guess I'm not the only one who has something bad to go back to?

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[neverplaysfair]

Everyone has something bad to go back to. The question is if they know what it is.

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[entwiningfate]

...I have. [Nezumi didn't give him all of the details of everything that happened but Safu... ]

My friend--she dies in my future.

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[neverplaysfair]

Everyone dies at some point. [ Usually. ] Is she here, too?

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[entwiningfate]

But she died too soon! It wasn't her time... [She was supposed to come back to him in two years so he could keep his word.]

No... she isn't here.

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[redheadlion]

Well, it's not that I'm not looking forward to it, so much as I wish it'd be a surprise.

I kinda wanted to be there when my daughter was born, before being told about her...

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[neverplaysfair]

So in that case, it's something you'd prefer forgetting so you can learn it anew.

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[redheadlion]

Yeah. I'd like to be there for the whole thing, y'know? I guess it's a dad thing.

Or at least a new-dad thing, since I don't know if I count as a dad or not, yet.

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[antlioncyclone]

An attack by the enemy will occur after my return. It worries and infuriates me.

You ask a lot of questions over the journals.

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[neverplaysfair]

Hee hee, it's a very good way to pass the time.

Do you know what comes of this attack?

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[antlioncyclone]

Good point.

I do. I almost think that I shouldn't have learned about it here, because the enemy isn't here for me to attack in return.