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[insensate]

Noisy. |

[ ...

If you're searching for more, there's nothing that follows or precedes it. Nothing that gives any indication whatsoever that this individual wants to share more the community -- if they even want to share at all. There's no deep insights or surface observations. Just the one word.

Does it even have to do anything at all with this place? Who knows. For all you know, it could have been an intercepted text. Could have been anything.

Almost. ]

Comments

[losesbest]

Wanting's got so very little to do with it. But! Oh, I'm sure you know that already, don't you?

[insensate]

[ if an obviously look could only transfer through text, he'd have that in just a moment. however, as it stands, yukimi's phone is not nearly as sophisticated as that.

radio silence will have to do, huh. ]

[losesbest]

I'll take that as a yes.

[insensate]

... |

[ let him send another blank reply, spam rules. he doesn't want to talk. ]

[losesbest]

Did you know? Even if you get this place to leave you alone, you might just get drawn back here, anyway.

Oh, well. You probably have nothing to worry about. That's good, isn't it?

[insensate]

Stop.

[losesbest]

Oh, don't be so tetchy. Honestly, wouldn't it be better to know, rather than find out for yourself months, maybe even years later?

[insensate]

[ I don't want to hear it.

More than anything, he doesn't. He doesn't want that confirmed. He doesn't ever want to know. He doesn't want this ridiculous notion even granted that something else could cause him to exist. Somewhere else. In some other time. He doesn't. He refuses to believe it. He won't believe it. ]

[losesbest]

They'll tell you upfront all about those viruses, but they're not really what you've got to be worried about, now are they? Viruses end, but this community? Not so much. Not so much at all.

[Now, see, here's the funny thing. He doesn't know what goes on in those action tags up there. But oh, does he know now about this little button. And maybe, maybe if he keeps pressing it, he can get the reactions he wants.]

[insensate]

[ It can't be true. It won't be true. It will never be true. He can only trust Miharu. He can only rely on Miharu. Miharu will make it so this won't happen. Somehow. Miharu will make it so Yoite has never existed at all. Miharu will make that possible. That was his choice. He chose that. This person... He doesn't even know what he's talking about, right? No, of course not. No. Absolutely not. No.

No. ]

[losesbest]

[Internal monologue doesn't transfer over the community. But he's been quiet an awful long time. Since he said stop, as a matter of fact. And yes, he pays attention to those little things.]

Are you still there? Don't tell me I've been talking to empty air, now.

[Come on. Let's hear it.]

[insensate]

[ No. No, he isn't really there. He doesn't listen. He's not listening. He won't listen.

If this were just anyone's phone, he might have already gotten rid of it. But, it isn't. It isn't just anyone's. It's Yukimi's. It belongs to him. He won't break that. He wouldn't. Even so, he's shoved it away from him. He dropped it a while ago. Even if that person can't see it, he's taken that usual posture of his. Pulled into himself. Curled into himself. Protected. The sides of his arms pressed up against his ears, fingers in his hair.

No. ]

[losesbest]

Hello? [Pause] Aw, such a shame.

Well, I've got to run. Ta~

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