menial | 10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]

['Well. It sure got cold pretty fast, huh? Which means that I'm rapidly approaching the one-year mark, so I should really be proud. Or something. After burrowing myself away to avoid complications from refugees, my antisociality has reached a certain limit.

Unfortunately, I also have nothing to contribute beyond the observation about the weather which I already blithely used up there! Not that people can read my thoughts, but if they could, they'd find out. Well, they'd find out a lot of things. But who would want to anyway? It would just go on and on without any point.

Anyway, I guess I'll poorly disguise my attempt to see who's up for a random conversation with some kind of opener. Hey, if I were at home, this would be a mind-scarring Omegle session or something. At least I'm pretty sure I won't run into the usual problems stranger-chatting over the journal.'

...and so:]

So I found this in a book the other day.

Maybe this doesn't work as well over the journal, but I thought it was cool, anyway. Or at least different from discussions about fire and eternal suffering, continued kidnapping, disappearance, reappearance, cross-dressing, and so on.

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Well, giving up's not the way to become more qualified.

No? But should I be so bold as to ask you for pointers?

[Kyon helped out with that pageant, so clearly he would know something...!]

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if you were so bold as to do so. I think we established how bold you could be during that experiment.

[you know, the one where you KEPT TOUCHING HIM]

[UGH WHY WOULD HE EVEN BRING THAT UP. There are very few things that could embarrass Caesar, and that right there is one of them...! But he's gotta play it cool.]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

If that's true, ['which I don't believe it is,'] you're the lucky one.

Aren't you being a little dramatic? Surely as a member of Haruhi's brigade, you've experienced worse.

['You want dramatic? Take this face.']

Haruhi has never really done anything so creepy as that to me, no.

It's quite all right, really. You don't have to admit it. I don't want to hear about it.

Really. Quite a change from that time when that was the only kind of thing you wanted to talk about.

Oh? Would you feel better if that was the case here, too?

Only in that it would be more consistent.

Then I'll have to apologize for my inconsistency. It tends to happen with experiments.

Well, I apologize for bringing it up. Apologies also to my brain for the bleach it'll need.

It'll thank you later. I'm sure it won't miss memories like those too much anyway.

So you really do have said memories yourself too, huh, Silverberg?

Must be interesting for a guy like you.

Don't flatter yourself. Even if I was into that, I don't think you'd be my type.

...........

Not ... what I meant. I just meant that it's probably weird for someone who's not usually like that to have memories of being like that.

It's more than weird, but I've been here for far too long. Eventually, you learn to shut out the weirder memories.

[...which, you know, is totally easier when someone doesn't keep bringing them up!]

And they don't haunt you in your nightmares or anything.

Maybe you should give it a try. I don't want to know if you've been having dreams about me, you know.

Well, we're all agreed on that, then.

['Geez. What a bizarre conversation...']

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