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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[YES. YES HE WILL.]

[PERFECT. Maron will stay in her spot, but she'll stop tickle-torturing him and fold her arms instead.]

Will you talk now? Or will I have to resort to something so inhumane as tickle torture again?

--You're that heartless, huh?! Fine! ...What am I supposed to say?

I can be! [Already her hands are in the air, fingers wiggling. She is the cobra, ready to strike!]

As I recall, I believe your words were "your first reaction to an image says more about you than about the image," Kyon. Just what does that reaction say about me?

I don't even remember the reaction now!

I thought it was two people kissing and then you said what you said to me!

[Hands are getting closer to his sides again. Tickle torture is imminent.]

['Damn it!']

W-Well, obviously it means you're a romantic!

[She's lookin' kind of cynical at that.]

Are you lying to me, Kyon? I know where you live, you know.

--You obviously already have an idea of what it means, so why don't you tell me?

Fine. Perhaps that I'm desperate for a relationship or something so that's why I'd see something like that.

['OK, I have an idea.']

What would you have to be desperate about? I'm sure there'd be plenty of guys lining up if you wanted one.

[...if anything, Kyon? Smart man. Very.]

...I-- no. I don't. And even if I did I probably wouldn't even notice it! Especially not if they're guys like Chiaki back home, ugh.

[But the hands that were threatening to tickle have left, and Kyon is safe! ...for now.]

['Yes!'

He gingerly starts to try to back away and get to a position where he can--'Run like hell.'--do something.]

Yeah. Well, who cares about Chiaki, anyway? Big deal. So I don't see why there's a problem with any of that.

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