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1 ~ when did I stop believing in Santa Claus? [audio/action]
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[A teenage boy is extricating himself with some difficulty from having been dumped, or appearing, in the middle of the fountain in the center of the village. He's muttering to himself and clambering out. He's dressed in the generic-enough North High uniform, but of more interest may be what he's saying -- which is picked up by the split-open journal next to him.]
...Really, Haruhi? After all of that, I'm in some other time and place again?! Oh, boy. She really just doesn't stop... Where the hell is it this time?
[Once he gets up and brushes himself off, he can be found staring with slightly less bewilderment than you might expect at his surroundings.]
[A teenage boy is extricating himself with some difficulty from having been dumped, or appearing, in the middle of the fountain in the center of the village. He's muttering to himself and clambering out. He's dressed in the generic-enough North High uniform, but of more interest may be what he's saying -- which is picked up by the split-open journal next to him.]
...Really, Haruhi? After all of that, I'm in some other time and place again?! Oh, boy. She really just doesn't stop... Where the hell is it this time?
[Once he gets up and brushes himself off, he can be found staring with slightly less bewilderment than you might expect at his surroundings.]
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[He looks at both though it sounds as if he's only talking to Haruhi.]
You got any specific questions?
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Not really. I just need to figure out what to do next.
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Right. What's the most important thing?
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'Kay, I'll accompany you to the Welcome Center and tell you on the way there. On the top of my head the wings are the most important thing as I told you already. I suppose that knowing that if you die you will return to live again after a week is important to know too.
[Just don't go around dying. Let's see, he already explained about the time thing and the part about people from from other times and such.]
Also... Don't make too many big plans for the end of the months, just in case something screws them over.
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Something like dying for a week?!
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[After all, it is true, but not something she would throw around so casually. She scrambles to her feet]
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[Her cool is lost, how does she salvage- inhale, exhale]
Anyway, forget it, I'll take him there.
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That's true, the dying for a week part is important information but it's mostly a trivia kind of data than anything else. Anyway, if Haruhi will take you there and all I suppose I'm not needed. I'll see you both tomorrow, I suppose.
[Immediate withdrawal the moment Haruhi steps into action? Not at all, must be your imagination.]
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--Uh--Yeah. See you, Maebara.
'Not a ton of psychopaths around? These days? Haruhi, as ever you fail to reassure.'
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[And he obediently follows along, not having much other choice in the matter anyway.]
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Keiichi's a weirdo anyway, you need to recognize that. There's really no one who focuses on the death thing as much as him or certain other fatalists do.
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Fun guy to have in the Brigade, then.
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'An odd question? Maybe, but I'm just wondering how different she really is.'
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[He voice drops a bit at the end there. Thinking back to Rena, who tried to kill herself, or to Usagi, who died - exploded - in front of her. A note of the fear and weakness she felt in those moments might bleed through a bit. Also she might derail from going to Welcome Center. It is literally just across the street but she starts to talk past it, perhaps willing him to follow.]
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Hope you're not talking from experience there.
[He will have very little idea about where they're going, and he will in fact just follow blindly.]
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Then... has anything happened to someone else? A--[friend?]--close associate or whatever?
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Yeah, bad things have happened before. [She evades it confirming or not confirming death though - they now leave the square.] But why are we even talking about this? Jeez, there's got to be other things you can ask about.
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...Sure, I guess. How long did you say you've been here?
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