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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 10:51 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:03 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:57 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 2:17 pm
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Aulus only looked over when Kailee started speaking. As she kept speaking he kept looking, his face more or less expressionless. She looked like she was going to cry for a minute and the fact vaguely surprised him in as much as he had the capacity for feeling much of anything at the present moment....
She'd brought games for him, and she came and sat right next to him as though she had some kind of place in his personal life.
He didn't know what to make of any of that either.
She was babbling, but what the hell else was she supposed to do? The elephant in the room wasn't exactly something you just talked about it- It still didn't feel real, it felt like it must have happened to somebody else and yet... yet....
When Kailee finally trailed off Aulus tried to find something to say himself but his mind was blank, his throat felt tight, and he didn't entirely trust himself not to start crying again if he dared open his mouth.
"You are persistent, aren't you?" he said eventually, his voice quiet and empty of the strong emotions it was usually imbued with. "Tortie'll have some cookies.... Never actually played Angry Birds. Kept meaning to but there never seemed to be time. You can stay if you want, not like you're interrupting anything." Everything he was saying felt disjointed, like the sentences he was placing after one another were pieces of a puzzle but all out of order. "You cut your face." He hadn't noticed that last time, or maybe he had? He didn't remember her visit well, only that she'd been here and left because of something he said.
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 2:50 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:20 pm
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"I know the premise, just haven't done it before," Aulus said, now looking down at the screen as Kailee demonstrated. "There was that cake somebody made that actually worked, well, once. An angry birds cake I mean. I think it was a cake anyway but that could be the drugs talking I guess."
As her human friend talked Tortie sniffed at the cookie, considered it for a moment and then took it in her teeth. Setting it down on her paws she nibble half-hardheartedly at it, now looking back up at Aulus again with big sad puppy-like brown eyes. Aulus got hurt, and then he got better. That was how it happened, she'd got used to that. She didn't know what to do about this.
Aulus blinked at the screen, struggling a little to focus on it, and gave it a poke with his index finger. "Not really meant to look at screen much but I don't know what else they think I'm going to do," he said as the annoyed avian flopped pathetically to the ground. "I guess I didn't pull that back far enough." He was sitting here playing Angry Birds. Why was he playing Angry Birds? It was surreal, it didn't feel right, but he didn't really know what he felt like he should be doing either. He took another shot at the pig in the house, succeeding in knocking the structure over.
"It's good you didn't get too much. Would be a bit harsh on your first mission. My dex blew up, that was uncomfortable but nothing more really. Scars are nearly gone now too." There were now more pigs, up on... kind of little tower things. "Haunted mine, good times." He wasn't sure why he was talking so much when he'd initially struggled to get even a single word out. Weird. He fired another bird.
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:45 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:07 pm
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When Kaliee lent in close Aulus startled slightly and lent away from her. Why was she doing this? What did she want from him? There had to be ulterior motives there somewhere, he just had to dig out what they might be and... stuff. He didn't know. Maybe he really was just a stupid paranoid misfit.
"Wasn't that bad," he said after a rather long pause, now trying to pretend that his flinch hadn't happened. "It was in my pocket, just burned my leg a bit. Probably one of the easiest missions I've been on in that respect.... Yeah, definitely in fact. Close second to that would be the one where I fell off a collapsing platform into a chasm of certain death but then Char decided to evolve and rescued me.... He seems to do that a lot." Sudden death, doors with corpses behind them, doors with chairs behind them.... "Can always count on Char." He missed Char, and the others, and even though he understood that they couldn't all come in here he wished they could.
"...Oh, Lex? Right. You should spend some more time with him when he gets out, maybe you can give him some advice on getting his Fennekin out of a harness and listening to him better." He hadn't cared for the guy himself when he'd been trapped in a car with him to Camphoreon and back but that didn't mean he was happy to hear he'd been badly injured too. They were his team after all and you didn't have to like somebody to care. Kind of care. Well he knew he should care anyway and maybe at a later date he would but right now he was just sort of.... "I wonder if anyone ever made a joke about this game, about flipping the bird. It would be a missed opportunity if not, it-"
Aulus stopped abruptly, closed his eyes moment and swallowed hard; misery threatening to overcome him again without warning. It wasn't- it wasn't real. He'd wake up soon, probably. Probably this was just the drugs, just a horrible vivid dream. They'd pinned his arm back together, done all sorts of things to it, it should have been alright!
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:40 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:43 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 11:10 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 11:23 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 11:42 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:00 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:19 pm
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