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[notbunaga]

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[imaginex]

[Well in that case...

Might as well be the one to take the first bite. She nibbles on the edge before a delighted hum and a nod of approval]

It's still good!

[notbunaga]

[YEAH NOT GONNA LIE HERE THIS WAS ALL INTENTIONAL. Sakura is totally her guinea pig...........

But it's nice to see she's neither dead nor dying and that it still tastes good. No...immediate effects at least. So she places the bag into Sakura's hands and turns back towards the cupboard she'd found it in. She doesn't really need to eat since Yato's a great source of mana, being a god and all.]

I guess there's no harm in stocking up then. Obviously we can't carry much, but something small here or there just in case...

[notbunaga]

Deathly.

[GET IT.]

[notbunaga]

I think that mental image just scarred me for life.

[wherethewildthingsare]

You just deny greatness.

[alienates]

Oh my god I hate you.

[ he gets it and he hates her. ]

[me_matey]

The Mayship got trashed back in August.

-And before the other girl says anything.- Don't. Worry. I've got a roommate I'm living with now. But it was... not great there for a bit.

[imaginex]

[RUDE YOU DATED HER SISTER??? not that Sakura knows this but she is cut to the quick except not at all, she suspects nothing]

You want to take it back to the surface with us?

[MUNCH MUNCH.]

[notbunaga]

You keep giving me all these opportunities, what am I supposed to do, huh?

[NOT make shitty jokes???]

[notbunaga]

...oh, right. Cause the ocean...[yeah.

That was around the time she dropped the network, so there's an awkward gap there.]

So what did you do? Streets?

[notbunaga]

[What Rin doesn't know can't hurt her........]

The surface? [She pauses, looking over her shoulder.] You don't want to try going deeper?

[sharplydressed]

Yeah, I'd rather not think about it anyway.

[He's very much a "ignore the problem until it goes away" kind of person, after all... If you don't consider that reality as you know it didn't ever actually exist, then that won't be true, clearly?!]

Buuut the rats might be a new thing? Who knows, with how much stuff moves around here. Or maybe you just got lucky and they were busy eating someone else that day.

[notbunaga]

Yeah? Hmm.

[She considers that for a moment.]

I wonder if it's a coincidence or not, then. It's not like rats don't turn up where they aren't wanted all the time, so I guess it'd apply to large ones too, but...it's strangely convenient.

[me_matey]

I could have, but the sister superior who ran the women's shelter owed me a favor, so she got me in there. -It was... way easier to think of it in those terms than the fact someone took pity on her...-

[sharplydressed]

Maybe it's just how people who aren't on the network interact with this kinda stuff? I mean... If you think about what Maurice said about learning stuff the right way or whatever, and how learning more means you're more at risk, maybe you wouldn't have been a nasty rat target in the first place back then.

[But that's also spiraling rapidly into Headache Territory™, so he just sort of shrugs it off after.]

Either way, I guess it's good we're a little tougher now that things like the rats are showing up.

[notbunaga]

[She nods.]

That's good to hear. I know a guy who used to live on the streets. It isn't somewhere anyone ought to be.

[Even if it's unavoidable sometimes.]

[me_matey]

I mean... I've been homeless before, so it's not like I couldn't handle it. -She sighs.- That's life for a street kid, you know?

[alienates]

You can very easily.... fucking not. It's not that hard. Look at me, not making a bad joke!

[notbunaga]

It's easy not to do stuff when you suck at it, though.

[notbunaga]

Not really.

[Their living conditions, at least, were total opposites during childhood. So she'll never understand that.

But--]

Still, it isn't the point...it's less about whether or not people can handle it and more they shouldn't have to.

I've always thought the Mayor did a lousy job funding support for the homeless around here.

[alienates]

And yet, here you are, still making the effort to do so! Fucking commendable.

[ fuck you ]

[me_matey]

Yeah, well... the mayor before him probably did a shitty job, too. And the one before that. And all the way down. We're invisible to people with money and power. They just keep finding new ways to make us go away.

[constellates]

[Her eyes widen and she starts immediately - ]

Все! All of it - Aki is...!

[Aki is still very important. She takes a second to try to find the words, clearly struggling and upset that she doesn't have them readily at her command. But she shakes her head emphatically and holds onto Aki's hand with both of her own now, clutching onto her as if afraid she she'll disappear.]

... If you want to be someone else... Nobunaga... I - I will try to understand.

But Aki is not bad. Who you are now is also good. It is not bad to be you.