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[heartablaze]

I hate all of us.

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[heartablaze]

[She'll look mildly disappointed at the rejection. But it's fleeting, content if he does follow after her.]

The sun's way too big to miss, silly. I don't know if we could ever find it here, if it's the same size as all the other stars...

I recognize this one, though, for sure. [She'll point up at the three bright stars in a line, the clusters that made up the form of a person with a spear.] That's Orion!

[suddenlybees]

[ cries at my namesake ]

Eh... Those three up there? Don't you mean The Worm?

[ That you will never get to learn u_u ]

[heartablaze]

[wow hajime isn't even dead yet way to rub it in ): ):]

...That's a really boring worm.

[Does Kano just really like worms?????????? what a mystery.]

I guess you can't really make a good wiggly line out of stars, though.

[suddenlybees]

Sure you can! It wiggles around and just so happens to pass through those three points!

[ Like a sine wave! ]

[heartablaze]

That's kinda complicated, though.... and it's so little that way.

I'd want a worm in the sky to be nice and big so you'd have lots of stars to choose from.

[suddenlybees]

It's a really long worm but squigging through all the black spots in the sky 'cause that's where it gobbled up all the other stars and left nothing in its wake.

[ This worm is now a hungry hungry caterpillar ]

[heartablaze]

[She giggles.]

You think it would eat all the stars in the sky if it could? That sounds kind of like one of those stories you'd tell to little kids to make them behave.

What would you call it?

[suddenlybees]

The stars in the sky are always blinking out one by one, you know? That's the worm gobbling them up, worlds and worlds, and one day, it'll gobble up our own star and plunge the world into darkness.

[ ... ]

Me ga Saeru Hebi... Its name is Saeru. "Clearing."

[heartablaze]

[...]

A snake of clearing eyes...

[An unfortunate time to speak another's language.

She'll look up at the points of light. There were so many... but how much more was there darkness between the points?]

Could something like that ever be stopped, do you think?

[suddenlybees]

Who knows? An insatiable snake such as this, when there are infinite number of worlds to devour... millions of people in one gulp and each one helpless to stop it...

[ He breathes a laugh out through his nose. ]

It's just a story, though! Such a kid, forgetting that. Don't take it too seriously~

[heartablaze]

Hey, don't laugh! I'm not! [She is.]

Stories just come from an interesting place, you know? And it feels a lot like...

Like this place, almost. What could happen, if we don't fix the Realm.

Like we're trying to stop something from lining everything up and devouring it at once.

[suddenlybees]

[ Sometimes worlds being swallowed up is a universal story, oblivion and death and the end of the world. He can't argue that this place doesn't feel like a story, though, one where he's happy enough being the background character so long as it keeps eyes off him. ]

Is that what it feels like to you? To me, it's more like... ah! A cracked egg, maybe?

[ Impossible to put back together again, and even if nobody moves, the sheer stress against the tiniest crack will only cause it to grow. ]

[heartablaze]

A cracked egg...

[Hmm. Not entirely wrong.]

Maybe that's a little better? That's kind of what home felt like - holding a breaking egg in your fingers.

To have our worlds shattering to pieces... it feels a lot like that.

[Messy. Heartbreaking. Knowing that a miracle would be all that would repair it, and that you couldn't take back the damage done.]

[suddenlybees]

Eh... Is that any better at all?

[ Hikaru, your world!! ]

What do you think it's gonna be in the end? Omelet? Scrambled? Sunny side up? Even a broken world can be delicious.

[heartablaze]

[kano, your metaphors!!!]

You can still use an egg, even if you can't repair it back to the way it used to be. You can rescue what's left.

It's better than vanishing all together. Like throwing that egg away just because it's been cracked. Or... being eaten by a snake.

Just because something is falling apart doesn't mean it's lost.

[suddenlybees]

[ his metaphors... ]

Ever eaten a raw egg?

[heartablaze]

Mm!! I eat it over rice sometimes if my brothers aren't home.

[suddenlybees]

How are you not dead yet??

[heartablaze]

[i just laughed my fucking ass off thanks card]

You haven't had tamogo kake gohan, Nico-kun? It's not like it makes you sick or anything. You just gotta make sure the rice is hot.

[suddenlybees]

No... we eat real food at home...

[ What is this rice and egg nonsense

I would eat this, runny yolk is my favorite u_u ]

[heartablaze]

Hey, rice and egg is totally real food! [says the one who eats ice cream like 50 times a week here

pouts... :T]

What kind of stuff do you eat at home, then?

[suddenlybees]

Eh... hm... what's the last thing I ate at home? Salt grilled salmon, miso soup, natto, katsudon rice bowl... simple things like that.

[heartablaze]

You are from Japan, then. [Like that wasn't obvious, but she is pretty sure if she asked him, he would try to convince her he lived on the fucking moon] We have miso soup all the time at my house.

I like when Masaru takes me to go get shoyu dango, or red bean pastries. He likes to get katsudon then! And he's your age, too.

[suddenlybees]

[ What if he's from the moon and just likes foreign food ]

Ehh... All you do is go out and eat sweets? Such a kid~ Those sorts of stuff is better when you make it at home, anyways.

[heartablaze]

Not all the time. I'd get sick if that's all I ate.

My family runs a dojo, so we don't always have the time to make stuff like that ourselves. Mom used to when I was really little, but Satoru handles a lot of the cooking now when he isn't working.