[ He's quiet, even for how they've been in recent days– nights? Well, it's night now, not the eternal misty darkess they were mired in but the usual twilight of Somnius winding down.
What an anticlimax it must be to everyone but two. Three, including Sky, who surely knows. He should check on her, but–
He sits next to Akechi at the bar, half his own plate already eaten by the time he arrived, the other half suddenly unappealing as the conversation goes exactly where he knew it would go.
A hesitation that he's too tired to hide. Akechi will see it, he knows. ]
No, no one's told me anything about it.
[ Not a lie, actually.
A long sip of water.
Glasses removed to clean against his button down. There's a crack along a top corner of the left lens from where he was struck by tree shrapnel. The only visible sign of physical wear.
He looks over at Akechi, blurred even only a foot away from him. ]
What about you?
[ They weren't exactly quiet or subtle. Anyone could have seen or heard, posted on the network asking what the hell was up with the light show of cosmic proportions. Maruki hasn't checked. He feels sick just thinking about the possibility of someone inquiring. ]
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What an anticlimax it must be to everyone but two. Three, including Sky, who surely knows. He should check on her, but–
He sits next to Akechi at the bar, half his own plate already eaten by the time he arrived, the other half suddenly unappealing as the conversation goes exactly where he knew it would go.
A hesitation that he's too tired to hide. Akechi will see it, he knows. ]
No, no one's told me anything about it.
[ Not a lie, actually.
A long sip of water.
Glasses removed to clean against his button down. There's a crack along a top corner of the left lens from where he was struck by tree shrapnel. The only visible sign of physical wear.
He looks over at Akechi, blurred even only a foot away from him. ]
What about you?
[ They weren't exactly quiet or subtle. Anyone could have seen or heard, posted on the network asking what the hell was up with the light show of cosmic proportions. Maruki hasn't checked. He feels sick just thinking about the possibility of someone inquiring. ]