Forty-Fifth Spool of Thread - [Voice/Action]

[so_shik]

[There's a bit of a static feed as the journal turns on, and Shiki doesn't say anything for a moment. She's busy reading over everything from the last few days, but she finally decides to talk to the village at large.]

So. Hypothetical question. ...how long is too long to wait? For people, for objects, for anything. Give me your thoughts on this.

[Filtered to Angel]

Have you figured out your answer yet?

[/Filtered]

It's fall now, isn't it? I should get back to decorating. So another question...favorite thing about Halloween? Decoration-wise, holiday-wise, anything. This is pretty important.

[Important in the sense that when she's done addressing the journal, she's busy flitting about her shop. She's been spending the last few days rearranging all of the furniture and putting up new shelves and such with Haruhi's help. And now. There are fake maple leaves all over the walls. And outside. Along with some cut-out paper pumpkins strung along the walls. Villagers are free to find her outside on the porch of All Passions staplegunning things to the building and such.]

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[herotypical]

[ today, she shall visit in person. buffy enters the shop with a slice of peace about her composure. ]

Afternoon.

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[so_shik]

[Buffy! Shiki always likes when Buffy graces her with her presence, so don't mind her suddenly having a wide grin on her face, even though she's silently looking her over to make sure she's really okay today.]

Hey! What brings you here today?

[aphephobic.livejournal.com]

[Presently, All Passions looks like the outer edge of a third-grade classroom. Hisoka was just trying to get grocery shopping done, but.. No. That eyesore is not sticking around all autumn.]

What are you doing?

[so_shik]

What does it look like? I'm adding color...problem with that?

[Action]

[imxperfectlife.livejournal.com]

[Luka's just staring at Shiki while she works in her decorations... It reminds her of when she was in elementary school but she has no complains. She's mostly just wondering... Why she's bothering with that.]

[Action]

[so_shik]

[Shiki's continuing to work for now, not really noticing she has a spectator until she turns to grab another string of fake leaves.] Oh! ...hey. Didn't know anybody was watching.

[pathtoseele.livejournal.com]

What sort of question is that?

[so_shik]

An open-ended one, I guess. I'm really just sort of curious what people think.

[Voice]

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

I think... it's when you can't stand waiting anymore. [This is, she knows, a vague answer. But waiting for things to work out hadn't had a time limit set on it. There was just a time when suddenly she couldn't keep sitting and waiting.]

[Voice]

[so_shik]

That's a good answer. And everybody's amount of time is different, is't it?

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[noutenkin.livejournal.com]

...What's a Halloween?

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[so_shik]

It's a holiday. You know, pumpkin-carving and trick-or-treating and stuff? Ring any bells?

( voice | filtered to shiki; )

[undoing.livejournal.com]

[ aldkjflaksdjfklasjdflkjsadf. ]

There was a deadline on answering?

( voice | filtered to angel; )

[so_shik]

[Pff. Oh Angel.]

Sure was. [No there wasn't, but she's not going to accept him just ignoring the whole issue.] So, what do you think?

voice;

[dragoneer]

[Waiting? Yeah, he's...having a hard time with that right now. Time. He wanted time to think about what to do with Toothless. But instead he just...doesn't know what to do. He wants the dragon back now. So this is something that has definitely been on his mind.

But he has no answers.]

Uhh, if you get any good answers to that one...Iiiii'd like to hear about it.

voice;

[so_shik]

Trust me, there's a reason I'm asking. But what's that supposed to mean, Hiccup? You don't have any thoughts on it at all?

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

I like what you've done with the place.

[Suprise, Sokka walked up while Shiki was busy staplegunning those leaves up.]

[so_shik]

Do you really? [She looks over her shoulder at the girl while she's busy stapling some of those leaves around one of the pillars of the porch.] Thanks. I'm hoping it's just subtle enough to look good but stands out enough to grab more customers.

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[arcanaxxii.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's a set limit for anything, rather, it depends on the person and how long they're willing to.

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[so_shik]

That seems to be the consensus around here. So if a person wanted to wait forever, that'd be okay?

[Written]

[shadedsunlight]

It all depends on the person doing the waiting and what or who they're waiting for.

[Written]

[so_shik]

It's someone who's been here a while, waiting for a person who was here for a while but has just left. Does that help?

[voice]

[emp3thy]

["hypothetical," huh.]

Until you can't anymore.

[voice]

[so_shik]

Do I even need to bother putting up an act around you? [Rhetorical question, of course.] You know how long I'm willing to wait, but I think Haruhi'll get mad.

[voice]

[book-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

[Well, since so many people are answering Shiki's more serious question...]

I like the different decorations, like the carved pumpkins. We don't do those things back home. [pause] I guess the costumes are ... interesting, too.

[voice]

[so_shik]

[Oh Leon. You just gave Shiki a million ideas.]

You know what? You and I should carve pumpkins when it gets closer to Halloween. Maybe convince Haruhi to let the whole Brigade do it. What do you think?

[voice]

[justicereigns]

There isn't a preset time. I waited months before I found my jitte. And I'm still waiting for my Ensign.

[voice]

[so_shik]

Okay a jitte I know about, but what's an Ensign? [Someone's not too familiar with military terms.]

[blessingone]

Is there something good about Halloween?

[She's pretty sure what she's talking about is unrelated to the experiment from last year, but she spent her only Halloween ever shut up in her house going slightly mad with her best friend, also going slightly mad, as they tried to keep at least one of them sane enough to look after a little kid with the limited aid of an unreliable amnesiac.

Yeah, it wasn't much fun, and the question more or less fills her with slight dread.]

[so_shik]

Yeah...it just usually doesn't happen around here. I think the best part is all of the free candy and the fancy costumes.

[Voice]

[ledbythewind]

I would think that all depends on how long you're willing to wait.

[Voice]

[so_shik]

Me personally? Probably forever. I guess I'm just curious how long other people are willing to wait.