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.]

Comments

[so_shik]

Point. I just tend to pick out everyone else's secrets instead. Ever noticed that? You, Minato, Rena, Keiichi...it's weird.

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

Well there's probably plenty of other secrets you don't know yet. [Heck, Sokka knows his own fair share of them now. It almost makes his utter lack of secrets kind of disappointing.]

[so_shik]

Yeah, probably. There are still a few people I'm trying to crack and see what I can learn about them.

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah? Who's on your radar?

[so_shik]

Angel for right now. Sokka, too.

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

[Angel, Angel... isn't that someone Buffy knows? Oh, but-]

Sokka? You really think he has secrets?

[so_shik]

Maybe not very big one or very many, but it's weird...it's like I've known him for a while but I barely know anything about him.

But it was like that with you for a while before Brach.

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

[Whatever Brach is supposed to mean...]

I think all there is to know about him is what's on the surface. Really. I don't think he's very deep.

[so_shik]

[Sokka will someday know about Brach, the adopted dinosaur plushie that I'm not sure is actually still around that's a Zero question.]

...yeah you're probably right. Maybe I'm wasting time being nosy.

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

[Good. If Shiki started poking around with Haruhi, that could've been bad.]

Exactly. Sokka is just Sokka.

[so_shik]

If you say so. Oh well, guess it's time to find a new target.

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

[Okay. Good. Now for other things...]

So... how are things?

[so_shik]

Things are good! [It's said a little too fast, but she's nodding.] Things are...things. How are things? Good? Everybody's okay?

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

I'm fine. [No not really.] You don't sound very convincing, though.

[so_shik]

Well neither do you!

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

Don't make this about me! I brought it up first.

[so_shik]

I don't care, if you're not fine that's a bigger issue than all of my other issues.

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

Well I am fine, so there.

[so_shik]

Then so am I. [Yeah, she's totally going to be stubborn about this.] Glad we cleared that up.

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

Come on. We both know there's more to it than that.

[so_shik]

...do we? [She's still kind of skeptical about your behavior lately, missy. It's not bad, but. It's..interesting.]

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

All I'm saying is, if you want to talk? I'm here. We can talk. That's it. [He's thinking, though, he might be pushing too hard. For Haruhi, anyway.]

[so_shik]

...I got yelled at by somebody today for not being with people. Do you find that as weird as I do?

[wise-bent.livejournal.com]

That's... pretty weird. Who was it?

[so_shik]

Just this guy...have you met Hisoka? He kind of yells at me for a lot of things, actually. I guess he knows Joshua.