so_shik | Forty-Fifth Spool of Thread

[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?

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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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...it's probably a bad thing that I've been there, done that. Not for myself, but for someone else. [ darla. ] Won, but it didn't work since she was on her second life, already. Couldn't give her the third I earned for her.

[ feel special, shiki. he never talks about that with anyone. not even the woman's own son -- their son. ]

So, this is your second life? New body and all?

...that's really sad. [It is, mostly because Shiki believes in giving most people chances.] But I don't know if it's the same thing. I don't think our game lets you play for other people...unless they're your entry fee. [Technically Neku was playing for all of them, so.]

It's. Well...sort of. Second life, yeah, but...this body's the body I was in the Game with. Before Luceti? I was back in my own body when I got to come back to life. The original. But then this happened and now I'm back in Eri's body and oh my gosh, I don't know why I just told you all of that but can we kind of keep that sort of thing between us? Not a lot of people actually know.

[ angel believes that... given the person. some people deserve them, others don't. there's a long list of people he'd happily rip heads off of and say 'fuck it' to giving them anything resembling a second chance. he may be a champion for the powers that be, but he's also a man. a very, very flawed man. ]

I don't think The Trials cared as long as you saw them through to completion or died trying. Pretty win/win for them.

[ ... ]

Dare I ask how you got that body? And, I don't know a thing. [ the man is a locked box. it won't get out. ]

[Shiki's got a few of her own that don't deserve a second chance, but she won't mention it. As long as they never come back.]

That's still terrible. Kind of deceiving, too.

...in order to enter the Game, you have to have an entry fee. The entry fee is what you value the most. When...when I was playing the game, I valued my appearance the most, I guess, so the Composer took it as my fee and put me in my best friend's body instead. I stayed like that for the whole game, even after I learned to value me and not Eri.

It serves it's purpose. [ ever loyal and believing in the powers after all they'd guided him towards -- he thinks he really gets it at this point, more than he ever did when he was starting off as their champion -- he believes there's a reason things are like that. he's not about to tell shiki that the life he earned was used to make a child of two vampires possible. talking about why connor exists is something he goes out of his way to avoid more than saying cordelia's name. he loves his son and he hates that he was a part of that mess.

if angel were playing the game, his entry fee would be connor. his son first above all else; his most prized possession. god, he misses him and hates that he's seemingly abandoned him. he blew up at buffy, briefly, over it the other night. ]

Hard way to learn a lesson.

[If Shiki knew all of this, she'd a.) be impressed and b.) overridden with pity because that's on so many levels of screwed up.] Purpose or not, it's still not right. [From the sounds of it, it just ruined lives anyway.]

The Composer's not exactly one to be nice about the lessons we've learned. Actually? The Composer's kind of a huge jerk.

Most composers are. Ate one, once. After a ballet. It was 18-- [ he realizes how ohgod morbid and creepy that sounds. not all are as okay with him reminiscing on his soulless days as his old team was. ] You don't want to know that.

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[Okay. She's just...staring for a second, whether from what year it supposedly was or the fact that Angel just admitted he really did eat people. Why that's surprising, she's not sure. Logically she knew vampires ate people, not animals like some of the other vampires here.] Yeah, I think I'll pass on that...besides, I think we're thinking two different kinds of composers anyway.

[ oh, shiki. angel may look young and handsome, but he's not. almost three hundred years old, this one. gotta love eternal youth. ]

I take it your composer isn't along the lines of Stravinsky and Moretti?

[ ...he's likes ballets. he's very old world like that, okay. ]

[It's cool, Joshua's like hundreds of years old, too. She's used to it.]

Try along the lines of an annoying guy who goes around manipulating the world for fun.

...but good to know you appreciate the classics.

[ snort. ]

Sounds like Wolfram & Hart.

[ shrug. ] It's less appreciation for the classics and more being really old.

But neither of them are here, right?

Comparing apples to oranges, Angel. It's still similar, isn't it?

Hm? Oh, no. Wolfram & Hart is a law firm. They’re not here. If the Powers don’t have a foothold in this dimension, then it’s highly unlikely that the Senior Partners do. I would’ve heard from them by now if they did.

[ person of interest number one, that’s angel. he hated it. ]

...weird name. [But that's not the point, is it.] So really what you're saying is if they're around you can't escape. Ever.

Oh no, I could escape. I'd actually have a better idea of how to get out of this place if a branch of the firm were here

Too bad then. Getting out of here seems like the best option suddenly.

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