Ninth Spool of Thread-[Voice/Action]

[so_shik]

[Everybody should be used to this by now, Shiki's sitting on her soapbox outside of All Passions with Mr. Mew just people-watching and half-reading the magazine in her lap]

Well, I can't say I've ever made a sail before, but it's finished. Everything's finished and everything should have been picked up by now...oh!

Arashi, I finished yours! I can either deliver it or you can come get it, whichever works best for you. Hopefully it'll look okay.

Now that everything's done, what's left? Come on, I'm starting to get bored here! There's only so much room in the shop for me to store stuff I've made. [She goes back to reading her magazine then, though her eyes are still peering over the top of the pages to watch the streets.]

Another cycle gone and he's not back yet. He better be okay back there.

Comments

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[emp3thy]

...Appearance?

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[so_shik]

Yeah. My appearance. I didn't like what I looked like.

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[emp3thy]

But you look fine.

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[so_shik]

...that's the point, Minato. This isn't my body.

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[emp3thy]

[a normal person would go "wtf" at that, but this is Minato]

Whose body is it?

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[so_shik]

My best friend's. Her name's Eri.

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[emp3thy]

[> Something isn't adding up...]

But if your appearance was your fee, then you must have really valued it.

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[so_shik]

I did, I just didn't realize it until later on. I was...really jealous of Eri, of everything she did. She was always the really bubbly cute one and I...made things. That was how things worked.

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[emp3thy]

Are you still jealous?

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[so_shik]

Nope. Eri liked me just the way I am. So does Neku.

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[emp3thy]

That's good.

...But you're still stuck this way.

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[so_shik]

Yeah...I'm not sure why either. I guess it's really not that bad considering, but I'd still like to know.

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[emp3thy]

What do you really look like? [he's curious now.]

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[so_shik]

Not like this. Short brown hair...glasses...I don't dress like this either. Basically a complete opposite. [Griff you've seen the real Shiki right?]

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[emp3thy]

Why not? You seem comfortable enough. [Yes I have.]

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[so_shik]

Comfortable in what way? [kay good just checking]

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[emp3thy]

With what you wear.

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[so_shik]

Probably just because it's not my style, it's Eri's. I made really nice things but I dressed more...practical I guess.

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[emp3thy]

Ah...

Well, with the experiments, maybe we'll see the real you sometime.

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[so_shik]

Yeah, maybe. I don't think anybody would recognize me though except Beat and Rhyme.

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[emp3thy]

I don't know. You're the same person inside.

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[so_shik]

...you're right. I am. Thanks.