[ belph is gonna know every murderer again ]

[coastal]

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week 0, friday

[coastal]

[lili wanders up to the second floor if only because she's literally never believed in staying in one place her entire life - and just wrinkles her nose at everything

including belph]

You're not even going to look for ways to escape then?

[axilium]

[he glances over at her. ah, one of those types.]

What, have you been stalking me? Sorry, ma'am, I'm not interested.

[coastal]

Don't flatter yourself - I have better things to do.

[but she can't help but notice people who aren't really bothering]

Do you just not care?

[axilium]

You've known me for all of five seconds and you think you know everything about me and what I've done?

[coastal]

No, it's why I'm asking.

[lili doesn't know shit about anyone

she just tends to ask things really rudely]

[axilium]

Hm... then you know what, sure, let's go with that.

[easier to have people hate him for being useless.]

[coastal]

If you answer like that, it's hard to believe that's the truth, you know...?

[what the heckie]

[axilium]

Is it? Don't they say actions speak louder than words?

[coastal]

Obviously, but now you seem like the type who'd hide his actions anyway, if you'd prefer people think you don't care...

[like soo-won? or tsurumaru?]

[axilium]

We're on a bus. A really crowded bus. How much could I be hiding?

[coastal]

Not much, but...

[hmmm. soo-won was the type to hide things for the long haul. still, she can't read people well, so she's not sure if she wants to impose that kind of guess on someone she doesn't know]

Are you really content like this, though? If you're just playing games...

[axilium]

Oh, I'll probably get bored of these soon enough. Not really my preferred genre.

[coastal]

Let me guess: you're... modern, too?

[you can

feel how she hated that word]

[axilium]

[he waves a hand.]

Eh, sort of. I'm probably not from the same time period as others you've met.

[coastal]

Even further ahead?

You're not thousands of years old, are you?

[she has shess trauma]

[axilium]

[PLEASE SHESS IS AN ANOMALY]

Uh, no? Why is that your first thought?

[coastal]

Meet enough non-humans and it's a valid question, I think.

[axilium]

Fair enough, I guess.

But nope. Just born into an era way past most people's times.

[a shitty, shitty era.]

[coastal]

[well,]

Oh?

What's it like?

[axilium]

Well, we've got technology! We just also don't have an actual land to live on anymore.

[coastal]

Wh—No land?!

[THAT'S

THE OPPOSITE OF HER OWN HOME]

[axilium]

Yeah, humans had to move underground because they screwed up the surface of the entire planet so badly that it's uninhabitable now? Sucks and all, but that's humanity for you. We're pretty good at ruining everything.

So Miss From-Old-Times, let that be a lesson to you—manage your land's resources wisely.

[coastal]

They'd have to kill me first before I let my lands be tarnished in such a way. [she says it with conviction, unfortunately] ... and my name is Lili.

[that said, all that sounds horrible and she actually looks saddened as the prospect]

I'm sorry... Does that mean you haven't gotten to see the sky in your home...?

[axilium]

Radiation's pretty hard to beat.

[he shrugs, with careful apathy.]

Pretty much.

[coastal]

It wasn't possible to fix - wherever you were before this...?

[lili wasn't about to use wishes to fix her situation at home but like.

she wasn't dealing with the fucking apocalypse]