[ So after taking a moment to sit inside and stare at a wall, Malik decides maybe a walk wouldn't be so bad. Outside he finds Taichi, and even though he knows he shouldn't say it, he can't help himself: ]
I'm going to assume that none of this is normal.
[ He's not trying to be funny. He knows things are tense right now. ]
[he has his soccer ball, but there's no field he wants to use right now so he's just playing by himself to burn off energy in a patch of grass. he doesn't look away from the ball, but he does answer.]
Maybe normal for this place, but nothing I've ever seen. [not really, anyway.]
[he should have seen the question coming, except he doesn't entirely. he doesn't fumble with the ball but something in his expression flickers to something a little panicked, and then a little angry, and then a little sad before flicking back to angry and then neutral.]
Yeah. Not like this, but something different. Have you?
[ He's pretty good at compartmentalizing his feelings, but the way this pulls at him makes him uncomfortable. Is it something he wants to talk about? Should he have asked? Well, it's too late now that the question is out there and Taichi's answer is hanging in the air. ]
...sorry to hear that, man. [because it's a neutral answer, something that says he acknowledges it and at the same time doesn't press.] None of this should've happened.
[ He snaps back from his middle distance staring contest ]
Nothing you do will bring those two back. So what is it then... Revenge for what happened? Is that what you're trying to accomplish? On what knowledge? We don't really know anything.
There's nothing to figure out! People are going to hate each other and settle it how they see fit. Or worse, there's powers beyond our control-- you can't fight their invisible gods!
[this is the shortest pc because unfortunately taichi's himself, and it means that when malik leaves he watches for a moment before he turns to leave, too.]
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I'm going to assume that none of this is normal.
[ He's not trying to be funny. He knows things are tense right now. ]
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Maybe normal for this place, but nothing I've ever seen. [not really, anyway.]
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...Have you ever seen someone die before?
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Yeah. Not like this, but something different. Have you?
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It's the same for me.
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...sorry to hear that, man. [because it's a neutral answer, something that says he acknowledges it and at the same time doesn't press.] None of this should've happened.
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But it did. And there's nothing anybody can do about it.
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Nothing you do will bring those two back. So what is it then... Revenge for what happened? Is that what you're trying to accomplish? On what knowledge? We don't really know anything.
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I never said anything about revenge. It's to prevent it from happening again to somebody else.
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[ More emphatic this time. ]
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