the truth is, everyone wishes to be saved.

[finalring]

The execution has come and passed with the death of two more Agents. However time moves on without cease and so must the living. There are no celebrations, only the silence that grows heavier and heavier with every day and the feeling that something is pleased with what it has done.

There are two more days before the new week arrives: what will you do?

Comments

[kaliedoscopes]

I should have known then, huh? [ A weak attempt at a joke, but he's smiling. ]

[oxidegreen]

Maybe I should have realized it sooner, too.

[She's not quite smiling, but her voice is just a midge lighter than the norm.]

[kaliedoscopes]

I'm hard to read sometimes. [ ...you know he's going in for one more headpat. ]

[oxidegreen]

[She's getting more and more used to them these days, but it doesn't make them any less special. Actually, she makes a soft sound--

Was that a laugh?]

[kaliedoscopes]

[ (...)

There might be something funny in the air, because while Hikage doesn't laugh either, the breathless exhale is close enough to one. ]

...thanks for listening.

[oxidegreen]

Thank you for telling me.

[Phantoms are rather tricky business even in her situation, after all.]