Audience- Yoji Uruha

[holyspirits]

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[kumeyuri]

Oh. Okay.

[THERE IS A LONG PAUSE BEFORE THE NEXT MESSAGE AS URUHA FEELS STUPID]

Do you think we will?

[holyspirits]

I think this might be a conversation not to be had via text.
If you're open to it, I'm grabbing dinner from the convenience store.
Otherwise my answer may be shorter.

[ offers us the option to save us from htmling text code. ]

[kumeyuri]

Sounds good to me.

[uruha prefers in person anyway.........]

[holyspirits]

[ honestly, same with zuriel.

so when uruha eventually makes his way to the convenience store, he will find them puttering around carrying a few items in their hand to slip into a handmade totebag. they're holding a carton of yogurt in a hand, seemingly reading the label before they realize he's there. ]

Sometimes it's easier to pick something up from here and take it to go elsewhere. And there's plenty of room. [ gestures to their bag. uruha may pick up food for himself as well. ]

[kumeyuri]

[he'll just grab a bag of rice crackers and some canned iced tea.]

Well, they're called convenience stores for a reason.

[holyspirits]

[ oh, iced tea. they just hand uruha their bag for a second to open the cold case and scale the shelves a bit to grab a flavored can from the top before casually hopping down again. ]

Fair enough. [ if that's all he's grabbing, they will begin to lead him outside. we can eat on the ground. ]

As an answer to your question, I want to hope not. Not after today. But today wasn't even a situation we thought would happen at all.

[kumeyuri]

[puts it in. but yeah, that's all he's grabbing.]

... We found the assailant, but it feels like we're left with more questions than answers.

[holyspirits]

With the main one being "why", I'm assuming. Because that's my biggest right now. [ ugh. ] ...he's allowed some visitors. Do you think you're going to go see him?

[kumeyuri]

Yeah. [uruha has never been afraid of a confrontation, even if it might be awkward.] I want answers.

[he doesn't sound angry about it, just determined because, like. what the heck. he is so confused.]

[holyspirits]

If you find them, would you let me know?

[ to be honest they would not even mind or think it's weird if uruha were angry about it, but they get the impression this man really has to be in a boggling situation to feel anything. ]

[kumeyuri]

[the hilarity is that uruha is actually so emotional but he is 1) extremely good at keeping it locked up in a crisis, and 2) not necessarily an angry person specifically.]

Yeah, sure. ... You guys really don't know anything about what might've happened that night?

[holyspirits]

[ sir.

eventually, in a patch of grass, zuriel sits on the ground and opens what looks like a small salad. food time. even if they aren't actually eating it yet. ]

I know it sounds like we're avoiding the subject, but we really don't. Everything is new to us, too.

[kumeyuri]

[uruha adjusts his robes so that he won't end up on the outermost cape, before he also sits down.

though at zuriel's response, he just sighs and flops to the side, mayhaps more theatrically than needed.]

[holyspirits]

[ it's affection week, so when uruha flops over they move and carefully pat his head. ]

Sorry. I know that's not... helpful. [ and they do sound apologetic, if resigned. ] And we're supposed to be.

[kumeyuri]

[he mostly accepts it, though he does give zuriel a half-hearted bat of his hand out of principle because it's embarrassing to receive head pats when you are a 30+ year old man.]

It's an unexpected situation, right? [a beat] By the way, why have we all been so touchy-feely with each other all week?

[now that he's reminded of it...]

[holyspirits]

[ you don't dissuade them, little doomed man. ]

Completely unexpected. [ but oh. they've been asked this once, so they're less caught off-guard this time. ] We suspect it's another side-effect of this part of heaven. Since you aren't integrated into the full of it, it's probably like not being able to see us completely and not having your usual powers and everything.

[kumeyuri]

[flatly,]

So it makes us want to touch each other.

[holyspirits]

Yeah, apparently. Might be because it wants you to connect with each other, too. Force you out of your comfort zones a bit.

[kumeyuri]

[




he just groans and rolls over.]

[holyspirits]

[ this is why they don't feel bad bullying a 30+ year old man. ]

Not a fan? [ sound less like you think it's funny, zuriel. ]

[kumeyuri]

[STOP]

I like to decide things at my own pace, thanks.

[holyspirits]

And yet time waits for no man... think we saw plenty of that over the last few days.

[kumeyuri]

I'd hope there's no correlation between a murder trial procedure and me apparently being forced outside of my comfort zone.

[holyspirits]

I would also hope not, but given we don't know why Jing Yuan killed Charlie... [ maybe he simply snapped. ] But I didn't really know him at all to begin with.

[kumeyuri]

... It's going to make things rough moving forward—a reminder that none of us really know each other at all.