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[Lurking around again, weird,]

[...The air of low-key murder loneliness is also strange; who is this kid]

...

[He catches sight of her and - there's a mild feeling of surprise, quickly followed by alarm and anxiety, even if his expression doesn't show it.]

...Need something?

[Shakes her head?]

Just passing by.

[...]

That-- Are you doing that...?

Doing what?

[Confusion???]

[Looks confused...must just be feelings deja-vu, which is surely a thing]

...Forget it.

Thought you said you had a normal life back before. That seemed not so much?

[Since that is a good segue,]

...Ahhh. Well, my life was complicated for various reasons, but it's not really an issue anymore.

[Waving his hand a little, like he's dismissing it.]

Truthfully, that world had some supernatural elements, but someone wished them away when they graduated. So now it really is a normal world.

[Fret fret fret fret.]

Seems like that'd change everything about everybody, wouldn't it-- Seriously though, is that you being anxious?

Anxious?

[Wow! That's a spike in his anxiety!!]

Yeah--u-ugh, like that, stop it. 'S making me nauseous...

[W......ait.]

I don't feel anything from you...

Is it some kind of one-sided emotion sharing thing-?

[Well. The anxiety stops.

Because now it's just fear!]

[Not better]

I guess? --Can you please stop freaking out? It's giving me the willies.

You ain't drank no Alcheme potions or nothing lately, have you?

[He shakes his head - and catches sight of the faint glow from his earring.

Oh, now he's annoyed.]

...Shit.

[Cocks her head, following his gaze best she can]

...Wait. This ain't like...? Those things do this, too?

Maybe? The other day my body kept going transparent whenever I wasn't touching someone else, but it seems to have stopped for now.

[Panic has now been overtaken by frustration.]

Sounds annoying... Hurricane ain't had none of those things.

[The 'yet' goes unspoken]

...Being able to go around invisible don't seem all that bad, though. People'd actually leave you alone, I guess.

It was a matter of becoming incorporeal, I think. I figured it out because my harmonica fell right through my hands while I was playing it.

Could be the world talking about your taste in music...

[She doesn't indulge much in the lame crack, though]

...That thing come with a manual? Or you just gotta wait and see how many weird things it's gonna switch around and do to you?

No manual. But I guess it does double as both a punishment for us and entertainment for the audience.

[A deep-seated feeling of resignation.]

...You eat shit a lot, huh.

Are you kidding? That's pretty much sensitIV's official pastime.

[That sense of resignation doesn't lessen in the least.]

...Huh.

[A pause, as if somehow just realizing this for the first time]

You never tried like. Not doing that...?

[..........Incredulous.]

I mean. Yes? But sometimes we do everything right and even win, but right at the end someone practically killed us.

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Well, yeah. That's just life. Things're always bad for no real reason.

Just...figured you guys wouldn't run into as much of that, I guess.

[He shrugs.]

When there's an option, people probably try to spare the units that have people important to them, right?

In our case, we have connections, but... well, there's an understanding our members can take care of themselves, I'm sure.

[He doesn't need a memory share to see the uncertainty on her face]

...One you're actually cool with?

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