how u doin clover

[aididitmyway]

WHO: Clover
WHERE: Clover's barn
WHEN: after the game

[So like, hi guys, we're back, things happened, we played a lot of kid games that actually kind of sucked.

Also Lyra's still a lil guy.]

Comments

[aididitmyway]

You know how to act like a kid?

[aiwillneversmile]

[HEY]

I act close enough to a kid. You just can't tell because I never did with you.

[aididitmyway]

Even with everyone else our age you've always been a total old man.

[aiwillneversmile]

Have not. You sound like Kana now.

[aididitmyway]

That's because Kana's right even if she doesn't know.

[aiwillneversmile]

Miyako, Memcho, Taiki, Frill, Melt — None of them have said anything.

[aididitmyway]

Because none of them care.

It's like it's me and Kana against the world.

[aiwillneversmile]

Miyako's heart is going to break when I tell her you said that.

[read: i'm telling mom!!!!]

[aididitmyway]

I'm pretty sure she just assumes you're weird. The teachers always told her about how you were reading all those difficult books when we were in preschool, what's not weird about that?

[aiwillneversmile]

Weird isn't the issue. We're both weird.

It's me being old. She would know best too, since Saitou and I are roughly the same age, but she's never said a thing.

[aididitmyway]

Okay, but you're still definitely more responsible than Saitou, soooooo she probably ignores it because you're not doing whatever he's doing? Don't compare yourself to him even if it's just about age, you're better than that.

[aiwillneversmile]

There are only so many people you know that are my age. I can't help using what examples I have. In any case, you can't speak for her, so the topic of me 'acting old' is shelved.

How much did you tell them? Just about us being doctor and patient before?

[aididitmyway]

Yeah.

... If they know anything else, it's about me. Including my old family.

[aiwillneversmile]

. . . You wanted to talk about them?

[aididitmyway]

It's not that I wanted to talk about them. Rituals and dreams happened.

Which—that's a thing that happens, too. So you can be prepared if it happens to you. People can walk around your dreams sometimes.

[aiwillneversmile]

[making a face, not okay with getting in his dreams]

Mm, got it.

[aididitmyway]

Zenith's threatened to hurt a lot of people from what he's seen in my dreams. Or what he's been told, or seen because of rituals.

[aiwillneversmile]

Are you warning me that I'm on his hit list?

Those are all empty threats, anyway. You should prepare yourself for Marina, though. She's involved in the film.

1/2

[aididitmyway]

You're not even close to being on his hit list.

[aididitmyway]

—Wait. Marina is—

[as the thought processes, the color kinda just. drains. she's a pale green instead of a green green now.]

She's involved?

[aiwillneversmile]

[crouching to pet her]

Director and Kaburagi decided to cut advertising costs, so they went with a low budget agency that she happens to work for. Miyako and Saitou already know to keep the two of you away from each other.

[aididitmyway]

I don't want to see her—what if she shows up when no one's expecting? What if they can't avoid us dealing with each other?

[aiwillneversmile]

I'm always around. I can distract her. She's already hit on me . . .

The critical time was always going to be when we wrap up and release, but I can't really plan for that in the middle of production.

[aididitmyway]

Wait, no, back up.

She's already what!?

[aiwillneversmile]

It was just old woman chatter, nothing serious, but she was also fairly drunk at the time. She managed to take out Director, but that's not hard.